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Hey Nitromians,

We have a little surprise for you today in the shape of our brand new icon game Turnament

It’s a fairly typical everyday affair...You take control of the brave red knight in his dangerous quest to save the princess from the evil sorcerer.

However...This dungeon is not what it first appears to be, you must make your moves wisely and keep a close eye on your enemies if your are to prevail...Make one wrong ‘turn’ and all will be lost...

Whoever said great things don’t come in teeny tiny packages. Happy gaming!

Click To Play!

p.s For those not in the know, we have now included a handy zoom function in-game so you can view our all of our icon games in several sizes. This means you can choose to play this tiny adventure in which ever size suits your eyes best.

by Jon

Good day Nitromians!

Today we have some exciting development news!

Here at the Nitrome HQ, we have been developing something completely different. We have been working with the developers Brass Monkey and are proud to announce that through this partnership we will soon be offering a new app - “Nitrome Touchy”

Nitrome Touchy is powered by Brass Monkey’s technology, who have been working closely with Nitrome to produce the app. The Nitrome team have been working tirelessly on developing some of our favourite games to support this exciting technology.

Nitrome Touchy is a wireless controller solution that opens up a whole new world of opportunities for our browser based games. By using your smart phone or iDevice you can take advantage of the built in motion control and the touch screen interface. This technology also allows us local multiplayer opportunities that we could never achieve within the confines of a normal keyboard. See our Double Edged trailer for a taste of this.

The app will be available for iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch devices and shortly afterwards for android mobile devices.

We will be announcing more details soon about the initial 10 launch games. This will be followed by a further 20 games that will be available within the first 6 months of launch.

by Jon

This weeks Pixel love goes out to Five, a nifty little puzzle platformer by Z3LF

This reminds us a lot of the Continuity series or our own In The Dog House game. In which the player must navigate a series of rooms by swapping them via the mouse. The big problem being that not all of the rooms quite line up how you might expect, and there’s a tough five minute timer in place for added pressure.

Z3LF have really managed to cram a lot into this five minute little package. It’s got bags of atmosphere, nice music, cute little tiles/sprites and even a small story in there to boot. The controls can be a little fiddly at times (especially when you first realise that the rooms have to connect for the player to be able to continue). But with that tiny hiccup aside it’s an endearing little game with bags of charm and well worth five minutes of your time.

Play Five: Click Here!

Join us next week when we dish out a great big dollop of love to another great Pixel love gem.

p.s Thanks from the heads up Santiago Gonzalez Martin for pointing this one out to us over on our Facebook wall. If there are any other Pixel love games that you would like to see highlighted then feel free to let us know.

by Jon

As the update earlier in the week was not really a planned update, you’ll be happy to hear that we now have what we intended to post live for your viewing pleasure!

This time we talk about Set Pieces. Don’t know what that means? Well then, all the more reason to click through and have us address it for you. Pretty nice post this one and two cool examples that you’ll want to check out if you are following the project!

Also why not sign-up to our mailing list to be the first to find out about it's launch!

by Mat

Hi Nitromians,

We hope you have enjoyed our busy news week! we’ve had two whole Ice Breaker updates (well, let’s call it one and a half). We also had our unexpected mochi coin cancellation news which you should check out if you missed it. Also there was that mysterious video… what’s up with that?

Be sure to come back next week and see what else we have in store for you guys.

Have a great weekend!

by Mat

Hi Nitromians, 

You may or may not be aware that two of our games in the past (Twin Shot 2 and BC Bow Contest) use a microtransaction system called Mochi Coins. We just got word that Mochi will no longer be offering their coins service as of October 15, 2012. You can see the post announcing this here: Mochi Coins Update

While we were surprised to hear the news we had already as a company decided to no longer support the format. You can see we made no further games using the coins after BC Bow Contest and we had intended to remove the coins altogether from those two games once we had our own login system available.

Unfortunately given the short notice period given to us we are not going to be able to transition things as smoothly as we would like but we will do our best to find the best solution in the timeframe for our users. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported us by buying the coins in the games we made using them.

Along with the coins the login system that was provided by Mochi is also going offline so this will revert saving the game to being only available on a single computer. Mochi have stated that the content people have purchased will still be available to them following that date but that people will not be able to buy new coins or items from that date. We feel at Nitrome that the best solution is going to be to offer that content freely in the game and we will be looking at the two games to decide how to best do that. We will give you more news on that as we have it!

by Mat

Double Edged ????

Click Here for More!

by Tom

Hey Nitromians

Everybody loves a good fart gag... don’t they?

If the answer is yes then you’re in for a treat in this week’s pixel love game, Puzzle Farter developed by Pet Tomato.

Take to the skies in this jetpack fartpack based platformer with over 100 levels of fun.

First things first, this game REALLY needs to be played with the sound left on. We would defy even the most stony hearted of players to not at least let out a wry smile at the huge selection of pumps parps and squeaks on offer. What it lacks in music or plot, it more than makes up for with bags of charms and giggles.

Hopefully you will find this flatulent based platformer as much of a gas as we did.

