Hi Nitromians!
Thanks goes out to everyone that voted for our games over at the Mochis! We have now got three of our games into the Mochis as finalists!
Best Strategy Game: Steamlands
Best Puzzle Game: Rubble Trouble Tokyo
Best Action Game: Mega Mash
We are really happy to receive such awesome support from our fans! We will keep you up to date as to how we do in the awards!
Thanks again for playing our games and supporting us!
This is what we are proposing to have in the version 2.1 update. Some things are subject to change as the site develops and takes shape but this is what we are aiming towards and hope to achieve in 2.1
Login System and Accounts
You will be able to create a Nitrome account. You can also log into the system using your Facebook or Twitter account. You will have the ability to link your Facebook and Twitter to a Nitrome account to utilise the features of each system.
Avatars System
You will be able to select from a range of Nitrome characters to represent you as your avatar. There will also be more avatars that can be found in games and around the site. Some may also be rewarded for completing tasks. This ground work with avatars will both be expanded in future updates and form the backbone for a potential achievements based system.
Search System
You will be able to search through our games, blog posts and find users by using a brand new search bar.
Friends System
You can send friend requests to any users that you see on Nitrome be it from a blog post or high score. You can manually enter a friend’s user name to find them on Nitrome and send a request. You can search for a user via a user name, email address or any other details that they add to their account including usernames from other gaming platforms. You can also invite friends from Twitter and Facebook if you have chosen to link your accounts to Nitrome. You can also accept friend requests from other people.
Profiles
Your profile will include your friends list, avatar list, chosen avatar, recently played games, hearted games list, comments and your Nitrome number.
You will also be able to view other people’s public profile page information.
Hearting System
When you heart Nitrome games they will be added to your hearted games list, you will be able to see a list of your hearted games so others can see which of our games you like the most.
Commenting System
You will be able to comment on our blog posts, our games and reply to other user’s comments.
Games
There will be a high scores update that will tie to the friends system (we will roll this out on a per game basis).
You will be able to save game information to accounts. This will be in new games, a selection of existing games and will be added to older games over time (Generally the newer the game and or the more popular the game will dictate the order in which they get updated).
This will work in harmony with the current save system that doesn’t require a login. If you do not want to log in, you don’t have to and the game information will save as before. The new system however will work to prevent your saves from getting lost as may happen when relying on the limitation inherent in shared objects. Login saves will not require users to recomplete start games from scratch as it can get data from your shared objects. Users will be able to access their account from any PC so no need to start from scratch there either :)
We will also start tagging the games that you have completed but this will not be visualised in the 2.1 update.
You will have the ability to link your Facebook account to Nitrome. This will allow us to tie our high scores with your Facebook. We will also allow you to filter the scores to let you see who has the best scores out of you and your friends.
You will have the ability to you to link your Twitter account to Nitrome. This will allow us to let you express your score that you achieved for a game and tell your Twitter followers
Visual Revamps
There will be a few minor revamps to the functionality and visuals of the existing pages.
We are really excited about the features that we are currently working on and hope to bring them to you in the near future!
Hey Nitromians,
It’s time for our big Lockehorn (ver 2.0) update!
We have added an all new battle mode with 14 brand new arenas so grab a buddy and see who can be the rightful leader of the Elk tribe!
We have also included a new easy mode for the one player mode so those of you who found the original too hard can give it another shot! You can toggle between easy and normal modes on the level select screen so feel free if you want to up the challenge or make it a little simpler if you get stuck! We have had bags of fun testing this and hope you enjoy it as much as we have!
Lockehorn 2 Player: Click to Play!
Enjoy!
You can now start voting for your favourite Flash Games from 2011!
Jay is Games have got their Best Games of 2011 section live on their site and we are happy to tell you that Nitrome games have been nominated for various categories within the browser games section which is great!
Our Nominated Games:
Canary
Rubble Trouble Moscow
Nitrome Must Die
Test Subject Blue
Steamlands
If you wish to vote for your game choice as 'Game of the Year', be sure to check the 'Game of the Year' checkbox on the page before casting a vote!
