Nifflas, the creator of several freeware PC games such as Knytt and Within a Deep Forest, has been hard at work on his latest game, Night Game, for a long time now. He announced yesterday that Night Game will from here on out be developed exclusively for Nintendo's WiiWare service. Nifflas has always made his games freeware for PC so this is a surprising development. Additionally, the announcement has caused quite a controversy on Nifflas' official forums where the announcement originated.

Nifflas' official statement can be found after the jump.

Hi! This is an announcement regarding Night Game!

Although I'm the director, game and level designer, it's up to Nicalis to make decisions about what consoles that the games will be released on. Now it's announced that Night Game will be Wii exclusive, so there will not be a PC release of it. I'm really sorry for this, I know this will let most of you down a lot! I hope you can understand it was not my decision, I really wanted it to be released on PC as well.

I've known about the discussions to eventually make the game Wii exclusive, but I haven't been allowed to tell anything about it. This is however one of the explanations that I started to keep so silent about Night Game, and disabled the donations option from my website. While I hoped for a PC release as it was part of the initial plans, I don't regret that I took the chance to get a game out on the Wii, it's an important step for me towards getting to live off what I like to do.

I can understand if this upsets you though, you have all the reason in the world to be angry.

Check out the official announcement thread.