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Hi Nitromians!

Today's Pixel Love Choice is Denudation made by Zillix!

You may remember Zillix from a previous Pixel Love choice, Exposure.

This game is very intuitive in it's play style/controls and (although short) is a very satisfying game to play. As with Exposure, we really enjoyed the minimal approach in the art style, it really manages to denote everything you need to know with it's limited palette. It also has some great music and sound design.

Click to play Denudation!

Have fun! We'll bring you another Pixel Love game next week!

by Tom

Hi all,

We have been a little quiet on previewing our upcoming flash releases of late but that doesn't mean they haven't been going on! So let's sort that out with a quick preview!

Our next release is called Bump Battle Royale which is loosely based on Bumper Cars and Sumo Wrestling. It also happens to be 1-4 player with or without Touchy! This makes it the first non-Touchy 4 player Nitrome game since Rush. It also features a mixture of Nitrome characters and universes!

So have a look at the preview video, it's just a taster for now but more will be coming soon!

by JK

Hey Nitromians,

Take a look at this great piece of fan art by Koficup over on Deviant art. It's a huge picture of Flash Cat riding his trusty errrm... green buggy, beetle, robot cockroach, thingy?

Thanks for your hard work Koficup, it’s fantastic.

We love receiving fan art so please keep sending them in and we will feature our favourites on the blog.

by Jon

Hey Nitromians,

8bit Doves is coming to a phone near you!

During the #nitromejam people who follow our twitter feed may have seen a quick experiment Arthur did getting 8 bit doves working on the iPhone. Unity ultimately made it very quick to get a working build as the game is very easy to play due to it only using two buttons.

We're now happy to report that we're taking the project forward to a proper mobile release. We are of course adding support for Android and tablets. We have just finished adding a proper front end and tidying some things up that we did due to the limited time frame of the #nitromejam build. Finally were going to add a lot more levels some new features and split into three easy access packs.

This is a smaller project than our other mobile projects (more news on those when we are ready). It will probably jump the queue and end up being the next mobile game released by Nitrome!

We're very excited to have an additional game coming to mobile and we will give you some updates leading up to the release :)

Our twitter following is growing fast so if you are interested in hearing the very latest ramblings from us, then make sure you follow #nitrome (@nitrome) over on twitter.

by Jon

Hi Nitromians!

Today we've chosen Piksels by Bart Bonte as our Pixel Love choice this week. We love the clean simple design of this one.

It borrows ideas from the well known game Snake, as with each "piksel" eaten, you grow in length. The puzzle element in this is something quite fresh. To complete levels you must align your "snakes" within the goal areas, most of the time involving multiple snakes.

Some levels need each snake you create to be of a certain length. This has you using the walls, path blocking and corners among other elements to get your snakes where you need them.

You may remember Bart Bonte's entry in the nitrome jam, In Drmzzz.

Click To Play Piksels!

Have fun everyone! We'll bring you another pixel love game next week!

by Tom

Hey Nitromians,

Great news! Icebreaker is FINALLY out on Amazon!

During the #nitromejam Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage silently released on the Amazon App Store for Kindle Fire devices. We weren't really expecting it to happen, as we had so many problems leading up to this point. We want to rectify that right now. So if you have a Kindle and have been feeling a little left out you can go now and find out what all the fuss has been about.

Another thing that happened during the #nitromejam was that an update launched across iOS for Icebreaker. We have fixed an issue which prevented people with the original iPad from being able to play the game anymore... sorry! This means they can finally play the Kraken pack, yippee. The issue also helps users that didn't want to upgrade their OS. There is a host of minor fixes that we put into the new build, so it's worth an update.

We also launched a new Android build which fixed a bunch of the most common issues people reported. The main offender was a bug which was causing players to lose their pars and coins from their game save. This issue was particularly hard to track down but we got there in the end ;)

We are looking at other issues people have been reporting and will continue to fix things where we can.

Next week we will be revealing some of the other things we have been working on. Until Monday have a great weekend. 

by Jon

Hey Nitromians,

So you all REALLY liked Ditto huh! The sheer amount of ditto fan art we have seen so far has been really awesome.

First off, is this lovely anime styled piece by Nitzumi over on Deviant art.

There has also been some really nice Ditto fan-fiction written by Random-StoryKeeper over on Deviant art. And also another great written piece by Plasmaster over on the Nitrome wiki. Be sure to give them both a read when you have a spare few minutes.

If you have no idea what they are talking about, then it’s time that you completed Ditto and see what the fuss is all about.

Play Ditto!

We love receiving fan art, so please keep sending us links to what you have made and we'll feature our favourites =)

by Jon

This week's Pixel Love game is Ripple Runner by DDRKirby(ISQ)

This is a very demanding runner in which you must make it to the end of each stage using the jump and ripple controls.