Thanks for voting!
Firstly welcome to our newest blog section - Industry News.
Industry News will cover significant events that may affect or influence Nitrome Development. We will use this as an opportunity not just to highlight the event but to give our opinion or highlight potential benefits or problems that arise. Our old 'News' category will still continue to cover events that are directly involving Nitrome.
Our first story to cover is about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) that are currently being discussed. The aim of the SOPA is to stop online piracy by giving more power to the American government in effect allowing them to turn off any site that they feel infringes piracy laws and a lot of film and music studios are pushing for this bill to pass.
On the other side, a lot of powerful web based companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Reddit etc.) are against the act as they suggest it may cause big changes to popular sites and web services. Imagine if Youtube was taken down as a result of a user uploading copyrighted material for example.
So how does this affect Nitrome?
Well, as we make all of our own content, hopefully it wouldn’t have any direct impact either way, but some services that we use such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube could be affected so it’s not without consequence. Lots of sites such as those mentioned (i.e. Reddit) are planning to take their services offline from 18th January in protest of the bill. Although Nitrome is in opposition of the 'Stop Online Piracy Act' we will be keeping the site online as per normal. You may however find disruption to the social sites that we use. So take this as a heads up just incase! :)
SOPA Article on Wikipedia: Click Here
SOPA in the News: Click Here
Hi Nitromians!
We are very excited to reveal just what’s going to be appearing under that ‘Coming Soon’ panel in the top right hand corner of our site. As has been suspected and requested by many people, we are going to have a new login system for the site!
This is going to be a completely optional feature. If you choose not to use it you will be able to play the games as you could before but we will be introducing (both at launch and going forward) tons of cool new features made possible through logging in!
You may also notice that we have a new search bar coming to the site. This too has been a highly requested feature for a while that we will be happy to deliver :)
It has been no small undertaking to bring these features to life in a site as established as Nitrome. A lot of ground work has had to be done and has caused us to take longer than initially planned. Hopefully at launch you will appreciate the effort that has been made and will be able to enjoy a more stable and feature rich Nitrome site in the future.
We will be giving a full lowdown on what to expect in the Nitrome 2.1 update next week so stay tuned!
Website Features Preview: Click Here!
Hi Nitromians!
We almost forgot to mention that Jay is Games has got an interview up over on their site featuring Matthew Annal!
It seems that it was posted on the same day that we finished for Christmas holidays.
The interview features some pretty cool questions including what our biggest challenges in game development have been and how Nitrome plan to move in the game development space for 2012.
Jay is Games Interview - Click Here!
Hi Nitromians!
Wow! 100,000 likes our Facebook Page! That really IS incredible! Thanks so much to everyone for supporting us and playing our games!
We were so happy to come into the office today and see that our Facebook Page had reached over 100,000 Nitromians - What a great start to the week! :D
If you haven't yet liked our Facebook page and would like to, please feel free, we will keep you updated as to all things Nitrome!
Nitrome on Facebook: Click Here!
We also have a Twitter page where you can follow us.
Nitrome on Twitter: Click Here!
Hope you all have had a great holiday. We are back in Nitrome towers now refreshed and bursting with lots of ideas for 2012.
Over the break the all knowing folk at Edge magazine online have been very kind in their 2011 Friday game roundup in which Nitrome won The Endless Reliability Award.
Many thanks Chris Donlan.
Edge Friday Game Round Up - Click Here!
We will be updating the blog with more news this week so come back then for more Nitrome goodness.
Well that’s it for another year folks, it has been a great year for gaming in 2011.
Nitrome will be back in the office on Tuesday 3rd January with some more exciting gaming news. We hope you enjoyed our new winter games half as much as we did making them.
Lockehorn: Click To Play!
Rubble Trouble Moscow: Click To Play!
We are really excited about the upcoming year and have a ton of fantastic games and surprises for you in the upcoming months. Look forward to some surprise sequels, major site updates and more secret stuff in 2012.
Have a great holiday Nitromians, and merry xmas from all of the Nitrome team!
