Hey folks! The year is ending, and I wanted to do a last update and wish everyone a happy upcoming year. First, work on the new website has been completed, and it now features a landing page for marketing, an investor/crowdfunding portal, and a roadmap section where you can follow the game and check milestones that occurred. I took feedback that people left, took those into account, and created pretty robust transparent terms and framework for the portal, as well as how I plan to perform the Admin duties of PPO. https://pixelpiracy.net Next, there will be a PPO Stream #2 this Friday, which is pretty soon, so if you want to see the latest developments, join the live stream. I also got a new mic!. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WARZ2d6WNTw&ab_channel=Vitali For those who can't join but want to know what's up, the TDLR is the significant achievement for this dev cycle is: the UI Form System and Paperdoll system that allows 14 different equips, different weapon types, such as melee, knuckles, and 2H Weapons.


"Do note ART is not final, and everything is WIP; in 2023+, the name of the game is that you must put a Steam store page for game projects as soon as possible if you want to have any chance of success and build community, MMO's are tech-heavy games so demonstration of working tech is more important than good art/concept art." Next, I plan to begin work on the ship system; it's the most piratey thing possible and going to take some time it's a pretty big system, and when it comes to PPO, it has to surpass PP in almost everything. On the wishlist front, the game has amassed almost 2k wishlists and earns around 15-20 wishlists a day without really doing anything; this is more than Pixel Piracy did on a regular day and is a clear indication that the general Steam audience more or less is interested in something like Pixel Piracy Online.
Here is the PPO Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2446520/Pixel_Piracy_Online/ I hope you found this post insightful, and I hope to see some of you on the stream and again next year with the PPO Development Update #2. Have a good one #piracyfam! --------------------------------- PPO Website: https://pixelpiracy.net

[ 2023-12-27 21:08:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Join the PPO Stream today, hear me talk about my vision for the game, and watch a tech demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCMq4MFZjwc The stream will begin at 18:00 (Helsinki TIme) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/finland/helsinki A public test is also happening simultaneously and will continue for a few hours after the stream; you can find more information on that in the previous news post. So, If Pirate MMO without micro-transactions and in the spirit of something like One Piece, Pirates of Carribean, and Ragnarok Online sounds like your thing, consider wishlisting PPO. I am really tired of MMO games that are pay-to-win or devalue the effort that players put into the game by introducing paid catch-up mechanics. Also, I have heard the feedback from the players, especially those who don't like MMO games and want to play in more closed communities or alone; I am happy to say that I am taking this into account, and there will be an option for private servers, kind of like Minecraft Realms is doing. So, wishlist now and tune in for today's stream. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2446520/Pixel_Piracy_Online/ Also, the new website is in the works. It will have authority, terms, and other stuff. Going to be completed in about 1-3 weeks time, maybe sooner.
This is all about the journey.

[ 2023-12-08 12:15:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! I have a status update for everyone. First, if you haven't already read the previous update, you can read it here. https://steamcommunity.com/games/264140/announcements/detail/3776892014241245530 It will give you a good idea of what I was trying to do this year with Pixel Piracy. As for the status update, I want to inform the community that I plan to start production on Pixel Piracy Online next year, and to make it happen, I am launching a crowdfunding campaign for Pixel Piracy fans.
(Assets not final, focus on tech first) The vision is to create a sandbox pirate RPG/MMO without microtransactions, focusing on adventures, ship/town building, friends, and, most importantly, fun while respecting the things that make pirate games fun. Especially if you enjoyed Pixel Piracy, Pirates of the Caribbean, and One Piece, you will find yourself right at home. Imagine sending one of your NPC crewmembers to sell salt to the nearby town for money while you and your friends continue building your ship and preparing for your next adventure. Imagine spending an evening in one of many towns just socializing, farming, playing instruments, or flexing how you got some epic loot from your adventures. There won't be any microtransactions. Imagine joining Marines on the PvP Server and catching and shackling one of the PK players and throwing him in jail for the crimes he committed. There are many possibilities and potential there, and this week, you will have the opportunity to try the tech demo yourself and socialize with other people who are testing. Game assets are not final, but the tech behind the game has been in the making for over a year. Each server will hold potentially 500-1000 players, and both casuals and hardcore will find the game enjoyable.

So, plan of action.

1) Wishlist Pixel Piracy Online.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2446520/Pixel_Piracy_Online/

2) Join Crowdfunding.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpZ0dDH0tb4R5kxVNZZ6Gcbc1vexGl2LLpYXEDVpMCSJFApw/viewform

3) Risks.

Be aware that risks are involved; this is not a Kickstarter campaign but rather an investment type of pledge; when you pledge, you gain a percentage of revenue share from future game sales of PPO. The idea is to give you a stake and allow you to share success if the game becomes successful. Also, making MMO is hard so be aware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Timeline:

6.12 - 31.12 Crowdfunding will be running through the remainder of December, around 25 crowdfunding rounds. 8.12 Demo Test 1 15.12 Demo Test 2 29.12 Demo Test 3 During Demo Test you will have the opportunity to test fully functional MMO Server, you will have opportunity to move, talk to others, and battle mobs and get XP, and also see terrain tech in action.

[ 2023-12-06 15:15:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! I want to inform the community that I completed the development objective in Spring 2023 and fixed Pixel Piracy as best I could. Afterward, I decided to work on the game further until Winter. But, after summer, I found out I had burned myself out mentally after intense patching frequency and could no longer get myself to work further on the game and continue modernizing the game. I think this unhealthy practice is going to get me one day. So, now the year is closing in, and there has not been an update for some time; thus, I want to inform the Steam community that I am still around, but I don't know when I will work again on Pixel Piracy. I want to entertain the idea that I might do a few more updates one day. The game is in a good state now; it's the best version of Pixel Piracy, so If you want to play some Pixel Piracy, feel free to do so. Folks, goodbye for now.

[ 2023-11-09 01:32:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Piracyfam! Got a small balance tweak patch with PT-BR Translation!

• Treasure Chests now drop 20-40 more gold.
• Plankton, Hoboken, Bandit Pirate base HP reduced by 2 Points.
• Portuguese - Brazil Translation by Lucas V Leite, Afonso B Pires, Joo Gabriel O.

If you have been waiting for this Translation, leave your Thanks to Lucas and his friends in the comments. Those Community members working on their own translations, such as Russian, Chinese, or other, keep me informed if you plan to share these with the Community; I can include your Translation file in the game. Note: I am spending Summer Holidays and working on the 1.3.0 Major Version - THE NEXT ADVENTURE. This will come sometime after Summer Holidays, If you like Pixel Piracy and want to help, consider reading Developer Message #4. https://steamcommunity.com/games/264140/announcements/detail/3692435565215803635 Thanks, guys! Summer is going to be slow! Have a good one.

[ 2023-06-16 11:04:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Guys! I have some news for everyone.

First, to recap what has happened so far.

Starting this year, I have begun working on Pixel Piracy at around 20-30% workload capacity by improving Pixel Piracy and adding some new content; this commitment was until 1.6.2023. Then last week, I said that I would be working on Pixel Piracy at around the same capacity until 31.12.2023, and this is what I am doing now, and my goal is to release a significant feature soon, which will transition Pixel Piracy to the 1.3.0 Version; this feature will drop after the Summer holidays (month or two). People wanted something big now VS Friday Updates so that I will cater to that request for 1.3.0. The reason i set dates in the first place is not to set false expectations; I created a roadmap rev1 previously, but it did not work because of the human limits of me just beginning one dev. I'm sure that in 2024 if the community wants me to work on the PP, i will find time. PP as a game can be expanded infinitely, so in a sense; it doesn't matter how long i will work on the game; it will never be ready. It's a good thing because I can theoretically work on this as long as there are players. I also did one supporter DLC called Shrimp Legacy and Coffee thing for people who wanted to support me; I thought it was an excellent middle ground, but beyond that, I don't see doing Pixel Piracy DLCs; it's more valuable to work on the base game and just bring value there for you the player. Friday Updates works just fine for me.

Current Situation...

I have determined that the best way for Pixel Piracy and me as a dev to succeed is to focus on my two games (PP & IAH) marketing aspect. I haven't talked with the community about my main project IAH, but today i am changing that. My main project is IAH: INTERNET WAR, which is Roguelite RTS set in the Internet Setting that focuses on tactical battles, trying to add more life to the RTS genre; I do that game at around 70-80% capacity, and I intend to use the functionality of that game to help Pixel Piracy find more players. IAH: INTERNET WAR will appear on a few Festivals this year on Steam, and people will try IAH Demo. The catch is when someone plays IAH Full Version or Demo; they will be exposed to Pixel Piracy.
My call to action to the community is that if you want to help Pixel Piracy and support me, I humbly ask you to just wishlist IAH: INTERNET WAR; it's that simple; you click the wishlist button. Wishlists will elevate IAH higher, and more people will try it, and in turn, more people will see Pixel Piracy. And if you like the concept, follow the game on Steam so you don't miss news developments on that project. https://store.steampowered.com/app/304770/IAH_INTERNET_WAR/ Those that own Pixel Piracy and want to try IAH Demo later this year will also have exclusive access to the Pixel Piracy Cannon Bot.
Thanks for considering my request, and stay tuned for the 1.3.0 version.

Don't want to read?

TDLR: Work on Pixel Piracy continues until 31.12.2023, and there will be a big 1.3.0 update after Summer Holidays; There is also a call to action to Wishlist IAH as it will help Pixel Piracy.

[ 2023-06-09 11:09:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Got a new update available for you all. This one is small; it's Summer, after all. I don't know how big updates I will be doing this Summer, but they will be coming, i am not stressing about it, and you should not either; it's not a big deal for me.

• *During the Night, Bats will now fly instead of Seagulls.
• *Suicide Island (Hell) difficulty adjusted.
• *Added Save Indicator, when sailing somewhere or arriving, a Symbol at the Bottom Right Corner will now appear, indicating that the game is saving.
• *Fixed Bug: If your crew died and your ship arrived at the destination, the game would save, resulting in kaput mode.

I hope you guys have a good Summer. See you next Friday with more updates.

[ 2023-06-02 18:50:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! I just updated the game with the new version.

*New QoL Feature: Added Icon above Interactable Items that you can click. The pirate will now move there and Interact with the Item. Planning to explore the opportunity if can depreciate the bottom Action Bar altogether and replace it with intelligent icons bound to the game view. *Cleaned Top Right Corner area for new Feature that will come soon. *Fixed a Small Bug where Monsters would appear way too much in ship encounters. *Ship Tiles are now also pointing to the localization file; only the English file is translated; other translations will show the name and no description; you can check the English translation file to see how it works. *Store NPC's overhead labels are now more clear.

I did some store page work, but no new trailer yet. I also finally started working on a new big Feature. I believe everyone will like it and what it will bring. This will be tied to the weekly content updates, akin to Shonen Jump. I have many ideas about what to do, and i had a roadmap and stuff with big plans, but for the time being, i believe this new feature I am making will be far more beneficial to the game. I have also been talking a lot about my timeline for Pixel Piracy. Initially, I planned to work on Pixel Piracy until Summer, but after working on the game now, I decided to continue working on Pixel Piracy further for the time being. Pixel Piracy is now in a much better state, and I look forward to improving it further; if you like my work, consider writing a review.

[ 2023-05-26 12:31:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Piracyfam! This week, the game needed some balance improvements. Will need to go with the flow for the time being and do what feels suitable for the general health of the game.

