Pixel Fireplace
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Pixel Fireplace is a relaxing, type-controlled simulation. Strike aMATCH, throwLOGS onto the crackling fire, and watch them slowly burn down to ash in real-time. Discover more interactive commands likeMARSHMALLOW,SMORE,HOTDOG,FIRECRACKER,NEWSPAPER,RED,SUNSET,WATER, or just sit back, turn the lights down and enjoy.
Mac & Linux No Longer Supported. (Legacy) Versions Available.
Support for Mac and Linux has ended, but their final versions are still available labeled (Legacy). On some Macs it will be flagged as "malicious" (it's not), however, you may be able to 'Open anyway' to get it to work.Here are instructions from the Apple Support forums on how to do that.
Support Contact
✉ → tedmartens [at] gmail [dot] com
Credits:
Original Fireplace by Ted Martens © 2010
Hex-Ray Studios - Ken Kopecky & Ted Martens © 2012
Hammertail - Ted Martens © 2015 - Current
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux |
| Release date | Oct 25, 2010 |
| Rating | Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars (163 total ratings) |
| Author | Ted Martens |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Made with | GameMaker |
| Tags | 2D,8-Bit,Christmas,Cozy,fire,No AI,Pixel Art,Relaxing,Retro,yule |
| Average session | About an hour |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard |
| Links | Twitter/X |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Update v1.2.5 - Options Menu
- Patch v1.2.41 - Bug Fixes, Minor Changes
- Ubuntu Version - End of Support
- Pixel Fireplace Update 1.2.4 Available for Windows - Two New Colors, New Demo, F...
- Update v1.2.3: Performance Fix, Dual-Screen, Bug Fixes
- Ubuntu version now available!
- Update v1.2.2: Complete, Itch App Support, Secondary Display
- Update: Dual Monitor Support in Beta v092
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Update v1.2.5 - Options Menu - is now available. Dev Log post here:
https://hammertail.itch.io/pixel-fireplace/devlog/714665/update-v125-options-men...
It should work if you duplicate the copy you downloaded (all files) and then run both exes.
You can double-click to toggle fullscreen/windowed, by the way (there will be a pause menu with this option soon).
Edit: Ah I just realized that you won't be able to put both copies into fullscreen or change the windowed resolution, and their windowed size is pretty small :\ Sorry. Windowed resolution options is on my list to add someday. Although for this particular situation, all copies would use the same windowed resolution because they'd all use the same preference file.
Just installed this on a new windows 11 laptop (love pixel fireplace, want it on every computer from now on) and I'm finding it's not quite working right. The menu options on the opening screen besides "fireplace" (options, help, credits, quit) are all missing. This means there's no way to quit except to alt-tab out and close the window. Anything to be done?
Some commands to try (:
log match marshmallow smore blow eat toss trash hotdog brat sausage weiner fireworks firecracker paper newspaper poke fullscreen black blue red purple green turquoise yellow cyan orange normal brown sepia grayscale violet lavender magenta mint skyblue white aurora avocado limegreen cottoncandy bubblegum dawn dusk plasma sunset twilight rainbow fireplace alarm forever crayons photo picture memory heat quit marshmellow news
I turned this on and got scared my computer was on fire so I poured a bucket of water on my computer. For some reason my computer won't startup , are you aware of this bug that your program creates? Will you be fixing this in the next patch so that I can turn on my computer again? I'm awfully bored here without access to my games.
bug report: water before log results in a crash
ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object controller_Fireplace: Unable to find any instance for object index '33' name 'oLog' at gml_Object_controller_Fireplace_Step_0 (numerous octothorpes redacted)gml_Object_controller_Fireplace_Step_0 (line -1)
No there isn't, sorry. double-click to toggle fullscreen/windowed but the window size can't be changed. I'll think about an Options menu for the next update, although it won't happen for a few months. There may be a limit to how small of a window I could support. What size window did you need? Is the problem that the window is bigger than the display screen, or that you have a specific size you need for streaming or something like that?
Any update on the update to be able to resize when windowed?
I run in a 3 monitor surround setup, so my pc sees my 3 monitors as 1 ultrawide. I would love to have this running on one of the monitors in a window, but not being able to resize prevents that. Is this something that I could add to the options.ini (ie: Windowed=true, Resolution=1080x1920) or something like that?
Thanks!
Hi! Thanks a lot for the updates lately. I've used Pixel Fireplace since 2015 when I started college, and it's been around way before that so it's great to see it not fall into software hell.
I hate requesting features for software I purchased years ago, but I noticed that GMS2 now supports ARM builds for Linux; any chance to get a build to run on a raspberry-pi? That would open up so many avenues to run it standalone in custom cabinets, and I would personally love to build a physical, portable pixel-fireplace to keep running in the living room.
Anyways, thanks for all the good work and for building a staple in indie-dev culture!
What's "smore" meant to do? It highlights the letters like it's a valid command, but doesn't accept it to do anything. If I try to add an extra letter, the only working result is adding a 'd' - at which point it parses "red", which is not what I mean ;)
Fascinating how I can eat a flaming hotdog! I'm a fire-eating dragon, roar!
