Nitrome Must Die

Nitrome Must Die is a platform-shooter released on November 24, 2011 as Nitrome's one hundredth game. The game stars the two characters Austin Carter and Justin Bennet; these characters also debut in this game. Nitrome told fans they were making the 100th game on November 1st, 2011, along with the release of a video walkthrough preview for the game on November 7th, 2011.

Default Controls
Player 1:

Up - W

Down - S

Left - A

Right - D

Shoot - Q

Player 2:

Up - up

Down - down

Left - left

Right - right

Shoot - /

Players can change their controls by clicking a control and changing it in the player selection screen.

Publicity

 * See also: Nitrome Must Die (Website)

More than a week before the game was announced, two people (Austin and Justin, from the game) posted on Nitrome's Facebook wall about how much they hated Nitrome. Nitrome then posted in their blog that a person had created a site called Nitrome Must Die. This site was talked about a lot in the Nitrome community before it was revealed "Nitrome Must Die" was the name of the game. Mat Annal said that the effort that some fans went to to counteract the hate site made them 'feel a little guilty knowing it was all a hoax'.

Levels
In Nitrome Must Die, there are 10 level sets. Each level set has 10 levels, the 3rd and 6th which are Challenge Levels, and the 10th, which is a boss level. The levels in between those levels are usual levels, where the player has to eliminate all enemies to advance. The goal of each level is to kill every enemy on the level that will appear, using several weapons that appear on the screen to their advantage.

Although the two are cooperating, there is a competition for the coins, like in all the multiplayer games. When playing in the two player mode, if one of the players is knocked out, the live player can resurrect the dead one by standing beside them and pressing the down button on their keyboard. As it is the 100th Nitrome game, the levels' enemies and bosses - as some of the weapons - recall older Nitrome games.

Overview
There are 102 levels in Nitrome Must Die:
 * 70 'normal' levels
 * 20 'challenge' levels
 * 9 boss fights (not including the final boss)
 * 3 levels (100 - 102) fighting the Boss of Nitrome Towers, the final boss

Challenge Levels
In challenge levels, the main objective to kill all the enemies in the level remains. The difference between challenge and normal levels is that the player has an infinite supply of one type of weapon. The player must take advantage of that weapon to kill the enemies. After the challenge level is completed, the player regains the same weapon and ammo from the previous level.

Plot
After getting another 'Game Over' again on another Nitrome game, Austin starts chatting with Justin, sharing their rage together against Nitrome. During the chat, Justin mentions "Wishing someone could shut them down for good". Austin thinks and asks Justin if they really should and Justin responds quickly and tells them to meet outside Austin's house. Austin ends the chat with "NITROME MUST DIE!!!!!!!!!!111", then pounding the desk hard and heading outside. Then, meeting up with Justin, the two friends ride their bicycles to the high-security Nitrome Towers. On arriving, Justin accidentally finds some weapons to use, and they both enter the building to shut down Nitrome for good. However, an employee spots the two intruders and starts using a machine (called a Charomat) to bring characters in past Nitrome games to life, in hopes of killing the two.

0
Floor Zero acts as the second intro to the game. Austin and Justin enter Nitrome Towers, and enter an elevator. An Employee sees them, and uses a Charomat to bring back Nitrome characters from past Nitromes games.

Level Set 1: 1-10
(NOTE: All levels ending in 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 are played in random order. The order those levels described in each set will likely not match the order you play them in)

1
Enemies: 6 Red Enemies The player can simply kill them.

2
Enemies: 15 Small Ape

3
Challenge Level Enemies: 33 Small Legged Blob Weapon: Sucker Punch

4
Enemies: 10Yellow Quackbots & 6 Red Quackbots; the Red ones are faster, so the player must not hesitate in killing them quickly.

5
Enemies: 3 Employees (2 Pistol, 1 Shotgun)

6
Challenge Level Enemies: 3 yellow Triclopians & 2 red Triclopians Weapon: Chisel

7
Enemies: 66 Small Legged Blob

8
Enemies: 15 Skywire Bees

9
Enemies: 15 Slime Traps

10
Boss Enemy: Nose & Snot Initial Weapon: Pistol

Upon entering the room, the player encounters the giant metal nose from Snot Put, which will launch blobs of snot at the player. The player can shoot the blobs to splat them before they hit you, dealing damage. The nose will also move up and down the wall, trying to get a better position to hit the player. To defeat the nose, the player must continuously shoot it. Once you destroy the nose, you can collect the coins it gives off and then advance to the next set of levels.

