Freeverse Inc. is a computer and video game, and desktop software developer

Software developer

A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...

 owned by Ngmoco

Ngmoco

ngmoco, Inc. is an American-based publisher of video games for the iOS and Android platforms, and a subsidiary of DeNA. The company was founded by former Electronic Arts executive Neil Young in July 2008. Since its founding, ngmoco has had more than seven million combined game installs...

. Based in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, Freeverse titles received numerous awards including a Macworld

Macworld

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California...

 Game Hall of Fame, two Macworld San Francisco Best of Shows and three Apple Design Awards in 2004. Its original characters appeared in TimeDigital, Wired, and Animation World magazines, as well as in national television commercials for Blockbuster Video. Freeverse was acquired by its competitor Ngmoco in February 2010.

History

Freeverse was founded as a shareware

Shareware

The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

 company in 1994 by Ian Lynch Smith. Freeverse's first product, a version of Hearts Deluxe for the Mac, contained a gaming artificial intelligence

Game artificial intelligence

Game artificial intelligence refers to techniques used in computer and video games to produce the illusion of intelligence in the behavior of non-player characters . The techniques used typically draw upon existing methods from the field of artificial intelligence...

 based on Ian's studies in Cognitive Science

Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

 (the subject for which received his concentration from Vassar College

Vassar College

Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...

). On February 22, 2010, it was announced that Freeverse had been acquired by its competitor Ngmoco

Ngmoco

ngmoco, Inc. is an American-based publisher of video games for the iOS and Android platforms, and a subsidiary of DeNA. The company was founded by former Electronic Arts executive Neil Young in July 2008. Since its founding, ngmoco has had more than seven million combined game installs...

.

Original Games

• 3D Bridge Deluxe
• 3D Hearts Deluxe
• 3D Euchre Deluxe
• 3D Spades Deluxe
• 3D Crazy Eights
• Active Lancer
  Active Lancer
  Active Lancer is a 2D shoot 'em up video game created by Freeverse for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. It plays in the style of many old school computer games and features little plot line or story development. The demo is downloadable from macgamefiles.com however it is no longer included on freeverse.com....
  
  
• Airburst
• Airburst Extreme
• Arcane Arena
• Atlas: The Gift Of Aramai
• Big Bang Board Games
• Big Bang Brain Games
• Burning Monkey
  Burning Monkey
  Burning Monkey is a series of computer games developed by Freeverse Software. The games all feature a colorful cast of cartoon monkeys, many of whom can be set on fire, usually when the user hits ⌘W....
  
  
  • Burning Monkey Casino
  • Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab
  • Burning Monkey Solitaire
  • Burning Monkey Mahjong
• Classic Cribbage
• Hordes Of Orcs
• Hoyle Casino 2009
• Hoyle Puzzle And Board 2009
• Hoyle Cards 2009
• Kill Monty
• Neon Tango
• Solace
• ToySight
• WingNuts
  WingNuts
  WingNuts: Temporal Navigator is a shooter game by Freeverse Software. Players navigate an airplane around a two-dimensional map while avoiding hazards and picking up "goodies" or bonuses...
  
  
• Wingnuts 2:Raina's Revenge
  WingNuts 2
  WingNuts 2 is an award-winning shooter game from Freeverse. It allows the player to take control of several real world and fictitious aircraft as they travel through time to stop Baron Von Schtopwatch....
  
  

Ported Games

• Heroes of Might and Magic V
  Heroes of Might and Magic V
  Heroes of Might and Magic V is the fifth installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic turn-based strategy video game series. It was developed by Nival Interactive, under the guidance of franchise-owner Ubisoft...
  
  
• Legion Arena
  Legion Arena
  Legion Arena is a real-time tactical RPG by Slitherine Strategies that allows the player to play as several tribes during the rise of the Roman Empire. The player can play as the Latin tribes, the Celts and the Romans. It is published by Freeverse Software for Mac OS X and Strategy First for Windows...
  
  
• Jeopardy! Deluxe
• Wheel of Fortune Deluxe!
  Wheel of Fortune Deluxe!
  Wheel of Fortune Deluxe! is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game based on the game show Wheel of Fortune. It has more puzzles to solve than its 1992 predecessor....
  
  
• Marathon 2: Durandal for Xbox LIVE Arcade

Published Games

• 8th Wonder Of The World
• KnightShift
• Massive Assault
  Massive Assault
  Massive Assault is a turn-based, computer wargame by Wargaming.net. Despite featuring 3D graphics, the game is similar to tabletop wargames in that its gameplay is governed by simple rules and takes place on a hexagonal grid. The game's opposing forces are made up of largely equivalent units...
  
  
• Northland
• Payback
• Project Nomads
  Project Nomads
  Project Nomads is a computer game by Radon Labs released in 2002. It is set on the fictional planet Aeres, a fantastic world of gigantic floating islands, which are the remnants of the planet from before it exploded. After Aeres broke apart, the few surviving inhabitants settled on the drifting...
  
  
• Robin Hood: The Legend Of Sherwood
  Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
  Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood is a 2002 stealth-based real-time strategy video game developed by Spellbound Studios. It is similar to games such as Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive and the Commandos series. In the game, the player controls up to five characters in a setting based on the...
  
