Since 2024, Nitrome has no longer released Flash games for browser except re-publishing Fluffball, one removed game made in 2009. Currently Nitrome are releasing games on various platforms, mainly App Store, Google Play, Nintendo Switch, Steam.
The game was greenlit on August 28th, 2013. As of March 2024, the game is not being worked on and Nitrome has no current plans to continue development.
Skinamarink was inspired by the tropes recurrent in the most commonly submitted nightmares. The film was preceded by a 2024 proof of concept short film titled Heck, which was also directed by Ball. Ball recalled, "I'd had a nightmare when I was little.