11
Enemies: 33 Furry Creatures

12
Enemies: 20 Mini UFOs

13
Level thirteen is a challenge level all enemies are the same no matter what order Challenge Level Enemies: 35 Furry Creatures Hazards:Boulders (Knight Trap) Weapon: Machine Gun Big boulders will come down and go through the level.

14
Enemies: 40 Red Enemies & 6 Green Lizards

15
Enemies: 2 Employees (2 BC Arrow)

16
Challenge Level Enemies: 50 Penguin on Sled Weapon: Penguin

17
Enemies: 41 Small Legged Blob & 6 Henchmen

18
Enemies: 28 Runners

19
Enemies: 10 yellow Triclopians & 10 red Triclopians

20
Boss Enemy: Parasite & The Moon Initial Weapon: Machine Gun Parasite is the weak point

21
Enemies: 41 Jumping Ball Guys

22
Enemies: 3 Two Headed Cerberus, 10 Dragon (Twin Shot) & 10 Dark Things

23
Challenge Level Enemies: 2 Red Enemies Weapon: Mine

24
Enemies: 24 Skywire Bees & 2 Employees (2 Pistol)

25
Enemies: 23 Flies, 12 Guard & 7 Poly

26
Challenge Level Enemies: 6 Nipbots & 8 Alien Bee Hazards:Trip Wire Lasers Weapon: Cluster Bomb

27
Enemies: 15 yellow Quackbots & 15 red Quackbots

28
Enemies: 35 Skywire Bees, 2 yellow Triclopians & 2 red Triclopians

29
Enemies: 2 Employees (2 BC Arrow) & 1 Boss(Employees) (1 Machine Gun)

30
Boss Enemy: First Phase: Big Daddy Second Phase: Crusher Guardian Last Phase: Squish Blocks (Enemy 585) No Initial Weapon

31
Enemies: 150 Orange Squid

32
Enemies: 47 Small Ape

33
Challenge Level Enemies: 6 Furry Creatures & 4 Arctic Birds (Frost Bite) Weapon: BC Arrow

34
Enemies: 29 Grey Creatures

35
Enemies: 52 Flies & 1 Flyswat

36
Challenge Level Enemies: 4 Employees (4 Buzzsaw), 1 Boss(Employees) (1 Buzzsaw) & 1 Executive(Employees) (1 Buzzsaw) Weapon: Buzzsaw

37
Enemies: 2 Blue Worms that spawns Eater Droplet, 2 Dragon (Twin Shot), 3 Octopuses & 10 Henchmen

38
Enemies: 20 Helmet Dark Thing

39
Enemies: 2 Poly & 3 Employees (1 Barrel, 1 Helmet, 1 Penguin)

40
Boss Enemy: Blue & Scientist Initial Weapon: Fireball

41
Enemies: 40 Guard

42
Enemies: 2 Employees (1 Pistol, 1 Shotgun), 1 Boss(Employees) (1 Machine Gun) & 1 Executive(Employees) (1 Rocket)

43
Challenge Level Enemies: 7 Red Enemies,1 Green Lizards,1 Black Dragons (Yin Yang) & 1 White Dragons (Yin Yang) Weapon: Spring

44
Enemies: 100 Small Legged Blob

45
Enemies: 30 Penguin on Sled

46
Challenge Level Enemies: 13 Skywire Bees & 32 Drills Weapon: Bullethead

47
Enemies: 3 Baby Octopus Robot, 10 Walking Robot & 8 Dragon (Twin Shot)

48
Enemies: 4 Brown Miners & 4 Red Miners

49
Enemies: 20 Helmet Dark Thing

50
Boss Enemy: Angry Heads Initial Weapon: Machine Gun

51
Enemies: 3 Two Headed Cerberus & 31 Small Legged Blob Hazards:Laser Gun Traps

52
Enemies: 5 Nipbots & 11 Dragon (Twin Shot)

53
Challenge Level Enemies: 25 Dark Things Weapon: Mine

54
Enemies: 30 Dark Things

55
Enemies: 11 Drills, 20 Henchmen & 3 Employees (1 Penguin, 2 Pistol), 1 Boss(Employees) (1 Rocket) & 1 Executive(Employees) (1 Rocket)

