Previously Esfera was being sold for ~$3 and there was no free version. We did this mainly because we thought it was a good quality, unique game that would be followed up by a network version of the product. Since that time, we have produced Your World which came together very rapidly and was definitely the right thing for us to focus on. Your World has very broad appeal and is getting downloaded by many thousands of users. However, this meant that Esfera took a back seat.

After much soul searching we have decided against building a new game until we put all of our must have features into each of our games (MultiMaze, Esfera and YourWorld).

For Esfera this means that we are now committed to producing an online playing capability so that you can play against people from around the globe. We think this, along with a base product that is free, will enhance the penetration of Esfera, which is ultimately an unfamiliar but great idea.

So, for now, enjoy Esfera for free.

As always, feel free to drop any feedback into the comments section below.

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Your World iPhone, iPad, iPod

We have finally launched Your World for iPhone/Pad/Pod. I say finally because we had all but completed this app when we decided to pull it from the AppStore approval process at the last moment to make two key changes. More on that later…

Your World has been spawned from a simple idea, challenge users to place the countries of the world into their correct locations. We thought, what a simple idea surely this has been done before. As it turns out, no one has implemented this on a nice 3D earth, so we built it.

To play it now download it from iTunes

We have also updated our website at http://squz.com take a look and please drop us any feedback on the new game or the website below in the comments section.

You can now download it from the AppStore.

Esfera (the spanish word for ‘sphere’) is a chess-like game on a spherical object with 132 tiles. The rules of chess have been adapted to the sphere and what has resulted is nothing short of stunning as far as turn-based strategy games go.

Esfera iPhone & iPad

We have put in a fair amount of work to make a complex game usable by supporting touch spinning and twisting (two fingers) of the sphere. Also we made it translucent (see though) so you can view through the sphere as if it were made from glass. One last touch was to make the pieces flip over when on the opposite side.

We have also built computer AI into the game so you can play against it. It’s not terribly strong, so given some effort you should be able to beat it. It’s not easy though.

For those interested in technology, we run our website out of a Ubuntu/Linux node at Linode.com (highly recommended for startups). We use Nginx as a reverse proxy to handle different sites and plain old HTML5, CSS and JavaScript/jQuery. If we need to serve up an API we will serve this using either mochikit (for simple / scalable services) or pylons (for more logic intensive work). We are open-source junkies!

Oh and kudos to the creator of 960.gs css framework, we love it.

This level is the first that involves a spacewalk. The balls have to be navigated outside of the normal boundaries of the maze. It’s challenging, but very satisfying to solve these types of problems

You will notice there are reflections of the balls on the outside of the walls of the maze as they drift out in space. It takes some careful maneuvering to navigate the balls out in space. It helps to keep them as close as possible (preferably touching) the outside of the maze.

Would anyone like to see a youtube video of the solution to this and other MultiMaze levels? Let us know in the comments section of this blog, and we’ll put some videos up.

Thanks for playing  MultiMaze.

There are also some paid packs, Multiball and Master. These are incredibly interesting, and challenging puzzles. Here’s a screenshot for a ‘simple’ example. There are a few classic works in these packs that, alone, are worth the price of admission.

We would love to know what you think. Write a comment below with feedback or suggestions.

Download MultiMaze

We are excited to be bringing you MultiMaze version 2, which sports a bunch of extra free levels. In addition we are selling a multiball pack that is simply stunning, in terms of the puzzle quality and creativity. As you can imagine, some of the possibilities with three or four balls are frighteningly complex, and way more fun. Are you up to the challenge?

Download it now from AppStore.