Nicklas Nygren

Nicklas Nygren (born 6 January 1983), better known by the handle "Nifflas", is a Swedish video game developer. He is known for his freeware Knytt series, as well as earlier releases including Within a Deep Forest and the #ModArchive Story series. Nicklas's most recent game is Affordable Space Adventures, for which he worked with Danish game studio KnapNok Games. He lives in Umeå, Sweden.

Games

Early games

Nygren's career in game-making began with a number of small games he released as freeware. Many of these games were extremely simple - consisting of little more than a physics engine and a single level on which to test it, however it was in developing these games that several themes would emerge that would later come to characterize Nygren's work. Among other themes, the concept of the ball as a hero originated in these early games and the games became increasingly more atmospheric and ambient in nature. Early games include: