Exciting news Nitromians!
We have not one but TWO updates currently being worked on for Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage. One of those is the next level pack, which is coming along very nicely (more news on that later). Before the pack update however we have another update which is pretty special in its own right. There will be various little tweaks to the main game in the update, but the major element we are adding is achievements. However in the usual Nitrome fashion, we are approaching it slightly differently to everyone else.
The Achievements will be recorded in game centre (and Google Play Games when the Android version hits), but the actual system is much more integrated into the game world. Meaning if you don’t want to use game centre for any reason they’ll function fine and you can still collect them all.
Read the full update: Click Here!
Hey everyone,
We have fixed some more account bugs! Just to keep you all up to date with what we feel has been fixed, check out this list.
Account Bug Fixes:
Private Messages should now display correctly. Some people have reported to us that their messages were disappearing for no reason. This should now be resolved! Unhearting games should also work as expected. If you have tried to unheart a game and it didn't remove itself from your list, try hearting and unhearting it again and it should work. The "Touchy" skin has also been fixed. We received reports that the skin was not working as intended and was only showing a small tile when viewed on the "view skin" page. This should now be working properly.We still have more bugs to fix, thanks to everyone for reporting them to us!
As always, if you have any more issues with accounts that you'd like to share with us, feel free to send a message, write a comment or tell us on our Facebook Page!
Hey Nitromians,
Check out a little sneak peak of our latest flash game oodlegobs!
Pretty neat huh, can you guess what its all about?
More info on this game soon!
Oodlegobs Teaser Image: Click Here!
Hi Nitromians!
This week's pixel love game is Sydney Hunter created by Keith Erickson of Studio Pina!
We really enjoyed this adventure game. The view distance was handled cleverly with the viewable area fading into a deep blue tone. It adds a real sense of urgency when trying to aim your boomerang attacks.
The music and sound effects fit in very well with this game and accent the retro graphics elegantly. There is a lot of fun to be had boomeranging the enemies and collecting the items in this one!
Play Sydney Hunter: Click Here!
Have fun! We'll see you next Monday for more Pixel Love!
Hi Everyone!
We are steadily moving through the list of bugs that we have found within the accounts system. Please feel free to add comments reporting more bugs below or over on Facebook.
The more we know about your experiences, the better we can diagnose problems. Try to give us your operating system and browser version when reporting bugs so that we can better pin point errors.
Issues that we have resolved:
You can now unlock the avatar with the hint - "You could do with being a little more... social? Why not invite some friends round!" You can collect the "Heart 100 Games" badge The icon games will now work within their icons on the home page and game selection pages. In the blog/all comments sections, you can now click on the top level user avatar to be taken to their profile page. We have added the login box to more pages on the site. There are still some missing. We will get round to all pages. We have fixed various redirection bugs in the profile section of the site. We have cleaned up some style issues on the avatars and badge pages.We will be retrofitting the badge and avatar mentioned above to users possibly tomorrow or next week. So if you feel you have performed the correct actions to gain these, you could be unlocking a new avatar/badge soon! We'll let you know as soons as we roll out this update :)
Thanks for helping us get the bugs fixed. We will keep you informed on any more updates!
Hi Nitromians!
It has been a while since we posted any fan art, so we thought that today we'd share some cool art that we found.
Made by a Nitromian that goes by the name Tooniefox on deviantart, this piece of fan art features Parasite from our Parasite Game.
We think that the detail and effort that has gone into this has really paid off, we especially like the colour choices!
Thanks Tooniefox, It's awesome!
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 in this wonderful world wide web of ours Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage is still getting some lovely reviews and comments.
We came across a review in the Entertainment section of metro.co.uk and also this in the Big Fish Games blog page.
We are very grateful for the positive reviews and comments. Every little bit helps us to achieve success in a highly competitive market and rewards us all with a little bit of glee every time we find something new!
Those lovely people at GamesMaster Magazine have included a glowing review of Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage in their latest edition that hit the UK newsagent shelves a couple of days ago.
GamesMaster magazine is a well respected multi-format videogame magazine that has been running for over 20 years now. We all have fond memories of first buying the magazine in our younger years and continue to do so now. So we are really chuffed to see Icebreaker receive such a favourable review.
So if you fancy it, (and you live in the UK) pop down to your local newsagent and pick up a copy.
Hi Nitromians!
We have fixed four of our games that had the wrong avatars in them. The games had been pointed out to us on Facebook. We would just like to say that the avatars are now in their correct games. You should now be able to collect those avatars!
Please clear your browser's cache to be sure that you get the latest version of our games.
Thanks for pointing out this issue to us. If you have any more bugs, please report them. It all goes towards making Nitrome better!
Happy gaming!
Hi Nitromians!
We are back featuring pixel love games on Mondays once again!
To kick things off this week, we thought we'd share this minimal game by Zapped Cow.
We are not too sure as to what the title of this one actually is, but we think that it's very cool and still deserves to be featured all the same.
The puzzles are clean, well designed and enjoyable to solve. You'll need to unlock the 'Gates' in the correct order whilst avoiding enemy blocks to clear each of the levels!
We'll see you next week for more Pixel Love!
