Juggleware’s long-standing immensely popular multiplayer game Conqueror! now can be played solo. (Before you had to log in to the server and create a private game in the Lobby to test your skill against the AI’s.)

Conqueror! is a free, original turn-based empire strategy game for fans of games like Risk and Civilization, but want a shorter game than Civilization, and Risk can be a little too simplistic (nothing but dice rolling, really). A game of Conqueror! can be as short as 30 minutes, and our ingenious system of simultaneous move-planning means that as little time is wasted during network games as possible, unlike other games where one player moves at a time.

Conqueror! Screenshot of a game in progress.

It’s not just about moving armies, but supporting your troops, and your population while building your culture and influence. An empire that grows too fast in Conqueror! will surely fall as quickly and leaving a province unguarded an unhappy will certainly lead to its rebellion.

Conqueror! has 10,000 registered members and nearly a million logins logged (and that’s since we started counting). It’s playable with the latest version of the free Adobe Shockwave player. A downloadable version of the game will be available soon.

It’s a new year and a new era!

Juggleware’s debut iPhone app, Freedom Time, as many of you so cleverly noticed, was an application with a time-specific usage. Funny, it just happened to coincide with the inauguration of President Obama.

For those of you who were lucky enough to get the banned iPhone app, or even bothered to look at the Flash version on the site, you’ll see that the time began to move forward at the precise instant^* of the swearing in of President Obama at the inauguration, and the text end of an error changed to time to clear some brush!

So it’s a kind of forced obsolescence, but it’s still functional for those who wish to count the days, hours, minutes and seconds since the Bush regime, it’s still working. And in all humility, we were the first to pat ourselves on the back for the nifty symbolism of time moving forward from that moment on.

We’re not giving away any more copies of the app however. We’re moving onward and upward!

In that respect, we hope to have some nifty games for the iPhone in 2009. Keep checking back for news on the latest.

* actually, the precise scheduled moment; he was sworn in a few minutes late and the clock actually ran out during Yo Yo Ma’s cello introduction.