The music is synced to the characters actions which sounds great as a result.

The artwork looks great and reminded us a little of our game Ditto

Click To Play Ripple Runner

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

by Tom

Hi Everyone,

Voting for Nitrome Game Jam 2014 entries is now closed!

The Results Are:

1st Place
A Kitty Dream by Raiyumi

2nd Place
Loop by Team Awesomotronica

3rd Place
Yellow Dreamer by NazoSystems

For a full list of the games (ordered by their vote average), check out the Jam Page.

A big congratulations goes out to Ryan Carag and Bill Kiley for their great platformer, A Kitty Dream! Well done Raiyumi! :) 

Also we'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that made a game, played games, casted their votes or took part in anyway and to all those that had as much fun as we did!

by Tom

Here is our second Pixel Love choice, Hobo Bob. This game was created by Wolve. Many of you may know him from his Nitrome Jam entry: The Mind.

This endless runner really is action packed and very addictive!

We found the best finger placement for this game is similar to home row, but with your right hand shifted one key to the left... so:

LEFT HAND
A S D F

RIGHT HAND
H J K L

It is very satisfying completing this one! Once completed, you are given an Infinite mode to play.

Click To Play Hobo Bob!

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

by Tom

Hey Nitromians!

We've noticed that there has been a slight shortage of Pixel Love games whilst we were jamming, so to make up for that, we'll be showcasing two great pixel loves this week.

First off, we have Hare's Harvest, a great little turn based game developed by Michael Cook.

The game has some great mechanics. Using burrows, stomped burrows, foxes, dogs and farmers, your aim is to make your way through the farmers crop of carrots. There are some great puzzles in this one, with some real head scratchers.

Click to Play Hare's Harvest!

We hope you enjoy playing this one!

Stay tuned today for the second Pixel Love game choice!

by Tom

Hey Nitromians,

Phew... what a hot and busy week it’s been over at Nitrome HQ. We have a brand new site skin for the website, featuring lots of characters from the #nitromejam.

For those of you who missed it we have finally sorted the issues for the #nitromejam games. Results for the winner will be announced next Friday so you can play, comment and vote for them here.

Thanks again for everybody who took part in the jam and all our fans for being so awesome, it really was great fun.

Next week we should be getting things back to normal. That means a regular Monday Pixel love slot, back to work on updating the accounts and continuing making some brand new games (more news on these when they’re ready).

Until Monday, have a great weekend.

p.s What's you're favourite Jam game?

Nitrome =D

by Nitrome

Hey Nitromians,

We have now fixed all of the issues to do with the #nitromejam. This means that you can now finally login and place votes on all 31 Jam games.

http://www.nitrome.com/jam/

As some of you may have read we had some major issues with our system, so to keep it fair we have reset the votes.

You can vote for a game by logging in and selecting a 1-5 star rating underneath the game (5 stars being the best).
Vote on as many games as you like and you can even change your mind as many times as you like.

Winners will be announced on Friday (20^th) next week to give players a chance to try out all of the games.

Voting Begins. May the best man, Cat or Dog win ;)

by Jon

Hey Nitromians,

http://bit.ly/1ub1vI1

We have just noticed this fantastic piece of Nitrome fan art which includes the first 100 Nitrome games. Its a serious masterpiece and all of us here at Nitrome HQ are in awe at the amount of work that has been put into this.

Huge thanks and congrats to CartoonSpider over on Deviant Art =)

To fully appreciate the piece make sure you click and zoom in. We had a lot of fun trying to spot all of the nice characters and game references.

by Jon

Hi Nitromian’s and Nitrome Jam developers,

You’ve probably noticed that we have been struggling to get all of the game Jam entries live on the NitromeJam page and also that various elements such as ‘comments’ on those pages and ‘voting’ are not functioning correctly.

Firstly we would like to say a huge SORRY for this!

We thought we had everything in place for this to run smoothly as an event, but we made some mistakes and we want to hold our hands up to that. Should we run another #Nitromejam again (and we hope we will as the entries have been great) we will learn from this and be sure to have a more stable system in place next time.

One major problem we have had means that we are not actually sure we have all the entries up. We certainly missed some of them and only found out via twitter or emails from the developers that they existed. We now have all of the games live that we know about, but we are painfully aware that there could be others that we have still missed. If you are a developer in such a situation please do drop us an email and we will be sure to get your game on the page asap.

We will be fixing the comments on the pages and making sure that it is clear that voting only works if you are logged in and that you can see your vote still if you revisit the page. There are also a few tweaks were going to add to make things better.

We intend to have all of this finished as quickly as we can and get any further games finally live. Once this happens we think it is only fair to reset the votes and give a clear timescale for when voting will close.

We hope these problems do not have a huge impact on your enjoyment of the lovely entries we have had for Nitrome Jam 2014.

by Mat