• Islands with difficulty Levels 1 and 2 will now Spawn only 1 Debtor.
• Starting Island no longer has a Docking Fee.
• The monster appearance chance on islands below difficulty 3 is now 0% and 5% with the monster modifier.
• Pirate Camp was difficulty readjusted.
• Translation Label PAY FEE, LOADING, TAVERN, and a few others are now Pointing To the Localization System.
• Shop Signs are now Pointing to the Translation File.
• Fixed a Bug where the Level Bar would Overflow.
• Your Captain no longer idle talks. (BLIMEY,BLIMEY,BLIMEY,BLIMEY,BLIMEY,BLIMEY,BLIMEY,BLIMEY,)
• Female Pirate Captain can now adopt baby pirates at a 50% discount.

Some more localization system work is still needed, but the biggest thing that I want to do right now is actually outside of the game and update the storefront page and screenshots and put a proper trailer; the current one is just horrible. Thanks, guys; see you next week!

[ 2023-05-19 17:22:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Last week i was on holiday, so I could not update the game, but now that I am back and checking a backlog of reported new stuff, there is a bug that must be fixed ASAP. So I fixed the pressing issue and pushed the fix, it's now on Steam!

• *Fixed Issue where on Ship Encounters, the last corpse could sometimes be killed over and over again.
• *Added Check so that dead enemies cannot be attacked.

Thanks again for sticking along!

[ 2023-05-15 09:26:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! The new Update is Up. This one has the following stuff.

• Added Pirate Camps; you can clear these islands for two treasure chests; there is also an ingame tracker for how many Pirate Camps there are or how many you cleared near the Legendary Kills Tracker.
• Fixed Issue with Rabies not curing properly when using Anti-Parasite.
• Fixed Issue where Top UI Hover Content was not linked to Translation File.

PS: There won't be an update next week; I am traveling. steamhappy Have a good one!

[ 2023-05-05 09:56:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! New Pixel Piracy Update is Up!

• *Added New Rabies Town NPC that might Spawn; this person will tell new players how to cure Rabies.
• *Added Gun Boy Pirates to the Island Spawner from Island Difficulty Level.5 and above; these Pirates shoot pistols.
• *Added Tasharen Pirates to the Island Spawner from Island Difficulty Level.5 and above; these Pirates are bruisers.
• *Fixed Bug where Urn was bleeding blood when destroyed.

I have also been in touch with community members (SuperExboom & Lukrain) doing translations for the game, it's still a work in progress, but they have Chinese Translation and Brazilian Translations underway. We need to improve the font' and clean some key tags that link text then I would think these files could be shipped with the game. That's the update. That's all. This week I had some other things come up that needed my attention, so i could not get more stuff done. I don't know how next week will go but from 6.5 - 13.5 i am going to be unavailable (need to do some travels) so there won't be a typical Friday update on 12.5, be warned. ALSO..... Listen to this Pixel Piracy Classic Town Cover Theme (https://onlinesequencer.net/3262810) created by AvidTV https://www.youtube.com/@avidgaming2056/featured... Credits to Avid; follow him, please; this is so awesome! I hope you all have a good weekend!

[ 2023-04-28 20:48:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Community! I got an update for the game; I hope you all are having a good time. Been busy with localization stuff, and it's been eating me away, but i believe i have finished with it for now, and I am itching to begin some content work soon.

• *When Kicking Crew or Animals, they now teleport to the Tavern.
• *Ship Builder now has scrollbars; this is useful if you have many items.
• *Fixed Bug where Cannon Board would also affect enemy ship cannons.
• *Localization: The game now perfectly Supports Japanese and Chinese alongside Cyrillic. You can explore game files if you want to translate the game into your language; you can PM me on Discord if you wish for your translation file to be included in the game.
• *Localization: Fixed a few instances where localized strings were not bound to the localization file.
• *Localization: Spanish, Italian, French, and Finnish now have their translation files checked against English Translation for the missing lines.

Some patches ago, i stated that i wanted to focus on QOL, but these past weeks when i was working on localization, my creative mind was itching to create new content. If i want to continue doing this for a long time, i now have to shift a bit into adding some new content. So for the next update, expect either bug fixes, new content, or both. We are now at patch 1.2.26, and when i eventually deploy 1.3, i want it to be somewhat significant, i can't tell you when that will happen or what it will have, but I am now drafting something up, so stay tuned up for that as well. And again, thank you for sticking around.

[ 2023-04-21 09:36:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Yo. Doing some work on localization and crabs. Crab life is hard, and what I am doing is not newsworthy as it's more of clearing up technical debt.

• Game now supports external language files.
• All text is now tied to localization files. If you want to localize Pixel Piracy to your language, you can do it now. You can even release it on Discord, and I can include it in the next update; you can add yourself to the credits. In particular, Russian, Chinese, Japanese is something that can be supported now. Play around with the Mods/Resources folder.
• Crew Mate tooltip updated.
• Shop Sign Text now has slight dark shadow.
• Bottom Right Notification font size reduced.
• Added Baby Crabs. Crab life is hard.

Right now, English and Finnish Translation files are 1:1, and for 1.2.26, i plan to clear other translation files that have missing tags. I have lots of data, and the backlog is filled, so once I'm done with boring localization, i will shift focus on fixing some bugs, then some Qol and start doing content again. Love you all.

[ 2023-04-14 19:36:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey People! The new Update is Up. This one is special, enjoy!

• Pixel Piracy UI and Font have been improved; this font is more clear and supports Cyrillic, Japanese, and Chinese Letters.
• Added Cannon Command Board that you can buy from the Ship Shop; it allows you to control Cannon AI.
• Combat Numbers Improved.
• Added Shadows to the new Town Sctuctures (new generations)
• From the 1.2.23 added.:
  • Fixed a few memory leaks and improved performance.
  • Added World Map, Roster, and Ship Builder Ship Hotkey Tiles that you can buy from the Ship Shop; these Tiles allow you to quickly jump to these menus from the actual ship when you click those Tiles.
  • Main Menu now has News Section.

Check Screenshots:



Stay Tuned for more!

[ 2023-04-07 11:59:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! The new small minor update is now up. I wanted to do this today so that i can collect some data over the week, as i have updated Linux and Mac versions as well. If you are a Mac or Linux user, let me know if the game works.

• Fixed a few memory leaks and improved performance.
• Added World Map, Roster, and Ship Builder Ship Hotkey Tiles that you can buy from the Ship Shop; these Tiles allow you to quickly jump to these menus from the actual ship when you click those Tiles.
• Main Menu now has News Section.

[ 2023-04-03 08:49:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Gang! Update 1.2.22 is now available! Check the patch notes below.

• *Main Menu has been cleaned up, and I added Facebook, Twitter, and Discord Links.
• *QOL: Pirate Stats Menu now shows Status Effect Information near the Stats.
• *QOL: You can now click Pirate Skills to Level Up them if you have skill books for that said skill.
• *QOL: Shops now show stock supply for each item.
• *Balance: Agility Dodge Boost changed from 5% to 3%.
• *Fishing: There is now a 7% Chance of finding a Scrap or Empty Bottle; you can sell them for money.

The next Update is going to be available next Friday, as always. Stay tuned!

[ 2023-03-31 10:09:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

This is Developer Message #3. I have some news for everyone; for the next 1-2 Months, i will focus primarily on QOL Updates, which means about 8 QoL Updates. I have some news for everyone; for the next 1-2 Months, i will focus primarily on QOL Updates, which means about 8 QoL Updates. I want to note that this is a systemic approach that works for me, one update a week, no pressure; the update can be small or big. Some people wanted that i would do QOL Stuff sooner, but it would not work for me because i am still trying to decide if Pixel Piracy is Job for me or a Passion project that i do for fun. But now that i have made all the content like Hell, which is essentially an Arena mode, and other stuff, it gives me time to analyze how that content performs and then, after QOL Updates, decide how i add depth to these systems. The way I will work on QOL Stuff is purely based on this discord list: https://discord.gg/BKKmFKpQk9 I will choose the most voted stuff and try to implement what is possible; it's for the community. Alongside regular Friday updates, i want to start working on the website because, as of right now, the game has no official website beyond this steam page, Twitter, and Facebook profile. I was talking a lot about how i would work on the game until Summer, after which i will revisit my relationship with the game. After working on the game for some time and seeing people liking it, i think it would be a wasted opportunity if i did not continue supporting it, at least for the whole of 2023, but we will see how that will go. At some point, i would take a Summer break to spend more time with my kids and wife, so don't expect much activity when Summer begins. I also rebranded and removed the classic word; I will be removing the classic word in steps; the pre-2023 version should be the classic, not the other way around; the idea came from wow classic. Have a good one, everyone, and stay tuned for Friday's QOL Update!

[ 2023-03-29 10:21:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! New Update is up!

• *Added Hell.
• *Added Suicide Island.
• *Added Charnel Vodoo NPC.
• *Added Rumour NPC to Towns.
• *Added New Achievement (Hell).
• *Rabbies can now be cured with Anti-Parasite.
• *Sea Appears less, more chance for other islands to appear.

Have a good one! I might do some QOL Stuff for the next Update and take a break from new content. Have a good one!

[ 2023-03-24 15:26:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! The new Update is up. This update will do good for you.

• *Added Church.
• *Added Pope.
• *Added Roundworm (You get Roundworm if you eat food that has crap nearby, the chance is dynamic).
• *Added Constipation (Your crew becomes constipated after Pope blesses you).
• *Added Anti-Parasite Potion to the Witch Store (Heals Roundworm).
• *Added Arsenic Potion to the Witch Store (Kills Pirate when Consumed)
• *Scurvy no longer kills your pirates but negates LIFE to 10 overtime.
• *Difficulty Adjustments: Sailor mode Early Game difficulty is now much more manageable.
• *Reduced chance to get Rabbies.

Patchnotes Audio Log (Satire & Joke): https://vitalikirpu.net/piracylogs/1.2.20.mp3 Have a good one! Next week we will have a regular update; enough with this crap steamhappy.

[ 2023-03-17 12:29:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! As promised, a new update is now available on Steam; they will keep coming till Summer each Friday! Small or Big, they will keep coming.

• NEW: Pixel Piracy is now running on a 64-Bit Client.
• NEW: Added Rabies.
• NEW: Added Adoption Center and Babies.
• NEW: Baby Pirates: Baby Pirates are tiny and don't need a salary; they are always happy.
• NEW: Added Toy Sword and Pacifier Passive Items.
• Long Dangerous Modifier now makes traveling during the night long on top of making night appears more frequently.
• Drama Modifier adjusts Salary requirements; pirates are more greedy when this is selected.
• Performance: Ship Builder performance slightly improved.
• Flu now self-heals in 10 sails.
• Starting Town Generator now has some more shop variety.
• Bug Fix: Crap will now always find a way to the surface even if you buried it inside the ship. (Fixes Bug where sometimes pirates don't clean the ship because crap is inside the ship hull)
• Bug Fix: The ship will no longer stop at the Sea Tiles if you pass by.
• Bug Fix: Press to Interact was not appropriately hidden.

I have also created a satirical narrated patch notes audio log for this patch that you can listen. https://vitalikirpu.net/piracylogs/1.2.19.mp3 Have a good weekend!

[ 2023-03-10 12:51:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! This Friday's Update is in!

