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Jon Annal

@jonannal.bsky.social

🧙‍♂️COO and games wizard at Nitrome (ive got the beard and everything). 🎮Maker of many fine console, mobile and browser games. 👾Latest released creation Shovel Knight Dig! 👶🏻Proud dad. 🌿Love houseplants (ones that behave!) 🍻Partial to a cheeky beer.

245 Followers  |  89 Following  |  17 Posts  |  Joined: 08.11.2024  |  1.812

Latest posts by jonannal.bsky.social on Bluesky

This is one if my dream games to make. 😍

04.08.2025 22:50 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I will be honest I almost bounced off it fairly quickly.

The first few areas are all just smashy smashy and nothing else. It had no real structure for me.

Smash…scoop gold… repeat

I had to persist and it took me hours to get into it before it clicked.

04.08.2025 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Let’s take a closer look at some BRAND NEW minigame jobs in #MouseWork!

A multiplayer party game being developed for #NintendoSwitch2 using the mouse functionality of the Jon-Con 2 🐭🐭🐭🐭

23.07.2025 14:46 — 👍 164    🔁 35    💬 3    📌 5

Thanks ben. The wicked wishes imo has some of the games best bits.

15.05.2025 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We worked SO hard on this. Wicked wishes is imo the most fun campaign of the game. Am very proud of what we achieved.

@romainmacre.bsky.social
@juanitomedinart.bsky.social
@joaosdev.bsky.social
(+ Jesse Parsons who isnt on bluesky).

very proud of you all for your dedication and hard work. 💪

15.05.2025 17:51 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Ready your shovels🪏
Shovel Knight Dig is tunneling onto Xbox & PS5 TOMORROW!

It'll include the base game & all expansions, including the upcoming DLC, Wicked Wishes.

This final update adds new bosses, quests, secrets, & game-changing upgrades, making this the definitive version.

14.05.2025 19:28 — 👍 49    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Felt cute, might delete later 💅

Many original minigames in dev for Mouse Work, coming to #NintendoSwitch2

09.05.2025 16:21 — 👍 41    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Get ready to squeak with delight as we unveil Mouse Work! A 1-4 player party game for Switch 2 using mouse controls! Control adorable mice working various jobs in their desire to earn some extra cheddar. Coming Soon!

#MouseWork #Nitrome #NintendoSwitch2

07.04.2025 21:02 — 👍 967    🔁 233    💬 34    📌 44

I guess BlueSky dosen’t support gifs then?

26.04.2025 10:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why dont you move gif? 🤔

26.04.2025 10:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mouse work gif test

26.04.2025 10:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Its the game Switch 2 needs. Our creativity at Nitrome is overflowing on what mouse control can do. 💪🐭👊

07.04.2025 22:44 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Question for indie dev friends.

Is there any platforms outside of Steam that are worth releasing games on⁉️

29.03.2025 10:52 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
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Nitrome now have a mailing list! Sign up today and gain the exclusive bragging rights of being there when it all began!

www.nitrome.com/mailing-list/

Also we will let you know when we make new stuff :)

07.02.2025 14:31 — 👍 57    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 3
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The Steam winter sale is upon us. Celebrate this joyous occasion with us with a huge -60% off our titles over the festive period. 🎁🏷️

store.steampowered.com/developer/Ni...

20.12.2024 17:18 — 👍 55    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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@everyone

(1/2) Merry Christmas Nitromians. There is plenty to look forward to in 2025… lets take a little look 👀

📱Our in-house mobile games back live with fullscreen support
👾Launch of the Nitrome classics range. The best Nitrome games brought back to new platforms and better than EVER!

25.12.2024 13:58 — 👍 65    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Hurray for dizzy

04.12.2024 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Super Indie Karts - December 2024 Update Teaser - Steam News Just a quick teaser for the upcoming December 2024 Early Access update.

What’s this? It looks like Super Indie Karts is getting some love in its next update! I wonder what it is🤔
store.steampowered.com/news/app/323...

04.12.2024 09:21 — 👍 59    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1
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Re-posting (for fun) looking back at our v old Sonic pitch.

It was a clear riff off LeapDay.

Play a new casual Sonic stage everyday.

Find the secret chaos emerald for 7 days straight and get to compete in the weekly Super Sonic Speed run.

10.11.2024 17:24 — 👍 141    🔁 35    💬 9    📌 2

🤭

10.11.2024 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ajude o padre a manter a sua fé e resgatar uma família nesse airbnb infestado de demônios
🕯🕯🕯
#pixelart #brart

19.10.2024 19:26 — 👍 2570    🔁 504    💬 42    📌 17
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Boy wizard - a game/demo I was working on in Stencyl some years ago. Will move it to godot if i ever pick it up again. #gamedev #pixelart

20.10.2024 17:52 — 👍 243    🔁 42    💬 7    📌 0
A fluffy little creature rests peacefully, surrounded by ancient machinery of unknown purpose.

A fluffy little creature rests peacefully, surrounded by ancient machinery of unknown purpose.

The Hand of God rests peacefully ~ nothing to worry about.

A mockup for something special I've been cooking with @ratcasket.bsky.social

As Nathan describes it, the game will be "like Dark Cloud, but with good dungeon diving".

#conceptart #gamedev #indiedev

04.11.2024 22:25 — 👍 589    🔁 85    💬 20    📌 0
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A lil movement. The controls worked by one foot rotating around the other. You had to watch where you tread to squish villagers or fall to your doom.

09.11.2024 10:26 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Looking WAY back to 2016 on a game I was making called ‘PLOD’
You played as a giant set of disembodied shacked giants feet.

09.11.2024 10:24 — 👍 40    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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Can you believe it has been 20 years since Nitrome started!

In celebration we thought it might be apt to produce a classics range… bringing select titles from the Nitrome vaults to brand new formats!

(More news on the first title soon)

09.11.2024 10:11 — 👍 151    🔁 32    💬 13    📌 3

There is some new tunes in there yes. This is the final planned DLC

08.11.2024 21:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

And what an AMAZING job you did (as always)

08.11.2024 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Looking forward to all of our hard work in Wicked Wishes update being played.

08.11.2024 19:38 — 👍 129    🔁 19    💬 5    📌 1

I like things

08.11.2024 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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