Pixza

On the outset, Pixza is a pretty easy game to play. I mean, come on, how difficult moving a bunch of squares on the screen could be? Yet, those who play it regularly will know that a better way to describe the game would be to call it a “deceptively” easy game. Although not very easily apparent, Pixza is actually a very strategic game.  As one of our players recently said on the in-game chat, “Pixza is easy to play, but very hard to win!”.

On reading that, I smiled to myself as, this has been our prime objective right from the start. We wanted Pixza to be simple and fun to play for beginners, while still having sufficient scope and depth for strategies for advanced players. This is also reflected in the kind of super pixels you unlock as you go up the levels in the game.

We want to start writing more about the strategical elements of Pixza, and the beauty of this is that with the emergence of new super pixels in future levels, these strategies will evolve and change to meet the needs of the new challenges.

Today, I wanted to kick start this series of posts with a very simple tip: guessing your opponents watermark early allows you to decide which areas of your own watermark to concentrate on. See the scaled-down copy of an actual game grid below:

Even though it’s pretty early in the game, you can see that for my team’s perspective, it’s fairly easy to guess the opponent’s watermark : X.

This is something you might want to avoid as a team – don’t give away your watermark so easily, and so early in the game! And as you can see, the no.1 NO-NO here is to begin filling your watermark by outlining it with pixels! So, why is this not such a good idea? One main reason is that in Pixza, a portion of your team’s watermark overlaps with your opponent’s. If you are able to see what watermark your opponent has, it becomes easy to see which area of your team’s watermark they have to fill – and you don’t need to focus on these parts and perhaps let them do that for you unknowingly!

Stay tuned for more strategical and behind-the-scenes post about Pixza on this blog. You should follow us on Twitter @pixzagame.