As we draw close to it's release, we have got a teaser trailer ready for our upcoming game Test Subject Complete, Enjoy!
In the meantime, why not re-familiarize yourselves with Test Subject Blue and Test Subject Green before launch?
Test Subject Complete Trailer: Click Here!
You can also tell us what you think of the trailer on our Facebook Page!
Hey Nitromians!
Last week we said that we would bring you an update so we decided that we would show you a teaser of one of our upcoming projects Colour Blind!
In the game you play as a colour blind eyeball who must rescue his girlfriend from the evil pirate dust clouds (yeah, wierd right?). The game features a unique colour changing mechanic that we won't spoil for you just yet, So until then enjoy the screen shot. Take a close look, can you figure out what the game might be about?
Screenshot: Click Here!
Let us know your thoughts on Facebook!
Hey there Nitromians!
We have got something new to share with you all today. It's in the form of a screenshot from one of our upcoming flash games!
Teaser Screenshot: Click Here!
Hey Nitromians,
Check out a little sneak peak of our latest flash game oodlegobs!
Pretty neat huh, can you guess what its all about?
More info on this game soon!
Oodlegobs Teaser Image: Click Here!
It's Wednesday already! Where has the week gone!
So today we wanted to tell you guys that we're working on a sequel to Test Subject Arena, yes... we are making Test Subject Arena 2!!! And this time you get to choose from 8 characters to play as!
So we will tell you more about this new game soon enough but for now we thought we’d wet your appetites by showing you a couple of new character animations from the game.
Have a good day all!
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A long time ago we announced and gave you a demo of a remake of one of our older games Cheese Dreams and then nothing!
The game was fairly far into development but various other projects meant we had to put it on hold and then (even more) various other projects stopped us coming back to it. We're thrilled to finally let you all know that we are now back working on it!
The game now has a proper title 'Cheese Dreams: New Moon' which we think covers well what the project is. For those who maybe don't know what this is about here is a recap.
Cheese Dreams: New Moon is a remake of our 2007 game 'Cheese Dreams'. It has the same basic bouncing mechanic but remade in a new engine that now supports full physics for all game elements rather than a few hard coded ones. It has the same mouse ship setting and basic story and shares some elements but beyond that is a brand new game that could be considered a sequel if it weren't for having the same storyline. If your still not clear then trying out both the demo and the original game should give you a good idea of the difference.
So why did we decide to remake it and not make a sequel? ...for fans of the original there is an obvious direction for a sequel given at the end of the game. We love the concept of the Moon being abducted by mice and although we would love to explore what happens next the general feeling was that so much time had passed that people in general would not remember what happened in the original particularly as it was a pretty hard game to beat.
The project is still a little while off so don't expect it in a week or two!
Although we did a lot of work on this before it was put on hold the fact is that the game had became bloated with content and elements, so much so that making the levels and finishing off the art and code for what is already there is still quite a big task! Jon went through everything that has been built for the new project and said there was already enough for two projects worth of content!...in fact we may put the project out in two parts both to get this out quicker and so as to not waste any elements!
At the time of writing this it is intended to be the next browser game after Test Subject Arena 2 so that should give you a rough idea of the timescale we're looking at.
To wrap up we wanted to share one tip bit of info in this post. In Cheese Dreams: New Moon your going to not only see the moon but also some other planets too....hmmm how mysterious!
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!
Hi Nitromians,
so if you didn't guess from our previous teases our big sequel for Christmas is going to be Bad Ice-Cream 3. This time out we have added some desert infused elements to the winter wonderland which has opened up some interesting ideas to the game...Alien Ice creams anyone?
Linking in with the earlier posts, in this shot we are showing a split between the initial sketch and the final title screen. If you would like to see the full title screen at 1.1 pixels click here.
That's it for now but you can enjoy more soon!
Why not get ready for the game by playing one of the original games.
Hello all!
A few days back we revealed after a bit of teasing that Bad Ice-Cream 3 was on the way and that it mixed in a desert theme!
Today we want to highlight one of the many new enemies that are coming your way! The cactus monsters when sleeping act as a wall. Periodically they wake up and will move to a new location and in that time they are red with anger and deadly. They are typically found in lines with other cactus enemies and this new mechanic of moving walls really changes how you must approach a level!
You can look forward to the full game soon, so in the meantime get some practise in on the original games here:
Howdy partners!
Bad Ice-Cream 3 wouldn't be a sequel without some new awesome flavours! So we have added an additional two to the roster.
We can reveal that the first new flavour is Liquorice! We have an illustration of what she looks like...yep you read right a second female ice-cream!
The other new flavour is a secret but we want to hear your guesses... no prizes but we’ll be surprised if anyone gets it right! We will reveal the mystery pre launch, and credit the person who guessed it correctly first!
You can look forward to the full game soon, so in the meantime get some practise in with the original games here:
Wow Nitromians… we have to admit we had no expectations of telling you prior to launch what the final flavour was in the upcoming Bad IceCream 3! We were so confident you wouldn't guess it that we challenged you all to guess away and you really did shooting past 300 comments! It didn't even take a full day though for Leonard Greenland to correctly guess that the final Ice-Cream flavour was Bacon... it blows us away that you guys guessed it!
It started off as a joke in the office that we would do bacon flavour but when we looked it up we were surprised to find it was real which settled us on the idea!
A little history... in 1973 the comedians 'The Two Ronnie's' joked about the possibility of a Smokey Bacon Ice-Cream in a sketch which also joked about the possibility of a Cheese and Onion and other crisp flavours of Ice-Cream.
