Hi Nitromians!
It's the start of another week and to kick it off we'd just like to tell you that our latest game Knight Trap has been released! :D
Use your own subtle mix of agility, timing and patience to guide the knights safely through the traps and make it to the princess!
Have fun and remember to share it with your friends! :)
Hi Nitromians!
We asked a while back what you thought we should call you all and we had some really fun suggestions with some favourites being ‘nits’ (hilarious but possibly some of you would be offended) , coopers (cool but not really Nitrome), Nitrominions (possibly just pipped to the post), pixel people (cool but maybe too long). Nitromians seemed to go down the best so I think we are going to stick with that for a while and see how it sits with everyone. We’re still open to change it though so keep your suggestions coming in.
You can, as always, feedback on Facebook, Twitter, or good old Email.
It’s a month from our Twitter page launch and the redesign of our Facebook page and we seem to be gaining some real traction in the take up of both. Our twitter page now has over 600 followers which I think you will agree is pretty impressive for month one ...roll on 1000!
Facebook has exploded recently though and now has over 6000 likes! Wow that’s a lot of support so thanks for that! We have been doing our best to check in from time to time and respond to some of the questions and comments you make so please do sign up and check them out if you want to be a little more social with us :)
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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 :)
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!
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 :)
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 :)
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! :)
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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
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 :)
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.
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We hope you like what you see and please do send us your thoughts!
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
