News & Stuff

Friday April 16, 2010

OFFICIAL RELEASE: My newest game Knarly Combs is now available for both MS Windows and Mac OS X!  This is a great addictive new game. If you've ever enjoyed Minesweeper, but hated the fact that sometimes you have to just GUESS, you'll love this one. Give it a try today and see what you think!

We've also added a web page where you (assuming you've purchased a product from us in the past) can manage your "customer preferences" (such as name, address, email address, phone number, whether you receive fliers twice per year as we introduce new games either via postal mail or e-mail, and change your password). You'll need your Customer # and password to log-in. If you've not received a password, contact us with sufficient information for us to identify you in our records and we can provide you with a temporary password. The log-in page is at www.kaser.com/customerpref.php.

Monday February 1, 2010

If you've been to our web site before, you've probably already noticed that we've made a MAJOR redesign of the site. At the same time, we've revamped some of our pricing. There's no longer any separate shipping charges when purchasing CDs, but the cost of CDs have gone up slightly (we haven't changed prices for 15 years, while the cost of shipping and putting food in our mouths have skyrocketed!). The cost is remaining the same for purchasing downloads of our games ($19.95). The price of the Complete Games CD, which has remained unchanged for 4 or 5 years while lots of new games were being added, has now been increased to $99.95. That's still only about $3.70 per game!

We've also added Paypal purchasing buttons, which is now our preferred payment processor (although SWREG is still available for those who prefer that). You don't need a Paypal account to purchase our games using the Paypal buttons, they will simply charge your credit card like any other on-line purchase. You can also now order the games on CD directly from our web site (using Paypal or SWREG), where before you had to contact us by mail, email or phone.

While we've tried to make sure everything is working 100% on the newly redesigned web site, the old programmer's adage remains true: "There's no such thing as a bug-free non-trivial program!" And this web site definitely hasn't been trivial for many years, so I'm sure there's something we've missed. If you encounter anything weird or non-functional, please let us know! Since there's major changes to the ordering system, if you have ANY trouble ordering, please let us know that, too, and we'll get things straightened out for you! Now, back to focusing on the whole point: GAMES!

Friday November 20, 2009

OFFICIAL RELEASES: Inspector Lestrade, the 7th game in the Sherlock series has been released!  If you've played Sherlock, Dinner With Moriarty, Honeycomb Hotel, Watson's Map, Baker Street or Scotland Yard, you know you're in for a treat (or, at least, a challenge!)  Speaking of Sherlock, I'm also releasing a MAJOR update/rewrite of it (version 6.0), the first in almost seven years.  Last time (version 5.0) I added different sizes of puzzles from 3x3 up to 8x8 (instead of just 6x6).  This time (amongst many other small changes) the game now supports setting the width and height of the puzzles independently, anywhere from 3 to 8 (six different settings), resulting in THIRTY-SIX different sizes of puzzles!!!

Thursday October 8, 2009

Kris Pixton recently released a new game on her web-site that I think all of you might enjoy.  It's called LunaPix.  Check it out today!!!

Friday April 3, 2009

OFFICIAL RELEASE: My newest game Knarly Hexes is now available for both MS Windows and Mac OS X!  This is a great addictive new game that will run your mouse ragged (and keep you up until the wee hours of the morning!)  I've also updated and revised Knarly Mazes (the major changes are two entirely new puzzle sets that have NO row and column clues/indicators, and it uses my newer user interface).

Monday November 24, 2008

I've added a new image to the Sherlock page from Sandin John Denton: Sherlock-Holmes, as well as an alternate User Interface Graphics file: Sherlock-Holmes-UI.  These are absolutely gorgeous images, and you'll get the best effect by using both the image set and the UI file together.  Thanks, Sandin John!  GREAT job!!!

Friday November 21, 2008

OFFICIAL RELEASE:  My new game Scotland Yard, the sixth game in the Sherlock series, is now available!  In this game you have to determine where all of the images go (of course), but they can go pretty much ANYWHERE.  So you often FIRST have to figure out what CLASS of image belongs in a tile before you can figure out which specific image of that class belongs there.  Lots and lots of fun.  Available for both 32-bit MS Windows and Apple Mac OS X 10.4 and higher.

