Spry Fox

Triple Town for iOS and Android

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:25:00 +0000

The first thing people ask for when playing the web version of Triple Town is a version they can play on their cell phone. We heard you! Triple Town is now available for iOS and Android. The game is the classic version of Triple Town, with one important detail: we added an option for people to purchase unlimited turns so they can play anytime they want, online or offline.

Install Triple Town for iOS
The game is compatible with all iPads and iPhone 3GS or newer, running iOS 4.0 or newer.

Install Triple Town for Android
We require OS v2.2 or newer.

Panda Poet Multiplayer

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:01:00 +0000

Panda Poet is a multiplayer word game where you grow and capture pandas by spelling better words than your opponent! You can invite your friends to play via email, you can play against strangers, or you can play against the computer if you're feeling anti-social. :-)

You can play it at http://game.pandapoet.com/

Steambirds Survival, mobile edition

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:53:00 +0000

Steambirds: Survival (SB:S) is available now on iTunes! An Android version will follow very shortly. The iPad version can be found here. The iPhone & iPod version here.

For those of you who played the original Web-based version of the game: think of this as Survival multiplied by one hundred and twenty. As in: this game has 120 missions (64 available at launch) at they're all free! Missions are split into sets of eight, which correspond to 15 cities in the UK which you will defend from the relentless forces of the Axis. These cities are doomed, but their military secrets, their treasures, and most importantly, their people need your help if they are going to survive!

SB:S mobile has some interesting new features, like a "reinforcements" powerup that summons allies to your side in battle, a "recuiting" option that enables you to hire additional player-controlled planes to help you beat more difficult missions, new enemies, new music, and more!

SB:S mobile is the product of a collaboration between Spry Fox and Halfbrick, aka the guys who made Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride! So from Halfbrick and from us: we hope you enjoy the game!

Triple Town for the Web

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000

We are happy to announce that the public beta of our original puzzle game, Triple Town, is now available on Facebook as well as on Google+. This is, we hope, one of the most relaxing and addictive games you'll ever play! The original version of this game, which launched on the Kindle, is still to this day one of the highest rated games on that platform. And this version has bears. Giant bears.

In Triple Town, you build a colony in a brave new frontier. By carefully planting trees and bushes, you'll craftily grow huts and then houses and finally the mythical floating citadel. Can you build the city of your dreams?

Quick summary:

Free to play!
Easy to learn, but there's always something new to figure out!
Hundreds of hours of entertainment!!
Giant, grumpy bears!

Play it now on Facebook or Google+.

Realm of the Mad God

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:21:00 +0000

Realm of the Mad God is a cooperative MMO shooter, created in partnership with Wild Shadow Studios, for people who truly enjoy challenging, action-packed games. Play together with thousands of others in a frantic bullet hell shooter. Dodge blasts from devious monsters while you work with friendly teammates to take down the Mad God himself.

The game is free to play in your browser right now. Jump in for 5 minutes or stay for hours. It is easy to get started and doesn't require registration.

Action combat! No turn-based battles here, only skilled running and gunning.
Epic boss battles. Navigate demented waves of bullets from nasty demons.
True cooperative play. All experience is shared and you win by playing together
Great 8-bit art: Retro styling FTW. It isn't a game unless you can see the pixels.
Easy leveling. No mindless grinding. Get better by being becoming better.
Over a dozen unique character classes. Play as a powerful wizard, a clever mystic, a brawling warrior.
Loot! Hundreds of weapons, potions, armors, and rings.
PermaDeath. Dying well means something in Realm. Earn fame if you survive for long enough and kill enough monsters.
Sheep. The sheep say 'Baa'.

Steambirds: Survival

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:00:00 +0000

"Steambirds: Survival", the sequel to Steambirds, has launched and is now free to play online! Please check it out.

You play "Steambirds: Survival" as the last defender of London. Your goal: to stand your ground against wave after wave of Axis aircraft. The odds are overwhelming. You're hopelessly outnumbered. The city is almost certainly doomed, but you *might* be able to save its citizens.... if you can survive long enough to give them time to evacuate!

SB:S differs from its predecessor in a few important ways. Most obviously, you can't "win" in the traditional sense of the word. You keep fighting for as long as you can and try to rack up a high score. The game also features 24 unique aircraft, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses. You'll need to frequently switch up your strategy as you switch planes, if you want to have any chance of success! And last but not least, downed enemy aircraft now drop powerups. Collecting and using those powerups at the right time is key to your survival.

Will you quickly fall beneath the first waves of the Axis' flying armada, or will you become one of the great legends of the War? We'll soon find out! :-)

Panda Poet: The Word Game with Pandas

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:34:00 +0000

Panda Poet is a classic word game where you feed words made of bamboo to your adorable pandas. Can you make a giant panda before your letters run out? Panda Poet is available exclusively on the Amazon Kindle.

Look at the cute panda!
What word can you can you spell with the letters?

Triple Town

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:39:00 +0000

Triple Town is an original puzzle game for the Amazon Kindle in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three or more game-pieces: combine three grasses to make a flower, three flowers to make a bush, three bushes to make a tree... until you've filled the board with houses, cathedrals and castles. Along the way, you'll have to outwit evil barbarians and wizards who will try to block your progress.

This is a game that can be played for minutes or hours at a time. You'll have to think several turns ahead if you want to avoid inevitable gridlock as unfinished buildings, barbarians and wizards start to pile up. And sometimes, if you're lucky, you'll be helped along by a magical crystal (which combines with anything) or a powerful bomb (which wipes nuisances off the board). But luck won't save you forever!

