Novagen Software

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{{Short description|British software developer}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = Novagen Software Ltd

| logo = Novagen Software logo.png

| logo_size = 250px

| industry = Video games

| products = Computer games

| location_city = Birmingham{{Cite web | url=http://mercenarysite.free.fr/novagen_office.htm |title = The Novagen office}}

| location_country = United Kingdom

}}

Novagen Software Ltd (commonly referred to as Novagen) was a British software developer which released a number of computer games on a variety of platforms from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

The company was set up by Paul Woakes and Bruce Jordan{{Cite web | url=http://www.sockmonsters.com/TheMakingOfMercenary.html |title = The Making of Mercenary}} and employed approximately 18 people.{{Cite web | url=http://mercenarysite.free.fr/novagen.htm |title = The Novagen team}} In addition to running Novagen, Paul Woakes also developed and programmed the vast majority of the company's products {{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} and the first version of a custom loading scheme that worked ten times faster than Commodore's own, which became Novaload.{{Cite web|title=The Making of Mercenary|url=http://www.sockmonsters.com/TheMakingOfMercenary.html|access-date=2020-08-22|website=www.sockmonsters.com}}{{Cite web|last=retroreactiv8|date=2018-02-08|title=Paul Woakes: a tribute|url=https://retroreactiv8.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/paul-woakes-a-tribute/|access-date=2020-08-22|website=RetroReactiv8|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=November 1988|title=Commodore Computing International - Vol 07 No 03 (1988-11)(Croftward)(GB) - page 9 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming|url=https://archive.org/details/Commodore_Computing_International_Vol_07_No_03_1988-11_Croftward_GB|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-22|website=Internet Archive|language=en}}