Cuboy

Cuboy is the mascot of Nitrome, representing the favicon ever since Nitrome.com first started up. Despite not making a direct appearance in any Nitrome game, Cuboy has made multiple cameos in Nitrome games.

Physical appearance
Cuboy has two appearances, his modern appearance used mostly for Nitrome blog posts, and his classic square appearance, its most widely used and seen appearance.

Square appearance
Cuboy's square appearance is divided into two sections: his classic and modern square appearance.

[[File:Cuboy16x16.png]]Classic square
Cuboy's classic square appearance, better named as Cuboy's regular appearance, is Cuboy's most widely used appearance. This appearance depicts him as a pink coloured square with two white rectangular eyes, purple cheeks, and a mouth appearing as a D flipped 90° to the left. Although he appears pink in colour, some games do not use his regular colouring when referencing him.

Notable appearances The classic square appears in the 100th Game skin.

Cuboy's classic square face appears again on the Profile button of Nitrome.com 2.0.

In the NES skin, a multitude of many different coloured classic square Cuboy faces appear.

[[File:Cuboy14x14.png]]Modern square
Cuboy's face also gains a modern appearance, the main difference being that his mouth is no longer a flipped D, but a square. His overall face is also smaller.

Modern appearance
Cuboy's modern appearance was first used on the Nitrome blog, and has been used for various art throughout Nitrome.com. Cuboy appears as he does when in his square appearance, only bigger, his face having more detail, and that he has two small little legs and two small little arms.

Alternate appearances
Cuboy has not appeared as his regular self all the time, he has appeared differently multiple times for different occasions.

Friday update

Cuboy has been dressed differently four times, both due to special occasions. The first change for Cuboy was for the Tuesday update that Nitrome would not be in the office, due to Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee. Cuboy was shown in his Friday update frame wearing a hate and holding two flags.

The second change of Cuboy was for Nitrome December 22nd 2011 Friday update, given a santa hat and position in a Friday update setting with snow falling.

His third different appearance was for Friday November 2nd 2012.

His fourth appearance has been for Friday November 16th 2012, were he appeared wearing a viking helmet.

His fifth appearance has been on November 24th 2012, where he appears wearing a costume that looks like the Android mascot, next to him being two Nitrome Touchys.

And finally, for his sixth appearance, Cuboy appeared on December 7th 2012 garbed in the hat of the ducks from [[Flightless].

NES appearance
Cuboy's NES appearance is Cuboy's least appearing appearance, given this name as it has only been seen on NES material. This appearance depicts Cuboy as having a rectangular body, with the vertical edge being longer than the horizontal edges. Cuboy has two small, stubby hands and two small, stubby feet.

This appearance is not much different than Cuboy's modern appearance, other than this appearance (NES appearance) giving Cuboy a tad longer face, Cuboy's face lacking detail, and appearing more cube like.

This face also appears on the nitrome seal of approval, Nitrome's parody of the Nintendo Seal of Approval.

History
After it was accepted as a Nitrome character on November 15, 2010, Cuboy began to appear much more often in Nitrome related content.

Cuboy's possible first appearance was when Nitrome.com 1.0 was launched, represented on the favicon for the site in his classic square appearance. His remained unnamed until November 15, 2010, when the first Nitrome blog post about the Nitrome Enjoyment System box revealed the mascot's name to be "Cuboy" on the Nitrome Seal of Approval. .

Prior to the revealing of his name, Cuboy could only be seen in a few site areas of Nitrome.com, but had not made any in-game appearances. It was after the revealing of Cuboy's name that he first appeared on the NES skin, previewing Nitrome Tetris.

The release of the new version of the Nitrome blog posted weekly Friday updates. Every Friday, highlights from earlier posts that week would be recapped. These posts would feature an image of Cuboy shouting, "Friday!" On special occasions, or when a Friday update is missed, the image would be altered to match the occasion. When Nitrome missed a Friday update, they instead opened with a similar Friday post, only with Cuboy saying, "Tuesday?" instead of "Friday!" Nitrome's December 22 update in 2011 featured an image of Cuboy wearing a Santa hat.

Cameo appearances
Cuboy has made several appearance across multiple Nitrome media. Below is a list of all its appearances, each sorted into sub-sections.

Cuboy game

 * Main article: Cuboy game

Cuboy appears as the hero of this Rainbow Island parody. Cuboy apparently can jump, walk on platforms, and throw hammers (all this evident from the screenshot of the game). Cuboy appears in his NES appearance.

Nitrome Tetris
In an image taken from the NES skin, Cuboy appears as the host of a multiplayer Nitrome Tetris. Tetris blocks used in the game (and Mega Mash) appear to have Cuboy's classic square appearance, these faces coming in pink, green, yellow, red, purple, cyan (light blue). Cuboy in the NES skin image appears in his NES appearance, while the tetris blocks appear in Cuboy's classic square appearance.

Hot Air series

 * See also: Hot Air (Character)

Cuboy's design of his face in its classic square appearance probably influenced the appearance of Hot Air's face, as both have the two rectangular eyes, purple cheeks, and happy mouth. This basic appearance was also carried over into Hot Air 2, where all balloons present in the game (minus the ones made in balloon maker) were likely designed around Cuboy's face.

Although Cuboy did not appear in Hot Air 2, the house of his wife is obviously based off Cuboy's face, as it features the basic appearance of Cuboy's classic square face (rectangular white eyes, 2D circle cheeks, and happy mouth). This house seems to be the most Cuboy like, as along with having Cuboy's basic facial features, it is coloured pink.

