News - 2009

Tux's Turtle announced - December 1, 2009
Announcing a new project by New Breed Software, for Tux4Kids: Tux's Turtle! (Inspired by Delta Drawing, from over 25 years ago.)

Defendguin 0.0.12 source released - November 5, 2009
A minor bugfix to our shoot-em-up game has been released. (Source-code only, so far!)

Go Go Garbage Truck - September 13, 2009
Go Go Garbage Truck is a new, very simple game for young children, for the Atari 8-bit.

Mad Bomber for Mac OS X - September 9, 2009
Mad Bomber is now available for Mac OS X.

Mad Bomber for Maemo - April 27, 2009
We discovered that our bomb-catching game, 'Mad Bomber', has been ported to the 'OS2008' flavor of the Maemo platform (used by Nokia's Internet tablets). It's been patched to support the full 800x480 screen resolution those devices support.

Fight or Perish alpha - March 15, 2009
Fight or Perish is a Dandy-inspired dungeon crawling action game. It utilizes cellular automata to allow for literally hundreds or thousands of enemies on the map. The current alpha version has rudimentary graphics, no sound, and only one partial map, but supports 1-4 players on the same system, using keyboard and/or joysticks. Contact us if you'd like to supply art and/or sound effects to this project!

Mad Bomber and Teeter Torture for Nintendo Wii - February 21, 2009
Our bomb-catching clone of 'Kaboom!', Mad Bomber, and clone of the never-released prototype shooting game Teeter Torture are now available for the Nintendo Wii game console. (Note: A homebrew hack is required to use it.)

Vectoroids for Nintendo Wii - February 19, 2009
Our asteroid-shooting game is now also available for the Nintendo Wii game console. (Note: A homebrew hack is required to use it.)

Defendguin for Nintendo Wii - February 15, 2009
Our shoot-em-up is the first of our games to be ported to the Wii game console. (Note: A homebrew hack is required to use it.)

Bill Kendrick on 'FLOSS Weekly' - February 7, 2009
Bill Kendrick of New Breed Software, and lead developer of Tux4Kids's Tux Paint project, will be on This Week in Tech's FLOSS Weekly netcast, together with David Bruce, maintainer of Tux4Kid's TuxMath and TuxTyping projects. The episode will be posted on February 21st.