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Some of you might have noticed that we have just launched a new game: Powerup

Create a circuit between the two robot heads using the metal blocks. When you create a circuit the electricity can flow from one to the other. Use your balancing skills and try not to let the blocks topple over!

by Mat

We sometimes receive artwork and letters from you guys in the post. This picture shows a figurine that was sent in to us by Barrett - as you can see it's one of the pirates from Mutiny made out of clay! We were very impressed when that turned up!

We decided to get a noticeboard in the office so that we could display all of your letters and drawings: you can check out a picture of it here.

Thanks very much to everyone who has sent things in - it certainly brightens up the office!

by Heather

Here's a quick roundup of some of the fan artwork that has been sent in to us recently...

The image to the right is a picture of Toxic by Eli created only using text! Just stand back and look at it if you can't see it straight away!

There are some images of Twinshot, Flipside and Jack Frost by Larissa.

And some images of Icebreaker and Hot Air by Fan.

Finally there are some spot the difference games created by Maciek out of some of our game artwork:
Dirk Valentine (14 differences)
Off The Rails (12 differences)
Rustyard (10 differences)

See if you can spot them!

Thanks for sending those in! Right that's it.... we have to get on with making some new games!

by Mat

Take control of Takeshi the ninja on his first mission in Final Ninja Zero. We find our hero learning the skills he used in the original Final Ninja game as well as a few he might have forgotten! (well he was getting on a bit...)

More intelligent enemies.... more stealth.... more security... more swinging... so basically more. In short if you love Final Ninja then we hope you will love this too!

Click here to become a ninja master.

by Mat

Welcome to the Rustyard.... the result of years of neglect. All that's left in this world of throwaway scrap are the robots that once used to help with our everyday tasks... They continue on as if nothing had changed!

Help the robot get to the end of each level by using your mouse to manipulate the junk that has been sitting there collecting dust for centuries.

Click here to play. Have fun!

by Heather

We're very pleased to announce that we won a "mochi" last week from the Flash Gaming Summit which took place in San Francisco. We won the award for Best Family Game for Skywire 2! Check out this link to see a showreel of the nominated games, and to see the winners in all of the categories.

We'd like to say thanks very much to the Flash Gaming Summit for hosting this event dedicated to Flash games.

by Mat

As promised we have a new expansion to our Icebreaker game.....in the new Icebreaker: The Red Clan.

Get the new tribe of flame-haired vikings back to their longboat using your ice slicing powers...use new features such as grabbing rock and floating ice to help solve puzzles. There's another 40 levels at your disposal so you'd better start slicing your way through them!

by Mat

A few of you might have noticed that there were issues accessing the website last weekend. We are still unsure as to what caused these problems but they seem to be fully resolved now. We're really sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused. Thanks to everyone who emailed in to let us know about the problem! If any of you are still experiencing problems then please try clearing your browser cache and reloading the page. If the problems still persist then please contact us letting us know which pages are affected.

Following up from our last Works blog post we have now swapped over all of the games to the new website hosting. As we mentioned before this may effect the levels unlocked in these games but you should be able to retrieve them by following the steps listed here.

On a positive note we now have all of the highscores in the games working again!

We should also be ready to launch a new game very soon.

by Mat

We thought we would show you some more of the creations that people have been sending in to us.

First of all we have to give a huge shout out to Adam of Cheesy Productions who has been making a lot of videos about us on YouTube. He has posted video reviews of 39 of our games so far and even shown how to play some our games using a joystick and a steering wheel plugged into his computer! We didn't even know that was possible!



There are a couple of new nitrome-themed comics:

Nitromee comic by Kim B
Various Nitrome comics by MJ Hunt

...and some more artwork:

Final Ninja by micro-bullet
Nitrome in vector by Giorgos93
Nitrome pixel art by Simon

Finally the image you can see here is a model of the guy from Toxic made out of clay! It was sent in to us by Conal.

