NUTS news & patch notes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/96c886f95af150522472feca336bb5488226b5d4.jpg NUTS is 1 year old 🎉 50% annivesary sale starts today! To celebrate, we created a little snapshot of Prof. Nina Scholz’s backstory.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/1ac87b6c04e56b0cf10f2ef9b657262335d80720.png Game Designer on NUTS, Joon Van Hove, will make the squirrel run around in the new forest that Pol made the day before, with suggestions from the chat. This event is part of the series of livestreams the NUTS team will be broadcasting during Ludonarracon 2021! Find the full schedule of our streams below: More info on: LudoNarraCon.com {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/058dbee545a70653c8db96b73c69e65dcf27645a.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/522c44277dbabcadd48ee00cc6de2b6d375ab5e7.png To conclude the Ludonarracon festival, Joon will answer questions from the chat and discord while peeking at some behind the scenes development material. This event is the final liverstream the NUTS team will be broadcasting during Ludonarracon 2021! Find the full schedule of our streams below: More info on: LudoNarraCon.com {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/058dbee545a70653c8db96b73c69e65dcf27645a.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/3e7b48fdd9825b95bf3bd5bacefc0db5e33d6f73.png Lead Artist on NUTS, Pol Clarissou, will make a forest area live on stream. Feel free to suggest ideas and requests in chat or to ask any questions about the process! Game designer Joon will then take that new level and set it up with a squirrel to turn it into a fully functional level on the following day's stream! This event is part of the series of livestreams the NUTS team will be broadcasting during Ludonarracon 2021! Find the full schedule of our streams below: More info on: LudoNarraCon.com {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/058dbee545a70653c8db96b73c69e65dcf27645a.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/a3ac3e812c5d868b0dd473dccd5874a553f3be12.png Writer and Narrative Designer Char will host a squirrel quiz with her favorite bits of squirrel trivia and NUTS related gossip. People can join in the chat and win some prizes! This event is part of the series of livestreams the NUTS team will be broadcasting during Ludonarracon 2021! Find the full schedule of our streams below: More info on: LudoNarraCon.com {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/058dbee545a70653c8db96b73c69e65dcf27645a.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/0528462ed1bca9c6178e0717514ea61ba9141cbd.png Sound designer Muuutsch and Joon will step into her foley room where she makes sound effects with all kinds of items she’s collected over the years. This event is part of the series of livestreams the NUTS team will be broadcasting during Ludonarracon 2021! Find the full schedule of our streams below: More info on: LudoNarraCon.com {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/058dbee545a70653c8db96b73c69e65dcf27645a.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/817bf7667719572153baf5bd29a6022e03f8f4f4.png We are happy to announce that the NUTS soundtrack is now available to buy! Our Muuutsch did a stellar job of composing the haunting music of Melmoth Forest, and now you can listen to it all day every day! It's available on Bandcamp right now from only €5! Bargain! And later today it will launch on Steam also. As our own Torfi says "I have listened to the music in-game for probably hundreds of hours but I was still blown away the first time I listened to it on it's own. It's genuinely one of my favorite game soundtracks ever." bandcamp: https://muuutsch.bandcamp.com/album/nuts-original-soundtrack As a reminder, the best place to learn about these types of updates is through our mailing list! http://nuts.game

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/8dc78377e14c39275d95ae0e31102f3c14255728.png To celebrate our 1 month anniversary, we just launched our first batch of Trading cards, emoji's and profile backgrounds for you! If you've already played the game, some cards may have dropped automatically, otherwise have fun collecting cards and badges! And thanks for playing NUTS :)

Fixed a soft-lock in chapter 6. more info, includes spoiler: The fourth phone call from Nina after you start chasing the squirrel should not actually exist, and it bugged out. There are only three phone calls, and it should no longer ring a fourth time and soft lock you

