Merchise

Merchise was a Computer Software group created circa 1991[1] at University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas, in Santa Clara city, Cuba.

After trying and failing with "Axthor" a 2D arcade quite similar in style to Delphine Software's Another World a good opportunity opened for the group at this activity when "La Fortaleza: en las entrañas de la Bestia" (The Fortress:inside the Beast's guts) or just Fortaleza I, a text RPG created by Cepero himself gain positive reviews in Cuba and Mexico.

Since Escape was meant to solve Physics problems a team of two teachers from that Department joined the project and it was tested several times with children from different grades and schools and it finally proved that gaming was a reliable tool to teach all along.

From late 1997 to 2003, year when it finally was dismantled, most of members of former Merchise group had joined Oceanus Communications in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in their joint quest to conquer International markets.

Important from this period were visionary projects like; Skipper, online integration (WEB, FTP, Mail, News client and explorer) Netris Kombat, a Tetris style game but with net multiuser platform and weapons/defenses concept.