The image is of Bad Ice Cream in a Flying UFO type thing! The image is a ballpoint pen sketch from our new artist Telemachus. We hope you agree it's pretty stylish! I wonder why he was sketching it?
The new Cheese Dreams remake is going to be arriving very soon now and we were thrilled by the response that the little trailer received from you all.
Some of you seemed to think we were indicating in the trailer that the game is two player. Sorry to those we confused but this is not the case so we thought as a final update we would explain the feature that had you all speculating.
In New Moon there are other planets (or planet type things for those of you that would like to point out that moons are not planets). The planets are trapped on the mouse ship with you and it's your task to free them from their prisons and lead them to safety. Each planet has a different behaviour and you have to figure out how to manipulate that behaviour to get them to the exit!
Get ready for the game soon!
Check out our latest teaser for the upcoming game Cheese Dreams: New Moon!
For those of you that missed it, Cheese Dreams is going to be Nitrome's first remake. I think you'll all agree, as you can see from the video, it's a very different experience this time round and one that we really hope you will enjoy!
Today's Pixel love game is Persist by Jussi Simpanen
This game is a great example of minimal pixel art done very well.
Although only a short game (created in 48 hours for Ludum Dare), it is a very satisfying one to play and has some good variation through out.
We felt that the controls were just right for making those small important adjustments to the hero's movement whilst jumping for platforms.
Have fun!
We will bring you another pixel love game next week!
Hi Nitromians!
We thought we would share some pretty interesting info about Test Subject Arena 2, just in case you'd missed it originally when playing the game at launch. We added some high-score messages to each of the challenges!
Originally, you could read a message on each of the challenge's highscore boards and we even saved screenshots so that we could show you all after the games release... which is now! :)
So for anyone that didn't spot them, here they are!
Blue's Challenge
Blue Rex Suit's Challenge
Professor's Challenge
Professor Rex Suit's Challenge
Dr Nastidious' Challenge
Green's Challenge
Orange's Challenge
Mercenary's Challenge
We thought it would be a bit of fun, our favourite message was for Professor in the Rex Suit!
Did anyone spot them before this article? Let us know if you did!
Today we want to talk about some advert changes that we have made. You may have noticed over the last couple of years that we experimented a lot with ads? Let's be honest here... you may have noticed about us experimenting in adding more ads to the site?
Firstly we would like to assure you that it was not lead by greed... we only put ads on the site to fund making the games you love to play. In recent years this has been much more of a struggle as both a lot of browser gamers and ad networks have shifted focus to mobile games. The lowest point for us in this is when we reluctantly turned on pop under ads... something we swore we never wanted to do!
You hopefully noticed that the pop under ads are no longer there? We switched them off a few days before the launch of Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage with the hope that it would lead to enough new revenue that we could keep them off. We are happy to say that so far, this has been the case!
So this we hope was the turning point to a better ad experience in the future on Nitrome.com. Today we have launched our next ad based improvement which was made to the preroll ads that show up before the games play. Now don't get too excited, they are still there. We like to think however that they are now a lot slicker and less intrusive. There should be less loading errors with this new system, there are more skippable ads and should now all pull in at the correct size within a new container that better lets the player know what's going on.
We don’t expect us having a new ad system to be something that you all want to celebrate but we hope you approve of the new system and agree that it works better and more slickly than the old one. We will continue to improve the quality of the ad experience where we can. Let us know what you think below!
If anyone experiences issues with the new preloader, please leave comments, email us or private message us. We will look into any problems found.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Do you hum the music to our games? Well, so does our musician Dave! In fact he hums them before they are even made.
Confused? Then read on...
We were surprised to discover that Dave rarely composes the tunes directly at the computer and often thinks of them at other times, sometimes even after he has gone to bed. If that happens, he needs to remember it later. The way he does that is to record himself humming the tune into his phone... genius!
Now we know what your thinking... show us, we want to hear. Well, we thought the same and Dave kindly agreed to share his hummed track along side the final track it became for the upcoming Icebreaker level pack update.
Hummed Version:
Final Version:
(did we just exclusively show a glimpse of the next Icebreaker track in a post about humming? Yup!)
Enjoy!
Hello all,
We know it's been a while since our last release but we've been hard at work on many things and so we are very happy to announce that today is the day we release Test Subject Arena 2!
We've had lots of fun playing... er... we mean testing this game! With up to 4 players fighting against each other (need Touchy for more than 2 players) simultaneously, this game gets frantic!
For those of you who want to hone your skills on your own, there is a single player mode. Where each character has it's own level to beat.
We hope you enjoy our latest addition to the Test Subject Universe. We'll be watching those high score tables!
Play Test Subject Arena 2: Click Here!
Happy gaming!
Hi Nitromians,
We have some special news for all our iOS fans out there! Our first update for Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage is now live!
In the 1.1 update we have really gone to work on adding our own unique take on achievements to Icebreaker.
We have an all new character called the watcher who sets you missions on little sign posts around the game.
Missions range from trying to strike a chicken enough times before it flys off screen to a pack wide treasure hunt and even a mission that will involve some detective work finding the Vikings that are ever so subtlety different....ooohhh! We have made every effort to go beyond what you would normally expect from achievements to something we really feel expands the game world!
We also took the time in 1.1 to fix a few bugs including one to do with iOS7 and magnet of the gods so if you were having problems there it should now work without a hitch.
We have a swanky new video to go with this release which you can check out...it's not strictly gameplay so it's worth a watch even if you have the game already!
If you were on the fence before this may convince you to take the plunge and if you already have the game what are you waiting for update now!
Get Icebreaker: Click Here!
Todays Pixel Love goes out to Enough Plumbers 2 by Glen Forrester.
The concept of having many expendable heroes all trying to achieve the same goal is great fun when executed well and we feel that Enough Plumbers 2 really pushes the scope of what can be achieved with this idea.
You start the game by diving into the toilets to make your way through various well designed levels finding out early on that sacrificing your plumbers is something very unavoidable. Fear not! As long as one of the heroes is alive you may still pass the level.
To help you on your way, you get power-ups that let a single plumber take on new abilities, abilities that are very important in completing the levels.
This game has a lot of depth and we feel it is a great choice for some Pixel Love!
Play Enough Plumbers 2: Click Here!
Have fun, we will bring you all another Pixel Love next week!
