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Hello all!

A few days back we revealed after a bit of teasing that Bad Ice-Cream 3 was on the way and that it mixed in a desert theme!

Today we want to highlight one of the many new enemies that are coming your way! The cactus monsters when sleeping act as a wall. Periodically they wake up and will move to a new location and in that time they are red with anger and deadly. They are typically found in lines with other cactus enemies and this new mechanic of moving walls really changes how you must approach a level!

You can look forward to the full game soon, so in the meantime get some practise in on the original games here:

Bad Ice-Cream

Bad Ice-Cream 2

by Mat

Hi Nitromians, 

Today we are thrilled to have noticed that our game Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage was picked by Virgin Media as one of their top 10 mobile games of 2013!

Looking through their list we see many of our own personal favourites like Ridiculous Fishing, Icycle: On Thin Ice, Joe Danger and Year Walk. We would recommend all of them which makes us even more thrilled to be amongst the selection. For the article and full list follow the link.

by Mat

Hi Nitromians,

so if you didn't guess from our previous teases our big sequel for Christmas is going to be Bad Ice-Cream 3. This time out we have added some desert infused elements to the winter wonderland which has opened up some interesting ideas to the game...Alien Ice creams anyone?

Linking in with the earlier posts, in this shot we are showing a split between the initial sketch and the final title screen. If you would like to see the full title screen at 1.1 pixels click here.

That's it for now but you can enjoy more soon!

Why not get ready for the game by playing one of the original games.

Bad Ice Cream

Bad Ice Cream 2

by Mat

Hey Nitromians, 

We have been hard at work fixing a few issues you all have been having in our recent game release Cheese Dreams: New Moon. Please make sure that you are playing the latest version (ver 2.0) which is displayed on the games title screen. 

Updated:

-Levels have been optimised to combat slow down.

-Avatar bugs have been fixed.

-New "fall off the screen" death sound effect added.

-Fixed replay star count bug, to prevent high score cheating!!!

-Touchy full screeen now has black borders instead of white.  Because it looks better :0)

To play Cheese Dreams: New Moon click here.

Thanks for your patience whilst we ironed out a few blog issues. Happy gaming. ;D

by Jon

Hi Nitromians,

We have unfortunately not been able to put up a pixel Love for you yesterday as Tom who sorts that is ill. Sorry about that but hey sometimes people are ill right!

We have been looking at all of your feedback about Cheese Dreams: New Moon in particular to a few bugs that people were pointing out to do with Avatars. We tried launching the new version yesterday but on testing it live, it seemed to crash so rapidly took it back down. JK is going to look at what is causing the issue and you should get the fix later today.

So this post was supposed to be about what we have fixed on Cheese Dreams but is now going to be about what we are fixing on Cheese Dreams so here we go:

We are fixing the bug that gives you the wrong Avatar when you collect the Planets….this was by far the main bug reported so we will be happy to get that one sorted

JK and Jon have been looking at some of the more performance heavy levels and bits of code and there has been some optimisation there. Some people reported that it ran slow so hopefully this will fix that.

There will also be a new sound fx for when you die falling off screen. Nobody actually reported this as an issue but it erked Jon and JK so they added it in!

We should have that up later today now... fingers crossed :0)

by Mat

As you can see our new artist Telemachus (or Helm as he prefers to go by for his artwork) likes doing sketches and we think they're pretty neat.

So here’s another little one that we have snatched from his desk and scanned for your viewing pleasure!

by Mat

We're 1 week through the Christmas Avatars now and I hope you agree that we have been quite devious with some of them :)

We are thrilled by the amount of comments being generated from this... it is beyond what we expected! So to spur on more debate which avatars are you expecting to see and which would you like to see...maybe you want to make your predictions maybe just requests for favourite characters we haven’t covered.

We would love to hear and even if it doesn't make it into the Christmas line up we likely would do any avatar that we see a lot of support for!