Hey everyone, Joon here, one of the developers. I just wanted to make a quick update, to say thank you, and to list a few cool reviews that appeared, in case anybody wants to know why they should play NUTS :) So first of all, if you're reading this and you bought the game, thank you so much! I never thought this many people would enjoy our experimental squirrel adventure, but here we are! People are playing, and finishing it, which means a lot to me and the rest of the team. And here are some cool things: 🌟 Over 100 people have streamed NUTS on Twitch! The game has a page that combines them all, right here. I do warn you, if you haven't played, or finished the game, there are a lot of spoilers in these streams so be careful. You don't need anybody else to answer the question "what are the squirrels up to" but yourself! 🌟 Vice Games reviewed NUTS “Its visual puzzles remain modest where other games might have leaned into spiralling recursiveness; it asks questions rather than offering definitive answers. To cap it off, the game ends on a note of genuine cosmic weirdness, an opportunity for both I and the squirrels to finally escape the camera’s all-seeing eye.” 🌟 Danish music blog Soundvenue, called us a Lynchian fever-dream 🌟 Rock Paper Shotgun had a mixed response, but still said nice things! “Without a hint of hyperbole, sound designer Almut Schwacke (who also did a solid turn as the voice of Nina) has produced some of the best foley work I’ve ever heard.” 🌟 “Like Firewatch for David Attenborough fans” Gerald Lynch, TechRadar 🌟 “Dazzling artistic presentation” Mike Towndrow, Six One Indie 🌟 “It’s a testament of what can be made when working remotely” Simon Cardy, IGN etc... etc... There's many more, and hopefully more to come. Now I'll go back to bugfixing for a while. Stay tuned, and tell your friends about NUTS :) - joon

Hey everyone, thank you so much for all the love and reviews so far. We are thrilled with the reception, and want to keep making the game better in response to community feedback. This patch includes

• - Some streamers with Ultrawide monitors requested a way to play in windowed mode. It can be found in the settings menu.
• - Added keyboard redundancies for AZERTY keyboards (Q/A and Z/W are the same), and an alternate way to use the handheld devices: you can use H to cycle handhelds if you can't use alphanumerics.
• - Dutch language had a few changes to soft-lock (e.g. Player can't hang up phone) in a few places., caused by the localization entries not having exact matches of line-count. I built a safety check and also combed over the localization file and pulled out all the offending entries. Shouldn't happen again!
• - The fax achievement was broken, and is now fixed! Sorry about this.
• - Fixed bug that places camera out of bounds and makes you unable to pick it up again.

Hello there squirrel fans, After a successful January launch on Apple Arcade, we’re delighted to be bringing NUTS to your eyeballs on February 4th 2021! We’ve come a long, long, LONG way since our demo version, and we’re so excited for you to get embroiled in the mysteries of Melmoth Forest. We think it’s a pretty neat game. But don’t take our word for it! Since we’ve been out on Apple Arcade for a week now, we’ve gathered a few press reviews. Here are some of the words that’ve been bringing tears to our little eyes: “I finished Nuts a few days ago and I still want to go back” Christian Donlon, Eurogamer “Without a hint of hyperbole, sound designer Almut Schwacke (who also did a solid turn as the voice of Nina) has produced some of the best foley work I’ve ever heard.” Nate Crowley, Rock Paper Shotgun “NUTS feels like a great exemplar of the fact that developers don’t need to give players lots of things to do, when they can instead give you one thing that is incredible.” Sean Martin, Pocket Tactics “Like Firewatch for David Attenborough fans” Gerald Lynch, TechRadar “Dazzling artistic presentation” Mike Towndrow, Six One Indie “It’s a testament of what can be made when working remotely” Simon Cardy, IGN Sounds good? Check out our trailer below… and see you in Melmoth Forest on the 4th!