• Added Plague System. Your Pirates can now get Flu from others (Plague Modifier increases appearance chance of Patient 0, who will eventually infect everyone).
• Added Flu Medicine to the Witch Shop.
• Equip Browser -> Item Sprites are now 50% more Compact.
• World Map Tooltip now shows if there is a chance that the tile has a Monster Appear Chance.
• Fixed Bug where Sushi was not removed properly after consumption.
• Fixed one instance of memory Leak that was happening when you removed all ship tiles.

[ 2023-03-03 13:47:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! New Pixel Piracy Update is Up. From now on, i will try to update the game every Friday. Today's Update focuses on Monsters!

• Added Plankton, Shrimp, and Crap Golem Ship Tiles.
• Added Plankton Monster Encounter to the Ships and Islands.
• Added Shrimp Monster Encounter to the Ships and Islands.
• Added Crap Golem Monster Encounter to the Ships and Islands.
• Monster Selection at the start of the new Game now reflects the appearance chance of these encounters.
• Fixed Bug where some sounds were playing in 3D.
• Reverted some Balance changes from the last patch. Passive XP is now better, and when defeating Legendary Pirates, the difficulty rises by 50% and not 100%.
• Greater Fool Ticket Nerf.

Next Week I plan to some new town NPCs and sickness to the game. (Plague Modifier). Stay tuned for more; I will try to update the game every week till Summer 2023. Thanks!

[ 2023-02-24 15:28:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! I got a minor update with some fixes and a new interesting NPC! *Added New Greater Fool NPC to the Town, which has a 30% chance to appear. You can buy Greater Fool Tickets and sell them later for loss or profit (pirate investing). *Docking Fee is now Capped at 400G. *Empty Starting Island Appear chance decreased from 30% to 20%, and made that Island Smaller. *Fixed Bug where Pirates would not collect Eggs from the Chicken Nest. *Fixed Bug where your ship would teleport to 0,0 coordinates on the map in some rare situations. *Fixed Bug where the location on the map underneath you would not hide properly. Amendment

• Pirates now get 400% less Passive Exp.
• Defeating Legendaries now makes new Enemies 100% More Harder.

I hope you are having a good weekend! Got lots of snow in Finland! Cheers!

[ 2023-02-19 13:20:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! The new Update is Up!

• Created Groundwork for new Ship Encounter types. -> Added New Ship Encounter Type: Neutral. These Encounters can be avoided 100%; the first is Fishermen and Sea.
• Added New Town Shop: Witch Hut. Witch Sells Green Crystals that make your Pirates glow a little bit; the Witch Hut will be later used to buy some Witch Magic Items.
• You can launch Shrimp Legacy DLC within the DLC Page if you have it if, for some reason, Steam does not show the DLC prompt.

Next Week I want to start implementing the first batch of monsters and look into some performance improvements. Have a good weekend, everybody. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some Links Pixel Piracy DIscord https://discord.gg/BKKmFKpQk9 Pixel Piracy Twitter https://twitter.com/PixelPiracyGame Buy Me Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/vitalikirpu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roadmap Revision 1 Check the Roadmap for the game that I have.

[ 2023-02-17 08:45:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Further improvements, nothing major.

• Added Cow Milk and Cow Tail missing textures.
• New Docking Fee: Ship Size / (20 - IslandDificulty) + 6, this should make the early game fee much smaller while scaling to the end game
• If there is no Ship, Pirates will now drown rather than live at the bottom of the ocean.
• Balance: VIT Stat is now 50% less powerful.
• Fixed Bug where Crew Roster Emblems would look weird.
• Fixed Bug where when changing weapons, the fishing rod line would not remove properly.
• Fixed Bug where in some very rare situations, Pirates could have no weapons.

[ 2023-02-14 15:28:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! I got some feedback that Docking System is a bit too cruel. I decided to do a balance pass.

• The docking System no longer requires a physical Dock, but instead, all you need is a Town; this change gives backward compatibility for all saves that are pre-1.2.10 but also makes it a bit easier for you to edit your ship while still having an effect of taxation on medium-big ships.
• Hoboken Pirates and Island Bandits spawn 1 unit less.

I also did a slight nerf on the Docking Fee. New Docking Fee Calculation: Ship Tiles / 12 + 8 If you don't like something, be vocal about it, i listen and try to see what i can do about things. Cheers!

[ 2023-02-14 10:56:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Pixel Piracy - Shrimp Legacy DLC is now Available! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2314920/Pixel_Piracy__Shrimp_Legacy/
Pixel Piracy - Shrimp Legacy is an audiovisual background lore idle-clicker, a relaxing companion software that explores the lore behind Pixel Piracy. Features epic story with narration, music, and ambiance. Features Shrimp Button that you have to click to progress the story forward. This is my way of doing Supporter DLC! Thanks in advance for your support, i am looking forward to expanding Pixel Piracy further. Today I have also released the 1.2.10 Update, check the patch notes here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/264140/announcements/detail/3638381592958645687 Stay tuned for more!

[ 2023-02-13 18:02:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Update 1.2.10 is now Available on Steam.

• *Fixed Bug where Ranged Weapons did not Rank Up during Combat.
• *Fixed Bug: If the Pirate position changes, the fishing rod line does not remove properly.
• *Fixed Bug where your captain would move when clicking groups.
• *Pirates will no longer use Animal Cage on Humans.
• *Added Dock Master, Debtors, and Docking Fee System
• *Added Hoboken Pirates Event.
• *Added Island Bandites Event.
• *Added Rum Drifing Missionary.

Feel free to share your feedback on the Docking System! Shrimp Legacy DLC has also been Released: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2314920/Pixel_Piracy__Shrimp_Legacy/

[ 2023-02-13 17:55:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Roadmap Revision 1 is now ready. Many of you are wondering what will happen after i fix the bugs. I decided to draft a roadmap for you all to see, i might alter it later, but this is a general idea that i have for the content.
The first step is to fix the most painful bugs, i am like 60-70% done with that and then create an infrastructure (Content Deploying + Rum Drifting), after which the content-pumping phase will begin, akin to Weekly Shonen Jump, i utilized the same strategy before with my other game, and it was quite a good system to work with, people knew that on every Friday there would be an update with some content. PPSL: What is Pixel Piracy - Shrimp Legacy? https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/264140/view/3638381592947383819 Development Strategy PP Development Strategy consists of making a desirable product and adding depth to the game. There is lots of opportunity for how the game can be expanded, I am looking forward to that, but first, i will be focusing on the infrastructure. For example, PPSL is Infrastructure. If you are looking for frequent Content Updates, then i think it's safe to assume that those will be coming somewhere in March. What Next? In the near future, you can look forward to the 1.2.10 Update, which will add Docking System Feature. Then there will be PPSL, and Rum Drifting alongside some Monsters. Docking System: You will have to pay a tariff to dock on the island and build a ship. This is optional; however, if you refuse to pay, then Debtors will be attacking you. Bigger the ship, more you pay! PPSL: Pixel Piracy - Shrimp Legacy: After the deployment of PPSL, the world of Pixel Piracy will gain background and a reason to exist. Rum Drifting and Monsters: Monsters are pretty self-explanatory. However, Rum Drifting will make sense after the 1.2.10 Update and Deployment of PPSL. Stay tuned! Thanks for reading.

[ 2023-02-10 23:03:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Next Week, I will release a Supporter DLC for the Pixel Piracy called Pixel Piracy - Shrimp Legacy; this is a standalone companion software for the Pixel Piracy that has three features. Many of you suggested that I should do a supporter DLC, so this is my way of doing it!
Features:

• It has narrated lore that explores the world of pixel piracy and explains the origins of how pirates came to be, lore is profound and will give everyone now a sense of what can be expected from Pixel Piracy and in what direction Pixel Piracy will go.
• It has beautiful chill ambient screensavers; you can use them while you study or program.
• It has a gamification element in the form of a cookie clicker, you farm shrimps, and then you unlock new lore bits.

As for the Pixel Piracy, the next Pixel Piracy Update, 1.2.10, will have content and a new feature, so stay tuned for that, should be out within 10 days! Thank you for your support in advance!

[ 2023-02-10 15:16:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! First of all, thank you for the encouragement, i appreciate it; the amount of support i got from you all is overwhelming, and physically it's just impossible to thank everyone, but know that i appreciate you for sticking around and giving me support; it's empowering. I have finally deployed full version 1.2.7; check the patch notes.

• *Fixed Bug where sometimes you could not view weapon inventory or sell view.
• *Fixed Bug where sometimes Shop Scrollbar would not properly hide when closing UI.
• *Fixed Bug where you could not command your crew to move on your ship during the Cannon Phase of Sea Battle.
• *Fixed Bug where Bloom and Depth options were not applied correctly; the user has to restart the game first.
• *Fixed Bug where fleeing Pirates that were ordered by the player would fight back if attacked.
• *Fixed Bug where Panda Island had incorrect pathfinding data.
• *Fixed Bug where sometimes shop UI would appear for Most Wanted board.
• *AI: When Grappling, the AI now shuts down as it is not needed while the Pirate is on a rope.
• *UI: Sell UI now has three columns instead of 2.
• *Performance: If you have many pirates and you try to grapple to the island, the game will lag; this is fixed.
• *Combat: Passive Units will now turn hostile when you actually attack them, rather than when you assign an attack icon
• *Balance: 30% Chance to start the game without any food.

This is a substantial Bug Fix update, but work doesn't end here; the next update is already in the works, and you know what? It will be the first content update with a new feature. So, stay tuned for that! Links Pixel Piracy Discord Server: https://discord.gg/QmZFHYW2KF Pixel Piracy Twitter: https://twitter.com/PixelPiracyGame Donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/vitalikirpu

[ 2023-02-08 00:33:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Community! Pixel Piracy Version 1.2.6 is now Up. This is an exciting update; it fixes a few bugs, improves grappling and pirate control, and adds a custom lighting system to the game.

• Shopkeeper shop info will now disappear if you attack them.
• Fixed bug where you could sometimes use books without consuming them.
• Fixed bug where bounty board would not disappear in rare instances if your pirate is killed while viewing bounty board.
• Fixed bug (one instance) where sometimes you could not board an enemy ship with a grappling hook.
• when setting sail (choosing location), hunger and morale will drain 4%*dificulty level instantly if values are 20% or higher.
• Animals will now aggro properly and move randomly.
• Added Custom Lighting system.
• Pirates during combat now will react better to your commands.
• Grappling system reliability improved.

Lighting System preview. During Day; https://i.gyazo.com/d64694ab0e900fcd0515c3e048319844.mp4 During Night: https://i.gyazo.com/d64694ab0e900fcd0515c3e048319844.mp4 Enjoy!

