Featuring a distinct visual style that blends pixel art with paper and ink textures, They Bleed Pixels is a singular mix of intense platforming and fierce beat-em-up action. It tells the story of a young girl haunted by a mysterious book and her violent Lovecraftian nightmares.

Explore exotic dreamscapes populated with bizarre creatures... then stab them in the face.

They Bleed Pixels uses a simple one-button combat scheme with surprising depth at its core. Button mashing is discouraged while kicking shadowy monsters into saws, pits and spikes is rewarded thanks to a unique checkpoint earning system: instead of being evenly distributed at set locations, players must earn and place checkpoints through stylish kills. The more and better you kill, the faster you fill your checkpoint meter. Avoid combat or button mash mindlessly and you’ll find checkpoints uncomfortably far apart.

Kill enemies all fancy like.	Earn a checkpoint.	You choose when to place it.

TBP's one button combat system emphasizes strategic movement and environmental kills over complicated combos.

They Bleed Pixels includes a full albums worth of original electronic music by DJ Finish Him (aka Shaun Hatton) created using unconventional instruments and gadgets often not meant for musical use.

Here's a preview of some early music from his Bandcamp page.

We've invited four friends from the local indie game community to create bonus levels for They Bleed Pixels. We then worked with each of them to create visual mashups letting a little of their game worlds leak into ours.

		They Bleed Ponycorns! Ryan Craighton - Untold Entertainment Mashups: Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure The father-daughter team behind the hit viral game Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure returns in the unlikeliest of crossovers. Featuring collectable ponycorns, crayon art, evil lemons, fountains of adorable pink blood and a ponycorns tribute mix by musician DJ Finish Him!
		They Bleed Star Dust Alex Bethke - Golden Gear Games Mashups: Seraph (formerly Starfall) Golden Gear Games's Bethke brings a level visually themed around his game Seraph the top pick from the Experimental Gameplay Projects: High Velocity theme now available for iOS. Featuring a glowing shiny protagonist, abstract nightmares, an outer space background and punishing difficulty.
		exp. issue 0.666... Mathew Kumar Mashups: exp. 'zine Journalist and designer Mathew Kumar’s acclaimed videogame 'zine exp. Magazine makes the jump from photocopier to silicon. Featuring black and white photocopy art, an extra rare copy of exp. minus two, and words like orotund, grandiloquent and turgid!
		Ninjas Bleed Techno - Dance Party! Michael Todd - Happy Little Smile Games Mashups: Techno Ninja The creator of Silent Skies, Broken Brothers and Engines of War gives a sneak peak of his upcoming XBLIG platformer Techno Ninja, from his new company Happy Little Smile Games. Featuring cheesy rave flyer art, trendy black silhouettes and eye-searing amounts of the colour pink!