A little more info on NG physics, + Bad news.

My name is Nicklas, uses the alias Nifflas and currently work with Nicalis. I can see why people get confused

Too many "Ni**las"es 

Quote from: googoogjoob on April 07, 2009, 09:10:46

Quote from: Independent Games Festival Five Finalists Roundup Article

Fourth in our round up is Night Game. This is an astonishingly playable title from Nicklas "Nicalis" Nygren, who is also working on the WiiWare version of Japanese side-scolling action-adventure, Cave Story.

The author really doesn't understand what's going on. They've totally mixed up Nifflas with Nicalis. (I suppose this would be an easy mistake to make, but it shows the writer has little existing familiarity with Nifflas and Nicalis.)

that's hilarious.

Hey leave him alone man... so did i at one point   untill i realised there two different people....

...there aren't two different people. There's a man and a company.

But the company isn't run by the man... is it?

But the company isn't run by the man... is it?

conspiracy?.. 

But the company isn't run by the man... is it?

Its run by BP

Quote from: Purple Pineapple on April 25, 2009, 07:35:05

But the company isn't run by the man... is it?

Its run by BP

I lol'd.

Here's the rundown, for anyone who's still confused.
Nifflas = Nicklas Nygren = the guy who made KS and Knytt and WaDF.
Nicalis = a group of three (four?) people directed by Tyrone Rodriguez, I believe.

Nicalis = a group of three (four?) people directed by Tyrone Rodriguez, I believe.

Actually, it's not currently possible to know exactly how many people work for Nicalis. Right when that Skymning post was discovered, in March last year, everyone assumed that Nicalis was like four people, because only four people were mentioned in the post.

It has since become clear that Nicalis is not a loose collective as was assumed, but rather is an actual business, which employs its own programmers and such. Nicalis being a private business, though, it's not possible to know exactly how many people are employed by it, but it must be more than three or four.

But is Chris Shclarb (Or however you spell his last name) a part of Nicalis, or is he just making the music for Night game.

And what about the little things such as the people who make the artwork for CaveStory, the web designer and things like that?

Are they apart of Nicalis?

(Presuming "part of Nicalis" means "directly employed on a long-term basis by the company", rather than "directly employed by the company to work on one specific project".)

I don't think Chris Schlarb has any sort of long-term employment with Nicalis. (Like, being paid to work on soundtracks for future games to be published by Nicalis.) He stated in that IGN interview that he had been working with Nifflas before Nicalis expressed interest in Night Game, so Nicalis can't have hired him for the project. (I mean, hired after a publishing contract in order to work specifically on the project.)

The people working on the art for Cave Story would appear to be directly employed by Nicalis, but the work might also be contracted out. (Or some combination of these.)

The site was probably designed by a contracted web design company, or thrown together by someone already associated with Nicalis. I can't imagine a small games publishing company would need to hire a web designer for the long term.