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It has now been over a month since we launched the blog and committed to a post every day for that month so what now? …We literally had far too much news it turned out to share with you in a single month so… drum roll… We are happy to announce that we are going to extend that pledge to produce a new post every day for at least another month!

Our aim with the blog is to make it a definitive destination on Nitrome. It should be the most updated part of the site and one that we hope people will grow to want to check out every time that they visit! We have seen the number of people that come to the blog grow substantially over the last month and we hope this will continue :)

What do you think of how we have been updating? ... Please do provide us
feedback on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter
or good old reliable email :)

by Mat

The more observant amongst you may have noticed a heart symbol in one of our designs for the new site and today we want to let you know a little more about what the intent is with this element. It is in essence a ‘like’ button so if you click it in the new system it means you like it or as we will probably be calling it ‘heart’ it or possibly ‘love’ it…..but that might be a bit too girly for the boys

What is probably more interesting is how we are going to use that information. For starters you will be able to see the games you have hearted in a section within ‘games’ so there will be a quick easy way to find your favorites. You will also be able to see with a quick rollover on the front page which games are hearted there and we will in time add more ways to view your hearted games more easily

This feature won’t only be used for you however…..we will be using the number of ‘hearts’ a game gets to gauge popularity and the first place you will see the effect of this will be in the top 5 games which in the new design will be based on the (daily) number of ‘hearts’ the games gets. There will also likely be an area in games featuring the games in popularity order!

In the future the hearting system will apply to other areas of the site too so you will be able to rate other things and interact in other ways that we are not ready to mention.

Stay tuned for more updates!

by Mat

Following on from last week’s fan mail we got sent this very impressive Lego version of our test Subject Blue Character. There are more images from different angles if you click through the link. Thanks to Alex Mac for making this wonderful piece and also a thank you to Jess who pointed this out to us :)

Click Here

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 :)

by Mat

Who's ready for another retro N.E.S. game? If your answer was YES then check out the provided shot of our up and coming old-school action game featuring, as you would expect... a stretchy dog! of course!

If your answer was no... well you cant have everything - and there will be another game preview soon enough! :)

Full Image: Click Here

by Mat

Hi Fans!

Thanks for sending in so many cool fanart pieces recently! The next pieces are from a fan called Ruskin. He has used plasticine as his choice of medium and has created some of our Nitrome characters!

Orange Twin
Enemy 585
Zombie Warthog
Zapo
Snail Gun Monster

All Models

He has also made the nitrome logo!
Nitrome Logo

Thanks Ruskin!

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 :)

by Mat

Well, thats it from us after another week of blogging fun!

We hope you enjoyed this months posts as much as we've enjoyed making them! Yes, It has been a full month since we promised we would post everyday of the month and we've made it without missing a single day! :D

Come back next week as we are bound to bring you more posts filled with pixel goodness!

Have a great weekend!

by Tom

Hey Fans!

You might be used to the preview videos we've been putting out lately but this time we have something slightly different. For the first time we are trying to give you a much earlier peek at something we currently have in development. We have some commentary over the top, so make sure that your speakers are on for this one.

We thought we would also stress that this game is not Twin Shot 3D or the next Twin Shot game! When testing games we often place in some artwork from other games to get a feel for mechanics and to test for bugs.

Tech Demo: Click Here

by Mat

Hi Fans!

We showed you a preview image recently of this upcoming game - it's Knight Trap! :)

As you can hopefully see from the video, the concept is a little like frogger in that you have to get your knights safely up to the top podeums. The twist here is that each knight that travels up the level will set off traps and your following knights will have to deal with them. So... better be careful about the route you plan and the timing of when you trigger things!

Enjoy :)

Check out the video for more!

by Mat

You may remember we featured a shot of the new site design a few days ago. One of the main changes for the new design is going to be the use of Smartphone style icons in place of our current mini shots. We hope that through using these we can convey more information in less space while also making them look more appealing!

You may notice that we have little red tags with numbers hanging off the icons as well as some of the other buttons on the site. The idea is that we will start to highlight new content on the site that you the user have not yet played. Site sections will show the number of new items that are there. We are considering having a different colour of tag to show any updates that might have been
made and there could also be further tags
added to highlight other elements!

The image shown is of the games page of the site which you would get to through clicking the games button at the top. Unlike the current site the games page would no longer be the same as the front page which in the new design will serve to highlight all the latest content rather than being solely about the games. The games page will offer a little more info about the games as well as have icons demonstrating different features the game may contain. The idea like the icons themselves is to offer more information to our users without sacrificing the aesthetics of our site which is very important to us.

Full Image: Click Here

We hope you like what you see and please do send us your thoughts!

by Mat

So I went down to the local newsagents round the corner from ‘Nitrome Towers’ and sat proudly on the shelf was the new issue of Edge Magazine. I swiftly snapped it off the rack, and parted with my £4.50. Back in the office I’m flicking through the pages, sipping my mug of tea I stop on page 20… “Why?” I here you cry! Because the folks at  Edge have chosen our laser totin’ game Canary as their internet game of the month.

So well done to Chris and Stefan, and to everyone at Edge for their impeccable taste!

According to Edge “Canary has an old-fashioned, beat-the-screen structure with a simple but consistently surprising gameplay mechanic.” If you want to read the article about Canary, pop down to your local newsagents and grab a copy. – Happy reading!

Canary: Click to Play

by JK

Hi Fans,

Check out our latest preview image!

We're not ready to tell you much about this game yet, other than the core mechanic revolves around traps :)

More from this game coming soon!

Full Image: Click to View

by Mat

Thats it for another week, I hope you've enjoyed it! Join us again next week for more news everyday as we've been doing for the last few weeks.

Next weeks news will include more fantastic fan work, more site news, more previews, and well.. you'll just have to wait and see what we cook up :)

Have a great weekend!

by Tom

We always love to see our fans find new creative ways to make Nitrome fan art and Lego seems to be a favourite amongst you!

We have a bit of a different approach to the lego format this time, as James has made his Nitrome Lego creations using the LEGO Digital Designer 4!

Chick Flick
Tanked Up
Feed Me
Hot Air
Roly Poly
Sand Man

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 :)

by Mat

Hello again fans,
We have a great piece of news for you today,
Chisel 2 has finally been released! Hurray...
...
Drill, destroy and "jump" your way through a whole new galaxy of fun.

Here's a handy link to the game.

Click To Play

Remember to come back very soon and check out the latest news and happenings at Nitrome.

Be sure to use the handy Share and Tweet buttons to show this game to your friends!

Enjoy!

by Jon

If you haven’t heard we have a new web developer at Nitrome and he is going to be constantly working on new features for the website! His first work was on this new blog system which we think you will agree is pretty swanky but we hope what he has next in development is even better……drum roll….a whole new site design!!!

Here is a preview shot of how we're hoping to make the site look. As you can see it is an evolution of our old design but it is one which we hope will add a lot of functionality and which we hope is also more pleasing to the eye :)

There are some features planned for the future of the site that we are not ready to reveal yet and so there are a few areas of the shot that we have purposely pixeled out…..that is intended and is not part of the new site design! We will leave it to your imagination as to what those new features might be!

It is always a concern to change elements such as layout and styles in a popular games site. We hope you like what you see but if you do have comments on what you think of the new design please do feel free to drop us an email, comment on our facebook page or tweet to our twitter page as we would love to get some feedback.

Full Image: Click Here

by Mat