Sometimes you realize you need a fresh start.

When we started Handelabra Studio, we knew that we wanted to explore many different types of applications, only one of which was games. But the experience of making Uncle Slam showed us that gaming isn't just another type of app. It's our passion. We realized that we wanted to make games, games and more games.

Turning a ship like Handelabra is no small task so it was important, once we decided on this new direction, to get the right people on our team to help us execute this change in the best way possible. The way this would manifest itself would be a combination of the right team, the right partners and the right project.

The Project

If you are a gamer, and a fan of ours, you've probably played Uncle Slam. But we've had another app in our stable for more than a year now called Sentinels Sidekick. Not a game in and of itself, Sentinels Sidekick is a companion app for a tabletop card game called Sentinels of the Multiverse. Sentinels is a cooperative game where up to five players take on the personas of super heroes to battle villains and save the world. As most tabletop games do, Sentinels has a lot of "bookkeeping" involved while you play and Sentinels Sidekick makes that process easier to manage. But in our heart of hearts, we've always really wanted to try our hand at bringing this game into the digital world.

And so, we're happy to announce that the first project of the newly minted Handelabra Games Inc. will be Sentinels of the Multiverse, coming to iPads and Android Tablets in Spring 2014.