Avatars Page:Click Here!

You'll have to have an account to unlock these avatars, so if you haven't already got one, go here (it's free!)

by Mat

With the recent launch of the avatar advent Calendar it would be easy to miss that the newly released Cheese Dreams New Moon itself has 5 Avatars to unlock outside of the Calendar challenges. To highlight the fact we thought we would make a special post to point it out! Get enough stars to open the second row of levels and you get to rescue some other planets....and if your logged in you will be rewarded with an Avatar if that planet to mark the achievement!! It will be quite a challenge to get the final one so it will be interesting to see who steps up...good luck!

Play Cheese Dreams: New Moon

Avatars Page: Click here!

You'll have to have an account to unlock these avatars, so if you haven't already got one, go here (it's free!)

by Mat

It's been a while but today's the day that we are finally releasing Cheese Dreams New Moon! Wahooo! It's been five and a half years since the original game.

We hope you enjoy the remake, as there is a second part to come next year. We'll keep you updated on the progress!

Click To Play!

by Jon

When we posted the update about our avatar Calendar we mentioned that we would be posting every day.

We meant that there would be a new avatar every day and not an actual post but some people took it as an actual post. Now reading it back, we can see it does read like that and we like a challenge and don't like to disappoint so we're going to attempt to do just that.

We could just talk about the avatar for each day but we feel that would be boring and a cop out! So as long as we can, we will try to post something at least mildly worth while or we will otherwise admit defeat and post... erm nothing!

Fingers crossed we do well!

By the way, this post has nothing to do with Mega Mash, it was just an apt image! :)

by Mat

A lot of you were expecting us to launch Cheese Dreams New Moon in November and that was indeed the plan but we just needed a little more time to finish it off to the level that we wanted. So it's now a December release but one that should be arriving very soon now... almost, totally, definitely, probably this week!!!

The Cheese Dreams delay does not mean we don't have a Christmas game on the go too though. We have been beavering away on that behind the scenes and we'll be bringing that to you in December as well, but likely very late December (before Christmas though). We'll be sharing a few more details about that game after Cheese Dreams is out!

by Mat

Wow!

We have just noticed that there are over 100,000 accounts on Nitrome now! That's great!

We really appreciate the support that we get from our fans, so thank you to everyone for playing at Nitrome.com!

If you haven't yet got one, you can sign up for a free account by clicking here!

Thanks again everyone!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

We have Tiny Dangerous Dungeons by Jussi Simpanen to share with you as our Pixel Love choice this week!

We have chosen Tiny Dangerous Dungeons because we feel that this game has really succeeded with its convincing retro Game Boy visuals and sound design.

The difficulty curve progressed gently enough for us to keep playing for a long while without getting frustrated. This was helped by the introduction of different abilities that your hero can find along the way.

We felt that we made good use of the handy save/restore points in this game too and they were a welcome feature on some of the tougher areas!

Click to Play Tiny Dangerous Dungeons

Have fun everyone, we'll bring you more Pixel Love next week!

by Tom

Hey everyone!

We have just released a Christmas Avatar Calendar and a new winter web skin!

On the lead up to Christmas, we will be releasing one avatar everyday until Christmas day!

These avatars will be hidden inside our games and on the website itself! The avatars will come with the same handy clues to help you on your hunt!

We are extremely proud of some of the devious places we have hidden them, so we hope you have fun finding them!

Avatars Page: Click Here!

You'll have to have an account to unlock these avatars, so if you haven't already got one,  go here! (it's free)

by Tom

We already revealed last week that we're going to have a new Nitrome Winter Skin but there's more!

Starting on the first of December, we're going to be starting a very special daily feature that will run through until Christmas involving Avatars. What is it you say? But the first is a Sunday and Nitrome don't post on weekends? That's true... normally, but through until Christmas we will be posting every day including on weekends!

So what is this mystery? Come back on Sunday to see :)

by Mat