Here is the new Nikki and the Robots 0.5 Beta(!) release (download here).


video: Nikki and the Robots 0.5 Changes and Story Mode Peeks

We're working on a preorder web page, which is open source under AGPL and hosted here.

The changes explained in the video (and some that were left out) are as follows:

• Game:
  
  
  
  • Info terminals instead of text bubbles in tutorial
    
  • Falling tiles take a little longer to start falling
    
  • Batteries have a little less mass
    
  • Switches are easier to trigger
    
  • Added laser robots and laser endpieces
    
  • Cannon-robot sounds
    
  • Boost sound for jetpack robot
    

GUI/OSD and Controls:

• Added keyshints in game mode
  
• Allow configurable game keys (jump and context) to control the menu
  
• Main menu will notify you about the availability of the story mode
  
• Mac OS X: default jump key is space
  
• In-game OSD shows total number of batteries in level
  
• "..."-bubbles when nikki can start npc/computer monolog
  
• Added "retry level" menu item to failure menu
  
• Added retry-option to pause menu (and major refactorings to AppState stuff during levels)
  

Level editor:

• Added gray level template
  
• Better layer insert and delete control
  

Other:

• Game art sources added to source code repository
  
• Bugfixes on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows that prevented many users from running the game
  

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Release Trailer Video

We released Nikki and the Robots 1.0, which especially enhances performance and audio.

Also, it is now possible to buy the story mode from buy.joyridelabs.de

Feedback about the game, payment process (the payment website is open source under the name papst and release trailer (made in Kdenlive) welcome!

Blog announcement

Nikki and the Robots is now on Steam Greenlight™ and we sure hope that it will get enough Thumbs Up to join the comfortable cross-platform player community soon!

It might end up being the first piece of software on Steam that is open source code and written in Haskell.

Nikki and the Robots Greenlight Trailer

By the way, if you happen to speak German: we have been interviewed by Pixelmacher and will appear for four minutes on German TV (ZDF.Kultur on Monday 26th Nov 2012, 22:30 - 23:00 GMT+1) and more material will be available on pixelmacher.tv for two weeks after that.