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{{Redirect-distinguish|Bruce Jordan|Bryce Jordan}} {{Short description|British software developer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox company | name = Novagen Software Ltd | logo = Novagen Software logo.png | logo_size = 250px | industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]] | products = [[Personal computer game|Computer games]] | location_city = [[Birmingham]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://mercenarysite.free.fr/novagen_office.htm |title = The Novagen office}}</ref> | location_country = [[United Kingdom]] }} '''Novagen Software Ltd''' (commonly referred to as '''Novagen''') was a British software developer which released a number of [[computer games]] on a variety of platforms from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The company was set up by Paul Woakes and Bruce Jordan<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.sockmonsters.com/TheMakingOfMercenary.html |title = The Making of Mercenary}}</ref> and employed approximately 18 people.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://mercenarysite.free.fr/novagen.htm |title = The Novagen team}}</ref> In addition to running Novagen, Paul Woakes also developed and programmed the vast majority of the company's products {{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} and the first version of a custom loading scheme that worked ten times faster than [[Commodore International|Commodore]]'s own, which became [[Commodore 64 peripherals|Novaload]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Making of Mercenary|url=http://www.sockmonsters.com/TheMakingOfMercenary.html|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.sockmonsters.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=retroreactiv8|date=2018-02-08|title=Paul Woakes: a tribute|url=https://retroreactiv8.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/paul-woakes-a-tribute/|access-date=2020-08-22|website=RetroReactiv8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=November 1988|title=Commodore Computing International - Vol 07 No 03 (1988-11)(Croftward)(GB) - page 9 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming|url=https://archive.org/details/Commodore_Computing_International_Vol_07_No_03_1988-11_Croftward_GB|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-22|website=Internet Archive|language=en}}</ref> ==Games== * ''[[Encounter! (video game)|Encounter!]]'' (1983) Atari 8-bit, (1984) C64<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=5&page=62 |title = Redirecting}}</ref> * ''[[Mercenary (video game)#Mercenary|Mercenary]]'' (1985) Atari 8-bit, C64,<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=011&page=016&thumbstart=0&magazine=zzap&check=1 |title = Impossible to Display Scan}}</ref> C16, Plus/4, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST ** ''Mercenary: The Second City'' (1986) expansion pack for ''Mercenary'' * ''Mercenary Compendium Edition'' (1987) ''Mercenary'' + ''The Second City'' * ''Backlash'' (1988) Amiga, Atari ST<ref>{{cite web |url=http://amr.abime.net/review_15722 |title = Backlash review from AUI Vol 2 No 2 (Feb 1988) - Amiga Magazine Rack}}</ref> * ''Battle Island'' (1988) C64<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=044&page=031&thumbstart=0&magazine=zzap&check=1 |title = Impossible to Display Scan}}</ref> * ''Hell Bent'' (1989) Amiga, Atari ST<ref>{{cite web |url=http://amr.abime.net/review_30238 |title = Hellbent review from The One for 16-bit Games 5 (Feb 1989) - Amiga Magazine Rack}}</ref> * ''[[Damocles (video game)|Damocles: Mercenary II]]'' (1990) Amiga, Atari ST ** ''Damocles: Mission Disk 1'' (1991) Amiga, Atari ST ** ''Damocles: Mission Disk 2'' (1991) Amiga, Atari ST * ''Damocles Compendium Edition'' (1991) Damocles + Mission Disk 1 + Mission Disk 2 * ''Encounter'' (1991) Amiga, Atari ST * ''[[Mercenary III]]'' (1992)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/12/11/mercenary-iii-retrospective/#more-334829 | title=Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis is the Game Most Worth Saving from 1992| website=[[Rock Paper Shotgun]]| date=11 December 2015| last1=Contributor| first1=Joe Donnelly| last2=Donnelly| first2=Joe}}</ref> Amiga, Atari ST ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://mercenarysite.free.fr/novagen.htm The Novagen Team] [[Category:Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Software companies of the United Kingdom]] {{UK-videogame-company-stub}}
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