January 6th is Nicklas' 27th bday. It's already the 6th in Sweden so Happy Birthday! To celebrate his birthday Nicklas is offering Saira at a $5 discount to $12--that's 29.4118% off! Another $1.50 will get you a second license for that friend who's too cheap to buy it on his own. Go get Saira for 29.4118% off!. Just like McDonald's M...

It looks like NicoNico strikes again. I really don't know what to say. Genius? Thoughts? Hope everyone had a good new year!

Happy Christmas! If you remember yesterday's Cave Story Happy Christmas Eve update, you'll recall that we mentioned a third tune by Dustin Kulwicki. As promised, here it is! Christmas Story [dewplayer:http://nicalis.com/christmas/Cave_Story_Christmas_Story_k-wix.mp3] And, in case you missed the first two: Holiday Construction [dewplay...

You've probably hear Nicklas released Saira on PC. And if you haven't heard, where have you been? You can go download the Saira Demo. Or get some cool Knytt T-Shirts. But if you just want something pretty for your wallpaper check out the Saira Art Collection done by Charlotte Winroth.

It's almost Christmas and the end of the year! We've been utterly quiet because updating a blog takes more time away than I'd like from actually making games--what we're supposed to be doing. We'll have some updates post-release with Amaya-san discussing the game. For now I want to bring everyone up to speed on the finished product: -...

Spike Video Game Awards 2009 are coming and it's time to vote! I'm a HUGE fan of Osmos, another IGF grand prize-nominee and generally-kick ass game. Hopefully by now you've played it. Visit the Spike VGA Official Site and cast your vote for Osmos as Indie Game of the Year!. Good lucky Eddy!

I fixed another issue in the special property. I've also made major graphical improvements to a large number of the areas. And level tweaks and improvements. Two new Appendix levels.

Small changes to the level format (Chain= was replaced by Chain Snd= and now links to a chain sound file). I don't think this will affect Mike's NG-Native. I've added more levels to the ******** world! They are quite ****** and ****. I have finished improving the difficulty of a few 'Normal' worlds, too.

No changes was made to the engine or level format. The Snow world is working great. In this version, I've improved many of the game's levels in many aspects. The Normal mode is in some cases a lot easier. I've also started working on a world named ****** **********, which would be great as ****** ***** that you can play as a re***d for...

The 13th level support is finally added to Night Game. Now Ara can add his levels to the game properly! Some levels have been added to the Appendix too, I was thinking that they could be used for the credits! The Col Snd=!REG thing was removed from the level format and all levels, it's not really needed for anything.

Improved and additional sound effects. Small level adjustments.

The name of the two types of PreDef (Custom and Embed) objects originally reflected how the original engine dealt with them. I have now renamed Type=Custom to Type=Normal (which is also equivalent of not specifying a Type at all) and renamed Type=Embed to Type=Scripted Type=Normal still gets the graphics from Worlds\[Universe]\[World]\...

Nicklas has been busy. We have some level improvements, fixes, and tweaks. Have a cookie and smile!

Hopefully some of you are going or have friends who will be at PAX. Please be sure to try Cave Story, if you have a chance. We made a special build for PAX with save files in specific areas. Anyone playing, keep in mind that the PAX build is a few weeks old and has certain things locked. Tiffany and I have also finalized what Downloa...