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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.

253 Followers  |  89 Following  |  22 Posts  |  Joined: 08.11.2024  |  1.6893

Latest posts by jonannal.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Toying with new hair tech for #MouseWork , our upcoming #NintendoSwitch2 game featuring mouse controls!

07.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 32    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Long hair tech COMPLETE! ✂️🐭
#MouseWork #NintendoSwitch2

07.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 55    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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Another entry for #RandomThingsInMouseWork . This time we have…’Larpers’ which appear in one of the jobs that we already showed…can you guess which one? Look forward to this and much more when our multiplayer mouse controlled #MouseWork comes to #NintendoSwitch2 !

27.09.2025 21:22 — 👍 38    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Pixel art of an old ruin under cloudy skies. A man in a loincloth, holding an axe faces agains a gigantic bearded man, horribly mutated by a black goop littered with eyes and glowing veins

Pixel art of an old ruin under cloudy skies. A man in a loincloth, holding an axe faces agains a gigantic bearded man, horribly mutated by a black goop littered with eyes and glowing veins

The Legendary Axe concept mockup. Been a while since I made one of these. Research was tough. I have no connection to the game or the turbografx-16 whatsoever, but the final boss being a weird and unsettling merger of confused cavemen held together by an eldric mass was captivating.
#pixelart #ドット絵

22.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 1312    🔁 199    💬 27    📌 2
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We have a 50%OFF sale happening on our Switch titles💸

For those who want an explosive beautiful pixel art platformer we have Bomb Chicken. The perfect come down after finishing #SilkSong

Feel like putting your brain to the test? Hop onto Gun Brick: Reloaded and take a joyride!

23.09.2025 15:45 — 👍 44    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

Yeah have done an MRI last year. Its otherworldly being inside it.
Sounds exactly like an old spectrum loading. Very LOUD too!
Hope you get to the bottom of the injury.

18.09.2025 18:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Silksong is yesterdays news. Step aside there is a new hornet in town 🐝

18.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Agreed it is so sick.

12.09.2025 19:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Shovel Knight Dig Start-Up

#ShovelKnight #ShovelKnightDig #Indie #YachtClubGames #Nitrome

31.08.2025 02:29 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

We are making some PC titles. So your prayer might come true in that respect.

12.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Look Metroid is almost as cool as Flip-Side 😎👌

12.09.2025 19:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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 — 👍 181    🔁 39    💬 5    📌 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 — 👍 50    🔁 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 — 👍 55    🔁 6    💬 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 — 👍 963    🔁 233    💬 33    📌 45

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 — 👍 58    🔁 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 — 👍 56    🔁 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 — 👍 66    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Hurray for dizzy

04.12.2024 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 — 👍 60    🔁 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

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