Absolutely adore this program and have used it since the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality! Just got a new computer and reinstalled the fireplace and no longer seem to have options available to me either from the launch menu or in the fireplace itself (typing "options", "text", "slomo", etc has no effect). Did I perhaps botch something on my reinstall? This is on the latest Windows version. Thank you!
Hi there! I got this as part of the charity bundle a while back but hadn't had a chance to try it out until now, and I just wanted to say that I'm already in love! It makes study sessions so much better. One minor thing I've noticed is that typing "quit" or "water" before laying the first log seems to crash the game with a code that starts "ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0". I'd be happy to give the full error code if it would help. Thank you so much for this awesome game!
Hello! I've got a question regarding the "water" command. Is there a way to prevent being kicked to the main menu after using it? Could you make it so the burnt logs stay and you can use a command like "sweep" or "clear" to get rid of the ash. If you read this, thanks for your time! Have a good day/night! :D
Thanks for letting me know! The Ubuntu version is challenging for me to test because I'm doing it through VirtualBox. I just checked and the volume was indeed very very low. I had to turn the volume up on the Linux VM all the way, and then very high on my Windows audio controls as well. I'm not sure yet how to solve this, but I'll think about it. Thank you!
Thank you for your quick reply!
I don’t know exactly how, but I have sound back! I’m running Lubuntu 20.10 on a very old (Win Vista era) PC. I thought I would give Wine a try and I installed the latest Wine Staging and although it didn’t display any video because the iGPU is so old it’s not supported by Vulkan, it played sounds. So I go back to the native Ubuntu version and suddenly there’s sound. I’m thinking maybe I was missing libs or something. Anyway, thanks.
P.S. Try to reuse an old Mac and put Ubuntu on it for testing for you can.
Version 1.2.3 now available with performance and bug fixes, 'rainbow' and 'crayon' commands. More detailshttps://hammertail.itch.io/pixel-fireplace/devlog/205806/update-v123-performance...
Hotfix v1.2.2.1 (Windows only) addresses a performance issue. There was a memory leak in v1.2.2 (Windows only). Dual-screen support is temporarily removed because that's where the bug is. Thanks for discovering that issue carles.tm! I'll get that feature sorted asap, but for now please update to v1.2.2.1 and sorry for the inconvenience.
Hey! I got this in the BLM bundle for Racial Justice and Equality a while ago, and I've absolutely loved it since. I just upgraded to the most recent version, but unfortunately I noticed that there are a small handful of commands that are missing from previous versions such as "rainbow" or "touch". Was this intentional, or is it simply yet to be added? Also, when I type the number 0, it lights up as though it is the start of a command but I can't find any other keys to complete it. Even if you don't get to any of this stuff, I absolutely love the software you've made; it's so pretty and soothing. Thank you very much for your time, and for the lovely game you've designed.
Hey Shmoopers, thank you for the kind words I'm glad you enjoy it :) the 'rainbow/party' command flashed colors and I decided to remove it because of photo sensitivity. I tried making a fire that was rainbow colored and didn't flash through the colors, but it was muddy and didn't look like a rainbow or very good. If I can make it look decent I'll get it in the next update :) The 'touch' command is one that I decided not to re-implement. Pixel Fireplace is meant to be a nice soothing experience. That command brings to mindpain, and I always felt it didn't really belong so it didn't make the cut for the rewrite. The number 0 is a bug, I have no idea why it's doing that heh. Thank you for letting me know!
I'll add a note to the 1.2.2 DevLog about 'rainbow' 'touch' and the bug with 0.
I was able to make a build for Ubuntu 16+ 64bit. The only small issue I've found is Pixel Fireplace can't prevent Ubuntu's sleep settings, so you'll have to adjust them if you don't want the display/computer to sleep while running it. I won't be able to fix this unless Game Maker adds a new function for overriding it. Everything else seems to work fine including dual screen support, but let me know if you find something. Some more details from the GM:S website:
"Ubuntu 16 or later is required. Other distros can usually run the games that GMS2 generates with no issues, but we only state support for Ubuntu, so if you have issues playing games on these other platforms you will need to investigate this yourself.All games are 64bit-only"
Hi Lithen,
Thanks for sharing interest. There are no immediate plans sorry. I don't use Linux and I'm a slow, solo programmer, so I'm worried I wouldn't be able to maintain support for it in addition to other OSs and projects. That might change someday, but for now I can't. I remember hearing that it runs with Wine. I can't test it myself, but you could try that.
There are definitely some cool possibilities with raspberry pi. I hope I can look into in it later this winter.
Hi again, I was able to make an Ubuntu 64bit build after all :) The only issue I've found is that fireplace can't prevent the computer's sleep settings, so you'll have to adjust them if you don't want the display/computer to sleep while running it. Unfortunately this isn't something I'll be able to fix unless Game Maker adds a new function for overriding it. Everything else seems to work fine including dual screen support.
