Let Them Trade from our partner company Spaceflower has finally released 30 minutes ago, after 6 years of development, weeehew! It'd be really fantastic if you'd give it a try! 😍

Welcome to the team, Servan Öznur! Servan moved from İzmir, Turkey to Nuremberg for his 3 month internship at Pixel Maniacs. He's going to support us in various areas, like Marketing and Production and has a lot of experience from his job at @recharge.roomgames.co - looking forward to the collab!

Welcome to the team, Vsevolod Baybekov! Seva is supporting us as an intern in the next 3 months with our next game, Once upon the pines (WT), and is focusing on concept art in this early phase. He's a very talented artist, we are looking forward to working with you!

Our Pixel Maniacs shirt live on German television, thanks to Marc Bosch! ❤ Source: www.kabeleins.de/serien/abent...

We're very proud to be part of this year's access ability showcase! It's really awesome that Steam is highlighting games that go the extra mile to include as many players as possible. Thanks a ton to @laurakbuzz.bsky.social for organizing this event!

Thanks for your visit, @thomasbw84.bsky.social! Thomas is based in Scotland and is Lead Producer at our Las Vegas-based publisher, @pmstudios.bsky.social. I only did pictures when we were out for lunch, but we also worked in between, I promise!

Explain ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard in 3... 🎨Puzzle-FPS with colors 🌀Multiverse Mayhem 😆Dark Comedy Narrative @cwpat.me @jasongodbey.bsky.social @swingswingsub.bsky.social 🔄 RT, reply + tag 3! Discover these and more in the @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social !

The ☕Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration 2025 has started, and ChromaGun 2 is part of it! 😍 The @cozycelebration.bsky.social takes place from May 29 until June 02 and is hosted by the awesome people at rokaplay - thanks for organizing this! ❤️

Oldschool Indie Marketing Test: An ad in our local Newspaper! 😅

The very first public Let Them Trade Demo is out now! Our partner company, @spaceflower.bsky.social has released the first demo of their cozy city builder on Steam. This is a huge milestone for our colleagues working on the game since 2020 (!) store.steampowered.com/app/3465460/...

ChromaGun 2 is presented right now at the @lvlupexpo.bsky.social in Las Vegas! Thanks to our publisher, @pmstudios.bsky.social for organizing this! #lvlupexpo #LVLUPEXPO2025

Our colleague @herebebeards.bsky.social gave a presentation about games at the Samsung Electronics headquarters in Germany 👀. It's pretty cool to see how topics around game dev are relevant in various industries, even outside the usual game dev bubble! Details see Link in first comment :)

Very proud of the team that our demo received "overwhelmingly positive" a few days ago on >100 recent reviews – it's gone again, but it was there! 😍

ChromaGun 2 Wins Horizon Award! 🏆 We're proud to announce that ChromaGun 2 has won the Horizon Award for Technical Innovation at GG Bavaria 2025! Huge thanks to our team. This wouldn’t be possible without you!

We’ve made it to #GGBavaria! Rain or shine (mostly rain…), nothing can stop us from having a great weekend here. We’ll be around on Saturday and Sunday. See you in the IndieArea!

Once upon the pines (WT) got selected to receive 200k prototype-funding from the FFF Bavaria 🎉 Thanks for your trust in us and the project to all members of the committee, many thanks to the people at the FFF, and the ministry for digital affairs for their ongoing support! 😍

Our only full-time remote colleague, Dennis (who lives more than 400km from the office), was in the office in Nuremberg last week! The remote-only setup is working well for me, but it's still cool to see each other in real life from time to time.

A second Speedrun Challenge started! Collect all Golden Guns (there are achievements for those) within the Demo of ChromaGun 2 as fast as possible. Prizes: 🥇Rank 1 gets: €800 🥈Rank 2 gets: €500 🥉Rank 3 gets: €200 Additionally, one random: €250 Details: speedrun dot pixel-maniacs dot com

🎨 A Special Shoutout to One of Our Creativity Contest Participants! 🎨 One of our 5 winners went the extra mile and created this amazing GIF! 🏆✨ The creativity and effort put into this piece truly stood out. Check it out! 👇🔥

🎨 The Creativity Contest Has Ended! 🎨 The talent was incredible, and choosing winners was so tough that we picked 5 instead of 3! 🏆✨ Huge thanks to everyone who participated! Here are the winning artworks—congrats to the winners! 🎉

📌 🔫 ChromaGun2: Dye Hard - Pixel Maniacs In ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard färbst du Droiden, löst Rätsel und erlebst ein humorvolles Multiversum-Abenteuer! @pixel-maniacs.bsky.social

Very glad we implemented Chinese (traditional and simplified) – I wasn't expecting that many players from China 👀 These are our download ratios per country from yesterday and today for the demo of ChromaGun 2 during #steamnextfest

Our #speedrunning contest is still going strong! 🏁⏱️ You have until March 3rd to join the race and set your best time. Keep pushing for that top spot! 🚀🔥

We've reached >100 reviews for our demo on Steam; thanks a lot to everybody who tested the demo! 🥳 #steamnextfest #nextfest

Here are some of the amazing #art works players summited for our Creativity Contest. You still have an hour to submit your masterpiece! (14:00 CET!) Submit on our discord (link below)

We've received our first speedrun submissions, and wow, you guys are good. This isn't even the best run from aimredinez on YouTube. Enter the challenge! First place wins €800! Submit in the link below! speedrun.pixel-maniacs.com

Thank you @pcgamesde.bsky.social , our neighbors from Fürth, for covering ChromaGun 2!