How large can you grow your dream city before the board fills and the game ends?

(Triple Town is available for the Kindle 2 and Kindle 3)

MobileGames

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:30:00 +0000

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Steambirds: Survival is coming!

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:28:00 +0000

"Steambirds: Survival" is the next version of Steambirds, and it's almost done!

Play as the last remaining hope of the people of London as you fight off wave after wave of Axis aircraft. The odds are overwhelming. You're hopelessly outnumbered. The city is almost certainly doomed, but you *might* be able to save its citizens.... if you can survive long enough to give them time to evacuate.

Will you quickly fall beneath the first waves of the Axis' flying armada, or will you become one of the great legends of the War? We'll soon find out.

Bunni

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:27:00 +0000

"Bunni: how we first met" is a game about adventure in the land of Bunni, where players can discover cute animals, scary monsters, and go on quests to rebuild the world. Some people love to explore Bunni, others enjoy defeating the monsters that occasionally plague the land, while others like to simply decorate their territory with beautiful things. What's your favorite thing to do in Bunni?

A free, flash version of Bunni is available here. Stay tuned for more news about these impossibly cute little critters!

Steambirds

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:26:00 +0000

Steambirds is an original turn-based aerial combat game that has been played by over ten million people worldwide!

In the alternate universe of Steambirds, World War 2 is not going well for the Allies. The Axis powers have successfully developed nuclear weapons before the Allies and have, as their first test of the new weapons, utterly annihilated Paris. Fortunately, ballistic missile technology has not been invented yet, so the Allies are desperately relying on their fleet of steam-powered superfighters to keep the Axis' nuclear bombers at bay.

Do you have what it takes to stand up to the Axis powers? Find out now! And for those of you who wish you could get your Steambirds fix on iPhone, iPad and Android devices, stay tuned... we've got downloadable versions coming soon. :-)

Announcing Spry Fox

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:03:00 +0000

I'm pleased to announce the formation of our new game development studio, Spry Fox!

What do I mean by "new kind of game development studio?" Put simply: we focus on the business and design aspects of game development. We do not employ developers and we do not outsource. We create games by partnering with other talented individuals whose development abilities we respect, and everyone shares in the profit. In this regard, Spry Fox functions somewhat like a modern movie studio -- we form teams around a project that everyone is passionate about, and the team disbands when the project is done (or, in the case of a free-to-play game, when the projects stops generating meaningful revenue). With a bit of luck, a team will gel nicely and may reunite many times (ala a Kevin Smith production), but it isn’t strictly necessary. We work together on what we love, and we part ways when our interests diverge.

Game studios of this sort have been attempted in the past, but the most prominent attempts have focused on larger, more expensive projects, which plays against the strengths of the distributed model. More importantly, previous studios appear to have been fixated on the debatable benefits of "outsourcing," as opposed to building true partnerships with outside individuals and firms who are treated as integral to the creative process and who share in the profit. We believe that by building small, tightly-knit teams, we can make this work.

Most importantly, we have no interest in becoming yet another middleman in the increasingly crowded digital publishing space. When Daniel is involved in a project, he plays a major role in every aspect of a game’s design, including building the UI, architecting the major gameplay loops, fine tuning the balance and directing the art production if not creating the art himself. When I am involved in a project, I am deeply involved in the design (particularly with an eye towards monetization systems), the in-game writing, and of course, all aspects of the business including marketing and distribution. We are not publishers. We are co-creators.

Spry Fox is focused primarily on emerging opportunities in the digital game market. For now, this means two things: web-based free-to-play games for various demographics, and downloadable titles for emerging platforms. Our reasons for focusing on these two things are straightforward:

* There are strategic benefits to focusing on under-served markets,
* As noted earlier, our development model likely works best with smaller teams, and,
* We don’t enjoy waiting two+ years to discover whether our game will resonate with fans or not.

Some of you might wonder if developing "web-based free-to-play games" qualifies as targeting an under-served market. This is the subject of a longer post, but in brief, I’d argue that there is no opportunity more compelling at this moment in time. The ratio of quality content to potential consumers is vastly out of whack on the Web relative to the console ecosystem or the iPhone app market. Despite the fact that 99% of all Internet-enabled PCs have Flash installed, boasting an audience more than 10x the size of even the most popular game console, you can literally count on one hand the number of really good Flash-based F2P games in any particular genre. That's our kind of market.

Because our teams are (and will continue to be) relatively small, we need to focus on design methodologies that deliver the greatest amount of bang for the buck. That means user-generated content, procedurally generated content, and multiplayer mechanics that don't require a constant influx of expensive content. So that's exactly what we've started doing.

* We’re building on Daniel’s previous work with Andy Moore to create a bigger, more engaging, multiplayer version of Steambirds that will fully capitalize on that IP’s potential (with an intermediate version in the meanwhile).
* We’re working with Andre Spierings to evolve the impossibly cute Bunni into the fully social experience we’ve always known it could be.
* And we have two downloadable games and one exceedingly unusual flash MMOG in the works, but unfortunately we can’t share any more information about those projects at this time.

We can't wait to share more with you all, soon. :-)

- David (and Danc!)

Contact us

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:02:00 +0000

If you have any issues, drop us a note at support@spryfox.com.

About Us

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:56:00 +0000

So what is this whole Spry Fox thing, anyway?

To put it simply: we delight in making original games. Our goal is to increase the happiness of the world by a meaningful amount. Games are our tools.

We are extremely proud of what we do and unbelievably lucky to be doing it.

-- Dave & Danc