Casual Games

The Zombomatic 3000 game which Terralever created for MiniClip.com is currently the third most popular game on the MiniClip.com site. I am a personal fan (I like Zombomatic more than the later released Tunnel Trouble) of the gameplay, concept and execution. However, even with the game being promoted (it is featured on the home page) I would have guessed that the plug-in installation would have marginalized its potential. Could Zombomatic make it to #1? Games, Programming, Silverlight, Tunnel... Read Full Story

A month ago Microsoft selected Terralever to conduct a in depth Case Study on our use of Silverlight 2 for creating a new Miniclip.com game Tunnel Trouble. This process was really exciting for Terralever.  I feel Microsoft did a great job of capturing the value we find in Silverlight and how this powerful framework allowed us to create a compelling casual game in less then 5 weeks. Share This Read Full Story

Last year Terralever took on the challenge of creating a game with Silverlight. In doing so, our overall goal was to release something compelling that coincided with Silverlight’s public coming-out party; establishing that casual gaming was a viable usage of the Silverlight platform. That game was called Zero Gravity, and it received a warm welcome from both casual gamers and the development community. Zombomatic Swap the conductors to connect them into a path for the electricity to... Read Full Story

Eidos Interactive, one of the world’s leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, is pleased to announce its newly established Casual Games label, SoGoPlay Following the recent acquisition by Eidos of Rockpool, SoGoPlay has been carefully chosen to be the standalone brand which epitomises the essence of casual gaming and embraces both boxed retail and digital casual titles under a single umbrella. An emotive and quality-focused brand, SoGoPlay will become synonymous with... Read Full Story

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