We made it into the official #SteamNextFest trailer! Of course, along with a tiny handful of other games...but still, we’re in! 🎉😂

Streaming ChromaGun 2 on #Twitch for the FIRST TIME! 🎨🔫🔥Jump in, say hi, and let’s have some fun! 🚀 https://www.twitch.tv/pixel_maniacs

Thank you @gamestar.bsky.social for featuring us in your newest Trailer Rotation! Right in between Game of Thrones and Dune :)

Potential demo players are everywhere! 🤘 #steamnextfest #indiegame

🎨 We're doing a creativity contest where you can win prizes if you paint something cool. One of our playtesters spotted the hidden room in an early demo version and posted this on Discord in January. It was tough for us to not tell the reason for this 😅 Now you know, @therealhellcat.bsky.social 🕵️

🎨 Creativity Contest in the ChromaGun 2 Demo! 🎨 At the end of the first level of the demo, there's a room where you can paint a 16x16 wall with the various colors of your ChromaGun and win stuff if you paint something pretty (or are just lucky)! Details: store.steampowered.com/news/app/298...

Another German kindergarten made an ad for the release of our ChromaGun 2 demo! Give it a try—I promise you’ll never forget the color combinations. (Though, I’m not entirely convinced by the violet in the picture of this kid.)

🐇 ChromaGun 2 Demo - Speedrun Challenge! 🐇 Run the Demo as fast as you can from start to finish in an Any% Run! Prizes: 🥇€800 🥈€500 🥉€200 Also, random participant: €250 Details and submission: speedrun dot pixel-maniacs dot com 🐎

⭐️ ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard - Demo out now! ⭐️ After many months of preparation, and thousands of playtests, our first public demo of ChromaGun 2 is finally live on Steam as part of the Next Fest! Check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/3408840/... We'd be thrilled if you'd try it! ♥️

An advanced project seminar at the Albert Schweitzer High School in Erlangen visited us yesterday in the office, learning how it looks like in an indie games company. They asked many questions, and didn't hold back with tough ones like "where do we see problems in the industry", which is awesome!

Our friends from Berlin have released their awesome self-published Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders ⛷️ today! You should check it out, either on Steam or via Xbox Game Pass. @lonelymountains.bsky.social

Insights from ~750 playtesters of ChromaGun 2. Focusing on how players are responding to the colorblind mode we've implemented! Accessibility is a significant topic in general, but particularly important for a game based on color mixing 😅

Feedback from 724 diverse players (region, gender, age) of our ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard Demo playtest—our first time running something like this. It's sparked so many questions and given us invaluable early feedback, aiming to address issues before they turn into negative Steam reviews (hopefully, lol)

ChromaGun 2 is part of this new showcase „The Game Awards for games that can‘t afford the game awards“ 😅 Going live in 45 minutes! 🤘 Tune in on YouTube: youtu.be/ic1oJ-5fS7E?... @tgagwcaga.bsky.social

ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard is going to be part of this fantastic show and is donating in cooperation with our awesome publisher PM Studios 1 Euro per wishlist of the game during the show for the many good causes the team is donating to! Show is going live in ~24 minutes! 😍

Exciting news about ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard is presented today in the OTK Games Expo! 😍 Catch it first on Twitch: "OTKNetwork" Dec 4th, 12PM PT | 2PM CT | 3PM ET | 9PM CET #WinterGamesExpo

ChromaGun 2 on tour! While Max is in Shanghai at the WePlay, our intern Dean presents the game at the Games Ground Berlin! He organized this more or less all by himself. Great job, Dean!

Our colleague Maximilian Diversi is currently in Shanghai, presenting our game ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard to the Chinese audience at the WePlay Expo! Thanks for supporting this trip, @gamesbavaria.bsky.social, and to our very supportive publisher, PM Studios! ❤️

Weeehew! We're happy to get €30,000 funding for the concept phase from the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern for our next project, Once Upon the Pines*! 🍄‍🐺 Thanks a lot for this support, Bayerisches Digitalministerium, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, and the board for your trust! * working title

Welcome to the team, Nicholai Dean Elliott! Dean is supporting us in the next couple of months as an intern for marketing. He is at the end of his bachelor's degree at TH Nürnberg Fakultät Design. One of his first jobs is that he's travelling to Games Ground Berlin presenting ChromaGun 2!

ChromaGun 2 on tour, here at the #egx in London! Thanks for the financial support @gamesbavaria.bsky.social! Indie tipp for studios from Bavaria: You can apply for 500 € support per trip on their website (2 per year max)

GamesCom here we come! Meet us in Hall 10.2 at the booth of our publisher PM Studios as part of the Indie Arena Booth! 🤘We‘ll showcase the first demo of ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard 😍

Look at this beautiful billboard at the Central train station in Nuremberg on track 9! (No, we are not expecting many wishlists from this 😅)