They Bleed Pixels

They Bleed Pixels

Developers
	Spooky Squid Games
macOS (OS X)	Ethan Lee
Linux	Ethan Lee
Release dates
Windows	August 29, 2012
macOS (OS X)	June 3, 2015
Linux	June 3, 2015

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Amazon.com		Collector's Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/TheyBleedPixels/
Linux	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/TheyBleedPixels/

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/TheyBleedPixels/
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/TheyBleedPixels/
Steam	<path-to-game>/<user-id>/

Crash logs on Linux and Mac will be saved to this location.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input settings

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings

General settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound Effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Japanese

Other information

Configuration file

The data discussed in this section is found in config.txt at the configuration file location noted above.

FIT_TO_SCREEN	0 indicates pixel-perfect, 1 indicates aspect-ratio stretch, 2 indicates full stretch.
FULLSCREEN	0 indicates windowed, 1 indicates fullscreen.
SCREEN_X	Window width. Note that Linux/Mac ignore this in fullscreen mode!
SCREEN_Y	Window height. Note that Linux/Mac ignore this in fullscreen mode!
VSYNCH_FLAG	VSync. When enabled, Linux will attempt EXT_swap_control_tear VSync first.
SHADER_FLAG	0 indicates no shaders/framebuffers, 1 indicates simple shaders, 2 indicates full shaders.
DRAW_PAPER_TEXTURE	Refers to the paper texture used as a background element.
DO_RUMBLE	Enables/disables haptic support for rumble-enabled controllers.
SOUND_FLAG	Enables/disables all sound (both cutscenes and in-game).
PARALLAX_FLAG	0 indicates simple parallax, 1 indicates advanced parallax.
RESTART_WARNING_FLAG	Set to 0 if you want to automatically skip the warning prompt when restarting a level.
SND_MUSIC_VOL	Float value between 0.0 and 1.0, indicating 0%-100% volume for music.
SND_SFX_VOL	Float value between 0.0 and 1.0, indicating 0%-100% volume for sound effects and cutscenes.
IN_GP_*	Joystick axis/button indices for gamepads (as noted by SDL2).
IN_KB_*	Integer values for keyboard symbols as noted by SDL_keyboard.h.
JOYSTICK_DEADZONE	Integer value that is multiplied by 0.05f, then clamped between 0.1f and 1.0f, indicating 10-100% reach required for joystick axis values to be used.
DEBUG_FLAG	Set to 1 for verbose output in errorLog.txt.
WAIT_TIME_DELAY	Time in milliseconds to sync the game's timestep. May be helpful for very specific cases of stuttering.
FORCE_30FPS	Set to 1 to throttle the timestep to 30 Hz on the CPU. Can be combined with WAIT_TIME_DELAY.
CONTROLLER_INDEX	Linux/Mac only. 0-based index for the desired controller. DEBUG_FLAG = 1 will print full controller information to errorLog.txt.
FORCE_SUPERSAMPLE	Linux/Mac only. 0 indicates default viewport resolution, >=1 indicates multiplying the default 720p viewport by the given integer. For example, 2 will always render as 2880x1440, even for 1920x1080 (by default it would render as 1280x720, the highest 720p resolution below 1920x1080).
FMOD_DRIVER_ID	Linux/Mac only. When booting the game, the full list of FMOD devices will be printed to terminal, including the device's integer ID. Set this variable to that ID and the game will force FMOD to use the correct device. Note that cutscenes use Bink, which uses CoreAudio on OS X and OpenAL on Linux. This variable will not affect the device used by cutscenes.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD
Interface	FreeType
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3
Processor (CPU)	1.20 GHz	1.73 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL 2.1 with ARB extensions compatible	Intel HD Graphics OpenGL 3.0 compatible
Controller		Gamepad highly recommended for best experience.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8
Processor (CPU)	1.20 GHz	1.73 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL 2.1 with ARB extensions compatible	Intel HD Graphics OpenGL 3.0 compatible
Controller		Gamepad highly recommended for best experience.

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	glibc 2.15
Processor (CPU)	1.20 GHz	1.73 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL 2.1 with ARB extensions compatible	Intel HD Graphics OpenGL 3.0 compatible
Controller		Gamepad highly recommended for best experience.