Thursday August 28, 2008

I've added a new puzzle set to the MESH:Hero page: SOLITAIR by Sam Shemitz.  It's a collection of 12 puzzles of the classic "jump the pegs over each other until only one is left" variety.  Thanks, Sam!

Wednesday August 13, 2008

OFFICIAL RELEASE: Apple Mac OS X demo versions of all of my games are now available on the website.  If you're a Mac user, please give them a try (but make sure you don't have anything you HAVE to do for the rest of the day!)

Monday August 11, 2008

OFFICIAL RELEASE: Apple Mac OS X versions of all of my games are now available for sale via download ONLY!  See the ORDERS page for links.  I'll have the shareware/demo versions of the games available on each game page within the next day or two.  NOTE: these are exact ports of the Windows games, so all menus and dialogs within the games (as well as the games themselves) look EXACTLY like they do on Windows.  There has been no "Macification" of the games, except for the use of the CMD key.

Friday May 9, 2008

OFFICIAL RELEASE: My new game Flipitile, and the 32-bit KINT version of Lunatile!  Give 'em a try, they're a LOT of fun!

Monday March 24, 2008

Almost exactly a year ago, David Mead sent me the latest version of his family's MESH:Hero puzzle set, INTRIGUE . They've now updated it again with 16 new levels (49 total). Again, many thanks to the David, Jonathan and Lydia!

Tuesday December 4, 2007

OFFICIAL RELEASE: My new game Knarly Branches, and the 32-bit version of the Floyd's Bumpershoot! The new version of Floyd's is pretty much the same game as before, but it does have a few new features in it.

Knarly Branches is a brand-new game. It may appear 'daunting' at first, but it's a fascinating game with lots of very subtle logic involved. The perfect game to keep you logic fans busy through the dark winter months (or the bright summer months if you're down-under... :-))).

Monday June 11, 2007

OFFICIAL RELEASE: My new game Fermat's Fences, and the 32-bit versions of the MESH:Hero games! If you already have licensed versions of the MESH:Hero games, these new versions don't bring much that's new, mostly just user-interface changes and the shift from 16-bit programs to 32-bit programs. But if you're running XP or Vista, and are having trouble running 16-bit Windows programs, these should solve the problem.

Fermat's Fences is my new game. It's very simple but (of course) LOTS of fun to play. Download the shareware version and give it a try!

Monday March 26, 2007

For MESH:Hero fans, the INTRIGUE puzzle set from David, Jonathan and Lydia Mead has been updated again with 5 new levels (33 total) and slight modification to level 28. Again, many thanks to the Mead family! Their continuing work is creating a GREAT Hero puzzle set!

Saturday February 17, 2007

My newer games (Knarly Jigs, Knarly Works 2.0, Greek Squares, Latin Squares 2.0, Baker Street, and Honeycomb Hotel 2.0) can be localized (translated into other languages). Almost all of their menu and dialog strings are stored in a separate ASCII text file, and all of the Help screens are stored in another ASCII text file. These files are reasonably easy to translate (if you happen to speak another language in addition to English :-). Those games are shipped with Danish translations (because Michael Madsen did the translations for me before the games were released). Recently, the strings (but not help) for all six games have been translated into Deutsch (German) by Stephan Schmid and into Svenska (Swedish) by Tom Törnroos. If you speak one of those languages, you can get download and installation information on the game page for each of the above games. Many thanks to Michael, Stephan, and Tom!!!

Wednesday February 7, 2007

For MESH:Hero fans, the INTRIGUE puzzle set from David, Jonathan and Lydia Mead has been updated with 4 new levels (28 total) and slight modifications to levels 7 and 17 to remove some "unwanted shortcuts". Many thanks to the Mead family!

Wednesday November 22, 2006

OFFICIAL RELEASE: Honeycomb Hotel 2.0 and my new game in the "Sherlock series", Baker Street, are now available! The shareware/demo versions are available on their respective pages, the licensed versions can be purchased online for downloading or directly from Everett Kaser Software on CD. What are you doing reading this? Get going!!!

Thursday November 16, 2006

Coming soon: Honeycomb Hotel 2.0 and a new game in the "Sherlock series", Baker Street. Target release date is November 21, although that may move a day or two one way or the other. Stay tuned!