Square Meal
The stone blocks in level one of Square Meal are arranged to look like Cuboy's classic square face.

Snot Put series
Cuboy's classic square face seems to have influenced the face of the snot.

Cheese Dreams 2 demo
Cuboy informs the player about a new features whenever the player goes up to an information hologram. Cuboy also informs the player about the game when the game is first loaded. Cuboy appears in his modern appearance.

Silly Sausage
Inputting the password "NITROME" will turn the background pink and turn all blocks into 16-bit Cuboy classic square face.

Test Subject Green
Dr. Nastidious's PDA Thingy, at the top left corner has a green coloured clasic square face Cuboy.

Steamlands
Cuboy appears as a flag in Steamlands, being able to be purchased on the levelSuper Paratrooper.

Nitrome Must Die
Cuboy appears in Nitrome Must Die in the startup and actually in game. In the startup, happy pink Cuboy faces apepar in the background, only to be replaced with grey, semi frowning purple Cuboy faces with crossed bones beneath the faces.

Super Snot Put
Cuboy faces appear sometimes on the walls.

Nitrome.com
Cuboy is used many times on Nitrome.com, across many versions of the site. He is also used in a single Nitrome ad.

Cuboy face buttons
On the Nitrome pages that had spots for games but no games to fill them, a rectangular, button shaped Cuboy face would be in the place where a link would be. This face would be a different colour depending on the skin used. These buttons were replaced in Nitrome.com 2.0 with an outline of a section where a game would go, and a Nitrome.com 2.0 styled logo with a Cuboy face in it.

Bottom navigation panel
Cuboy appears to the right of the words "© nitrome limited 2007-2012" at the far right end of the bottom navigation panel.

Demo ad

 * See also: Advertisements

Cuboy appears in his modern form on a blueprint, shouting (indicated by the ! in his speech). This version of modern Cuboy only has the outline of his modern appearance, as this is how blueprints are drawn.

Nitrome blog ad

 * See also: Advertisements

Cuboy appears in his modern form on a platform, shouting, "Extra! Extra! New Nitrome blog released!" as well as listing some new features. Clicking on the ad would then link to the Nitrome blog.

Nitrome 2.0 ad
See also: Advertisements

Cuboy appears in his modern form on a platform, shouting, "Nitrome 2.0 is here!" as well as listing some new features about the new website design.

Nitrome logo
Cuboy's modernized square face appears in a speech bubble next to the Nitrome logo.

Email page
On Nitrome.com 2.0, on a map showing where Nitrome is, Cuboy is used on the map as the location of Nitrome.

Icons
Cuboy has appeared on the icons of some pages of Nitrome.com 2.0.

Profiles

In the upcoming profile feature of Nitrome.com 2.0, Cuboy will appear on the icon. A picture of him is shown, next to a piece of paper that reads "Cuboy". .

Nitrome Touchy Cuboy appears on the television of the image. Comments An upcoming comments feature for Nitrome 2.0 will soon be released. To confirm this, Nitrome released a short teaser conversation on December 12, 2012 on the left side of games between two Cuboys. The face of Cuboy appears as the avatar of the two Cuboys that are chatting.

Nitrome's Facebook page
In one of Nitrome's Facebook posts, they had an advertisement encouraging fans to vote for Flightless on Steam. In the advertisement, Cuboy is seen in the thought bubble of one of the main characters, the green duck. The Cuboy square also has a heart above it, perhaps implying that the duck loves Nitrome, since Cuboy represents Nitrome.

Skins

 * NES - Cuboy's Rainbow Island parody and Tetris game appear as screenshors in this skin
 * Nitrome 2.0 - A satellite atop one building has Cuboy's face on it. Along with this, the bottom entrance of Nitrome Towers is based of Cuboy, with a large tongue coming out of the Cuboy entrance.
 * 100th Game - Purple Cuboy faces with an upside down mouth and crossbones beneath the face appear on the walls of this skin
 * Touchy - Various 3D Cuboys appear, mimicking the appearance of characters that have appeared in Nitrome Touchy games

Nitrome Must Die website
The favicon of the site is white Cuboy head that is constantly spinning. This head is possibly meant to be Cuboy's skull, fitting with the theme of the website of killing Nitrome. Interestingly, this is the only situation where the back of Cuboy's head is actually seen.

Along with this, grey Cuboy faces are seen in the background, only having crossbones under the face, and on the face having an upside-down smile.

Nitrome seal of approval
The Nitrome Seal of Approval, seen on the box of the Nitrome Enjoyment System, has Cuboy in the middle, being in his NES form.

Nitrome Towers

 * Main Article: Nitrome Towers

This version of Nitrome Towers has the bottom entrance given features that correspond to Cuboy's modern square appearance.

Nitrome Touchy
In the middle of the Nitrome Touchy app icon, Cuboy's smiling face can be seen on the controller.

Influences
Cuboy's face has been a major influence to much of Nitrome's early work. Many enemies of the Hot Air series have there face based off Cuboy's. Cuboy has not only influenced Nitrome's first series, but the snot from Snot Put. Even around the time of the NES skin, Nitrome used various forms of Cuboy.

Blueboy
The Nitrome Wiki mascot, Blueboy, was based purely off of Nitrome's Cuboy in his modern appearance. It was created by recolouring an image of Cuboy using computer image editing programs (such as Gimp). Despite Blueboy being based purely of Cuboy, the favicon of the Nitrome Wiki (Blueboy mimicking Cuboy in his classic square form) is actually Cuboy's face in classic square form recoloured to look like Hot Air's face.