[ 2023-02-05 23:46:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Guys! First of all, big thanks for the overwhelming support; it means a lot; it's one of the reasons why i decided to write this post and a pledge that i decided to commit to the game for the next six months and try my best to expand the game as best as i can, this means new content and bug fixes. The roadmap structure will be created later; I am currently coming up with a schedule and format on how I will be delivering content. I can't wait to reveal my plans! steamhappy When coming back, i did not have anything particular in mind; I just wanted to fix a few bugs where pirates get stuck, etc., that's all. But as i worked more on the game and saw players be quite enthusiastic about PP, I decided to change my plans... Additionally, regarding the moderation, as you all know, it's just me doing community management. It takes unnecessary energy to filter out trolls and toxic members within the community, and i have a stance where i generally try not to answer them; why should i give my attention to some troll instead of an enthusiastic fan? I have been thinking about how i will approach my communication with the community, and i decided to embody a role of a pirate captain in a literal sense and do PR to ease my job and remove emotion from the community management. So moving forward regarding the moderation, i will enforce a strict version of the Rules and Guidelines For Steam to save my energy and channel it into developing the product; what only matters is a good product, i am going to create an environment where that will be possible. So, from now on, consider that the community forum is a pirate ship or my home, and you are a crew or a guest. If you don't play by the rules, you will be banned; i will be walking you off the plank.
TDLR; 1) Big thanks for the support. 2) I will be working on the game for six months 3) i will ban toxic members without warning; PP forums are not a place for drama. Note: Last Night, there was a build malfunction; I fixed this. I believe there will be a few weeks of pain before i get the infrastructure in place, i am going to work towards automated testing of the game. Sneak Peak of the next Update (Very WIP) - Night Light and Tech for Ghost Ships: https://i.gyazo.com/c19f8d6ef764623f6bd5db5987ed2a1c.mp4 You can now buy me a rum to show your support. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/vitalikirpu Thanks!

[ 2023-02-05 09:16:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Everyone! I have just updated Pixel Piracy with the 1.2.4 version, which has some cool stuff. Check the patch notes below.

• *Added a bunch of new sky and sea environmental gradients.
• *Added Kelp that grows from the sea; it appears sometimes.
• *Added Ambient Shadows to the Ships; this system can be later expanded to introduce night lighting to the ships.
• *Fixed some bugs with the Inventory where Inventory would not correctly render because some items would have no sprite.
• *Improved Algorithm that detects if a pirate is clipping in the terrain; this algorithm is responsible for unclipping the pirate.
• *Added Equip Sounds.
• *Fixed Bug where you could Equip SKill Books and increase ability count from 19 to 20.
• *When using items, such as healing items, the item list no longer resets if items are still left in a stack.

The idea of environmental gradients and ambient shadow is to give the game some new visual character and introduce colorful moods. These moods will play a significant role later. It would be interesting to see how this could be e expanded; for example, imagine you have a big dark ship that would spawn ghosts in it or random npc's hiding in your ship. The potential for expanding Pixel Piracy is huge. https://i.gyazo.com/a12bfb13a52d8d3752b2e174ed5b2fa8.mp4 https://i.gyazo.com/e40985828a20dfe98d43b6c104a74995.mp4 I hope you will enjoy this update, and stay tuned for more. Note: Previously, i stated that i would be working on the game until i fixed game or/and polished the game, but with the recent events, i am now going to be working on this game for at least six months. I would not have imagined that i would be working on this game, i forgot how fun Pixel Piracy can be, and i think it would be beneficial for everyone if i could at least try to expand the game.

[ 2023-02-04 14:18:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Pirates! Exciting news! A new Discord server has been created for our community. This platform allows members to connect, share ideas, and stay up-to-date on the latest developments. Whether you're looking to network with others and talk about Pixel Piracy or want to stay informed, the Discord server is the perfect place to do so. Join now and be a part of the PP community! https://discord.gg/Zn2z5d2Bru - Vitali

[ 2023-02-02 18:14:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! I pushed a new Update to Steam. I did some work on the Pathfinding, and i am pretty happy with the outcome. Here is the VIdeo Link: https://i.gyazo.com/3fa5877aed132b119f0438bf5a543872.mp4

• Pirates now react correctly to the move commands.
• Fixed Bug where Island borders were buggy and you could not click there; this caused issues like Pirates falling in the water when trying to Grapple.
• Fixed Bug where Secret Locations (Treasure) that you uncovered are not visible on the map.
• Added visual cue where exactly is the end position of the movement for a pirate.
• Enemy Patch movement cues were removed as it was adding clutter to the screen.

One of the things i also added was support for the Islands to have two-floor buildings. This means that potentially in the future, i could make forts, ruins, and caves. Previously i also added Frontal Trees, the idea is that potentially in the future, i could add wood cutting and the ability for you to create a base on your own island, but there is no promise that i will do this, as right now, i am just polishing the game for the people who already have the game.

[ 2023-02-02 11:32:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! I can't believe i am working on Pixel Piracy, but here we are! Just polishing stuff. Read the notes!

• GFX: Added Custom Cursor.
• GFX: Added Frontal Grass and Trees for some variation.
• GFX: Added New Effect when clicking where to go.
• UI: Tooltips are now rendered on top of the game; they are clear now.
• Sound: Improved Buying Item Sound.
• World Map: Added Fog; you can't travel now to distant parts of the map if you don't have map reading.
• Starting: When starting, there is now a 20% chance that you will begin on a barren island.
• Fixed Bug where some Sounds were not playing during Pause Mode.

[ 2023-02-01 10:47:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Deployed some fixes and one accessibility feature.

• You can now Move the Camera Up and Down.
• Fixed a Bug where sometimes you could not interact with the shop.
• Fixed a Bug where sometimes your Captain would clip into the terrain.
• Added Version Number to the Main Menu.

More Updates to come.

[ 2023-01-31 14:32:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! The game is pretty old now by modern standards, but it's still quite charming and I believe it deserves to get some polish. I have released an update for Pixel Piracy with some fixes and main menu tweaks. I don't have a list of the fixes; been doing it on and off, but one of the fixes is that your Pirates would get stuck on the island sometimes and could not get back on the boat. When reporting bugs, please try to include [2023 Bug] so that i can filter bug reports from old pixel piracy. Thanks!

[ 2023-01-30 18:06:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello, fans! I am Vitali Kirpu, the creator of Pixel Piracy and ex-CEO of the Quadro Delta, some of you probably know already, but the Quadro Delta went bankrupt, and nobody told you why. I am here to tell you why it went bankrupt and why it took over six months to tell you this. There are two reasons why Quadro Delta went bankrupt first of the reasons is that the sales of the Pixel Privateers were not what we expected. And the second reason involves a public figure Alexander Poysky selling generated CD-KEYs in secret. I will not go into the specifics here for the time being, and this is the main reason for the silence. My STEAM representative is however aware of the issue that happened. I also believe what happened to Quadro Delta partially caused STEAM to limit how many CD-KEYS can be generated. https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/18/16167462/valve-steam-keys-limiting-developers It seems that the person who Alexander Poysky worked with and probably still works with is now trying to spread the false rumors like this. ------------------
------------------ I want to say that SquareZack in this instance is a catalyst for this announcement. I will be contacting Steam regarding SquareZacks false accusations. In retrospective when you will look at this post and cross-reference what I will say in the future regarding this matter you will understand what happened to Pixel Piracy and Quadro Delta in detail. If you want, you can ask Alex on Twitter what he thinks about this announcement. He will probably fight my statement, or he will block you. You, however, want to do it publicly. You as fans deserve to know at least something. Take care guys, and I see you later.

[ 2018-02-06 00:57:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey! Right now I am working as a software specialist in the oil industry and at nights I am developing the next hit game Ragnorium with a much better experience that I have obtained from Pixel Piracy in 2014 and from the Pixel Privateers in 2016. Some of you really want to see new updates to the Pixel Piracy and perhaps redesign and performance boost to the endgame, but the situation I am in currently does not make it possible for me to make any updates to the game. I am an ambitious man and I am planning to move on and I want everyone else to move on with me. I really wish haters would stop hating Pixel Piracy and leave the bandwagon of hate and focus on the future as I told earlier. Unlike Quadro Delta, I have ZERO tolerance for hate and I will be banning every single abusive toxic member who crosses the line of fine criticism. Some of you don't know what I had to go through and what it feels to be betrayed by the partner, making games is more than just writing code as there is more variables involved. Where are the other people who helped me with the Pixel Piracy? (I am not speaking about Re-Logic here) Ragnorium is a one-man show and this game will define me for the years to come and I will not let other people come on my way this time around to tamper with my dream. Today you judge me based on Pixel Piracy and in 2018 you will judge me based on the Ragnorium. You send resources and colonists to the alien planet and try to establish a self-sustainable colony. The game is 3D and it's going to be released in 2018 or 2019. You as a consumer, in the end, will decide if the game is worth your time and money. You will watch some videos on youtube and maybe follow the devlog and then eventually decide if you want to give this game a try or not, nobody is forcing you. - Game Website (http://www.ragnorium.com). - Join Ragnorium discord with over 800 members (https://discord.gg/Gy65VN). I am on discord daily interacting with the community.
I want to leave this in the positive tone and I really wish that community will mature with me, after all, every one of us moves on and acquires new experience. - Vitali

[ 2017-12-15 21:42:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Next Chapter in the Pixel Piracy? Hey, guys! It's fascinating that there is so much interest in the Pixel Piracy despite its age. So, as the creator of the game, I am humbly inviting everyone to the new channel where we can discuss together the new future for the Pixel Piracy without any barriers. Link -> DISCORD Hopefully, i will also be able to answer some of your questions there as much as I can, but on the main hand, i want to focus on the game and what people want from the game. Join discord now and be updated on the news and talk with me about Pixel Piracy. Thanks!

[ 2017-07-20 19:59:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

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[ 2016-05-30 17:00:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello there everyone! Alexander Poysky here again (finally!). I'm back up to speed with my health issues and will be writing here more often. First off I want to sincerely thank the entire team at Quadro Delta and Re-Logic for having been so patient with my health issues, it's been a long road to recovery but I'm finally doing my physical therapy. Second, I wanted to thank Lisa, our amazing community manager, and invite anyone who appreciates her work to write her at lisa@quadrodelta.com to let her know she's great! Or feel free to join our Discord channel and tell her in real time right here! https://discordapp.com/channels/81026265460506624/82224889724928000 Now, on to business shall we!

PIXEL PRIVATEERS Q1 Pushback

Let's adress the elephant in the room. Yes, we passed our Q1 launch window. Want to know why? Because we won't be offering anything short of something that Re-Logic would publish. It's that simple. Most publishing houses push developers towards quick release dates in order to hit proper times, but Re-Logic is different, VERY different. Contrary to normal publishers, they are concerned with the game, the core concept, the ideals we stand for, and how we work. What this translates into is that they are more than happy to guide us into making a game that they themselves would have made, which will assure the quality of the product over anything that could ever resemble a launch window in the name of profit. We'll be done soon, we are getting there, but we will be taking the Gandalf approach. "A good game never launches before or after, it launches right when it should". We didn't follow this rule of thumb for Pixel Piracy and while the game was rated well, and while we were a successful title on early access, we have always felt that there were a number of errors that we made. I myself pushed release on that title in order to hit the Summer Sale back in the day. It wasn't done out of avarice, but out of a lack of guidance. Now we HAVE that guidance and are fine with waiting, the game comes before all else. We owe it to you as players. We will not make the same mistakes with Privateers, and we have experience, a solid and wonderful publisher, and our past mistakes that we have learned from to show for it. Trust me, it doesn't come without it's fair share of stress and problems, heck I just got myself into a big mortage due to the fact that I calculated a Febuary release so I'm the first one to wish the game is out in the wild. But we need to make this sacrifice in order to provide you all with the title we've envisioned.

POST LAUNCH:

I want to adress our POST launch plan here, and while the logistics of it will be handled internally by myself and the team, I feel that you should know what the general game plan is. The first 6 months post-launch will see the team continously working on the game. We will be adding a wealth of new content to the title, and NO WE WILL NOT BE CHARGING FOR IT. We plan on doing things the way Re-Logic do things with Terraria, and have a long lasting product with permanent free updates at regular intervals.

