🐷 Wash away the pain with the Pixel Washer demo

The Pixel Washer demo has LAUNCHED! It's aliiiiive!!

You can relax to the soothing sensation of power washing pixels right now:

Pixel Washer Demo on Steam

Grab your power washer and scrub pixelated worlds squeaky clean! Play as an adorable piggy, blast away grime, upgrade your gear, and restore a grubby town to its former glory in this cozy, almost zen-like game.

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🎮 Demo Details

So what's in this demo?

• 6 dirty jobs
• 2 power washing guns
• 1 adorable piggy (named Pigxel 🐷)
• Around 30 minutes of relaxing gameplay

It's mostly what I call "zen" jobs which don't ask much of you – just chill out and relax. But! It ends with a diegetic memory game, which makes ya use that big brain of yours.

🏡 Personal Feelings

This demo launch kind of crept up on me.

My wife and I just moved (from Los Angeles to Los Angeles). Although we "only" moved 10 minutes down the road, it's been taxing. The last several weeks have been chaotic.

All of our stuff is in boxes, our new Internet is just barely working, and life feels like a big TODO list right now. Perfect time to launch!

I'm also juggling some ongoing health issues I won't bore you with. Just a note: take care of yourselves, friends! Your health is more important than, well, anything.

All of that said, it does feel good to (finally!) get the demo out. I wish I had prepared to promote it a bit better, but hopefully that'll motivate me to make a bigger deal out of the upcoming full launch. Stay tuned!

📈 What's Next

Acclaim and I are eyeballing a release this year. My contractor budgets are used up, but I am still working with transmutrix who is helping me with some bugs and UI tweaks.

Mostly I've just gotta play and tweak the game over and over and over and –

I promise to make a bigger deal out of the full release. I have grand ambitions of doing countdown posts, and maybe ... maybe a live stream?? (Stop it, Matt!)

Whatever happens, just know: I've been learning a lot lately about game development and publishing recently, which I'll be sharing with you soon. Be on the lookout for new comics, podcasts, and newsletters headin' your way.

In the meantime if you'd like to help me out, here's how:

1. Play the Pixel Washer demo
2. Write a review
3. Share it online and/or with friends you think would enjoy it

Thanks much!

❤️ Wishing You the Best

I hope it's going well with you and your game. If you'd like to share what you're working on, join the Valadria Discord and post in the #game-dev or #self-promotion channels.

See ya there?

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