56
Challenge Level Enemies: 3 Pink Crab Weapon: Twin Shot Arrow

57
Enemies: 7 Furry Creatures, 1 Blue Worms that spawns Eater Droplet, 6 Guard, 2 Employees (1 BC Arrow, 1 Molotov) & 1 Boss(Employees) (1 Pistol)

58
Enemies: 50 Mr. Nibbles

59
Enemies: 20 Furry Creatures Hazards:Trip Wire Lasers

60
Boss Enemy: Fat Cat & Owl Initial Weapon: Machine Gun

61
Enemies: 20 Knights (Castle Corp)

62
Enemies: 16 Grey Creatures, 3 Employees (1 Pistol, 1 Shotgun, 1 Machine Gun) & 1 Boss(Employees) carried by 1 Employees (Both have Shotgun)

63
Challenge Level Enemies: 2 Big Green Creatures that spawns Small Green Creatures & Red Eyeballs, 4 Drills, 8 Alien Saucers & 30 Octopuses Weapon: Bullethead

64
Enemies: 6 Drills, 2 Big Green Creatures that spawns Small Green Creatures & Red Eyeballs, 2 Employees (1 BC Arrow, 1 Pistol) & 1 Executive(Employees) (1 Rocket)

65
Enemies: 18 Octopuses

66
Challenge Level Enemies: 30 Mr. Nibbles Hazards:Wrecking Ball Weapon: Machine Gun

67
Enemies: 49 Flies Hazards:Wrecking Ball

68
Enemies: 35 Furry Creatures

69
Enemies: 40 Octopuses

70
Boss Enemy: Red Warthog Serpent Initial Weapon: Machine Gun

71
Enemies: 10 Warlock

72
Enemies: 4 Baby Octopus Robot & 10 Walking Robot

73
Challenge Level Enemies: 30 Octopuses Weapon: Dragon Ball

74
Enemies: 5 Furry Creatures & 4 Electric Alien Rods

75
Enemies: 9 Green Trolls & 9 Blue Trolls

76
Challenge Level Enemies: 12 Employees (8 Shotgun, 4 Rocket), 1 Boss(Employees) (1 Rocket) & 1 Executive(Employees) (1 Rocket) Weapon: Rocket

77
Enemies: 44 Red Enemies Hazards:Trip Wire Lasers

78
Enemies: 10 Red Enemies, 7 Green Lizards & 4 Pink Crab

79
Enemies: 35 Small Ape

80
Boss Enemy: Mecha Saur Initial Weapon: Shot Gun

81
Enemies: 15 Green Trolls

82
Enemies: 71 Octopuses

83
Challenge Level Enemies: 30 Furry Creatures & 1 Boss(Employees) (1 Rocket) Hazards:Trip Wire Lasers Weapon: Molotov

84
Enemies: 16 Henchmen & 15 Orange Squid Hazards:Boulders (Knight Trap)

85
Enemies: 5 Big Green Creatures that spawns Small Green Creatures & Red Eyeballs & 14 Octopuses Hazards:Wrecking Ball

86
Challenge Level Enemies: 200 Slime Traps Weapon: Homing Missile

87
Enemies: 4 Baby Octopus Robot & 19 Grey Creatures Hazards:Laser Gun Traps

88
Enemies: 4 Rider Dark Thing rode by Executive(Employees) (4 Pistol after Purple Pig death)

89
Enemies: 2 Poly, 2 Green Lizards, 6 Guard, 6 Henchmen, 1 yellow Triclopians & 1 red Triclopians

90
Boss Enemy: Tanks (Steamlands) Initial Weapon: Mini Gun

91
Enemies: 6 Red Enemies, 52 Small Legged Blob, 51 Guard & 20 Dragon (Twin Shot)

92
Enemies: 2 Hot Air Balloon & 24 Octopuses

93
Challenge Level Enemies: 30 Octopuses Hazards:Wrecking Ball Weapon: Machine Gun

94
Enemies: 25 Skywire Bees

95
Enemies: 15 Hot Air Balloon Hazards:Wrecking Ball

96
Challenge Level Enemies: 1 Blue Worms that spawns Eater Droplet Hazards:Trip Wire Lasers & Boulders (Knight Trap) Weapon: Molotov

