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Hey Nitromians,

We have received an email informing us about this great piece of Dirk Valentine artwork! It really is something... wow!

This piece of artwork is in a very different style to a lot of the fan art we recieve and decided this, and the fact that it looks so great, were reasons enough to showcase it in the blog! Thanks 'uncle-salad'! :D

Dirk Valentine Artwork: Click Here

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.

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

The website is currently undergoing some major changes in both our frontend and backend systems as from our last blog update and today I thought we'd give you a quick progress update as to where we are with the redesign.

The website has been built, and now needs a few tweaks here and there. We have also been making room for even more functionality that we plan to add to the website after the initial launch.

I have got the 'hearting' system working for the game pages which means you can help shape which of our games make it into the top five each day!

A backend system has also been created to help for making a website skin quicker, giving the artist more time to design those much loved skins and backgrounds!

We’ve got the ‘new games’ indicators working too, these will be used to show you which games you haven’t played yet!

There's still a little bit more work to do including ironing out some browser bugs and updating the way we launch and update games. At the moment I am still coming across bugs that need tweaking regularly.

I'm also updating the website's scroll functionality to make it more friendly to navigate!

We will bring you more soon!

by Tom

Hello Nitromians,

Thank you for all your feedback on Test Subject Arena, we're glad to see it's going down well. We have been listening to your suggestions for improvements and are happy to say that we have an update.

This update addresses:
Keys shown at arena select, 2 player only more prominant, and it's now possible to kill players that squat in corners using the melee.

Click To Play!

Happy gaming!

by JK

Hi Nitromians!

We have got yet another trailer of Office Trap to show you this week. This time you get to see the victims! Check out the video for more!

Office Trap 'Victims' Preview: Click Here

by Tom

Well Nitromians, hope you all enjoyed the news this week, we decided to hold off on our second game preview video that we have planned as poor Tom was off ill. So we will have that for you to look forward to next week now!

Also we think it's probably a good time to update you on the new website design progress so we will have more on that and other things too!

Have a great weekend! :D

by Mat

Hi Nitromians!

Today we have a little surprise for you in the form of a spin off to our Test Subject Series (Test Subject Blue & Test Subject Green)… Test Subject Arena! While we were making the second Test Subject game we wondered about the potential for fun in the game with two player.

We decided the game was a little linear to get much extra from making it co-op but as an arena game we felt it could have a lot of potential for fun tactics. We had a little play at the end of making Test Subject Green and it turns out we were right so we fleshed it out into a little spin off release.

WARNING: The game is two player only (no single player mode!). We would have loved to have added single player but the work involved in the AI (especially with the portals) didn’t seem worth it when it is most fun as a two player experience. We have never made a two player only game before on Nitrome so please do let us know what you think via Facebook, Twitter or Email :)

If it is popular we may even consider other two player only games in the future!

We hope you enjoy the game that we purposely decided to leave as a surprise release!

Click To Play!

by Mat

Hi Nitromians,

Wow! there are now over 20,000 of you on our official Facebook page!

We are very pleased to see you all enjoying it over there while contributing to the community! To all of the new Nitromians, Welcome aboard! :D

Thanks to all of you for being part of the Nitrome community!

If you would like to follow us on twitter, Click Here!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians,

Here is another preview of Office Trap, this time we bring you the '8-bit' trap! Check out the video for more!

Office Trap '8-bit' Preview: Click Here

by Tom

Hey Nitromians!

Here is the preview that we promised in last weeks 'Friday Update', it's of our upcoming game Office Trap which you might notice is a follow up to our game Knight Trap!

This is a first of a series of sneak peaks we are going to give you of some of the key features... First up, two player! 

Office Trap Preview: Click Here!

by Tom

Hi Nitromians,

Another Nitrome game has been featured in this months issue of Edge... It's Super Treadmill!

We are very happy that the good people at Edge felt our game deserved a mention in their magazine :) According to Edge:

"Super Treadmill is a glorious throwback to the NES days of D-Pad platforming."

Click to Play!

by Mat

Well that's all for this week Nitromians, next week we plan on bringing you a new game, more on Office Trap and possibly another preview!

Have a Great Weekend!

by Mat

Hi Nitromians,

You may have noticed that we've put two new Nitrome adverts on our site advertising the positions we have here. We are currently looking for talented iPhone programmers and level builders, if you feel that you meet the requirements, or know of anyone that does, please send in your CV/Resume.

You can find the requirements for the roles on the following pages:

iPhone Programmer: Click Here 
Level Builder: Click Here 

by Tom

Hi Nitromians!

We are pleased to say that Nitrome has been featured in this months edition of Creative Graphics World! It's nice to see the word of Nitrome spreading to the other side of the globe!

It might be hard for some readers to find as its only available in China, but it's very nice all the same!

by Jon

Hi Nitromians!

We have got a lovely piece of fanart to show you today that is based on our game The Bucket. This Nitromian goes by the alias of 'rukia-senpai' over on deviant art. Thanks for the artwork, it really is great! :D

The Bucket Artwork : Click Here

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.

by Tom

We have also got a treat for you today! We were planning on revealing cheat codes for Silly Sausage over the next few weeks, but it seems that they have all been found already and posted in forums... wow, that's people power for you! (or maybe a little bit of cheating ;))

Now that they have surfaced, we felt it's better to just reveal all of them with a description of what they do.

NITROME - Turns grabbable tiles into Cuboy and turns the background pink.

MUSCLES - Hard Mode, one hit and you are out!

CHICKEN - Easy mode, you get five hearts.

FLIPPED - Turns the screen upside down and also affects the background!

DOGMEAT - Enemies speed is doubled!

GRANDPA - Enemies speed is halved!

HOTDOGS - Turn gems into hotdogs!

PRESENT - Bone-us! Bones appear randomly on the level

REVERSE - Your controls will become reversed!

POOMODE - ...Play the game and you will find out :) 

Silly Sausage: Click To Play!

Happy gaming!

by Tom