TLDR:

We are still alive, Priv will come out soon, when it's done, and post launch we will be adding loads of content for free.

P.S As always, any complaints regarding the way I handled Piracy's launch can be taken up directly with me at alexpoysky@gmail.com and I PROMISE to respond each and every criticism with dedication as I always have. I think each and every one of you who have dedicated time to ask about my health, donate games for me while I was recovering in bed, and chat with me to help me pass the time during these difficult months. While I'm not 100% well yet, I'm back and have the same desire to speak with each and every one of you as always!

[ 2016-04-21 11:54:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Performance and Bugfix update for your guys :) 1.1.27

• Physics Engine performance boost
• Average FPS Increased
• You can now enable cheats
• Fixed bug that caused some objects to bleed when they are not supposed to bleed
• Fixed bug where pirate wants to attack even if you force move him away, pirate will still attack if he is attacked.
• Fixed bug where intertable objects would cull badly and appear infront of sand tiles on newly generated islands
• Added New Island Encounter: Crab Nest

Vitali out!

[ 2016-02-19 13:27:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Performance and Bugfix update for your guys :) 1.1.27

• Physics Engine performance boost
• Average FPS Increased
• You can now enable cheats
• Fixed bug that caused some objects to bleed when they are not supposed to bleed
• Fixed bug where pirate wants to attack even if you force move him away, pirate will still attack if he is attacked.
• Fixed bug where intertable objects would cull badly and appear infront of sand tiles on newly generated islands
• Added New Island Encounter: Crab Nest

Vitali out!

[ 2016-02-19 13:27:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Yo, Vitali here. Did some coding for pixel piracy and i have some patchnotes for you guys. Some minor stuff but i tried to work on the lag issue and i got alittle bit increase in FPS. 1.1.26

• Fixed bug where cannoners would sometimes stop shooting at the enemies
• Ship Explosion is more cooler now

1.1.25

• Improved GPU performance and should improved gameplay
• Base Dificulty of the game Improved and the later danger levels should pose alot of dificulty
• Changed look of the world map

Hope you guys get more cool cheap games on the lunar steam sale!

[ 2016-02-10 15:01:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Yo, Vitali here. Did some coding for pixel piracy and i have some patchnotes for you guys. Some minor stuff but i tried to work on the lag issue and i got alittle bit increase in FPS. 1.1.26

• Fixed bug where cannoners would sometimes stop shooting at the enemies
• Ship Explosion is more cooler now

1.1.25

• Improved GPU performance and should improved gameplay
• Base Dificulty of the game Improved and the later danger levels should pose alot of dificulty
• Changed look of the world map

Hope you guys get more cool cheap games on the lunar steam sale!

[ 2016-02-10 15:01:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings! We are excited to announce today that Pixel Piracy is coming to consoles in February! 505 Games brings the game to PS4 and Xbox One in all it’s pirate-y glory, including improvements to visuals, user interface, and more! It will be available for $14.99. The game launches on Xbox Live and the PS Store on February 16th, just in time for anyone who forgot Valentine’s Day! In addition to the news of the console release, we have a brand new website for the game which you can find here. Anyone that has questions, concerns, or just wants to be a part of the Pixel Piracy community can hop over to our forums. We’ve unveiled a new area just for console players, to compliment the existing Piracy forums. Feel free to come and share the hype for console launch - we’re certainly chugging along on the hype train here at the studio! Alex shared his thoughts on the console launch over at the Playstation blog as well: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/01/21/open-world-pirate-sim-pixel-piracy-coming-to-ps4/ To whet your appetite for the launch, you can check out the awesome new trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwTQzJiaaI

[ 2016-01-21 16:04:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings! We are excited to announce today that Pixel Piracy is coming to consoles in February! 505 Games brings the game to PS4 and Xbox One in all its pirate-y glory, including improvements to visuals, user interface, and more! It will be available for $14.99. The game launches on Xbox Live and the PS Store on February 16th, just in time for anyone who forgot Valentines Day! In addition to the news of the console release, we have a brand new website for the game which you can find here. Anyone that has questions, concerns, or just wants to be a part of the Pixel Piracy community can hop over to our forums. Weve unveiled a new area just for console players, to compliment the existing Piracy forums. Feel free to come and share the hype for console launch - were certainly chugging along on the hype train here at the studio! Alex shared his thoughts on the console launch over at the Playstation blog as well: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/01/21/open-world-pirate-sim-pixel-piracy-coming-to-ps4/ To whet your appetite for the launch, you can check out the awesome new trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NwTQzJiaaI

[ 2016-01-21 16:04:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there everyone. Alex Poysky here with some pretty good news! If you've been following my whole health thing and are one of the hundreds of people who have been wishing me well over the past month, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. It's helped so much, and I've made sure to reply to each and every one of you via e-mail, skype, or here. If you are one of the dozens of people who have bought me my wishlist games anonymously, you are amazing and trust me, you have kept me from having to move, entertained and able to heal and cope with the miserable pain I've been dealing with. A HUGE update regarding my health condition is the following. The doctors drew blood yesterday and ran tests. The infection (at least IN MY BLOOD) is dead, meaning that I've not only gotten a one in a million spinal infection, but I've BEATEN it in record time. Another month of bed rest and the spinal swelling SHOULD go down. There will be NO permanent nerve damage, and my brain itself is fine, a HUGE part of this is thanks to the positivity I have kept thanks to you all. My partner in crime, Vitali, has been working on Ragnorium, an amazing zombie survival online game, for the past year and a half, but he jokingly promised to go back and fix Piracy up if my health got better before we launched Pixel Privateers. Since it has, and since he is a man of his word, HE IS NOW BACK ON PIXEL PIRACY WORKING TO FIX IT'S QUALITY. Now, I know he's kept to the shadows up until now, but I want to urge you all to write him positive messages at @vitalikirpu and email vitali@quadrodelta.com The reason is as follows. I am the public face of the company, I am the one who recieves 100% of the fan mail. But I am NOT the one who made the game. HE IS. Please, show Vitali support, let him know that his game is good, but could be better. Let him know you appreciate his work and I PROMISE you will make his day brighter. We now have a monumental following of Pixel Privateers, and we are asking loads of you to please join us for Beta testing of both it and Ragnorium. As a personal favor from someone who owes so much to his community, I am asking you to take the time to write him even a few words of positivity, he's never recieved them and as such I feel he feels that he doesn't have any fans. Let's prove him wrong together!!!! @vitalikirpu and email vitali@quadrodelta.com

[ 2016-01-14 13:22:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there everyone. Alex Poysky here with some pretty good news! If you've been following my whole health thing and are one of the hundreds of people who have been wishing me well over the past month, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. It's helped so much, and I've made sure to reply to each and every one of you via e-mail, skype, or here. If you are one of the dozens of people who have bought me my wishlist games anonymously, you are amazing and trust me, you have kept me from having to move, entertained and able to heal and cope with the miserable pain I've been dealing with. A HUGE update regarding my health condition is the following. The doctors drew blood yesterday and ran tests. The infection (at least IN MY BLOOD) is dead, meaning that I've not only gotten a one in a million spinal infection, but I've BEATEN it in record time. Another month of bed rest and the spinal swelling SHOULD go down. There will be NO permanent nerve damage, and my brain itself is fine, a HUGE part of this is thanks to the positivity I have kept thanks to you all. My partner in crime, Vitali, has been working on Ragnorium, an amazing zombie survival online game, for the past year and a half, but he jokingly promised to go back and fix Piracy up if my health got better before we launched Pixel Privateers. Since it has, and since he is a man of his word, HE IS NOW BACK ON PIXEL PIRACY WORKING TO FIX IT'S QUALITY. Now, I know he's kept to the shadows up until now, but I want to urge you all to write him positive messages at @vitalikirpu and email vitali@quadrodelta.com The reason is as follows. I am the public face of the company, I am the one who recieves 100% of the fan mail. But I am NOT the one who made the game. HE IS. Please, show Vitali support, let him know that his game is good, but could be better. Let him know you appreciate his work and I PROMISE you will make his day brighter. We now have a monumental following of Pixel Privateers, and we are asking loads of you to please join us for Beta testing of both it and Ragnorium. As a personal favor from someone who owes so much to his community, I am asking you to take the time to write him even a few words of positivity, he's never recieved them and as such I feel he feels that he doesn't have any fans. Let's prove him wrong together!!!! @vitalikirpu and email vitali@quadrodelta.com

[ 2016-01-14 13:22:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there everyone, Alex Poysky here with an update on how the studio is doing. First off, I've been a little "removed" from the daily ins and outs of the studio's running due to a pretty scary health issue I'm dealing with. I feel like I won the ANTI lottery here, as it turns I appear to have the only documented case of Espondilodiscitis in Spain at the moment. One in 100 thousand in people OVER 50. I am 31. It took the doctors a month to diagnose correctly due to it being so rare that the 3 (yes THREE) neurosurgeons I speak to on an almost weekly basis have never once in their medical careers encountered it. You know who detected it and diagnosed me? My girlfriend, she somehow came up with the information and popped the question to the surgeons, who did the required tests and lo and behold, I have an infection that has a 0.004 % chance to appear in males OVER 55. There is simply no explanation as to why I have it, but I want everyone to know my girlfriend, Vanesa Maria Garcia Fernandez saved my life and I am going to devote what is left of it to making her the happiest person I can. I had a standard L5 S1 vertebrae surgery two months ago, and was getting better, and about a month ago everything turned into constant pain in different parts of my body. One minute I'd be fine and the next I'd have a pain that related to my pancreas being cut open, or my lung being flattened, or my personal favorite "appendix bursting over and over again" as in, the exact MOMENT you feel the appendix burst. It's excruciating, it's miserable, and I have to take prozac as an anti depressant just to get through the day in my usual cheery spirit. It turns out the INSIDE (I don't even) of my operated vertebrae is infected, and said infection presses up against the nerves within, sending "fun" nerve signals into my brain such as "exploding appendix" or "broken knee". Now that I've learned to endure the pain to some extent, I realize just how truly curious it is, as I can just be sitting down and it flares up like I'm going to die within a minute, annoying to say the least. In fact, it's 6 a.m and I can't sleep and am writing this due to the pain and having read a few negative comments mentioning me having run off into the sunset with the money or whatever. Look, I WISH! Trust me, if any of you have ever wanted me to go through any hardships you've gotten your wish. I am absolutely miserable. Having said that however, I still find time to run Pixel Privateers and it's launch is immenent. To those who say it's a clone of Pixel Piracy I invite you to please take a look at our facebook page where Lisa (The community manager I've had to hire due to my failing health) writes wonderful weekly posts about only SOME of the new things you'll be able to see in Privateers. Now, on to brass tacks. Piracy is buggy and the internal code is messy, it'd take a whole new code base to FIX it, and. While we can never remake it, look out for Q1 2016, but that's a different piece of news for a different moment and I've only got so long before I'm loopy from morphine so let's take advantage of my lucid moments now. This year I'm not going to be able to host a giveaway like I did last year due to the sheer physical exertion it requires (10-12 hours a day sitting at my desk handing out keys in a chat room). What I WILL do is speak with valve and make sure anyone who has pixel piracy gets something special witht he purchase of pixel privateers. This WON'T make the people who already hate me happy, but it's genuinely the most I can do now due to my health, and I ask you take solace in the fact that I can't be in the bahamas with the money you paid for the game due to the fact that while pixel piracy cost around 8 k euros to make, Pixel Privateers has cost around 50 times more. Yes, 50. Which is why some of our testers laugh whenever someone calls this a scam or a clone or whatever, but friends, let people be skeptical, it's in their nature and WE failed them in the past. Time will put everyone in their place, and if they are right they are only lending credence to something they believe in, and I can do nothing more than applaud them for trying to help other potential buyers stay clear of what they percieve is a bad product. As for privateers itself, here are some links that will easily explain away the whole "this game is a scam and they aren't spending money on it at all" https://www.facebook.com/PixelPrivateersGame/ Weekly updates with gifs, explanations, and trust me, we have one ace in our hole which we haven't (nor will we) explain until launch, and it's the single most requested feature we have EVER had. I know there'll be people here who call me a liar or whatever and claim I'm making this up. Trust me, TRUST ME, I wish. Also, thnk about it, if I were going to make something up I wouldn't claim to have some literal one in a million infectious vertebrae thing that is related to people almost twice my age. I'd make something more believable up. Having said that. I'm asking ANYONE who has had spondiolitis (not the ankylosing one, the INFECTIOUS VERTEBRAE one) to let me know. I need to know if this is permanent, I need to know if it's true that with the months I'll get better. this pain is so miserable I can only cry day in, day out. I don't want pity or anything of the sort. I am giving you all an explanation as to why someone who would write on a weekly basis went silent, and am now well enough to do so. My personal skype is alexpoysky , my personal twitter is @alexpoysky and my personal email is alexpoysky@gmail.com . If you are going to fill the post with hate save it and just direct it at me personally. I KNOW we dropped the ball on Piracy, it's as good as it CURRENTLY can get. But it'll get better in 2016! Privateers is do or die for me. If it sucks I'm hanging up my producer hat potentially, but it doesn't. I'm confident it'll wow you all. And if anyone just wants to chat, keep my company maybe, I'll try and read each and every email. I need the distraction and I'll do what I can (health permitting) to respond. I can't attest to the quality of the emails as most will be written one handed on my phone while standing in my back brace, but I WILL write back. I PROMISE once I'm better I'll host a giveaway, and I'll try and be my usual chatty self from now on! I have to give the antibiotics, treatment, and the nasty radio isotopes I've been injected with about 3 months to clear my body of the gunk. I want to thank my entire team for being so kind and understanding. Vitali- You are the best Blyat who exists, no Cyka for you mate! Jaakko- You are an incredible team leader and the pressure my declining health is putting on you is nothing short of an endurance run, thank you for being so understanding. Tuomo- Thank you for not putting up resistance any time I ask for changes man, I know it can be grating to push against your own work at the behest of someone else, but it's for the greater good of our future players. Mikko- Holy crap man you are a beast, you made that transition from Piracy Maintenence dev to full time Privateers dev like a pro! Nino- Even though you don't speak much I know you probably think more than anyone else around you, keep up the phenomenal art work. Ari- I love how everyone told me you were obese and I'd have to walk around you and never mention food to you and I believed them, only to find the skinniest, most talkative and nice guy at the office waiting! Lisa- You've been an absolute blessing for me, giving me the chance to heal and rest and TRY not to think about work obsessively. THANK YOU FOR BEING AN ANGEL! Kole- Where do I even beging. The aural work your music brings to the games is haunting. It's the backbone, the salt on a steak. And to top it off you are an incredible friend. We are real people, we are trying our hardest, we MAY or may not mess up, but we TRIED! Alex Poysky

[ 2015-12-19 06:48:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there everyone, Alex Poysky here with an update on how the studio is doing. First off, I've been a little "removed" from the daily ins and outs of the studio's running due to a pretty scary health issue I'm dealing with. I feel like I won the ANTI lottery here, as it turns I appear to have the only documented case of Espondilodiscitis in Spain at the moment. One in 100 thousand in people OVER 50. I am 31. It took the doctors a month to diagnose correctly due to it being so rare that the 3 (yes THREE) neurosurgeons I speak to on an almost weekly basis have never once in their medical careers encountered it. You know who detected it and diagnosed me? My girlfriend, she somehow came up with the information and popped the question to the surgeons, who did the required tests and lo and behold, I have an infection that has a 0.004 % chance to appear in males OVER 55. There is simply no explanation as to why I have it, but I want everyone to know my girlfriend, Vanesa Maria Garcia Fernandez saved my life and I am going to devote what is left of it to making her the happiest person I can. I had a standard L5 S1 vertebrae surgery two months ago, and was getting better, and about a month ago everything turned into constant pain in different parts of my body. One minute I'd be fine and the next I'd have a pain that related to my pancreas being cut open, or my lung being flattened, or my personal favorite "appendix bursting over and over again" as in, the exact MOMENT you feel the appendix burst. It's excruciating, it's miserable, and I have to take prozac as an anti depressant just to get through the day in my usual cheery spirit. It turns out the INSIDE (I don't even) of my operated vertebrae is infected, and said infection presses up against the nerves within, sending "fun" nerve signals into my brain such as "exploding appendix" or "broken knee". Now that I've learned to endure the pain to some extent, I realize just how truly curious it is, as I can just be sitting down and it flares up like I'm going to die within a minute, annoying to say the least. In fact, it's 6 a.m and I can't sleep and am writing this due to the pain and having read a few negative comments mentioning me having run off into the sunset with the money or whatever. Look, I WISH! Trust me, if any of you have ever wanted me to go through any hardships you've gotten your wish. I am absolutely miserable. Having said that however, I still find time to run Pixel Privateers and it's launch is immenent. To those who say it's a clone of Pixel Piracy I invite you to please take a look at our facebook page where Lisa (The community manager I've had to hire due to my failing health) writes wonderful weekly posts about only SOME of the new things you'll be able to see in Privateers. Now, on to brass tacks. Piracy is buggy and the internal code is messy, it'd take a whole new code base to FIX it, and. While we can never remake it, look out for Q1 2016, but that's a different piece of news for a different moment and I've only got so long before I'm loopy from morphine so let's take advantage of my lucid moments now. This year I'm not going to be able to host a giveaway like I did last year due to the sheer physical exertion it requires (10-12 hours a day sitting at my desk handing out keys in a chat room). What I WILL do is speak with valve and make sure anyone who has pixel piracy gets something special witht he purchase of pixel privateers. This WON'T make the people who already hate me happy, but it's genuinely the most I can do now due to my health, and I ask you take solace in the fact that I can't be in the bahamas with the money you paid for the game due to the fact that while pixel piracy cost around 8 k euros to make, Pixel Privateers has cost around 50 times more. Yes, 50. Which is why some of our testers laugh whenever someone calls this a scam or a clone or whatever, but friends, let people be skeptical, it's in their nature and WE failed them in the past. Time will put everyone in their place, and if they are right they are only lending credence to something they believe in, and I can do nothing more than applaud them for trying to help other potential buyers stay clear of what they percieve is a bad product. As for privateers itself, here are some links that will easily explain away the whole "this game is a scam and they aren't spending money on it at all" https://www.facebook.com/PixelPrivateersGame/ Weekly updates with gifs, explanations, and trust me, we have one ace in our hole which we haven't (nor will we) explain until launch, and it's the single most requested feature we have EVER had. I know there'll be people here who call me a liar or whatever and claim I'm making this up. Trust me, TRUST ME, I wish. Also, thnk about it, if I were going to make something up I wouldn't claim to have some literal one in a million infectious vertebrae thing that is related to people almost twice my age. I'd make something more believable up. Having said that. I'm asking ANYONE who has had spondiolitis (not the ankylosing one, the INFECTIOUS VERTEBRAE one) to let me know. I need to know if this is permanent, I need to know if it's true that with the months I'll get better. this pain is so miserable I can only cry day in, day out. I don't want pity or anything of the sort. I am giving you all an explanation as to why someone who would write on a weekly basis went silent, and am now well enough to do so. My personal skype is alexpoysky , my personal twitter is @alexpoysky and my personal email is alexpoysky@gmail.com . If you are going to fill the post with hate save it and just direct it at me personally. I KNOW we dropped the ball on Piracy, it's as good as it CURRENTLY can get. But it'll get better in 2016! Privateers is do or die for me. If it sucks I'm hanging up my producer hat potentially, but it doesn't. I'm confident it'll wow you all. And if anyone just wants to chat, keep my company maybe, I'll try and read each and every email. I need the distraction and I'll do what I can (health permitting) to respond. I can't attest to the quality of the emails as most will be written one handed on my phone while standing in my back brace, but I WILL write back. I PROMISE once I'm better I'll host a giveaway, and I'll try and be my usual chatty self from now on! I have to give the antibiotics, treatment, and the nasty radio isotopes I've been injected with about 3 months to clear my body of the gunk. I want to thank my entire team for being so kind and understanding. Vitali- You are the best Blyat who exists, no Cyka for you mate! Jaakko- You are an incredible team leader and the pressure my declining health is putting on you is nothing short of an endurance run, thank you for being so understanding. Tuomo- Thank you for not putting up resistance any time I ask for changes man, I know it can be grating to push against your own work at the behest of someone else, but it's for the greater good of our future players. Mikko- Holy crap man you are a beast, you made that transition from Piracy Maintenence dev to full time Privateers dev like a pro! Nino- Even though you don't speak much I know you probably think more than anyone else around you, keep up the phenomenal art work. Ari- I love how everyone told me you were obese and I'd have to walk around you and never mention food to you and I believed them, only to find the skinniest, most talkative and nice guy at the office waiting! Lisa- You've been an absolute blessing for me, giving me the chance to heal and rest and TRY not to think about work obsessively. THANK YOU FOR BEING AN ANGEL! Kole- Where do I even beging. The aural work your music brings to the games is haunting. It's the backbone, the salt on a steak. And to top it off you are an incredible friend. We are real people, we are trying our hardest, we MAY or may not mess up, but we TRIED! Alex Poysky

[ 2015-12-19 06:48:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there everyone! Alex Poysky here! I know it's been a while since I've last posted, I apologize for that but I've been out a couple of months due to a pretty touch-and-go spinal surgery that I had to go through. I'm just now getting back into full swing (albeit with loads of occasional pain!), but that DOESN'T mean we have been sitting idly by (heck, I can't even sit!). Now, while I'm not going to make a full announcement YET for a number of reasons, I CAN say that we ( that's TEN people, 4 programmers, 3 artists, a composer, a social media manager and myself as producer) have been VERY hard at work on our next title, as well as something interesting and fresh for our first project that has nothing to do with the current iteration of it. Considering the fact that our first game was done in SPARE TIME by Vitali Kirpu while both he and I held down second jobs, the fact that we now have a 10 man team working full time on our next project should attest to the fact that we are working to bring quality over quantity. Also, we are AVOIDING Early Access alltogether for our next project, and only releasing the title once we all feel it's 100% "done" As we get the go-ahead to post more and more info we will be doing so on our main site, quadrodelta.com (which has undergone some massive changes as of late!). 2016 is going to be pretty huge for Quadro Delta, and we hope to start the year off with a bang! As always, please feel free to join our forums to get some inside info on what we're working on, access to private beta's of our upcoming title, and consulting us personally on whatever you wish to know! We are very open, easy to access, and willing to hear our fans! our twitter feeds are @pixelpiracygame , @pixelprivateers , @vitalikirpu and @alexpoysky .