97
Enemies: 6 Blue Worms that spawns Eater Droplet

98
Enemies: 5 Blue Worms that spawns Eater Droplet, 1 Electric Alien Rods, 3 Skywire Bees & 10 Octopuses

99
Enemies: 5 Red Enemies, 1 Blue Worms that spawns Eater Droplet & 21 Jumping Ball Guys Hazards:Trip Wire Lasers & Boulders (Knight Trap)

BOSS (Level Set 11: 100-101)

 * See also: Nitrome Boss

100
Boss Enemy: First Phase: Nitrome Boss (Nitrome) Second Phase: Nitrome Boss (Rocket), 2 Employees (1 Barrel, 1 Shotgun) & 1 Boss(Employees) (1 Pistol) Last Phase: Nitrome Boss (Homing Missile), 2 Employees (1 Penguin, 1 BC Arrow), 1 Boss(Employees) carried by 1 Employees (Boss has Machine Gun & Employees has Pistol) & 1 Executive(Employees) (1 Pistol) Initial Weapon: Pistol

101
Boss Enemy: Nitrome Boss rode in the Cuboy Machine (Wait for the Bang Weapon to finish him off.) The player takes the battle to the rooftop. They should avoid the Cuboy Machine's attacks and wait for the Bang gun to appear. When it appears, obtain and fire it.

Last Part
Boss Enemy: Nitrome Boss rode in the Escape Pod Weapon: Rocket

The player is falling down to the bottom of Nitrome Towers. They have to maneuver around in the wreckage and try to shoot the Nitrome Boss in his Escape Pod. The player is armed with infinite Rockets, and he/she only has 100 seconds to do the job. Two Health Crates are spawned in the battle.

Weapons

 * Main Article: Gun (Nitrome Must Die)

Nitrome Must Die has over 40 weapons. Below is a list of them:
 * 1) Out of Ammo
 * 2) Shot Gun
 * 3) Pistol
 * 4) Machine Gun
 * 5) Sucker Punch
 * 6) Chisel
 * 7) Mini Gun
 * 8) Boomerang
 * 9) BC Arrow
 * 10) Nitrome
 * 11) Penguin
 * 12) Pea Shooter
 * 13) Motolov
 * 14) Bullethead
 * 15) Mine
 * 16) Nanobot
 * 17) Homing Missile
 * 18) Buzzsaw
 * 19) Helmet
 * 20) Rocket
 * 21) Ninja Star
 * 22) Fireball
 * 23) Slap
 * 24) Cluster Bomb
 * 25) Twin Shot Arrow
 * 26) Toast
 * 27) Three Way
 * 28) Barrel
 * 29) Dragon Ball
 * 30) Fart
 * 31) Mega Laser
 * 32) Points
 * 33) Canary
 * 34) Banana Bomb
 * 35) Bang
 * 36) Pixel Gun
 * 37) Bubble
 * 38) Spring
 * 39) Nitro

Bosses
Bosses are encountered on every tenth floor (10, 20, 30, etc.)
 * Floor 10: Nose & Snot (from the game Snot Put)
 * Floor 20: Parasite & The Moon (from the games Parasite and Cheese Dreams)
 * Floor 30: Squish Block in Crusher Guardian in Big Daddy(from the games Enemy 585, Onekey and Hot Air2)
 * Floor 40: Scientist holding Blue (from the game Test Subject Blue)
 * Floor 50: Angry heads (from the game Knuckleheads)
 * Floor 60: Cat & Owl (from the game Fat Cat)
 * Floor 70: Red Warthog Serpent (from the game Sky Serpents)
 * Floor 80: Mecha Saur (from the game Rubble Trouble Tokyo)
 * Floor 90: Steamlands Tank (from the game Steamlands)
 * Floor 100: Battle with Nitrome Boss
 * Floor 101: Battle with Nitrome Boss in Cuboy Machine
 * Falling from Floor 101 to 1: Battle with Nitrome Boss in Escape Pod.

