MixUp! is a fast-paced color mixing puzzle and management roguelite.
Enter the unique, black and white world of "Malben." As a Visionary Painter, your life mission is to restore color to this monochrome reality, one customer, one day, one city at a time.

Operating out of a high stress "color kitchen," play solo or in couch co-op to fulfill demanding customer orders. Mix colors in an ever changing palette with over 10K+ possibilities, manage strict timers, and navigate an ever changing floor.

Adapt to the chaos, upgrade your abilities, and survive the rush in this addictive, restaurant style gameplay loop.

Why play MixUp?

  • Have Fun with Friends! - Play local co op using controller/keyboard
  • Intuitive Learning: Master color theory through action.
  • Spatial Strategy: Plan your path as the floor shifts and the pressure rises.
  • Stress Management: How fast can you think when the timers are ticking

🎮 Controller Controls

  • Left Stick — Movement / UI Navigation
  • A / Cross (X) — Interact / Select
  • B / Circle (O) — Continue to Next Day
  • X / Square — Skill
  • Y / Triangle — Exit / Back

⌨️ Keyboard Controls

  • WASD — Movement / UI Navigation
  • Enter — Interact / Select
  • Right Shift —Skill
  • P — Continue to Next Day
  • BackSpace— Exit / Back

For the best experience play the game on full screen mode


The game is currently in development, and I’d love to hear your feedback. Thanks for playing!

To get tips & tricks, and fresh gameplay videos subscribe on youtube:
MixUp! Offical Channel

Credits & Licensing :

Color Blending Engine: This game uses the Mixbox package for realistic color mixing. Mixbox is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Music:
Giving credits through youtube for easier viewing, all music used is from their respective artists in MusOpen, which are all licensed as public domain.

  • Main Menu: 1,  2
  • Game: 1, 2, 3
More information
Updated 9 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorSheryB
GenreSimulation, Puzzle, Strategy
Tags2D, Colorful, Cooking, Co-op, Management, mixing, Roguelite, Singleplayer
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any), Playstation controller
AccessibilityInteractive tutorial
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count1 - 2
ContentNo generative AI was used

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teh1archon46 days ago

Hell F***ing YEAH!

Let's start with the mechanics to improve: Sometimes, it's not clear enough with what you're interacting with. It happens to me the most in the mixing vet that I'm not sure if I'm standing close enough to throw my color in, sometimes I just press Enter, and nothing happens. Then, when I want to pick the color, it doesn't auto-equip, which is good because you can mix more than 2 colors, but it doesn't telegraph well enough that the color was mixed in and ready to absorb another color or be picked up. Also, when I go right to pick colors, I sometimes pick the wrong color because the "head" of my character was closer to the upper vet than the one that the body is closer to. This can be easily solved (or at least be better) by more juice - move visual movement (rotation, scaling, color change) for the interactible object that will be interacted with + sound effect, especially SFX for the vets on the right to help train the player they're in the right place they meant to be. I'd add SFX first thing. Maybe even a small arrow around the "head" of the character to indicate where it's looking at and what it's about to interact with (I'd keep it optionally to the player to toggle on/off in case it's too much).

What's to keep: the new blind-color pallets - now I can see the colors clearly - THANK YOU! From this point forward, all my failures are just skill issues *giant sweat drop emoji*. I think the game is also running a bit smoother now, but it just might be my PC after a fresh restart. Letting to choose the color pallets is a giant boon as well. Well done! 

I also like that not every chest has purchasable options. It's a good motivator, and it shows what I may buy/unlock later. 

One thing I would consider to add/change (maybe it has a power-up, I wouldn't know, skill issues...) is the ability to just drop the eraser. It would make things easier and faster and it could double as an obstacle if not returned to place (it could even absorb colors around it, making it less useful as it erases worse that way). Not being able to pick up and return the eraser like I want (see first paragraph) is very frustrating since it's a core mechanic.

TL;DR in the last build I can finally say that

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SheryB41 days ago (1 edit)

Thank you so much for the deep feedback! and i am happy you enjoyed the game!
i have a few note to make sure i undestood your feedback correctly:

  • When you approch what you can interact with there is actually a small highlight showing what you are going to interact with, it might be to unoticeable(it just makes the item you are about to interact with a bit brighter), so the feedback can be broken into two?:
    • Make it clear if i am close enough to drop something somewhere(keep the highlight for other items while holding something)
    • Make the highlight more clear(maybe a small glow/gloss animation
  • And interesting on the dropping the eraser thing! i might add it as an ability to allow the player to be able to drop what they are holding wherever they want and handle the consequeneses of it, it sounds like a cool ability!
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teh1archon40 days ago

The highlight is not noticable enough. It needs a bit more juice and/or contrast in the colors.

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