Play Puzzle Farter: Click Here!

Join us next week for some more pixel love. =0)

by Jon

Big News last week as Apple announced not just a new iPhone (the iPhone 5) but also an all new iPod touch.

Both devices have a new taller screen (or wider in the case of how most games are played on the device).

As Nitrome are making games for iOS we would want to support these devices and so we follow this news closely.

While we are a little apprehensive with the variety of screen resolutions that are starting to appear within the iOS ecosystem we are happy to say that this news was fairly expected and that it will not cause any considerable impact to the development of Icebreaker – a Viking Voyage. We would also say that we will relish having our game playable on the shiny new devices and can’t wait to give them a go.

We will have a proper update on just how it affects the iPhone and Ipod versions of Icebreaker coming your way soon!

by Mat

There is now an update to our update on the Icebreaker page. Huh?

We recently did a post there about exactly how the different screen resolutions over the various iPhones/iPads and iPod Touches were going to be addressed.

Since then Apple kind of threw a spanner in the works and introduced a new screen dimension (see last post) so our recent update is already out of date!

Fear not, those worried that we may not have a clue that there is a new iPhone/iPod on the horizon should fear no more, and you will be able to play Icebreaker in swanky widescreen-o-vision should you see fit!

Icebreaker Update (to the Update): Click Here

by Mat

It’s the start of a brand new week here at Nitrome HQ, and we all know what that means don’t we?...That’s right it’s time to hand out some more love to another pixel triumph in this week’s Pixelove.

Highlighted this week is the epic adventure Seedling by Connor Ullmann

Take control of a small boy born from the wind who is destined to be special in this overhead action adventure.

There is loads to love about Seedling, though you may have to put aside a large chunk of time for this one due to it’s hefty size. But don’t be alarmed, you will be treated to tons of dungeons, devious puzzles and huge boss fights which are more than worth the time invested.

Playing through this game evoked more than a whiff of nostalgia for us on several occasions with players instantly being reminded of such classics as Zelda Links awakening. It has a distinct old school SNES influence which in our opinion does the genre proud.

What are you waiting for... game on!!

Play Seedling: Click Here!
Connor Ullmann: Click Here!

by Jon

Hey Nitromians,

We noticed that a few people were wondering how the game differs between the iPad and iPhone/iPod touch versions of the game. We felt this was a good question that deserved addressing so this update is to do just that.

You'll also get to see some exclusive character animations too!

Ice Breaker Update - Resolutions - Click Here!

If you wish to know as soon as Ice Breaker is released, feel free to sign up the the newsletter.

You can also help to support the game by letting all of your friends know about it, using the share buttons on the Ice Breaker page!

Thanks for all of your support so far, we really appreciate it! :)

by Mat

It's Friday evening here at Nitrome Towers, so that must mean it's time for a bit of an update!

As you can tell from our posts this week, we have been very busy!

We hope that you are all having fun playing Calamari amongst your friends on Facebook.

We'd also really appreciate getting as much feedback and support for our upcoming iOS title, Ice Breaker, as possible, so please share it with your friends and help make the game great!

Play Calamari: Click Here!
Ice Breaker Page: Click Here!

Have a great weekend everyone!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

We have been busy looking at fixing bugs with our latest release Calamari.

We noticed that some of the people on Facebook were experiencing issues with the game not loading when played on our site.

We have now fixed this. The same bug appeared in Super Snotput.

This means you should all now be able to play the games from our site!

Play Calamari: Click Here!

Thanks for reporting the bug. Happy gaming everyone! :)

by Tom

Hey Nitromians,

Many of you may be excited to see the return of our ‘Memory Lane’ feature which hasn’t made an appearance on our blog for quite a while.

Today’s feature is a project we started way back in October 2009. It was abandoned in its early stages, simply because we didn’t think it was much fun.

You may be interested to know that there have been a number of concepts that reach a playable build before deciding that they just aren’t going to cut the mustard and go on to be a full release.

In this game codenamed ‘Sucknblo’ we had a superhero protagonist who had a push beam device. His task was to clear a number of monster and trap based arenas using his push/pull ability.

You can see a full screenshot mock-up of the game here

Controls and loose concept were as follows (taken from the original game design document):

Use cursor keys or w,a,s,d to move. Space bar to fire your mega beam.

The aim of the game is to kill all monsters on the screen.

The Push Beam:

Your laser will push at a monster till it loses its footing and then flies into a wall, crushed to death by the force of the beam or into a trap. Your laser is so powerful it slowly pulls in objects behind you as you fire it, so you must be careful not to pull monsters into you. Monsters will grab onto poles on the level to stop themselves being flung into a wall. Force fields and walls interrupt the range of your beam.

The bullets fired by the monsters and their basic patrolling behaviour are only a foundation for more complex and varied behaviours we intend to introduce and distribute amongst the player's enemies.

After mocking up the initial rough tech demo, we decided to close the door on this project and work on something else. It was the run up to Christmas at the time and we set to work on our penguin based toboggan game ‘Avalanche’, which may not have seen the light of day if it wasn’t for the cancellation of this project.

by Jon