Scoring
Nitrome Must Die has a unique scoring system. Upon completing a level, the player is given the option to bank their score (save it) or gamble it. When they gamble their score, they multiply there score by how many levels they completed at that point without dying. For example, the player completes three levels without dying, the multiplier is 3. If they at any time die, the multiplier will drop down to 0, going back to 1 once the player completes the level. When the player gambles their score, they cannot save it until the next level. If the player at any time dies, they lose their gambled score.

During 2-player, the player who completes the level with the highest score is deemed the winner, and the lowest, the loser.

November 1, 2011
Nitrome announced the game was being worked on, and also provid walkthroughed an image that read 100th game. The provid walkthroughed image was not part of the game at all.

November 3, 2011
Nitrome said that the game isn't a prequel or sequel of any game, and they say also that Steamlands Player Pack isn't counted as a game.

November 4, 2011
Nitrome brought our attention to the hate site, www.nitromemustdie.com which later turned out to be part of their advertising campaign.

November 7, 2011
Nitrome thank their fans for support against the hate website, and share a link to a petition against Nitrome Must Die, set up by John Niemann, and share a photoshopped screenshot of the hate website, made by Matthew Killick, turning their non-existent haters' text against them

November 8, 2011
Nitrome released a trailer for the game, consisting of the opening of the game and list of the features it will have. thumb|300px|left|The video

November 22nd, 2011
Nitrome released a preview image of the game:

November 23rd
Nitrome announced how the "unique scoring system" would work, along with provid walkthroughing the below picture to show what the end of level screen would be.

Glitches
Nitrome Must Die, despite being Nitrome's 100th game, was plagued by glitches, and featured two dangerous glitches which actually hindered progress. Most of them were not much encountered as others, it was only two glitches which could be encountered by everyone who played the game: The Warlock Glitch and Infinite Elevator glitch. Although the first glitch was soon fixed, to this day, the Infinite Elevator Glitch remains unfixed, and is one of the few Nitrome games to still retain a glitch that hinders progress after its release.

End of Level Glitch
On an odd occasion when both players approach the level, the elevator will close with player 1 still outside the elevator. He then appears in the elevator with the 'bank or gamble' select screen. This will happen if one player does not move from there starting point for the whole level. The player that did not move will not be allowed to enter the elevator.

Warlock Glitch
The Warlock Glitch is a glitch encountered in one level between 71 and 80. On one level 10 Warlocks are encountered. At the start of the level, everything was fine. Soon, many of the Warlocks spawn and cause the level to lag. This will cause the screen to freeze every few seconds. The sound effects could still be heard, and crates disappeared faster. This Glitch made the level very difficult to complete, but still completable. On the 28th of November Nitrome announced they had fixed this glitch, along with others including the boomerang looping glitch, and the spike-death problem.

Revive Glitch
In 2 player mode, when a player entered the elevator, the other player was able to revive the player as if he had died, changing his health to the small amount after reviving, but leaving his/her score untouched.

Infinite Elevator Ride glitch
The infinite elevator ride glitch is a glitch encountered in any level of the game, often during the elevator ride to level 96. After the player banks/gambles the score and presses the Fire button, the screen will move so that the elevator is at the very bottom. After this, the player will infinitely stay in the elevator, as well as hear a hazard from the level and see that they have infinite Molotov.

Level Freezing Glitches
In several parts of Nitrome Must Die, player's would experience the game freeze. This often happened when the player killed the Red Warthog Serpent when it was in a pipe, and when the Nitrome Boss jumped into the Cuboy Machine

Freezing glitch
At the end of some boss battles, the game would freeze. This happened very often, as well as rarely happening in some levels.

Out of Ammo glitch
Using weapons after collecting crates in multiplayer co-op may sometimes result in both players instantly running out of ammo. The text "out of ammo" can be seen repeated multiple times while floating upward towards the picture of the player at the top of the screen who collected the crate.

Stuck Enemy glitch
A level between 91-100 with multiple blue drop spawner enemies sometimes occurs when players first play the level. Some of the blue drops will end up stuck inside the wall, unreachable by weapons. They still, however, count towards the number of enemies left to destroy. This forces players to restart the game.