A Bacon and Egg Ice-Cream was created for real in 1992 by Aldrich's Beef and Ice-Cream Parlor as an April Fools joke. They made 15 gallons of it and offered it free to anyone who would try it.
It was eventually made tasteful by celebrity UK chief Heston Blumenthal, when he infused an egg custard with bacon to make bacon and egg ice-cream. You would think it would be disgusting but critics seemed to dig it?!
So there you go a real flavor... who would have thought it!
One other reason we thought this flavour would work is colour, which we noticed a few of you were thinking about in your guesses… very clever of you ;) It's important for the ice-creams to stand out from each other and we didn't have a red one, so bacon while not the first suggestion was a good fit here!
You can look forward to the full game soon, so in the meantime get some practise in with the original games here:
Hi Nitromians,
Here is sneak peek at another of the new monsters your going to be facing in Bad Ice-Cream 3. The sandworm (or should that be snow worm?) is able to burry under the ground traveling past any ice blocks in his way. He is super quick too, so you will have too keep an eye out for the raised ground and tiles as they bump into the air to locate him.
The worms do have a few weaknesses however. They can't tunnel underneath solid walls. They can't surface where there are metal floor tiles, so you can use these as safe ground. The worms can resurface and move around too, so you're not totally safe... but they are much slower above ground, so you can use this to your advantage.
As usual Telemachus did some sketch work for the worm but it took him more iterations to settle on it's final form. We thought it would be fun to show you some of them in the post... enjoy :)
Hi Nitromians,
along with everything else added to Bad Ice-Cream we have to have more fruit right? We like to deliver and have 4 new fruit just ripe for the picking! So you have the pixels but can you tell what the fruit are?….some of them are a little exotic!
While some of them are just for some visual diversity in the all important stationary fruit some as always have special properties. Rather than reveal what they do we thought it might be more fun to let you speculate...so what do you think?
A hearty handshake and well done pat on the back to anyone who guesses correctly though this time you will have to wait for the release to see if your right. The release is imminent however so you won’t have long to wait to see if you guess correctly :)
Hi Nitromians,
Since we have been back, we have been hard at work on some new flash games for the website. You know about the second part of Cheese Dreams: New Moon already, but there's more.
Some of you have pointed out to us that we have been making a lot of sequels of late. So we thought it was about time to introduce some brand new concepts to you all. With that in mind, we have two of them bubbling away behind the scenes both featuring a brand new mechanic.
Well have more on them soon. But until then, take a glimpse at both games main protagonist in silhouette.
Any guesses on what they both are?
Hi Nitromians,
For those of you who have been following our blog of late, we recently showed a small teaser image about two new games that we are currently making for the website. We must say that some of your guesses were quite amusing! (Elvis, a cowboy, an artist, a cactus-man?)
We thought it would be nice to finally show a glimpse of one of these new games. We're not going to say much more for now but the game's theme is all about swapping.
We'd love to hear your guesses regarding what the mechanic might be.
Have a great weekend everyone and see you all next week :)
Hi Nitromians,
A lot of you have asked why we don't use our original musician Lee Nicklen anymore. We know a lot of you were fans of his music so we're thrilled to announce that we have Lee back doing some music for the swapping game that we previewed to you recently.
You can hear a rough draft of a track he is making for our swapping game here!
Have a great weekend everyone and we will be back next week with more exciting news!
Hi Nitromians,
It's time to share a little more info on our second secret browser game that we hinted at a little while ago. This game is called Ditto and the concept of the game involves mirrors. We'll let you speculate just how that will work for now but to whet your appetite check out this little animated gif we whipped up of the main character.
Oh and you may notice the character is female in this game which is a little different for us :)
Hi Nitromians,
time for another Icebreaker update! We have some bad news and good news...
First the bad news...after a lot of testing and feedback We are still finding new bugs on Android (Google Play and Amazon store) so that is holding things up...
some of them have been quite amusing though like one where the chains decided to use Vikings for the graphics in some circumstances! We are getting there though so bear with us!
The good news from this is that because this has all taken some time and because we wanted to launch the pack update alongside the Android release is that we are now planning for it to be a full pack update rather than splitting it into two parts which had previously been the plan.
Just to stress the significance of this....it's a whole new pack with it's own theme, side routes, 3 new enemy types, new mechanics, soft body physics, cut scenes, new story, new characters, returning old characters and an epic boss fight that makes the current ones look rubbish by comparison! Oh and it's all set inside a giant Octopus type beast!
It is almost 40 more levels and about the same amount of new mechanics as we put in the entire game so far! So it's a BIG update!
p.s. we will also be turning the iPad version of the game universal with cloud support too!
p.p.s. Oh and there will be some new missions in there for the new pack too :)p.p.p.s. We're working on a fancy new trailer to show this stuff off before launch!
Hi Nitromians,
Ditto is now getting to a fairly advanced state so we felt it was time to show you all a little more with the aid of a funky animated gif.
This is the first time we have tied turning actual footage into a gif so it was an interesting test for that too. I think it worked well and this does not take a long time like a trailer so it could be a good way we will show you gameplay snippets in the future!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Hi Nitromians,
we have been a little quiet this week but lets go out on a high! We have some new Ditto things to share with you. This week we have started dressing the levels for Ditto and wow it really made a big difference! We liked it so much that we thought we would show you a little before and after comparison of one of the early rooms.
You can see the video of the room in another of our funky little animated gif things and if you want to see it in more detail we have a link to side by side comparison shot that reveals all in crisp glory here: