Ambrosia Software

Ambrosia Software is a software manufacturer and computer games publisher from Rochester, New York, which produces mainly Mac software. The software is marketed as shareware, which can be downloaded from the 30 days each functional demo versions from the manufacturers website. Although his most commercially successful product is the utility Snapz Pro X, the firm is still known primarily as a game maker. Among other things, he created the video game series Escape Velocity ( Escape Velocity, Escape Velocity Override and Escape Velocity Nova ) and locates the Mac editions of the title of independent game publisher Introversion Software.

History

The company was founded on 18 August 1993 by Andrew Welch, after he had completed his studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The first game was Maelstrom, which follows the lines of the classic Asteroids. It quickly became popular in the Macintosh scene and won a number of software prices.

This first success led to the publication of a number of other games, each took up the concept of an arcade game classic, which was reacted with more modern means, for example Apeiron ( modeled on Centipede ) Bubble Trouble (after Pengo ), and Swoop ( by Galaxian ).

After the shareware from Ambrosia explicitly was initially only nagware is for including the game Ferazel 's wall (published on 23 December 1999 ) is set to crippleware.

With launch of the Apple App Store in the summer of 2008 Ambrosia Software started on this new distribution channel and iPhone games offer.

Trivia

The unofficial mascot of Ambrosia Software is a parrot named Hector, who also appears in the shareware game Escape Velocity to the player to recall the payment.