  
• Spartan
• X2: The Threat

Xbox Development

Currently, Freeverse is developing a new version of Airburst for the Xbox 360

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

 video game console from Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

. This includes original game modes from Airburst and Airburst Extreme as well as new modes.

Freeverse has delivered TotemBall

TotemBall

Totemball is an Xbox Live Arcade musical action game developed by Freeverse Software/Strange Flavour and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It takes advantage of the Xbox Live Vision Camera with the camera tracking the players hand movements. It was released on October 4, 2006 as a free download...

which is a Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade is a type of video game download distribution available primarily in a section of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360, that focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers...

 musical action game with Strange Flavour

Strange Flavour

Strange Flavour is an independent computer game software developer based in United Kingdom. They create Macintosh software and are currently developing games for the iPhone and Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service on the Xbox 360....

 and published by Microsoft Game Studios

Microsoft Game Studios

Microsoft Studios is the video game production wing for Microsoft, responsible for the development and publishing of games for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Games for Windows and Windows Phone platforms. They were established in 2002 as Microsoft Game Studios to coincide with the release of the Xbox, before...

. It takes advantage of the Xbox Live Vision camera with the camera tracking the players hand movements. It was released on October 4, 2006. On August 1, 2007 Marathon: Durandal and Spyglass Board Games were released to the Xbox Live Arcade.

Xbox Live Arcade Games

• Airburst
  Airburst
  Airburst is a 2001 Mac OS game developed by Strange Flavour and published by Freeverse. On October 25, 2007, it was announced for Xbox Live Arcade game for the Xbox 360...
  
  
• Marathon: Durandal
  Marathon 2: Durandal
  Marathon 2: Durandal is the first sequel in the Marathon series of science fiction first-person shooter computer games from Bungie Software. It was released on November 24, 1995. The game is mostly set on the fictional planet of Lh'owon, homeworld of the S'pht, and once again the player takes the...
  
  
• Spyglass Board Games
  Spyglass Board Games
  Spyglass Board Games is a video game developed by independent software developers Freeverse Software and Strange Flavour for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. It is a compilation of board games Chess, Checkers, Mancala, and Reversi....
  
  
• TotemBall
  TotemBall
  Totemball is an Xbox Live Arcade musical action game developed by Freeverse Software/Strange Flavour and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It takes advantage of the Xbox Live Vision Camera with the camera tracking the players hand movements. It was released on October 4, 2006 as a free download...
  
  

iOS development

Also among Freeverse's diverse library of games are a slew of iOS games, some currently in development and some already highly regarded in the App Store.

iOS games

• Big Bang Sudoku
• MotoChaser
• Jared
  Jared Smith
  Jared Smith is an American amateur singer specializing in Spanish. His singing career achieved some attention in the mid-1990s when his brothers Colin and Ian of Freeverse Software combined a recording of his singing with an animated smiley face...
  
  
• SimStapler
• Big Bang Board Games
• Tranquility
• Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab
• Flick Bowling
• Plank
• Flick Fishing
• Burning Monkey Casino
• SlotZ Racer
• Days of Thunder!
  Days of Thunder (video game)
  Days of Thunder is a 1990 NASCAR racing simulation video game loosely based on the 1990 movie Days of Thunder. The game utilized elements from the movie, using a movie license from Paramount Pictures, for its graphical elements, plot and music soundtrack.It was released for the PC, the NES, the...
  
  
• Top Gun
  Top Gun (video game)
  The popularity of the 1986 film Top Gun resulted in a number of licensed video games that have been released since the film's theatrical debut:-Top Gun:...
  
  
• Grunts
• Fairy Trails
• Postman
• Flick NBA Basketball
  Flick NBA Basketball
  Flick NBA Basketball is a basketball video game developed and published by Freeverse. It was released on April 27, 2009 for the iOS. The game was the first for the platform to be officially licensed by the NBA, and is a part of Freeverse's Flick Sports series of games.-External links:***...
  
  
• Eye Glasses
• Skee-Ball

Applications

• BumperCar
  BumperCar
  BumperCar is a Mac OS X web browser by Freeverse Software that is aimed towards kids. BumperCar contains extensive parental controls including filtering, personal information blocking, whitelists, blacklists, time limits and full support for ICRA tags. Version 2 is based on WebKit as well as some...
  
  
• Comic Life
  Comic Life
  Comic Life is a comic desktop publishing computer program developed by plasq for Mac OS X and Windows. Comic Life was previously bundled with Intel Macs....
  
   - Created by plasq
  Plasq
  plasq is an international software limited liability company comprising software developers and user interface designers from the United States, Australia, Switzerland, Norway and France...
  
  
• Lineform
• Jared
  Jared Smith
  Jared Smith is an American amateur singer specializing in Spanish. His singing career achieved some attention in the mid-1990s when his brothers Colin and Ian of Freeverse Software combined a recording of his singing with an animated smiley face...
  
  
• Periscope
  Periscope
  A periscope is an instrument for observation from a concealed position. In its simplest form it consists of a tube with mirrors at each end set parallel to each other at a 45-degree angle....
  
  
• Sound Studio
  Sound Studio
  Sound Studio is multitrack audio recording software for Mac OS X. It was developed by Felt Tip Software. Sound Studio 3 was previously distributed by Freeverse.Now it is being distributed by .-External links:**...