[ 2015-10-02 10:44:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there everyone! Alex Poysky here! I know it's been a while since I've last posted, I apologize for that but I've been out a couple of months due to a pretty touch-and-go spinal surgery that I had to go through. I'm just now getting back into full swing (albeit with loads of occasional pain!), but that DOESN'T mean we have been sitting idly by (heck, I can't even sit!). Now, while I'm not going to make a full announcement YET for a number of reasons, I CAN say that we ( that's TEN people, 4 programmers, 3 artists, a composer, a social media manager and myself as producer) have been VERY hard at work on our next title, as well as something interesting and fresh for our first project that has nothing to do with the current iteration of it. Considering the fact that our first game was done in SPARE TIME by Vitali Kirpu while both he and I held down second jobs, the fact that we now have a 10 man team working full time on our next project should attest to the fact that we are working to bring quality over quantity. Also, we are AVOIDING Early Access alltogether for our next project, and only releasing the title once we all feel it's 100% "done" As we get the go-ahead to post more and more info we will be doing so on our main site, quadrodelta.com (which has undergone some massive changes as of late!). 2016 is going to be pretty huge for Quadro Delta, and we hope to start the year off with a bang! As always, please feel free to join our forums to get some inside info on what we're working on, access to private beta's of our upcoming title, and consulting us personally on whatever you wish to know! We are very open, easy to access, and willing to hear our fans! our twitter feeds are @pixelpiracygame , @pixelprivateers , @vitalikirpu and @alexpoysky .

[ 2015-10-02 10:44:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ahoy there! Today we bring out another round of bug fixes for the game. Yes, your pirate flag is really a flag now, not poop! In addition to the patch, we are also happy to announce our brand new forums and website, which are ready and awaiting the community! You can check out the changes at http://quadrodelta.com/ Without further ado, here are the notes for today's patch: 1.1.23 New wavy effect and texture for the pirate flag! Grindstone upgrade chance system now scales to the varying number of weapon ranks Updated grindstone descriptions to match the actual upgrade chance Fixed bug where pirates would drop their melee weapon twice sometimes Removed a bunch of log spam (sorry about that!) Fixed slowdown when running main menu for a long time Fixed bug where renown was not correctly loaded from save file Fixed bug where pet skills cost 0 TP to learn Fixed bug where buying a pirate flag from the store would get you a bird poop instead Seagulls now have distinct white droppings Fixed bug where ranged weapon upgrade ranks were incorrectly calculated

[ 2015-07-01 14:22:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ahoy there! Today we bring out another round of bug fixes for the game. Yes, your pirate flag is really a flag now, not poop! In addition to the patch, we are also happy to announce our brand new forums and website, which are ready and awaiting the community! You can check out the changes at http://quadrodelta.com/ Without further ado, here are the notes for today's patch: 1.1.23 New wavy effect and texture for the pirate flag! Grindstone upgrade chance system now scales to the varying number of weapon ranks Updated grindstone descriptions to match the actual upgrade chance Fixed bug where pirates would drop their melee weapon twice sometimes Removed a bunch of log spam (sorry about that!) Fixed slowdown when running main menu for a long time Fixed bug where renown was not correctly loaded from save file Fixed bug where pet skills cost 0 TP to learn Fixed bug where buying a pirate flag from the store would get you a bird poop instead Seagulls now have distinct white droppings Fixed bug where ranged weapon upgrade ranks were incorrectly calculated

[ 2015-07-01 14:22:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello there everyone! Alex Poysky here with something that's been a long time coming. This isn't an update, but a tool for the community to use to give FAN translations of the game. We've had an incredible amount of support and feedback from the community and decided to make this tool so that you could create any language files you choose! There are a few restrictions, mainly NON ordinary characters (special symbols, cyrilic, etc) so keep that in mind when translating. You will need to download Notepad ++ in order to manipulate the files, and here are the instructions https://www.dropbox.com/s/klsk0r0fr144j3c/English.zip?dl=0 Download that and then edit it using Notepad++ To test out the translations before submitting them, you need to 1. Create folder Mods in PixelPiracy folder 2. Create Translations folder inside Mods 3. copy the file there and rename to Polish.xml or something then it should be selectable in the settings menu We are looking forward to implementing future translations, I'll be posting this update as a sticky in the forum, where anyone can upload their own translation files to share with others. Enjoy!

[ 2015-06-24 11:57:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello there everyone! Alex Poysky here with something that's been a long time coming. This isn't an update, but a tool for the community to use to give FAN translations of the game. We've had an incredible amount of support and feedback from the community and decided to make this tool so that you could create any language files you choose! There are a few restrictions, mainly NON ordinary characters (special symbols, cyrilic, etc) so keep that in mind when translating. You will need to download Notepad ++ in order to manipulate the files, and here are the instructions https://www.dropbox.com/s/klsk0r0fr144j3c/English.zip?dl=0 Download that and then edit it using Notepad++ To test out the translations before submitting them, you need to 1. Create folder Mods in PixelPiracy folder 2. Create Translations folder inside Mods 3. copy the file there and rename to Polish.xml or something then it should be selectable in the settings menu We are looking forward to implementing future translations, I'll be posting this update as a sticky in the forum, where anyone can upload their own translation files to share with others. Enjoy!

[ 2015-06-24 11:57:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

Patch v1.1.21 is now live! Taking care of some of the bugs today, as well as bringing you the Pixel Piracy OST!

100% of it's proceeds go to the ORIGINAL COMPOSER at KOLE AUDIO SOLUTIONS. We take 0 , nothing, NADA. We want you all to enjoy Kole's work without nickle and diming him. He is a phenomenally talented composer and deserves it!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/365970/ We've also reopened our official forums on http://quadrodelta.com/forum/ and will be updating them regularly there with loads of information specific to our next game, Pixel Privateers, feel free to stop by!! 1.1.21 Added a whole bunch of new sound effects Fixed white stripe on the plant ship tile Removed the christmas 2014 achievement Fixed the POOPDeck achievement Fixed Mr Seagull achievement (seagulls will now occasionally "air-bomb" the ship) KaBoom are again findable from treasure chests and crates Pirate Flags are available at the Goods Store Pirates hunting for epic treasure should have more luck finding one eventually Pixel Piracy OST is now available!

[ 2015-06-10 17:22:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

1.1.18

• Removed feature where animals would use rums and play with toys.
• Weapons now get XP and Level Ups just like pirates, different weapons have different max level.
• Fixed bug where in rare occasions water level would rise.
• Cows Added
• 2 New Passive items, Cow Milk and Cow Tail
• New Ship Tile item: Cow Bucket
• Wild Spiders and Boars are now spawning on the jungle islands
• 3 New Events, Corruption, Skeleton Assault and My Last Cow
• Group Buttons now have tooltips to help users determine into what group to put crew.
• Sell prices tweaked
• Drops tweaked

For 1.1.19 we will improve tutorial and add even more information for the players!

[ 2015-04-27 15:12:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

1.1.17 HOTFIX

• Fixed bug where crew would lose morale fast sometimes on enemy ships.

[ 2015-04-24 23:05:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

1.1.17

• Fixed bug where sailing did not happen in a very rare occasions
• Fixed bug where game gives you an impression that you could escape ship encounter but you cant.
• New Feedback system for some new tile items to give players a better feedback that something is happening
• Captain & Legendary mode hp regeneration is now 50% slower.
• New Ship items: 2 new wood wall types, 2 new wood deck wall types, 2 variations decorative of hanging mats, 1 new decorative statue, 3 new paintings
• New Special Items: Toilet Bowl, Golden Toilet Bowl & Toilet Paper.

If someone cant sail to a new location with the 1.1.17 build then let me know. Attach save file with the post then. (options in main menu then open save folder)

[ 2015-04-24 15:10:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Pixel Piracy: An Open Letter from Quadro Delta:

Hello there everyone! Alex Poysky here with a reflection on the past year or so along with some pretty huge news. When we initially launched Pixel Piracy last year, we did so feeling that we had left a lot of what we WANTED to go into the final game on the drawing board. In all honesty, we took this step out of necessity, and while this certainly met our needs, it left our customers with a game that – while full of potential – fell far short of expectations. While Early Access games that make a quick buck and then proceed to break their promises are a dime a dozen, we feel strongly that it is neither morally nor ethically correct of us to move on to future projects without coming back to Pixel Piracy and spendingthe time and effort necessary to make things right for our customers. This was to be a holistic effort to address the underlying problems, content revisions, and bugs that shipped with the product last year. None of this is an excuse for the state of the initial game, nor is this a pity cry for you all to give us a pass and let us make a second game while overlooking the first one's faults. Behind the scenes, we have rebuilt the entire AI engine, restructured a ton of gameplay elements, and added a wealth of new effects, content, and languages. We have also taken careful steps to enhance the accessibility of ourgame while staying true to our core vision. This has all been conducted over the past six months under the “Enhanced Edition” title – a remastering of the game, hence the name. We have come to the realization that this may have caused confusion – making people think that this was some sort of DLC or paid update. This was never our intent.

The “Enhanced Edition” is free - completely free. It's a series of HUGE updates and sweeping changes that bring the game to a point where we are comfortable calling it “complete” and worthy of our initial vision.

We are also planning to drop the “Enhanced Edition” moniker as a part of this. The forthcoming update is – quite simply – Pixel Piracy as it should have been from day one. Consider this note to be a formal apology letter from our studio to each and every one of you – our customers and potential customers. We launched a product that WAS NOT up to our standards. We hope that by investing the money you gave us back into Pixel Piracy that we will finally deliver the quality product YOU as a client deserve. We expect neither thanks nor applause for this. This isn’tabout that but a desire to make things right borne from a love for our work and a moral responsibility to you, our customers. If you were unhappy with the game at launch, we CANNOT blame you, but what we CAN do is let you know that we have a sincere desire to break the Early Access mold and take the high road by rebuilding the game, and are presenting you with a product that we feel is worth your time and investment. If youwere iffy on Pixel Piracy before, we would invite you to give it another chance and see if we've managed to bring this project close enough to home for you to enjoy! Of course, we would welcome your ongoing feedback – we promise we are listening! Looking back at all of the times when I almost let the justified criticism get to me, where I ALMOST pulled the plug and said “Sadly, we are just another of ‘those people.’”...I am not proud of those moments. We were a poster child for what is wrong with Early Access. That ends today. We are proudly moving ahead and hope to one day be seen as one of the very few Early Access games that dropped the ball, picked it up, dusted it off, and kept our word. That said, we've learned from our mistakes, and will be COMPLETELY avoiding Early Access for our next title. Pixel Privateers is slated for a “Mid 2015” Launch, but don't hold me to it. It'll be done when it's done, and it WILL be great. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We know we have violated your trust in the past, but we are wholly committed to earning it back and beyond. We never forget that if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here doing what we love each and every day.

