Freeverse Inc. (originally Freeverse Software) was a developer of

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and

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based in New York City which was acquired by Ngmoco in 2010. Ngmoco was itself acquired later that year, and shut down in 2016.

History

Ian Lynch Smith founded Freeverse in 1994 as a

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company. The first product was a version of '' Hearts Deluxe'' for the Mac that used

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based on Smith's studies in cognitive science, the subject for which he received his degree from

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. On February 22, 2010, it was announced that Freeverse had been acquired by ngmoco. On October 12, 2010, Japanese-based

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announced its acquisition of ngmoco for $400,000,000. Ngmoco became the regional headquarters for all Western subsidiaries of DeNA, including studios in Vancouver, Santiago de Chile, Amsterdam, and Stockholm. However, on October 18, 2016, DeNA announced the closure of all Western subsidiaries, including ngmoco.

Mac games

Original titles

* ''3D Bridge Deluxe'' * ''3D Hearts Deluxe'' * ''3D Pitch Deluxe'' * ''3D Euchre Deluxe'' * ''3D Spades Deluxe'' * ''3D Crazy Eights'' * ''

Active Lancer ''Active Lancer'' is a 2D shoot 'em up video game created by Freeverse for Mac OS 9 and macOS. 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.c ...

'' * ''

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'' * ''

Airburst Extreme ''Airburst'' is a video game developed by Strange Flavour and published by Freeverse for Mac OS. On October 25, 2007, it was announced for Xbox Live Arcade game for the Xbox 360. There is currently no release date for the Xbox 360 release bu ...

'' * ''Arcane Arena'' * ''Atlas: The Gift Of Aramai'' * ''Big Bang Board Games'' * ''Big Bang Brain Games'' * Burning Monkey ** ''Burning Monkey Casino'' ** ''Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab'' ** ''Burning Monkey Solitaire'' ** ''Burning Monkey Mahjong'' * ''Classic Cribbage'' *''Classic Gin Rummy'' * ''Deathground'' * ''Enigma'' * ''Hoyle Casino 2009'' * ''Hoyle Puzzle And Board 2009'' * ''Hoyle Cards 2009'' * ''Kill Monty'' * ''Neon Tango'' * ''Solace'' * ''ToySight'' * ''WingNuts: Temporal Navigator'' * '' WingNuts 2: Raina's Revenge''

Ports

* ''

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'' * ''

Legion Arena ''Legion Arena'' is a computer wargame developed by Slitherine Strategies. It 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 B ...

'' * ''Jeopardy! Deluxe'' * ''

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'' * '' Marathon 2: Durandal'' for Xbox LIVE Arcade

Published games

* ''8th Wonder Of The World'' * ''Hordes Of Orcs'' * ''

KnightShift ''Polanie II'' , also known as ''KnightShift'' and ''Once Upon a Knight'', is a real-time strategy and role-playing video game hybrid developed by Reality Pump Studios and released by Topware Interactive for the PC Windows and OS X in 2003. T ...

'' * ''

Massive Assault ''Massive Assault'' is a turn-based, computer wargame by Wargaming. 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 In geometry, a hexago ...

'' * ''Northland'' * ''

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'' * ''

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 A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in ...

'' * '' Robin Hood: The Legend Of Sherwood'' * ''

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'' * '' X2: The Threat''

iOS games

* ''Big Bang Sudoku'' * ''MotoChaser'' * ''Warpgate'' * ''Jared Smith'' * ''SimStapler'' * ''Big Bang Board Games'' * ''Tranquility Application, Tranquility'' * ''Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab'' * ''Flick Bowling'' * ''Plank Game, Plank'' * ''Flick Fishing'' * ''Flick Baseball Pro'' * ''Burning Monkey Casino'' * ''SlotZ Racer'' * '' Days of Thunder!'' * ''

Top Gun ''Top Gun'' is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by ...

'' * ''Grunts (video game), Grunts'' * ''Fairy Trails'' * ''

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'' * ''

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 (Apple), iOS. The game was the first for the platform to be officially licensed by the National Basketball A ...

'' * ''Eye Glasses'' * ''

Skee-Ball Skee-Ball is an arcade game and one of the first redemption games. It is played by rolling a ball up an inclined lane and over a "ball-hop" hump (resembling a ski jump) that jumps the ball into bullseye rings. The object of the game is to col ...

'' * ''

Parachute Ninja ''Parachute Ninja'' is an action iOS game developed by American studio Freeverse Inc. and released Jan 28, 2010. Critical reception The game has a Metacritic rating of 89% based on 6 critic reviews. The No DPad review said "If you have liked ga ...

Applications

BumperCar BumperCar is a Mac OS X web browser by Freeverse Software that is aimed at kids. BumperCar contains extensive parental controls including filtering, personal information blocking, whitelists, blacklists, time limits and full support for Internet ...

* Comic Life - Created by

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* Lineform *

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Menu Madness *

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Sound Studio The music of ''Deltarune'' comprises multiple soundtrack albums created and scored by Toby Fox. The first soundtrack album was released on Bandcamp on November 1, 2018, a day after the game was launched. In collaboration with Fangamer, Fox relea ...

References

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