Close-up of a Trigonix board: colored triangles meet at white dots, on a wooden table.

Put theplayersfirst.

Barbed Wire Glove Games is a combat veteran–led indie studio. We make Trigonix, a color logic puzzle; Chord Scribe, chord charts for musicians; and PoolKit, a pooling plugin for Unreal Engine.

Cover: Trigonix, level 19, from the game's trailer.Barbed Wire Glove Games LLC

TrigonixColor logic puzzleFree on Google Play and the App Store

Turn the triangles. Fill every square with one color.

Play one right here. It runs the game's own rules: tap a dot and the triangles around it turn.

Square dotTurns the 4 triangles inside its square.

Corner dotTurns the 8 triangles around the point.

OutlineEach outlined square needs one color.

Live puzzle  Tap a dot. Arrow keys move between dots.

A Trigonix board: four squares split into red, yellow, green and blue triangles, with grey dots to turn them.

The puzzle needs JavaScript. You can still get the full game below.

06:30Time Trial: finish before the clock runs out.
Trigonix Time Trial: a stepped board of six colors with a 6:30 timer above it.
Moves left: 167Challenge: solve it in a set number of moves.
Trigonix Challenge mode: a large board with 167 moves left.

In the full game

Modes
Casual, Time Trial and Challenge
Levels
From simple patterns to intricate designs
Multiplayer
Real-time and cross-platform
Shop
New colors and materials for your triangles
Ads
No forced ads
Price
Free on Android and iPhone
Chord ScribeChord charts for musiciansFree on Google Play and the App Store

Your lyrics, your chords, one chart you can play from.

Free on Android and iPhone. Optional Pro adds set lists and PDF export.

  1. 1PastePaste your lyrics. Each line becomes a place to drop chords.

    Chord Scribe lyrics screen: verse and chorus lyrics pasted into the editor.
  2. 2ChartDrag chords onto the words. Nashville Numbers show each chord's place in the key of G.

    Chord Scribe chart for Streetlight Song in the key of G, with chords G, Am, Bm and C marked I, ii, iii and IV.
  3. 3PlayGroup songs into a set list and step from one to the next. Set lists come with Pro.

    Chord Scribe set list view: Friday Night Set, song 1 of 4, Streetlight Song.

What it does

Key and capo
Set both for each song
Shows
Nashville Number labels and chord diagrams
Imports
ChordPro, or chords written over lyrics
Pro
Set lists and PDF export
Price
Free, with optional Pro
PoolKitUnreal Engine pluginOn Fab and itch.io

Stop spawning the same actors over and over. Reuse them.

Swap Spawn Actor for Spawn Actor From Pool. No manager actor to place and no base class to inherit.

PoolKit demo in Unreal Engine: a fountain of colored projectiles over a grid floor, with the stats overlay in the corner.
PoolKit Debugger window: four pools with active, inactive, peak, reuse and memory columns; the decal pool shows an Undersized warning.

PoolKit.Demo 90 allPooled projectiles, decals, meshes and damage numbers. No content needed.

Reuse 89%The Debugger shows every pool live while you play in the editor.

UndersizedA warning when a pool keeps running out.

Pools
Actors, UMG widgets, sounds, Niagara, decals and static meshes
Engine
Unreal Engine 5.4 to 5.8, full C++ source
Multiplayer
Server-authoritative, on listen and dedicated servers
Tools
Auto-tune, a Debugger window and a stats overlay
Tests
27 automation tests included

Get it on FabGet it on itch.io

About 6 times less game-thread time than SpawnActor and Destroy, for the demo projectile.

Each tick is one run of PoolKit.Benchmark with 1,000 actors; the bar is the median of 10 runs. Measured on our test machine in UE 5.7. Your numbers depend on your actors.

The studioBarbed Wire Glove Games LLCCombat veteran–led

Forced ads.Not in our games, not in our apps. That's a studio rule.

Games should be fun, with the players in mind.

Barbed Wire Glove Games is a small studio led by a combat veteran. It started with Trigonix and now also makes Chord Scribe for musicians and PoolKit for Unreal Engine developers.

Questions, or found a bug? Write to Support@BarbedWireGloveGames.Games. More about the studio

Where to get them

ProductKindGoogle PlayApp StoreFabitch.ioPrice
TrigonixPuzzle gameGame Get it Get it --Free
Chord ScribeApp for musiciansApp Get it Get it --Free, optional Pro
PoolKitUnreal Engine pluginPlugin -- Get it Get it Paid