Thanks to everyone for all of their hard work!

by Heather

Hooray! We are very pleased to announce that we have been nominated in two categories in The Mochis - a Flash Games awards ceremony at the new and very exciting Flash Gaming Summit event! The first event dedicated only to Flash games.

Final Ninja has been nominated in the "Best Commercial Game" category and Skywire 2 has been nominated in the "Best Family Game" category. Anyway we recommend that you take a look at all of the fantastic games that have been nominated this year - you can also vote for your favourite game in the People's Choice award here.

by Mat

A lot of you have been emailing us with guesses about our mystery game last week: some right, some wrong! We can now reveal that the mystery game is going to be an extension of our Ice Breaker game.

Ice Breaker has proved to be very popular and we got bombarded by requests for more levels - so not wanting to disappoint we got started on a level pack. We couldn't resist adding some more new features though so there's going to be a few surprises along the way. You can see one of them in the image here but I'll leave it to your imagination on what it's showing and how it works!

You won't have long to wait now - we're just going through some final testing! Prepare to slice and dice some ice!

by Mat

Ooh look we have a new banner... yay!

Unfortunately it's not for anything that exciting... It's more practical. There are some more interesting categories coming!

This new category in the blog is going to let you know about any maintenance work to the site or games. So for example if we make an update to fix a bug in a game we will let you know here.

Recently a few of you might have noticed that the site has been acting a bit wonky. Our old hosting wasn't really up to the task of serving the games to all of you so we have been swapping over to a new server solution with the friendly folk at Peer 1.

Swapping hosting is never without its problems though and this one has had its fair share of teething problems. It's mostly sorted out now but we want to quickly let you know what has been fixed and what we are planning to fix soon.

Most importantly you should all have noticed that the site is loading a lot faster than it did before thanks to Peer1's whizzy content delivery network.

What most of you will have also noticed is that some of your game saves have disappeared. This is an unfortunate side-effect of the swap that couldn't have been avoided - but not to worry, help is at hand. If you really need to retrieve your game saves we've written a handy little tutorial here. There are some games that haven't been affected yet: Mirror Image, Twin Shot, Flash Cat, Icebreaker, Frost Bite 2, Numbskull, Fat Cat, Flipside and Toxic 2. We will have to swap these games over soon but we thought we'd give you all a little advance warning on the latest games to lessen the blow.

Another important thing that is not working yet is the highscores. We are aware of this and we are working on a fix at the moment so please bear with us.

You might also notice that the Balloon Maker has disappeared. Unfortunately this became so popular that the number of balloons created grew to such a size that we were unable to retrieve the files to swap them over to the new hosting. You guys made over 10 million balloons!! At the present time we are not sure what is going to happen with the balloon maker however we might resurrect it at some point in the future.

Finally we know a few of you have been asking us why we haven't updated the skin in a while... It's because we've been busy swapping the site. We do have a new one coming pretty soon now though so look out for that!

Phew! That's it for now - we will try to keep you all updated.

by Mat

What's this I see coming in the near future? It's all hazy and a little bit pixelly...

...It seems to be a follow up to one of those crazy Nitrome games but I wonder which one...

...Oh well I guess we will just have to wait and see what the tide brings in. All will be revealed in time...

by Mat

Welcome to the Glassworks! Here we make all kinds of wonderful things out of glass like windows and........erm.......well actually just windows but we make them in all shapes and sizes!

Take control of bored worker Kapowski in his efforts to reach the top of the Glassworks corporation using his tailor made climbing gloves. Be sure to watch out for work hazards such as machinery and the dreaded bird poop! Manoeuvre round to the other side of the glass if it makes things easier to pass!

Click here to play

by Mat

Practice your reflection skills in: Mirror Image. In this game you have to help a warlock through the levels by drawing magical lines of reflection to warp him into a new position.

Use the mouse to draw a mirror-line - the warlock will appear on the opposite side of the line... where his reflection would be!

Solve puzzles, avoid the evil shadow demons and try not to fall into the vortex!

by Mat