Hi Fans!
Thanks for sending in so many cool fanart pieces recently! The next pieces are from a fan called Ruskin. He has used plasticine as his choice of medium and has created some of our Nitrome characters!
Orange Twin
Enemy 585
Zombie Warthog
Zapo
Snail Gun Monster
He has also made the nitrome logo!
Nitrome Logo
Thanks Ruskin!
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 so stay tuned for another in about a weeks time :)
You may remember we featured a shot of the new site design a few days ago. One of the main changes for the new design is going to be the use of Smartphone style icons in place of our current mini shots. We hope that through using these we can convey more information in less space while also making them look more appealing!
You may notice that we have little red tags with numbers hanging off the icons as well as some of the other buttons on the site. The idea is that we will start to highlight new content on the site that you the user have not yet played. Site sections will show the number of new items that are there. We are considering having a different colour of tag to show any updates that might have been
made and there could also be further tags
added to highlight other elements!
The image shown is of the games page of the site which you would get to through clicking the games button at the top. Unlike the current site the games page would no longer be the same as the front page which in the new design will serve to highlight all the latest content rather than being solely about the games. The games page will offer a little more info about the games as well as have icons demonstrating different features the game may contain. The idea like the icons themselves is to offer more information to our users without sacrificing the aesthetics of our site which is very important to us.
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We hope you like what you see and please do send us your thoughts!
So I went down to the local newsagents round the corner from ‘Nitrome Towers’ and sat proudly on the shelf was the new issue of Edge Magazine. I swiftly snapped it off the rack, and parted with my £4.50. Back in the office I’m flicking through the pages, sipping my mug of tea I stop on page 20… “Why?” I here you cry! Because the folks at Edge have chosen our laser totin’ game Canary as their internet game of the month.
So well done to Chris and Stefan, and to everyone at Edge for their impeccable taste!
According to Edge “Canary has an old-fashioned, beat-the-screen structure with a simple but consistently surprising gameplay mechanic.” If you want to read the article about Canary, pop down to your local newsagents and grab a copy. – Happy reading!
Canary: Click to Play
Hello again fans,
We have a great piece of news for you today,
Chisel 2 has finally been released! Hurray...
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Drill, destroy and "jump" your way through a whole new galaxy of fun.
Here's a handy link to the game.
Remember to come back very soon and check out the latest news and happenings at Nitrome.
Be sure to use the handy Share and Tweet buttons to show this game to your friends!
Enjoy!
If you haven’t heard we have a new web developer at Nitrome and he is going to be constantly working on new features for the website! His first work was on this new blog system which we think you will agree is pretty swanky but we hope what he has next in development is even better……drum roll….a whole new site design!!!
Here is a preview shot of how we're hoping to make the site look. As you can see it is an evolution of our old design but it is one which we hope will add a lot of functionality and which we hope is also more pleasing to the eye :)
There are some features planned for the future of the site that we are not ready to reveal yet and so there are a few areas of the shot that we have purposely pixeled out…..that is intended and is not part of the new site design! We will leave it to your imagination as to what those new features might be!
It is always a concern to change elements such as layout and styles in a popular games site. We hope you like what you see but if you do have comments on what you think of the new design please do feel free to drop us an email, comment on our facebook page or tweet to our twitter page as we would love to get some feedback.
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We’re very proud to announce that Jon and I were asked to get involved with Flash Mindmeld. Flash Mindmeld is in it’s own words - 60 experts, 60 seconds each, 60 tips for being successful in the flash game market!
If you hadn’t guessed from that description that means we had to give a 60 second tip each along with 58 other flash experts to give advice to other developers on how to be successful at making Flash games.
If you’re curious as to what we said or just what we sound like:
Hi Fans!,
In the last preview we told you about some of the new shapes that are possible in our Chisel follow up including the ability to have multiple shapes or planets in each level. We can now show you how you’re going to get between these planets.
..with the aid of a rocket jump!
You can also perform a standard jump this time round which means some of the old enemies are now a little more vulnerable to you than before and new enemies have been introduced to make you use your new jumping skills to their fullest! Check the video for more!
We’re constantly growing here at Nitrome to meet the demands of our very loyal and expanding audience and happy to say that we are at that point again where we are actively looking to recruit some fresh members for the team. More importantly we have two positions that we have never looked into recruiting before….a dedicated iPhone/iOS programmer and a dedicated level builder!
If you’re interested in any of the roles or just want to see some new artwork we have made then you will want to check out the all new jobs page!
Please read all of the requirements of the job page as we will not reply to emails that do not send in what we ask for on that page!
We have just fixed our game Test Subject Blue!, it was pointed out to us that you couldnt submit your score at the end of the game.. you can now!
To make sure you get the right game version, you should clear your browsers cache before playing!
Clear your browsers cache: Click Here
Test Subject Blue: Click To Play
A lot of you have been asking what happened to our Strategy game that we posted about in the blog and on Facebook. It has been a long time in the making….a lot longer than we would normally or should probably take in making a flash game so that’s why you haven’t heard much. It is now almost ready though and even has a name now: Steamlands!
We still have to have some thorough play testing to find as many bugs as possible before the release but in the meantime, we have put together a little video to wet your appetite and give you a better idea of what is coming!