Nanobot glitch
Rarely (for an unknown reason), if player 2 gets into the elevator with the nanobot weapon, its ammo count will go up to as much as 68. This is very helpful because each shot deals a lot of damage all around the room.

Rocket Glitch
Sometimes, the total ammo for the rocket weapon will be 250 rather than the usual 10 the player is given.

Canary/Mega Lazer Infinite Glitch
In two-players, to activate this glitch you must have two things. One player must have a Canary/Megalazer and the other must have any weapon with any amount of ammo. To begin it the glitch, the player with the canary must begin firing at any moment or ammo and hold on. Once it is out of ammo it will consume all of the partner's ammo of their weapon. Other effects include this glitch creating an infinite number of "out of ammo" signs above the partner and the partner's weapon symbol will remain the same weapon, but the gun will still shoot red pellets. If the second player tries to get a crate, the crate will not activate and the player will not be presented a weapon.

Fourth Boss Glitch
After the player has defeated the fourth boss with a machine gun and the coins have been dropped, shooting the wall repeatedly will cause double the amount of coins dropped from the boss to be dropped by the wall, allowing the player to gain double the amount of coins they would've received.

Stuck in wall glitch
It is possible for the player to get stuck in the wall.

Beta Elements
Discovered in the code are four frames, each which have the shadows of three employees. Each frame as one employee closing their eyes. It is not known why these frames are used for. A .gif exists in the game of an Employee riding a Dark Thing. Also, found in the game's files is a Helmet Dark Thing with a blue crest.

Trivia

 * In the teaser video, Austin Carter is playing on Nitrome.com 1.5 with the Classic Skin selected. The game he plays has a background that has the appearance of the background of the Menu of Nitrome Enjoyment System games.
 * Austin's computer has many cameos. At the upper right corner of his monitor, it says: Almost VGA 214-LE making a reference to Canary. Another one is that in the advertisement section, it says: Exiting Career Opportunities!! Corp Inc. Making a reference to Office Trap. At the left side of the Nitrome website, the newest game is Rubble Trouble Tokyo.
 * However, in their chat, they say that they were playing the latest game, despite the newest game they're playing having an NES background and the current newest game being Rubble Trouble Tokyo.
 * The game was hinted in the Nitrome 2.0 Skin, as 3 Employees appeared on a hill in the Skin.
 * Throughout the game, it is shown that the in-game company called Nitrome is evil, overworking and torturing their employees. This can be seen on the wall signs and objects in several levels.
 * On some level there is a chalkboard that reads "Game with Cats, Game with blobs, you have only 8 hours!"(this might refer to Office Trap).
 * In one level, there is a picture of "Failure of the Month", which shows a usual employee, and "Hard Worker of the Month", which shows a Employees with no flesh on his head and torso.
 * Throughout the game, there is a rack with tools that read "Employee Motivators". The rack consists of one pitchfork, a level with a boot on it, and three chains.
 * Commonly there are three garbage cans grouped together, one for Toxic material, one for garbage, and one for "Fan Mail".
 * In levels where the player has to fight employees, there are usually two doors, one labeled "Torture", the other "Surgery".
 * Some computer seats are toilets and even have toilet paper holders on desks meaning that the employees are not even allowed to have toilet breaks.
 * The challenge level on level 86 holds the record for the most enemies in Nitrome Must Die, pitting the player against 200 slimes. The second level with the most enemy count is one level which has 150 orange squids.
 * There is a glitch in the game where certain sounds will constantly loop until the player enters the level, notably on floor 027 when all the flies have been killed and there are only porcupines left, the sound the Flies make when killed will continue on in the game until the player enters the Elevator.
 * Interesting, when waiting in the elevator, the music is similar with the music in NFS The Run, where Jack choose one of the 5 cars.
 * The game is Nitrome's 100th game, and currently the largest non-premium Nitrome game so far, having 102 levels. Twin Shot 2 is the second largest with 100 levels, 50 of which are premium.
 * In one of the levels from floors 81-90, the two main characters for Rainbogeddon appear.
 * The characters on the security screens are a Repair Man from Steamlands and two Small Fries.
 * Nitrome Must Die is similar to what Robot Chicken did for its 100th episode.