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Sword of Fargoal 2 crosses the Kickstarter finish line

by Mike Schramm (Oct 15th, 2012)

Sword of Fargoal was one of the earliest great games on the iPhone (after making the transition over from the Commodore 64 version a long time ago), and as we reported previously, the developers behind the game recently took to Kickstarter to try and pick up funding for a sequel. They held a ...

Daily iPhone App: Sword of Fargoal is great, goes free

by Mike Schramm (Sep 25th, 2012)

Sword of Fargoal is an older title from the App Store -- it was introduced quite a while back as a graphical roguelike RPG, in that you run around a randomly generated dungeon while collecting gold and beating down anything in your way. The game actually started back in the early '80s, but came ...

Macworld Expo 2011: Trouble Brothers' Sword of Fargoal 2 and other titles

by Mike Schramm (Feb 2nd, 2011)

Jeff McCord and Steve Shippert head up a Seattle-based company called Trouble Brothers, and while I visited their booth at Macworld to talk about iOS games, the two have quite a gaming history. They met while playing trivia games in Seattle, and they have worked on real-life board games in the ...

TUAW's Daily App: Powder

by Mike Schramm (Apr 22nd, 2010)

TUAW's Daily App spotlights one great App Store app, every single weekday. Powder probably isn't the most polished roguelike RPG experience on the App Store (Sword of Fargoal is generally considered to be among the best), but what it lacks in graphical quality, it makes up for in ease-of-use. The ...