A few of you mentioned that we didn’t update the blog yesterday. We were a bit busy and never got round to it so sorry about that. It did however cause us to talk a little here about how we feel the blog is going and we have also been listening to your comments on Facebook/Twitter.
It can be hard for us to find the time to make a very juicy story for you each day and there is also the need to update with some bits of news that may be less high profile. Our intent was by updating every day that the blog was more interesting but some feedback suggests that if it is not high profile news that it is resented. We think by committing to a post every day that we are feeding expectations that we can’t meet so we have therefore decided to take a slightly different approach from here on out.
We will still be trying to provide as much up to date news as we have been but it will no longer necessarily be every day. Some days there may be none and others there may be more. We will review again in the future to see how this approach is received.
Hi Nitromians!
We are back from a long weekend and Aaron has released a patch for Steamlands which fixes various elements within the game.
Steamlands Patch 1.01 Highlights:
Added auto-drive out (except on levels with no enemies such as the first level where the player needs to learn the driving skill).
Added a confirmation prompt on Unlock Everything in the Campaign Map Editor.
The game completion animation is now accessible (complete THE PIRATE COMMANDER to view it)
The title now has a version number to help distinguish between cached versions of the game - if you don't see "v 1.01" on the top right of the title screen, you're not playing the latest version.
Due to the royal wedding, us folk in the uk have another long weekend... hip hip hooray to our future king and queen!!
see you all on tuesday, have a great weekend!
Hi Nitromians!
We have got a brand new preview for you! Do you remember that shot we showed you last month of a certain lovable stretchy dog from our new upcoming N.E.S. game?
Well the name of the game is Silly Sausage and we are now ready to reveal some gameplay footage!
Silly Sausage Video: Click Here
Check back soon for more on this game!
We have also been given this great piece of art that depicts several characters from our games, characters from other peoples games (and even the beatles!) in tiny little Skywire form!
Skywire Characters: Click Here
Thanks Alexis, this is some great fan artwork!
We have been sent some awesome fan art this week that is very in keeping with the steampunk style!
Myles has made an array of custom weapons, a power generator and a tank!
Thanks for the artwork Myles! :D
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 :)
Hi Nitromians,
It's a bank holiday weekend, and so, we won't be back until Tuesday! This is why we have decided to do our end of the week round up today!
We hope that you have enjoyed the release of Steamlands and continue to salvage, build and destroy until your hearts content! Also we thought we'd mention that Steamlands has been placed into a 'Free Indie Rapid Fire' competition over at bytejacker.com!
If you are enjoying the game, why not vote for Steamlands! :)
Stay tuned next week as we will be bringing you much more news, gossip and other cool stuff!
Have a great weekend!
Howdy Nitromians!
So what’s new? LOADS!!! But we will show you one thing at a time… so today we wanted to wet your appetite a little more on our up and coming game “Test Subject Green”. We’re well into the development process right now and so hopefully you’ll all be playing it until your hearts’ content in a not to distant future. This short video may answer some of your questions and pose some new ones, alas we didn’t want to give too much away!
Oh… and for those who gave their feedback
on Test Subject Blue, thank you… it really
helped in shaping the sequel.
Happy watching… much more to come soon!.
Test Subject Green Video: Click Here
Hi Nitromains!
I just thought I would let you all know that our new site redesign is still underway, and also give a little update about our progress! We are currently working on a skinning system to make it easier for our artists to produce more great skins!
We are also looking into several caching issues so that we can bring you our new games and content as soon as we release them!
Currently the redesign is progressing well, I plan to bring you more website updates soon!
Also we fixed the buttons below the blog for the steamlands skin, some of you have pointed out that the buttons weren't appearing. This has now been fixed! :)
We've been very busy here at Nitrome addressing some of the bugs within our game Steamlands that some of you have mentioned on Facebook, Twitter and via our fan Email.
We are focusing our efforts on the more browser specific problems within the game, as they seem to be the most apparent. Thanks for reporting the bugs!
