Nifflas Releases Knytt Nano Minigames

You may know indie developer Nicklas "Nifflas" Nygren for his clean, surreal and critically-acclaimed platformers Within a Deep Forest, Knytt and Knytt Stories. Nifflas fans already know that his next project, Night Game, is in the works and not finished yet — but on his site's forums, the developer's just released a Knytt minigame pack called Knytt Nano to tide eager fans over until the next release.

If you haven't checked out any of Nifflas' games, I highly recommend them — they're characterized by simple gameplay, sprawling nonlinear worlds, cute creatures and neat ambient music and sound (which he often designs himself, to boot). You'll have to hit the forums for Knytt Nano, but the other titles are available for free download from Nifflas' site. [Thanks Anonymous, who tipped me off via Sexy Videogameland!]

1:20 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Leigh Alexander
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depward at 02:07 PM on 05/07/08
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Ok. I still haven't played Knytt Stories. I have a MAC. How can I get this done?!
Roto13 at 02:17 PM on 05/07/08
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*sees the word "Knytt" in the headline*

OMG *explosion*
AndrewG009 at 02:19 PM on 05/07/08
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Awesome as always.
catapult37 at 02:19 PM on 05/07/08
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Knytt stories is a masterpiece of minimalist game design. And it's a metroidvania style game. Pure joy. :-)
salmonax at 02:27 PM on 05/07/08
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nifflas rules.
HikariOblivion at 02:28 PM on 05/07/08
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@depward: virtual machine with Windows, or just up and installing it
HikariOblivion at 02:28 PM on 05/07/08
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@catapult37: indeed, not to mention some of the wonderful stages that have been released for it :D
Yoshi3gg at 02:30 PM on 05/07/08
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I love Nifflas' stuff, and am really looking forward to Night Game. These nano games provided a short but sweet little distraction!
Krondonian at 02:35 PM on 05/07/08
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@Roto13: I concur.

Seriously, to everyone who hasn't played Kyntt Stories yet [shifty eyes at depward] you MUST.

I've been playing Trackmania Nations Forever a lot over the week. But it's nowhere near as awesome for a free game as Kyntt Stories. I actually have about 3 albums on my PC of Nifflas, dfast and Zepsi who all did music for Nifflas' games. (Check out Geoffrey the Fly too- it's awesome).

And just in case you feel like you can't be bothered scrolling up again or googling 'Nifflas' his site is: [nifflas.ni2.se]

I've been enjoying the Nanos for a while, and while not as gamey as the full releases, they're still a lot of fun to get used to Kyntt mechanics.

/fanboyism

...And Stories has a great level editor on which I've spent hours making about 10 levels...but I shouldn't get started again...
VoodooCream at 02:36 PM on 05/07/08
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Correct me if I'm mistaken, but wasn't the nano pack released a few months back? The forum post is dated February 2008 too, so maybe it isn't just me. No worries though, Nifflas deserve every link they get.
Krondonian at 02:51 PM on 05/07/08
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@VoodooCream: Yeah, you're right, I've been playing them for quite a while now.

I've got to say though, that with Stories and Experiment, and their exponential growth of content, I didn't need these extras. But who doesn't love to be spoiled?
Vetterli at 02:58 PM on 05/07/08
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Aw, I was hoping for Jeremy Soule doing some really dark ambient.
truhuman at 06:44 PM on 05/07/08
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I've never heard of these and I'm just going to say...damn you all. I've had Knytt up behind all my work all day! It's addicting and very fun to play. Love the music.