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Hi Nitromians!

Today's Pixel Love game is Ripple Dot Zero created by the talented folks over at Pixeltruss!

This game really takes us back to our 90's consoles with its awesome soundtrack and style! The artwork is very slick giving the game a powerful atmosphere and environment.

The controls are very intuitive and clean. This allows you to move the penguin hero as accurately as you would expect.

We recommend checking this out if you haven't already!

Play Ripple Dot Zero: Click Here!

Have Fun, and we will see you next week for more Pixel Love!

by Tom

Howdy, It's Friday update time Nitromians!

We mentioned that the Touchy app will be updated very soon and wanted to give you a little more detail in what the update means.

We've been experimenting a lot and trying to improve the controller experience. One of the most difficult things to do well is have the d-pad controller scheme feel natural on a touch screen. We wanted to create a d-pad where you don’t have to look at the device to position your thumbs after missing the flipping thing… and we think we've cracked it!

We recognise that people use different size screens and have different size hands, so how do you cater for these variables? By having a d-pad that can move with your touch and simultaneously predict which direction you are trying to press. This theory as far as we can see has not been done before on any touch screen device. We feel it’s the best d-pad implementation on a touch screen, we hope you feel the same way.

We also wanted to give you another skin from one of the new Touchy games, this is from Test Subject Complete. We hope you like it!

Test Subject Complete Skin: Click Here!

Next week we have got a ton of Icebreaker news, including an insight into just what we have been working on since its release at the end of June.

Until then have a great weekend. :)

by Jon

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!

by Mat

Hey Nitromians,

Check out this really neat Nitrome Tribute fanart made by Gratteurdenez over on deviant art. We think its great, there has clearly been a lot of skill and effort here with so many characters involved.

You can check out a much larger version of it via this link

We really appreciate all of the fan-art we get. So if you have anything interesting you think deserves showcasing then please send it in via accounts, messaging, email or via the Nitrome Facebook Page.

by Jon

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!

by Tom

Hey Nitromians!

Here's a little more info regarding our Touchy Game Controller update that we're working on.

As we mentioned before, the app will be updated shortly. In conjunction with the update, we will be adding a lot more games to the Touchy library, with even more to come shortly afterwards.

Oh and we are going to add another free game to play with the app!

Here's an image of the controller skin for Test Subject Green... 'cause we love it!

Have a great weekend everyone, we'll see you all next week!

by JK

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!

by Tom

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.

by Tom

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!

by JK

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.

by JK

For all of you that have Android devices, we wanted to let you know that we have been working on the Android version of Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage!

Check out this exclusive video!

Teaser Trailer: Click Here!
Icebreaker iOS Version: Click Here!

by JK

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!

by Tom

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!

Click To Play!

We'll see you next week for more Pixel Love!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

Accounts have been officially launched! Hurray!

Sorry about the false start we had last week, we tried our best to deliver but there was an overwhelming amount of issues!

We'll be keeping an eye on the system for any bugs that arise and will be adjusting things accordingly as we go. We want to make this the best experience that we can!

If you have any problems whilst navigating the site or playing games, please let us know in the comments below, on Facebook or even send us a private message to us on here :)

Thanks again for your support Nitromians!

Have a great weekend!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

We are currently ready to start testing out our game pages with account features!

You may have noticed that some of the games will now have the 'Avatar Ticker' in them ready for avatar features, if you do not see them yet, please clear your cache!

We are aware that some visitors have reported being re-routed through to our registration page when trying to play a game on Nitrome, this shouldn't have happened and we are still trying to find the cause of this.

If the bug still happens for you, please report it to us on our Facebook page. This is one of those bugs that we can't really reproduce without first going live on the game pages.

Thanks again for your patience and for helping us iron out those pesky bugs! :)

by Tom