We’re very proud to announce that Jon and I were asked to get involved with Flash Mindmeld. Flash Mindmeld is in it’s own words - 60 experts, 60 seconds each, 60 tips for being successful in the flash game market!
If you hadn’t guessed from that description that means we had to give a 60 second tip each along with 58 other flash experts to give advice to other developers on how to be successful at making Flash games.
If you’re curious as to what we said or just what we sound like:
Hi Fans!,
In the last preview we told you about some of the new shapes that are possible in our Chisel follow up including the ability to have multiple shapes or planets in each level. We can now show you how you’re going to get between these planets.
..with the aid of a rocket jump!
You can also perform a standard jump this time round which means some of the old enemies are now a little more vulnerable to you than before and new enemies have been introduced to make you use your new jumping skills to their fullest! Check the video for more!
That’s a wrap for this weeks blog updates!
Remember we will be updating the blog again every day next week so come back for more news then! Updates include more fan artwork, a brand new preview image, some very exciting website news and to top it off, you may even get your hands on a brand spanking new Nitrome game so stay tuned!
We recently recieved a chain post on our facebook wall which contained some material that we regarded as inappropriate. The user that posted it has been banned. The reason for doing things like this is to try our best to created a cleaner environment for our fans.
We will try to keep on top of this sort of stuff as best as we can!
We’re constantly growing here at Nitrome to meet the demands of our very loyal and expanding audience and happy to say that we are at that point again where we are actively looking to recruit some fresh members for the team. More importantly we have two positions that we have never looked into recruiting before….a dedicated iPhone/iOS programmer and a dedicated level builder!
If you’re interested in any of the roles or just want to see some new artwork we have made then you will want to check out the all new jobs page!
Please read all of the requirements of the job page as we will not reply to emails that do not send in what we ask for on that page!
One of our fans pointed out this pretty awesome comic about our characters made by someone who goes by the name of NitendoFan92.
Full Image: Click Here
The comic itself is in French but for those non French speakers out there a translation is provided which is as follows:
Warlock: Stop! A demon!
Pink cat: He's transformed into stone!
Warlock: It worst than I tough...
pink cat:.....
mole: His eyes are red...
alpinist: Maybe he is a demon!
Green monster: Raaaawwww!!!
Warlock: I'm not a demon! My eyes are naturally red and...
Special thanks to Jonathan Galik for pointing this one out to us :)
If you have any fan art you have made about Nitrome please do send it in! We love everything we get sent especially if it is our work applied to something we have never seen before. We will feature the best, most striking and most unusual pieces in our blog so stay tuned for another in about a weeks time :)
We have just fixed our game Test Subject Blue!, it was pointed out to us that you couldnt submit your score at the end of the game.. you can now!
To make sure you get the right game version, you should clear your browsers cache before playing!
Clear your browsers cache: Click Here
Test Subject Blue: Click To Play
A lot of you have been asking what happened to our Strategy game that we posted about in the blog and on Facebook. It has been a long time in the making….a lot longer than we would normally or should probably take in making a flash game so that’s why you haven’t heard much. It is now almost ready though and even has a name now: Steamlands!
We still have to have some thorough play testing to find as many bugs as possible before the release but in the meantime, we have put together a little video to wet your appetite and give you a better idea of what is coming!
A lot of people have commented on the new blog saying that we should add the ability to comment! It is something we plan to add and we have been working on it but it ties into some other areas we are developing, and we were unable to add it into the initial launch.
You can see a preview of how we intend the comments to look here. Although once this is implemented you will be able to directly comment for the meantime you can still send your feedback though to our facebook, twitter or our fans email.
Check the contact page for more information.
Check out the first shot of our upcoming sequel to our Chisel game!
Click Here for Full Image
We have completely rewritten the engine from scratch to make way for some very exciting new features!
The original engine allowed for quite limited shapes, so for the follow up we have put a lot of effort into expanding the shapes that are possible this time round. We can pretty much make any shape we like and on top of that, have added the ability to have holes and even multiple shapes!
Multiple shapes you say! But how will that work….how would you get from one shape to the other?
Stay tuned answers soon!
That’s it for another hot week of blog updates!
We will be updating the blog again every day next week so come back for some exciting new stuff including upcoming blog features, another page redesign and more on the upcoming strategy game that we haven’t talked about for a while!
We get sent loads of fan art which makes it a shame that we haven’t been posting much of it of late. With the new Blog system in place now though it is a lot easier for us to post so we hope to rectify that and post fan pieces much more often.
This week a very talented fan who goes by the name of Vladimir Juraš or BOBA7SK has spent a lot of time designing a whole new site skin! The theme here seems to be that all the Nitrome characters are very small…
..almost Skywire small in some cases!
Click here to view the tile image in full size!
Skin button and Menu image!
Vladimir we're proud to say is a pretty avid Nitrome fan and this is just the latest of his
many fan creations.
If you have any fan art you have made about Nitrome please do send it in! We love everything we get sent especially if it is our work applied to something we have never seen before. We will feature the best, most striking and most unusual pieces in our blog so stay tuned for another in about a weeks time!
Some of you may remember last year at one point we mentioned we had some sequels in the works and we have seen some comments in forums commenting on the lack of them appearing before Christmas…..you know who you are :)
Well they may be a little late and some of them may have even got put on hold last year but we have two of them still in production here at the moment and one of them we will be telling you a little more about in a preview very soon!
We do know you all want sequels to your favourite games and we do enjoy making them so there will always be more on the way but we also have lots of new ideas that we want to get out there and with over 80 games already developed we are never going to manage to work on everyone’s favourite!
The best games will usually get sequels at some point though so be patient as good things come to those who wait :)
Hot on the heels of our screenshot the other day we have our next new game release
Test Subject Blue!
You play as a blob trapped in a glass labyrinth…..why? Well it’s some kind of Lab experiment!
The core mechanic in the game involves wrapping. Remember when you played old arcade games like bubble bobble or more recently our Twinshot games and you go off one edge of the screen only to come back on the other side?
Well it’s kind of like that only taken further…..these ‘wrappers’ can be within the screen which leads to some much more head scratching problems.
To aid you on getting to the end of each test you have a handy shooter which fires small projectiles which you can use to take out enemies and trigger switches….watch out though that you don’t have them wrap and hit yourself!
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