HERE is the entire changelog for the past few months. APRIL corresponds to this patch. https://docs.google.com/document/d/19BVAfFheTVhU0NNSmoQWLPJ5fYF4scvx_iIipKo2ia4/edit?usp=sharing

Sincerely, Vitali Kirpu Alexander Poysky Mikko Arvola And the rest of the Quadro Delta team

[ 2015-04-23 17:21:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! The Pixel Piracy team remains hard at work on improving the game, and we are pleased to bring our latest update to everyone today! The "N" update contains plenty of small - but significant - changes in how the game plays. This includes changes to items' stats and effects as well as Stat Modifiers (status effects and passive items that can affect pirate's stats). Also pay special attention to the new status effects as scurvy and drunk, your pirates are becoming more fragile now! Please review the summary of changes As you know, we had wanted this one to be the last patch, but halfway through it something quite unique happened. Something I hadn’t anticipated, but it’s definitely positive. While I can’t give too much away, I can say that we are adding on a FOURTH patch to our ENHANCED edition. We had wanted three initially, with the one we are rolling out now to be the final one, but with so much potential left untapped, and with the new circumstances that came up around ten days ago, we want to come through and make the game as best as it can be. For this reason we are adding a FOURTH patch to the ENHANCED EDITION lineup. Without going into detail, expect some very impressive changes soon.

After the Enhanced Edition launches, we will continue working on even more content, more stuff, and more features, for free, because it’s the best possible way we can make up for having launched the project too early.

PATCHNOTES 1.0.16

• Passive Items overhaul! Tweaked 25+ item stats and effects.
• Stat Modifiers! Status Effects and Passive Items can affect pirate's stats. Modified stats shown in green/red on the pirate card.
• New Status Effects such as Scurvy! Remember to eat healthy or you will get sick...
• Getting drunk now has increasingly negative effects on your pirates.
• Loot tables for all treasure chest types
• Tweaked shop progressions
• New graphics for the Ice and Volcanic islands
• + bug fixes and tweaks across the board

It’s been a hectic, busy month, but nothing compared to what’s being prepped for NEXT patch! See you soon everyone! Quadro Delta PS: As some of you have already asked us, here's how drunk and scurby states work: DRUNK: It has 5 tiers, the first two stacks apply some positive stat modifiers and some negative, and stacks 3-5 have mostly negative overall (+LUCK, - to all other stats). Also, the stacks that are on Drunk, are not all removed when the effect runs out but rather one stack is reduced and then the timer restarts, until there are no more stacks. SCURVY: Scurvy affects you if don't eat fresh fruit, oysters or veggies with vitamins for a long time. Avoid it! Don't eat only fish! Lemon also heals scurvy. Certain foods have "vitamins" that reset the status effect, when you don't eat "vitamins", you get stacks of Scurvy status effect over time, and it has increasingly negative effects, first some stat debuff, then you start to take damage and move more slowly and have reduced damage and so on... until you die. So you need to make sure your guys don't just eat fish Each stack increases each 15 minutes if you didn't eat "vitamin" food, and at 5 stacks (75 minutes) you take so much damage it's impossible to survive

[ 2015-03-30 15:07:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everybody, as you already know, in parallel to bugfixing, we're adding new content to the game. So we're pleased to invite you to join us in the search of new and rare weapons to include in the next update. We want to remark that if we choose your weapon, you'll be credited as the manufacturer in the weapon description. Yesterday we started asking on Twitter and Facebook, and here is the result, so now you can see how they will look in the game: New suggested weapons list Please tell us what do you think about them and feel free to contribute with more ideas adding stats, notes etc (please avoid swords, we have too many!). Jump into the next link to check out the list of weapons already in the game (as reference) and the new (suggested) ones: New and old weapons list with descriptions

[ 2015-03-20 18:02:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

Second ENHANCED patch launches today (we recommend you to start a new game, especially if you want to see the new content, as factions, etc) 1.0.15

• Second round of game balance updates and additions, still more to come! :)
• New world order! Each legendary pirate has been given their own domain at the four corners of the map. (Start a new game if you want to see the brave new world!)
• Faction zones with new areas! Each map corner has new types of islands as well as faction ships and faction NPCs!
• North and South have snowy islands with Penguins!
• Revised ALL Pirate loot tables
• Revised ALL item prices for shops
• Humanoid pirates now drop their equipped items and equip ranged weapons
• New resource file Tiles.xml for modifying all the ship items
• New resource file ShopProgression.xml: all shop contents are now determined here
• Shops now have a limited stock of certain items that can become permanently sold out
• New Stat Modifier system: items and buffs can now apply bonuses or penalties to stats. Modified stats will show in green or red in the pirate card
• Fixed some of the Achievements not working correctly
• Fixed lots of annoying bugs, such as pirates falling to the ocean after grappling or pirates being saved mid-air while on the grapple
• Cannon combat lenght now varies by danger level
• Sea Shanty now applies new buff: +2 to all stats for 2 minutes
• Weapons no longer sell for 1 gold
• Nerfed Ancestor Mask (+1 TP on level-up -> 30% more exp)
• Bounty rewards now give more gold
• ... and many more small fixes and tweaks!

I want to take a moment to thank our kind testers, if it weren't for your help we wouldn't be able to bring such large changes to the game! A huge round of applause for : Brian "Snickers" Cathal Bracken Chris "deadcantdance" Jesse "Caosong" Nader "abutttuba" Vinxkur Jenny Zack Kramer (@zcgamer83 twitter, Calico steam) Aaron Drehmann as well as Mikko and Jesus obviously! A quick update on Pixel Privateers. The team working on it is making some huge advances and it looks like we are looking at an "Early Summer" launch. As always, we are going for a FULL release and avoiding Early Access, so don't hold us to a set date until we lock it in with Valve. There's LOTS more on the horizon, with the next patch looking to bring boatloads (see what I did there?) of content. My back has gotten moderately better and I'm not in pain anymore, and nobody at the office has their stomaches turned inside out anymore, so I'm banking on an April 7th release for the next patch. AFTER that one, we're looking at some pretty huge things, but more on that after it deploys ;). Have fun everyone, thank you for trusting us and sticking with us! -Alex

[ 2015-03-06 18:09:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey there everyone! It's stomache flu season here at Quadro Delta and we've all turned into inveritable poopmonsters for the past week an a half! That means that production on the latest patch was pushed back around 8 days, which means that by tomorrow we should be deploying. Here is what we have so far in terms of patch notes (Spoilered in case you want to be surprised :D. Remember, this is just the second in a series of patches that will bring the game to the final "Enhanced" edition (for free obviously) to anyone that has the game! [spoiler] NPC loot drop improvements (all loot tables revised, some npcs drop only what they have equipped, npcs equip and use ranged weapons) Added resource file for ShopProgression, now used everywhere. Shops have limited stock for some items. Revised ALL prices for all the items Revised the whole world map with 5 new types of islands (WIP for some part), moved legendaries to the corners Added factions back to the game (reside in the four corners of the map) Fixed a bunch of annoying bugs including but not limited to: pirates slipping into the sea after grappling and pirates dropping to the sea when saving the game if they are on the ropes + other small fixes and tweaks Tiles.xml resource file added The stat modifier system Tweaked bounty reward amount, new status effects... Fixed Achievements not working game balance has been tweaked toward more difficulty in general items cost more, enemies wield the same weapons you do... Now, if all goes well, I hope to include Faction-specific ship graphics Faction-specific loot drops (weapons) [/spoiler] Sorry about this folks, but quite literally the WHOLE OFFICE turned inside out the past 10 days and it's been kind of hard working with the constant fear of, well... yeah.. XD.. Anyways, with this patch you guys will start to see where we are going with the game, next up? LOADS of content, islands, ghost ships, etc.

[ 2015-03-05 09:31:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

WE WILL NOT BE USING EARLY ACCESS FOR THIS TITLE

HERE IS THE VIDEO of Pixel Privateers, made by our OFFICIAL YouTuber Paul Soars Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jubE9eBn8MY Hello there everyone, Alex Poysky here with a pretty neat update! My good friend Paul Soars Jr has made a Let's Play video of the current private build of Pixel Privateers and I wanted to take this opportunity to talk a bit about why

WE WILL NOT BE USING EARLY ACCESS FOR THIS TITLE

Let me just blast through the reasons in bullet form, as there are MANY. 1. WE DON'T NEED TO: We made enough money from clients on Pixel Piracy to warrant upgrading out 2 man NON studio to a 10 man team across 3 countries, with a PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT studio in Turku, Finland; a DESIGN Studio in Murcia, Spain, and freelance artists working to help our LEAD artist (yes we have a PLURAL amount of artists). 2. IT WOULDN'T BE RIGHT: Even if we NEEDED the money, it wouldn't be right MORALLY. We already went through the motions of game development one time using Early Access and wound up launching a buggy title way too early because we had a very, VERY avid test group of fans who would say it was perfect. By cooking it until perfection on our own terms, we ensure we are giving our clients what they PAY for and not what WE PROMISE THEM WE'LL COME THROUGH ON. 3. EARLY ACCESS IS ABUSED WAAAAY TOO OFTEN: "Abused" is a very strong term, as we ourselves are guilty of this. When you are making a game, you start out with a wide open field of open doors to potentially go through. When looking for funding, you look through those open doors into ANY direction you want, and promised based on them. Development of a game OBLIGATES a team to close doors little by little, many times closing UNWANTED doors that you PREVIOUSLY promised. Couple that with the fact that nowadays it's STRANGE for a studio to actually launch an Early Access title, and we're looking at an abuse cycle our studio wants to take no part in. We thank each and every one of you who have helped us get to where we are, and we are learning from the past instead of living in it. 4. EARLY ACCESS IS A CRUTCH WE DON'T WANT TO USE. We feel Early Access is a "Crutch" people use, and it's one we don't need. We should be judged as professionals in a sector where we attempt to thrive and flourish, not flounder and waddle. The only way we can do so is to produce tight, polished games with the risk of having it all go to hell and a handbasket if we launch it and it turns out to be crap. THIS FEAR is what drives us, it's waht makes us fight. If we take that fear away we'd just promise the moon and then deliver something with no "heart". 5. I simply think EA is garbage at this point in time due to the studios misinterpreting how it should be used. LARGE studios have NO "real" right to be using Early Access. Come on guys, you base your game's sales point on a HUGE mainstream developer's name and push out a pre-alpha tech demo and charge top dollar for it, just to turn around and whine about how "not enough people bought it to make it viable so we pulled the plug." That has a name where I come from, and it's bullshit, I'm calling you guys on it and will show you how it's supposed to be done. I'm not a AAA studio, I'm BARELY a mid-range studio, and I'm sitting here working on a staurday afternoon after having had my spine collapse on me and having been bedridden for two months now. If you want the respect of your fans, if you want your "legitimacy" as a game development studio or a world renowned developer or an "ace" producer, don't beat aroudn the bush, don't cash out, don't cut corners and get the job done. I'm sick and tired of Kickstarter, Early Access and all of these startup programs that are supposed to be used by people who NEED the means to get their projects off the ground abused by these Big Name so-and-so's and their rock solid reputations (or not). Why don't you find a publisher to put two million into your idea and get it done? Oh, what's that? Because when you don't come through on a Kickstart or Early Access promise you only dick over a client, and doing the same to a PUBLISHER will hurt because they have nasty lawyers? Well tough s**t friend, them's the bricks. Oh man that felt good to get off my chest! Anyways, have a great weekend and expect Privateers to launch in the April-July 2015 time of the year, shortly after Pixel Piracy ENHANCED (WHICH is a COMPLETELY FREE Upgrade of Pixel Piracy that we have put around 100 thousand dollars into between artists, refractored code, man hours, expenses from external companies that have to come in and UN-mess up out game engine, etc, COMPLETELY FREE, just to clear our name and prove we are sorry for having participated in the injustice that is Early Access.).

[ 2015-02-28 19:56:28 CET ] [ Original post ]