Apple just posted their second Indie Game showcase to their editorial section and this time it features Kumobius who are best known on the app store for their hit game Duet and their pixelrific Time Surfer an Beans Quest.
More relevant to Nitrome is that they very kindly chose Icebreaker as one of their favourite games which is highlighted in the piece. Always awesome to get in the App Store editorial section! Thanks Kumobius!
Hi Nitromians,
We are finally ready to reveal the release date for Icebreaker on Google Play and Android and the launch of the Kraken pack update accross both Android and iOS!
Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage and the Kraken update will be available on May the 7th!
Not long to go J
Hey Nitromians,
With our HUGE Icebreaker update now submitted to stores and under review. We thought we would share a something AWESOME whilst we wait. That something being ‘Delicious Caviar’ of course...
This has got to be one of the coolest and playful additions to the new Kraken pack yet. Giant caviar (fish eggs) can be found deep within the body of the giant sea beast. They’re pop-able like bubble wrap, stick to almost anything, they can fire from cannons, build bridges, work as safety nets... kinda useful no?
On a further note:
For those of you who missed our announcement on Thursday. The update has been submitted for review on the stores (Play, Amazon and App Store). Just to give you all a rough timeframe, the stores give a guide of up to a maximum of two weeks to review an app. When Icebreaker has been given the go ahead by these, then we can finally let you guys know a release date.
As we have previously mentioned, we want to make as big as splash as possible with Icebreaker: A Viking voyage and keep updates in sync. So we want the big update to be a simultaneous launch across Android, iOS and Amazon stores.
More news on the release and update of Icebreaker when it becomes available.
Hi Nitromians,
How about playing Shybot, an awesome Pixel Love game to start the week off and brighten up your Monday? We thought so!
Shybot is an awesome game brought to you by the same team that made Killer Corral.
This game sounds great, has beautiful visuals and has progressive and varied challenges in it's platforming gameplay.
Have fun, we'll bring you another Pixel Love game next week.
Happy Easter Nitromians,
We hope you have had a blast finding all of the new avatars this week in our Easter “eggvatar” hunt.
We really tried to put them in some devious and tricky places this time around.
Did you like the clue we gave on Friday???
Mwa ha ha (we are so mean)
Also, have any of you managed to find them all?
Don’t worry if you haven’t, as they will still be available to find after the Easter holidays.
See you next week.
=0)
Hi Nitromians,
We have had a busy day today here at Nitrome towers. There have already been two blog posts prior to this but if you hadn’t already noticed then today marks the start of our awesome Easter Avatar hunt (Eggvatar hunt?).
To join in simply login to your Nitrome account and go to the Avatars page here. The new Avatar is at the bottom of the page!
If you don't have a Nitrome account yet you can easily make one for free in less than a minute here. Oh and it's totally free!
Follow the clue to claim your prize! Happy Hunting and join us tomorrow for the second Egg in this week long event!
Hi Nitromians,
We have just been updating a few areas on the accounts system. Apologies to anyone that may have experienced disruptions to their gaming sessions.
These changes were to fix some issues with the comments and private messaging reply system.
If you know of any more bugs around the site, let us know and we'll get onto fixing them as soon as we can. :)
Thanks for your patience everyone.
Happy gaming!
Hi Nitromians,
Starting Monday and every day up to and including Easter Sunday itself, there is going to be an Easter Egg that you have to find in games and site! Kind of like what we did at Christmas with the Advent Calender, only this time with Eggs! Finding the Eggs will unlock Avatars and the artists at Nitrome have really drawn some nice ones for this, so I think you're going to want them all!
Also worth noting is that we put some time into the Avatar system for this, that now means we can put avatars in almost any of our games. In the first iteration we were only picking games that were side on…we expanded things to include more custom sprites in the Christmas update but there were technical reasons why a lot of games were not possible to be included. We have now overcome this issue so were finally able to put the Avatars in places we have been keen to do for a while!
Also this time around we have not put the Avatars in any games that already have one, or more than one in any of the upcoming games!
So who do you think is going to make the new Avatars list?
See you Monday J
Hi Nitromians,
We are running the latest version of openssl on our servers. This patch was released to fix a security flaw in which SSL encrypted data could be read. It is strongly advised that you change the password that you use to access your nitrome account; you can do this in the settings area of your account.
We also recommend that you DO NOT change your password for other sites unless they issue a similar message like this one that we've posted. Un-patched websites will still have the security flaw and changing your password will be ineffectual on those websites.
If you are unsure if a website has performed the relevant patches, contact them first!
Thanks for reading!
Hey Nitromians,
We have updated our EULA and Terms of Service and DMCA Policy, which we know that some of you may find a bit boring while reading, but please do. You can find them here and here. :)
The most interesting section for fans is probably section 8 of the EULA page.
TL; DR of section 8 of EULA
You can upload "Let's Play" videos with ads on YouTube, create fan art and create non-commercial mods of Nitrome content. We really love seeing your artistic ideas and takes on our stuff and we may even feature the best work we find/get sent in our blog.
Also, if you spot any typos in the EULA or DMCA pages, please let us know and we'll fix them because we know that from time to time we can sometimes accidentally a whole sentence!
Thanks for reading the End User License Agreement, DMCA Policy and Terms of Service!
