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24
Apr

Odd Ball – Ludum Dare 38 Success

Check out our Ludum Dare 38 entry ‘Odd Ball’ for the ‘A Small World’ theme competition from this past weekend.

Odd Ball is a simple puzzle game with the goal to complete the 16 levels as fast as possible.  Tweet your best time with a screenshot to us @MikewareXGR!

Entry Page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/odd-ball
Play Directly Here: http://www.mikeware.com/oddball/

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1
Sep

Cogs in a Machine Now Available!

Cogs in a MachineWe’re pleased to announce that Cogs in a Machine is now available for purchase through The Game Crafter!

Thanks again to all our Kickstarter backers for making this possible and showing their support.

Be sure to check out our next game experiment ‘Spiredice’ this weekend at PAX West as part of the Indie Megabooth Tabletop Showcase.  We’re in the ACT Theater on Friday & Saturday and the Megabooth on Sunday & Monday.

27
Aug

Cogs in a Machine – Kickstarter

Cogs in a Machine is an easy to learn press-your-luck dice rolling game for 2-6 players.  Play as a gnome working on an assembly line.  Use your gnome’s special abilities and roll dice to build Cogs and Teeth, which you use to assemble components.  Assemble as many components as you can before your other co-gnomes.  The other gnomes will try to Supervise your work, but be warned: They may not have your best interest at heart.  After all, it’s every gnome for themselves when you’re a cog in a machine!

We’re now running a Kickstarter campaign at http://www.cogsinamachine.com/, so please join us there for more details!

Cogs in a Machine is at PAX Prime 2015 this weekend August 28-31 in the Indie MEGABOOTH, so come by and check out the game and play it for yourself.  See you there!

We’ll also be in Boston on September 12th for the Boston Festival of Independent Games.

19
Dec

“Cogs in a Machine” Selected for PAX South Tabletop Showcase!

Cogs in a Machine Selected for PAX South Tabletop Showcase“Cogs in a Machine” is a game we’ve been working on for a while.  It’s a dice game for 2-6 players:

The machine is broken! You and your band of fellow gnomes are trying to fix it by putting cogs back in the machine. However, being the greedy gnomes that you are, you figure no one will mind if you take some valuable cogs for yourself once there are a few in there…

Break the machine over and over again as you try to steal and amass cogs the quickest by rolling dice and thwarting your opponent’s attempts at their own success.

It was selected to be showcased along with 7 other games at PAX South on January 23-25, 2015.  If you’re there, be sure to stop by our booth and try it out!  You can see the rest of the PAX games showcased here.

Be sure to follow us on Twitter or check back here for more info over the next few weeks.

21
Aug

The Game is Afoot!

Afoot GameplayToday, we released our latest game ‘Afoot: Sins of the Flesh’ on the Game Crafter.

Afoot is a two to four player mystery memory game that can be played in 20-30 minutes. It adds strategic components to the traditional game of Memory as well as the deductive reasoning and logic of solving a murder mystery from Clue (without having to run around a mansion). The pace of play is quick and keeps everyone engaged as paying attention at all times is important while you try to solve the mystery and earn points.

We’re excited to release this one and hope you’ll track us down at PAX to give it a try!

11
Jun

Space Battle 2014 Final Tournament

Space Battle 2014 was a success.  More details will follow on this post in the near future.

Be on the lookout for updated classroom materials in the coming month at http://battlearena.mikeware.com/.

And if you’re coming to PAX Dev, be sure to check out our talk this year: You Have Died of Dysentery: Games in Education Are Still Alive.

10
Jun

Support ‘First Play’ on Patreon

First Play Title

Our ‘First Play’ series announced before in March is now starting a Patreon campaign here.

Patreon is a site where Patrons can support ongoing projects by pledging funds per piece of content created.

If you enjoy watching ‘First Play’ be sure to go support the project and get access to additional benefits.

Thanks!

14
Jan

[Teaser] PaddleSpace Unlimited & Demo Download

PaddleSpace is Mikeware’s Magnum Opus, which unfortunately has been laying dormant for too many years…  Originally created in 2007 it evolved to a point beyond its creator’s control.  That is planning to change in 2014.
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20
Jun

[Let’s Play] Gamius Type IV

Check out the Let’s Play video of Gamius Type IV we found:

We want to thank SnoodLounge for making their great Let’s Play video of our game!

30
Apr

Battle Box: Online!

The original intent for Battle Box was to be a cloud based game you could play against other people (at random). That dream is now a reality.

You can play Battle Box Online here!

I have a bit of clean-up for mobile browser fitting and hooking up the two versions so you can switch between them on the title screen, but other than that, it’s done! Enjoy!

Note: Due to restrictions on the Parse framework, Battle Box online won’t work in IE, try playing in FireFox, Chrome, or Safari. Thanks!