Freeverse

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Freeverse
Type	corporation
Founded
Headquarters	New York City, New York, USA
Key people	Ian Lynch Smith - President Colin Lynch Smith - Vice President Dino de Cespedes - Chief Financial Officer David Joost - Channel Sales Manager Steven Tze´ - Creative Director Justin D'Onofrio - Producer Bruce Morrison - Producer
Industry	Video game production, Software, Independent software vendor
Products	Video game and Application software for Macintosh, Windows PC, Consoles, and Mobile devices
Revenue	unknown (privately held)
Website	http://www.freeverse.com/

Freeverse (formerly Freeverse Software) is a computer game software developer. Based in New York City, Freeverse titles have received numerous awards including a MacWorld Game Hall of Fame, two Macworld San Francisco Best of Shows and three Apple Design Awards in 2004. Its original characters have appeared in TimeDigital, Wired, and Animation World magazines, as well as in national television commercials for Blockbuster Video.

1 History
2 Games
- 2.1 Xbox Development
  - 2.1.1 Xbox Live Arcade games
3 Applications
4 External links

[edit] History

Freeverse was founded as a shareware company in 1994 by Ian Lynch Smith. Freeverse's first product, a version of Hearts Deluxe for the Mac, contained a gaming artificial intelligence based on Ian's studies in Cognitive Science (the subject for which received his concentration from Vassar College). [1]

[edit] Games

3D Bridge Deluxe
8th Wonder of the World
Active Lancer
Airburst
Airburst Extreme
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
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Hordes of Orcs
Kill Monty
KnightShift
Legion Arena
Massive Assault
Project Nomads
Northland
Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
Solace
Spartan
ToySight
WingNuts
Wingnuts 2
X²: The Threat

[edit] Xbox Development

Currently, Freeverse is developing an array of Classic Board Games for the Xbox 360 video game console from Microsoft. These titles are to include Chess, Reversi, Mancala and Checkers[2]

Freeverse has delivered TotemBall which is a Xbox Live Arcade musical action game with 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. On August 1, 2007 Marathon: Durandal and Spyglass Board Games were released to the Xbox Live Arcade.