{"id":11381,"date":"2016-12-22T21:52:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T02:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=11381"},"modified":"2016-12-22T21:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T02:52:25","slug":"lightwood-teases-new-puzzle-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/12\/lightwood-teases-new-puzzle-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightwood teases new puzzle game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightwood Games teased a new game title in the form of an interactive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightwoodgames.com\/xmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">holicay card<\/a> today. The game, called &#8220;Pic-a-Pix Color&#8221;, with the spelling appropriately corrected to &#8220;Pic-a-Pix Colour&#8221; in Europe, is a game similar to Picross games.<\/p>\n<p>The colour element sets this game apart from other Picross games, and adds additional rules so that puzzles require a slightly different mindset to solve.<\/p>\n<p>The puzzles are designed by Conceptis Ltd, the leading supplier of logic puzzles to print and digital media around the world and the developers have access to a massive library of beautiful pixel art puzzles.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->While the release didn&#8217;t specify Nintendo&#8217;s consoles for a release, Lightwood has released most of their recent titles on the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, so those systems will be the most likely home for <em>Pic-a-Pix Colour<\/em>. (This is Canada, there&#8217;s a &#8220;U&#8221; in &#8220;colour&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more details to announce in January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightwood Games teased a new game title in the form of an interactive holicay card today. The game, called &#8220;Pic-a-Pix Color&#8221;, with the spelling appropriately corrected to &#8220;Pic-a-Pix Colour&#8221; in Europe, is a game similar to Picross games. The colour element sets this game apart from other Picross games, and adds additional rules so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1178,21,75],"tags":[1483,1385,1395,1835],"class_list":["post-11381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nintendo-3ds","category-nintendo-wii-u","tag-lightwood-games","tag-nintendo-3ds","tag-nintendo-wii-u","tag-pic-a-pix-color"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pic_a_pix_color_wide.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-2Xz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12001,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2017\/04\/impressions-pic-a-pix-color\/","url_meta":{"origin":11381,"position":0},"title":"IMPRESSIONS: Pic-a-Pix Color","date":"April 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Pic-a-Pix Color is an interesting twist on the genre and creates an entirely new way to look at the logic puzzles. 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