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Nikki and the Robots

Joyride Laboratories | TBD

In a fictional world of the future the infamous super villain Dr. Lacroix schemes to seize world supremacy with his army of robots. You take the role of Nikki and try to cross those evil plans on behalf of a secret organization. Your quest will take you to various locations: from futuristic metropolises to submarine facilities, floating islands, and even as far as orbital space.

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Nikki 0.5 Changes and Story Mode Peeks

Mar 8, 2012 0 comments

Here is the new Nikki and the Robots 0.5 Beta(!) release. We are also working hard on an open source web shop that allows pay what you want and all that...

Heart Shirts + Ouroboros Level

Feb 2, 2012 0 comments

Neon Pixel Heart Shirts added, Ironic GGJ Level created with new game over screen menu and background...

On Selling Nikki and the Robots' Story Mode

Jan 21, 2012 0 comments

We talk about the pay-what-you-want model we're gonna use for the story mode release of our game!

Decemberween Level!

Dec 24, 2011 1 comment

No new release or anything.. Just a level with lasers, patrol robots, an evergreen-battery-tree, a kind of hard jump puzzle and a few kind of well-hidden...

Upgrading Levels for the Story Mode

Dec 18, 2011 0 comments

How we design our story mode levels with screenshots and more screenshots!

Indie Games Prelude in Berlin + Nikki and the Robots

Oct 26, 2011 1 comment

Our game will be one of many on display at an amazing event in Berlin this Friday. One of our developers will talk about game jams. We want you to come!

Nikki 0.4: cannons, sounds, sharing and downloading levels

Sep 20, 2011 6 comments

Introducing: Cannonballs! Sounds! Level hosting! "Transient" switches! But really, the in-game level uploading and downloading is what's really awesome...

Nikki Contest Winning Levels + 0.3.3

Jul 25, 2011 0 comments

The level design contest results are finally in! And so is a new version of the game.. Check out the winning designs in this post!

New Patrol Robot & Controls in Nikki 0.3.2

Jul 11, 2011 1 comment

New robot, better controls and a video showing these features off.

Nikki's Community Level Statistics

Jul 5, 2011 0 comments

How many robots, switches, batteries and objects in total are in Nikki and the Robot's community levels? We made a cute little table for you to look at..

Inspiration, Butter and Level Design

Jul 4, 2011 0 comments

Something catched my attention when I last went shopping: butter. The packaging and name inspired me to design a level for our game...

Three Shirts (level contest ends soon)

Jul 3, 2011 2 comments

The three winners of our level design contest will get a t-shirt. That's it :). Deadline is July 7th .. so ready your keyboards!

Nikki's Second Batch of 9 Contest Levels

Jun 24, 2011 2 comments

Nine new levels for the ongoing Nikki Level Design Contest..

Nikki's First Batch of 10 Contest Levels

Jun 15, 2011 1 comment

On June 6th we started a level design contest. It runs until July 7th and everybody is welcome to submit as many levels as they like. Text and video tutorials...

Nikki: No More Slomo (0.3.1) - Prettier OSD

Jun 11, 2011 2 comments

A nasty slow-motion bug has been removed - new UI has been added.

Nikki's First Open Level Design Contest

Jun 6, 2011 6 comments

We're starting our first level design competition! Fire up the editor and create something amazing!

Nikki 0.3 is out! (images, spoilers and foreshadowing)

Jun 4, 2011 3 comments

Nikki and the Robots 0.3 is out! Level targets, changelog and contest info are to be read here..

Building on Community Content

May 30, 2011 0 comments

We flexed our brain muscles for some new ideas to ensure that Nikki and the Robots will be as complete and charming as we are anticipating, without pushing...