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Hi Nitromians!

Today's Pixel Love Game is Cactus McCoy 2 by Flipline Studios. We featured Cactus McCoy as one of the early Pixel Love games, and the second instalment builds on the already great original.

We really enjoy a good side scrolling beat-em-up, and this one hits upon a lot of the mechanics you'd expect. The western setting that has been crafted in the art style and the music is wonderfully captured.

Click here to play Cactus McCoy 2

Thanks for playing everyone, we'll bring you another pixel love game next week!

by Tom

Hey Nitromians,

We hope you have enjoyed this week's surprise release of 8BitDoves on mobile.

if you haven't picked it up yet and want to support us then you can grab it here!

We are still working hard on marketing for 8BitDoves aswell as some small fixes and editions that we plan to submit next week.  

We also plan to add some limited edition ingame avatars into the game, much like we did with Icebreaker as a small thanks to our fans. YIPEE!

Again many thanks to our loyal supporters who have bought the game already and to everyone who has helped by sharing, blogging, tweeting(#8Bitdoves), liking, talking about, drawing and reviewing the game and official trailer.

We REALLY appreciate you all. 

Until Next week, have a great weekend =D

 

by Nitrome

Great news Nitromians!

Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage has been selected by apple as its Free App of the week.

It will return to its full price next week, so if you have been unable to grab the paid version until now here's your chance.

We have no real intention to make large free games for mobile, but saw this as a rare opportunity to spread the Nitrome brand to a new audience. As apple doesn’t give this feature slot out very often we felt that it was worth the risk.

A huge HUGE thank you for those of you that have paid for the App already. Without this funding and your loyalty Nitrome would cease to exist today. All of your hard earned money will go towards funding other great games for our site and mobile.

We hope that you'll all join us in celebration for this great achievement as it will hopefully help us continue to be here for many years to come.

The Nitrome team =D 

by Nitrome

Nitrome needs your help!

So 8Bit doves is out, but where are all of the reviews and ratings?!? Games need good reviews early on to help them chart and spread. So if you are a fan of the game, or just like Nitrome and would like to help us out then GO NOW!

-Rate & Review our app on the stores.

The wittiest reviews will take pride of place on our 8bitdoves.com website and App store pages.

A BIG HUGE thanks to all who help out with this and to those of you who have bought the game already.

the Nitrome team. =D

by Nitrome

Hey Nitromians,

Our brand new website has just gone live for 8BitDoves.

http://www.8bitdoves.com/

What do you guys think?

 

by Jon

Hey Nitromains,

8Bit Doves is OUT NOW! on iOS, Google play and Amazon stores (Windows store to follow).

Get it on iOS!

Get it on Google Play!

Get it on Amazon!

We are super excited about our second mobile game release and are already brewing up plenty of ideas for neat little updates.

If you like what you see in the video the please help nitrome spread the word by sharing, commenting, reviewing and tweeting (#8BitDoves). Thanks for all of your support.

Now go play!

P.S. Mega kudos Nitromian points for anybody who manages to get ALL of the doves. =D

by Nitrome

Hey Nitromian's

Great news, our second mobile release 8Bit Doves is due for release Tomorrow on iOS and Android devices (Windows devices to follow shortly). You can support Nitrome by retweeting using #8bitDoves and sharing trailers with your friends.

We are currently putting the finishing touches to a snazzy new trailer and website for it now. 

Until the big launch tomorrow. Happy gaming and have a great day! 

by Nitrome

Hi Nitromians!

We chose Steam Rogue GB as this week's Pixel Love game!

We really enjoyed this one, it has a simple idea, get to the goal before you run out of steam!

The graphics are wonderful and have a great colour palette (something we have come to expect from Adventure Islands games!).

Also, apologies for the late post. We did launch this one yesterday, but there was a problem in the pixellovegames.com system. It wouldn't show the icon. That's been fixed this morning!

Have fun everyone!

Click to Play Steam Rogue GB!

We'll bring you another Pixel Love game next week!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

We have got two brand new avatars hidden inside the Oodle Trouble skin... can you find them!?

Go to the Oodle Trouble skin!

Have fun!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians,

We'd like to let people know that our skin is work that was inspired by a piece of fan art created by Frostyflytrap. I didn't realise when I'd originally launched the skin, apologies!

We thought it was a cool concept and based a skin around the idea, you can see the original fan art here.

Thanks Frostyflytrap! :)

We should be adding some avatars to the skin some time today, so be sure come back a bit later to search for them!

If you have any fan art related to Nitrome, Nitrome characters or even Nitrome music, feel free to send it in! Who knows, we may feature it in the blog, or like this piece, use it as inspiration for something on the site!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

As you can see, we've got a brand new website skin featuring characters from our Oodlegobs and Rubble Trouble games. We call it... ...Oodle Trouble!

We really like the way the Oodlegobs are climbing up to grab hold of the helicopter.

What do you think of the new web skin and colour scheme?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

by Tom

Today's Pixel Love game is Caverns of IO by Merrak. The game is very addictive with it's well known control method and retro looking ASCII maps. Using your WASD keys to fire and dispatch enemy whilst using your cursor (Arrow) keys to move around the environments, you can explore different strategies when facing the enemy.

When battling with the "purple zeroes", we found that attrition was the best way to go. Let them run their energy levels low, dodge their fire then go on the offensive!

Click to play Caverns of IO

Have fun everyone, we'll bring you another Pixel Love game next week!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

We have found some really great fanart to show you, it was made by Frostyflytrap. He has rendered a scene in 3D from the Ditto universe.

Check it out, it looks great!

Ditto Fanart 

Thanks Frostyflytrap, this is another great piece of artwork from you! :)

Click To Play Ditto!

We love receiving fan art, so please keep sending us links to what you have made and we'll feature our favourites!

by Tom

Today's Pixel Love game is... 'No, Birdie No!', a hang-tough game created with code by Giovanni Coli, Piero Molino and artwork/sounds by our very own artist, Giuseppe Longo!

The aim of this game is to hold onto a cliff with your fingers by using ASDF which controls each finger of each hand. The challenge comes from a little chick that frantically pecks at your digits!

This game features some hilarious sound bites and great artwork.

How long can you "hang in there" for?

Let us know in the comments below.

Click to Play No, Birdie, No!

Happy gaming everyone, we'll bring you another Pixel Love game next week!

by Tom

Hey Nitromians,

It's Friday again so we thought we'd update you with a juicy titbit of news. Our upcoming mobile game 8Bit Doves is fast approaching the end zone.

Check out our quick vine video of a level from the games last pack entitled "Nightmare". This pack also introduces one of the many new features of the game 'Boost tiles'. Which as you see make you go lightening fast - (sorry for the pun)

You may also notice in the video that the device has changed again as it is now playable in tablet form.

We have now finished making all of the levels and are currently testing on multiple devices, fixing bugs, adding a few additional sounds, and making the levels pretty.

We hope that you are as excited as we are to see another Nitrome game on your devices.

Until next week, happy gaming and have a great weekend.

by Jon