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In this demo, you'll get to play a beta-version of the first level of the game. Jump right into the action and the story of NUTS. It should take you about 30 to 45 minutes to complete. NUTS is a mystery adventure about surveilling a community of wild and mischievous squirrels, deep in the woods. NUTS grew from an experiment about watching and tracking squirrels using remote recordings. The game plays creatively with the player's gaze, splitting it between the character's eyes and various recording devices, and turns the simple act of looking into a series of careful framing decisions. To play NUTS is to care about perspective, sight-lines, timing and framing in a unique way. The story tackles important contemporary themes - while the setting is natural and peaceful, it interrogates modern technological mediation and urban existence with topics including abuse of power, environmentalism and corruption. The stylized graphics and minimal color palettes complement a realist audio treatment, using foley and voice acting. The demo is part of the Steam Festival and the Guerrilla Collective showcase, which means it'll be available from June 13th until June 22nd. Enjoy! --- {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/bf12fefad0e335251f7060436b8b51728c1ad137.jpg NUTS is made by a small, remote team of experienced indies. The code is made in Reykjavik, the trees are planted in Montreal, the books are written in Copenhagen and the foley is recorded in Berlin.

• Joon is an award winning game designer and has shipped multiple titles. His most recent solo-project Don’t Trip was Indie Game of the Month on Google Play and is regularly featured on the App Store. His games with Glitchnap were awarded multiple grants from the Danish Film Institute and Nordic Game program and were selected for multiple award shows and collections. He is also a summit advisor for GDC.
• Pol has received 3 IGF nominations, won the Developer’s Choice award at IndieCade, has been artist in residency at TAG in Montreal and has had his work shown in galleries.
• Char was awarded Best Game Writing from the Writer’s Guild of Ireland for her work on Divinity Original Sin 2 (PC Gamer’s #1 PC Game) and was working on Baldur’s Gate 3 for 2 years before joining the NUTS team.
• Almut has worked on big titles Anno 1800 (audio designer) and Dead island 2 (sound editor), as well as popular indie titles like Curious Expedition (sound design) and Through The Darkest of Times (composer).
• Torfi founded Tasty Rook, which released Out of the Loop and Triple Agent.

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Kay-Lynne Collier from Noodlecake Studios will be streaming gameplay of the NUTS demo! Join her for some fun gameplay & commentary! June 22nd, 2020 | 12:30 PM CST (Saskatchewan) | 11:30 AM PT | 8:30 PM CET on Steam and YouTube. Noodlecake YouTube Channel

- fixed Left and Right keys mislabeling on controls screen - fixed dynamic text breaking when launched from non-english OS'es - fixed 2nd TV popping in too early - added analytics opt out toggle - added audio tweaks

The NUTS team will be streaming on and off for the whole Steam Festival! Join us in the chat on our Steam page and ask questions about whatever. We'll talk about the game, play or show some unreleased parts, visit our foley studio, ...

Tuesday - June 16 - 19:00 CET

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Thursday - June 18 - 18:00 CET

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Friday - June 19 - 18:00 CET

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/69ccf10c2ee35a1bbc1e7ab86226c0cac6d77e0e.jpg Streams will be posted to Youtube the day after streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-OJcXzfQgA

In this first public demo, you'll get to play a beta-version of the first level of the game.

We're planning some stuff in front of it for the full game, but we wanted to keep it short and sweet, and are jumping you straight into the action. It should take you about 30 to 45 minutes to complete.

NUTS is a mystery adventure about surveilling a community of wild and mischievous squirrels, deep in the woods.

NUTS grew from an experiment about watching and tracking squirrels using remote recordings. The game plays creatively with the player's gaze, splitting it between the character's eyes and various recording devices, and turns the simple act of looking into a series of careful framing decisions. To play NUTS is to care about perspective, sight-lines, timing and framing in a unique way. The story tackles important contemporary themes - while the setting is natural and peaceful, it interrogates modern technological mediation and urban existence with topics including abuse of power, environmentalism and corruption. The stylized graphics and minimal color palettes complement a realist audio treatment, using foley and voice acting. The demo is part of the Steam Festival and the Guerrilla Collective showcase, which means it'll be available from June 13th until June 22nd. Enjoy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37976586/b22c7819f996888080e34df7aa556482c6d6c671.jpg