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Ice Beak is an icon game released on December 6th, 2012. It was the first of the two winter games Nitrome would be released in 2012. The game was made a distributable game on March 27th, 2013.

Controls

UpDownLeftRight: Move the bird.

Space: Fire snow balls. (The bird can fire up to 25 snowballs before needing to reload at a checkpoint)

Levels

Ice Beak has 10 levels.

Level 1

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Level 2

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Level 3

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Level 4

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Level 5

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Level 6

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Level 7

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Level 8

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Level 9

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Level 10

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Ending

Penguin 1

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The ending reads (in yellow scrolling text)

Well Done

You

Destroyed

The Fire

Beast.

Now we

can all go

skiing

again!


Code

Aaron

Steed

Art

Giuseppe

Longo

Music

Dave

Cowen

Game By

Nitrome

(c) Nitrome

2012


Thanks

for

Playing

Enemies

  • Flying skulls - Fly in various patterns, die when shot with a snowball.

Hazards

Interactive objects

  • Enemy spawners - This machine spawns enemies, replacing the ones that have died.
  • Switches - Switches open gates when frozen by snow only.
  • Snowflakes - Finishes the level when in contact with the bird.

Development

Giuseppe Longo, the game's artist, created the game's art using a colour palette that was smaller than what was used for regular Nitrome games that use regular sized sprites. [1]

References

  1. LinkedIn: Giuseppe Longo → Projects: Ice Beak: I made the graphics for this game using a reduced color palette and very small sprites., ?, retrieved 2 May 15.


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