We launched Mallet Mania last Thursday, again for Miniclip. In this game you take control of an isometric croquet mallet and you have to hit the ball into the hole within a certain number of turns. Sounds easy? It can be harder than you think!
Sorry for the delayed blog entry on this one... we didn't forget - we've just been really busy finishing off Toxic 2. Its very nearly ready so stay tuned!
We're fresh back from the Flash Forward film festival in San Francisco. It was a great event so we recommend all you developers out there check it out.
We're thrilled to announce that we won the People's Choice award for Twang! which we developed for MTV Arcade.
The actual picture here is of us actually going up to accept the award. Thanks to Ada from MochiMedia for the picture - you can see this and other pictures of the event at MochiMedia's Flickr page.
The actual award is a huge orange rubber arrow... strange but cool! Special thanks to everyone who voted for us!
We have another selection of artwork that people have sent in to us:
Firstly a Toxic Animation by Neal Anderson, who has also recently done this picture of Dirk Valentine which I'm sure you will agree is a great action shot!
We've also had our first 3D rendered image sent in: Mutiny by Matt Eldridge. It's the first level of the game built in Google SketchUp. Thanks to everyone who has been sending in artwork - we will have more soon!
We've noticed that lots of you have been very busy making videos on YouTube... It's always really great to see how much effort people have gone to to make a Nitrome video! Here are a couple of our favourites:
Nitrome Tribute by jaxorama
Toxic Moonwalk by NintendoWiiLuva
We also thought that this one was worth a mention... alfiedabomb tells us how to pronounce Nitrome. Just so you know, he's got it right... it's the first one! (n - eye - trome)
Loads more videos can be found at YouTube if you search for Nitrome. Thanks to everyone who has uploaded videos!
We have a second screenshot to show you of the upcoming Toxic 2 game for MTV Arcade. It's coming along well... there's going to be a lot of surprises! Lots of new robots for our yellow-suited hero to discover!
More updates on their way soon!
For you who didn't guess... We can now properly announce that we're working on a sequel to Toxic. Toxic has been one of the most popular games we've done with MTV Arcade and we're thrilled to be making a sequel with them! Although we're still very proud of the original, we think our skills have improved since making it, so the first thing we have done with the game is a complete overhaul of the game engine - making it slicker and more robust.
We're not going to give too much away in this update... but here's an early screenshot to whet your appetite!
Magic Touch on the DS? Birslip has made a DS homebrew version of our game which he describes (in French) here. We were quite impressed with the finished results! He did of course ask for our permission before using the game idea and artwork ;)
We have also noticed that there are a lot of budding young game developers out there using a website called Scratch to create games. This is great if you want to learn how to make very simple games without having to go too in depth with the programming. We found a few Nitrome-inspired games made using Scratch that we had to show you:
Hot Air
Cheese Dreams
Skywire
Two of our games have been nominated for a Flash Forward Film Festival award!
The games Hot Air 2 and Twang have been nominated in the Games category! If you want to vote for us on the people's choice awards for your favourite game then you can do so here
We found this weird article about Skywire over at JayIsGames... I don't know what's going on but we want whatever they're having! The author of the article, SonicLover, has also written an interesting essay about our game SmallFry here. We're quite impressed... we think maybe he knows more about the game than we do!
Remember the picture of Toxic by Neal Anderson that we showed you a while ago? Well Neal has produced another piece of Nitrome-Art, this time of Small Fry. Neal tells us to keep checking his gallery page, as he's planning to upload more Nitrome inspired images in the near future!
