Barnisan Independent software studio

Small studio.
Carefully made software.

Barnisan designs and builds games for Apple platforms, with an eye for detail, and a bias for shipping things we're proud of.

About

Barnisan is an independent software company based in the United States. We're a small studio by design: a handful of titles in development at once, each built with care and maintained for the long run.

We make games for Apple platforms. We come at it from years on the creator side of streaming, which is where the interest in things people play together came from.

What we're making

Everything is designed and developed in-house, from first sketch to release.

Pixel-art settlement on an island: three red-roofed houses, a keep and a blue warehouse on green grass, ringed by pale sand and blue sea.

Governor: Free Republic

A real-time naval strategy game. Found settlements on the islands, raise a fleet in their shipyards, and sink the raiders that come for your ports, for as long as your term holds.

Word chips from YapOff reading my, emotionally, suspicious, vegetables, sorry, this, spontaneous, emergency, in bright pink and orange on a dark purple background.

YapOff

A pass-the-phone party word game. Two to eight players, one device, no internet, built to be played round a table.

Title screen for Pale Blue Pebble: a small rocky planetoid adrift against a purple nebula, with the game's title over it.

Pale Blue Pebble

A tiny-planet terraforming game. Land on a rock barely wider than your shadow, plant it green, and see how big you can grow it before your air runs out.

iPhone & iPadIn development

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Governor: Free Republic and YapOff are both out now on the App Store, with Pale Blue Pebble in development. Get Governor: Free Republic, get YapOff, or get in touch.

Contact

For business inquiries, partnerships, press, or anything else: email is the fastest way to reach us.

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