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Abandonia

The games showcased on AR are both old commercial games released as freeware (like The Elder Scrolls: Arena, The Black Cauldron and Beneath a Steel Sky), in addition to newer independent freeware (like Ark 22, Trilby's Notes and Enclosure).

Alec Holowka

Holowka acted as sound engineer on the 2006 freeware title I'm O.K - A Murder Simulator as a response to American lawyer Jack Thompson's A Modest Video Game Proposal.

Barkley 2

The game is a sequel to the studio's 2008 freeware title Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, which itself was created as a fan game sequel to the 1994 basketball game Barkley Shut Up and Jam! and the film Space Jam.

Beat Ball

Beat Ball is a freeware breakout clone game PC that was created by Stefan Persson, also known under the alias Imphenzia Games, using the Game Maker software.

Christopher Jones

Chris Jones (AGS), creator of the freeware adventure game creation tool Adventure Game Studio

Clean Asia!

Clean Asia! is a freeware vertical shooter video game by Jonatan "Cactus" Söderström, an independent video game developer from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree

Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree is an independently developed freeware dating sim developed and written by Anna Anthropy.

Eternal Daughter

Eternal Daughter is a freeware action-adventure game created by amateur developers Derek Yu and Jon Perry and released on June 21, 2002 under the label Blackeye Software.

Gene Spafford

Among notable software designed and/or supervised by Spafford include the freeware Tripwire tool coded by his student Gene Kim (Spafford was later the chief external technical advisor to the Tripwire company during their first few years), and the freeware COPS tool coded by his student Dan Farmer.

Gravity Force

In 1995, the games magazine, Amiga Power, declared Gravity Force 2 the second best Amiga game of all time (behind Sensible Soccer) which resulted in great exposure for a freeware/shareware title.

IPIX

'IPIX Interactive Studio', could create IPIX's proprietary format, QuickTime Cubic VR images, Equirectangular and Cylindrical Projections as JPEGs that could be viewed with Helmut Dersch's freeware Java PTViewer, Shockwave w3d files, VRML files and X3D files.

Mighty Jill Off

Mighty Jill Off is a 2D platform independently developed freeware video game designed by Anna Anthropy, with art by James Harvey and music by Andrew Toups.

Octodad

Octodad is a freeware independent video game developed by a group of students at DePaul University, many of whom would go on to form Young Horses, Inc., the developers of its sequel Octodad: Dadliest Catch.

One Night Trilogy

The One Night Trilogy is the collective title for a series of freeware indie psychological horror games developed by Dark Gaia Studios using the RPG Maker VX engine.

P.A.N.

P.A.N. (A.K.A.: Poetry Analyzer, Textual Analyzer) is a freeware application that allows you to analyze virtually any sort of text (fiction, newspaper, poetry, history text book).

RunGEM

RunGEM is a freeware component of the commercial modelling package, Gempack, written at Monash University.

Shane's Chess Information Database

Shane's Chess Information Database (Scid) is a popular free UNIX, Windows, Linux, and Mac application for viewing and maintaining huge databases of chess games.

TtyEmulator

TtyEmulator is a Freeware terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client.

Tucows

Scott Swedorski started Tucows in 1993 to provide users with downloads of both freeware and trial versions of shareware.

Utau

This program is similar to the Vocaloid software, with the difference that it is freeware instead of being released under third party licensing.


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