Spoon Lets Users Play Indie Games with No Installs
New Indie Game Garage Provides Instant Access to Indie Titles via the Web
SEATTLE – July 20, 2010 –
Spoon, a Seattle-based developer of app virtualization and
delivery technologies, today announced the launch of the Indie Game Garage, a free
service that lets users instantly play games from independent studios without needing to
install or download the titles. The
Indie Game Garage provides a platform for indie
developers to gain visibility with the gaming community and potential publishers by
allowing users to play games without the hassles of setups and potential uninstalls. Once
on Spoon, games can be shared on Web pages, blogs, and social networking sites such as
Facebook and Twitter.
The Spoon Indie Game Garage is available now at http://spoon.net/indiegames.
“The Indie Game Garage is an ideal use for Spoon’s zero-install Web delivery
technology, as users and publishers may be reluctant to spend time installing and
uninstalling games from indie studios,” said Kenji Obata, founder and chief executive
officer of Spoon. “The Indie Game Garage is a great way for indie developers to get users
and potential publishers playing their games by making them available directly on the
Web – without the need to develop a separate Flash version.”
“One of the biggest challenges we face as an indie game developer is finding ways to get
our games in front of publishers," said Francisco Santos Belmonte, founder of Tip Tap
Games. "Indie developers simply don’t have the resources to invest in marketing to gain
visibility with users and publishers. The ability to publish and share games via the Web
without installs has the potential to completely transform the indie game development
community.”
The Indie Game Garage is delivered using Spoon Server, an application server which
allows Windows apps to be delivered via the Web without the lengthy downloads and
complex install processes normally associated with app distribution. Spoon’s unique app
virtualization technology allows apps to launch without setup, administrative privileges,
or dependencies such as the .NET, Java, or DirectX runtimes. And because Spoon apps
execute locally, games run without the latency associated with remote desktop-based
approaches and can be migrated to the local desktop for offline use.
About Spoon
Spoon develops technologies that allow enterprises and software publishers to deliver
desktop apps via the Web without installs, downloads, or hassles.
Spoon’s technology is used by industry-leading educational, entertainment, financial,
government, health care, and information technology organizations, including Autodesk,
Novell, and the United States Marine Corps.
A free evaluation download of Spoon Server is available at http://spoon.net/Server. For
more information on Spoon technology and access to hundreds of sample streamed apps,
please visit http://spoon.net.
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