Richard Garfield Working on New Game

Mind Control Software and Richard Garfield, the legendary creator of Magic: the Gathering, have just announced collaboration on an upcoming digital strategy game called Mind Twist.

Mind Twist will be supported by microtransaction purchases of pre-constructed armies. These armies can be customized to the player's liking just like a deck of cards in a TCG. It will be a head-to-head, free-to-play strategy game available on iPhone as an application and on Facebook. And of course, all players will start the game out with a starter Army so that you can explore Mind Twist and potentially get addicted.

Garfield is also joining Mind Control's advisory board, with promises to work on future products.

As a big Magic fan, I'm personally excited about this announcement. Particularly because it's free to play and putting it on Facebook will make it widely available. Should be an interesting game to follow...

Teaser site:
http://www.mind-control.com/mindtwist/

More info from Gamasutra:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24498