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Expert Source Code, Inc. |
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Ezra Dreisbach |
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Factor 5 GmbH
Based in San Rafael, California, originally founded in Cologne (Germany) in 1987 and privately held, Factor 5 LLC is a developer of interactive entertainment software and technology for a variety of console and computer platforms.
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Family Production
Family Production (패밀리 프로덕션) was a South Korean game developer. The team was assembled on December 15th, 1992, and registered as a company in July 1994. They went on to develop various action games for the PC; most of them were stand-alone products, with the exception of the Pee & Gity series.
The company is notable for being one of the few Korean developers who exported their games to the West. Three of their titles (Iron Blood, Rebel Runner - Operation: Digital Code and Shakii the Wolf) were released in North America and Europe.
During the late 1990's Family Production began focusing on arcade games, and were acquired by Amuse World in 1999. The team was disassembled in 2003, and many of its members (among them the former development team lead Cha Seunghee) founded Pentavision shortly afterwards.
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Family Software |
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Farr-Ware Software |
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Femo Duo Entertainment
One member of this indie development group is Chris Femo.
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Fifth Dimension Company |
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Filipe Mateus |
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First Byte |
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First Row Software Publishing, Inc.
Adventureland states that "First Row Software folded a few months after the release of Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. due to lack of funding."
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First Star Software, Inc.
Founded in 1982 by Fernando Herrera, First Star Software, Inc. developed and published games. Then in 1985, they discontinued their publishing operations to concentrate on developing and licensing software.
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Fissionchip Software |
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Flair Software Ltd.
Microvalue is a well established Software Developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the North East of England. They have developed software on most console platforms as well as for the PC and continue to produce top quality software on the cutting edge of techology. They have been developing and publishing their own computer games and sometimes involving external publishers such as the industry's giants like Konami and EA.
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FLIX Productions Animated Software
FLIX Productions is the name under which Tom Guthery IV released shareware games in the early 1990's.
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Floppy Electronic Services Ltd. |
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Florian Born |
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Forgotten Sages |
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FRACTiLE Games |
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Fragment |
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Frames |
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Frank R. Neal |
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Free Fall Associates
Founded by John Freeman and Anne Westfall, the name being a portmanteau of their last names. Both of them left Epyx in 1981 to spend more time together and to get away from the office politics at a now larger company.
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Free Lunch Design AB
Free Lunch Design is an independent game developer founded in 1998 by Johan Peitz. Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, the company's objective is to develop fun, high quality games with focus on gameplay that can be enjoyed by everyone.
During the years Free Lunch Design has produced a multitude of games for the PC platform including the immensely popular Icy Tower with millions of players all around the world.
The company was acquired by Muskedunder Interactive in 2008.
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Free Mind Software |
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Frictional Games
Frictional Games is an independent game development company located in Helsingborg, the south of Sweden. It was co-founded by Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson. They created their own 3D engine: HPL.
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Frog City Software, Inc.
Frog City Software, Inc. was a game development studio based in San Francisco (USA), founded in 1995 by the brothers Bill Spieth and Ted Spieth, and by Rachel Bernstein. They mostly developed games for Strategic Simulations, Inc.
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Frontier Developments plc
Frontier Developments is based in Cambridge, UK, and is one of the games industry's leading independent developers, having built upon the work of founder David Braben.
Frontier license games via a number of top publishers and are currently developing for PS2, GameCube, Xbox and PC. The company has a proven reputation for original game design and commercial success, and aim to revolutionise perceptions of what gaming is all about by using innovative technical and artistic approaches on all leading-edge gaming platforms.
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FTL Games |
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Fully Bugged Software |
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Funtastic, Inc.
A small software design company based in Drexel Hill, Penn. that released games in the 1980s.
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Futura |
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Future Games s.r.o.
The company Future Games s. r. o. was established on June 19, 1999. The main activity of the company at that time was development of computer games and their sale in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia.
In the first years of its existence, the company released several titles: the logical game Boovie and the adventure Messenger of Gods.
The company launched a horror adventure Messenger of Death (released abroad under the name The Black Mirror) in 2001. Because of its range, works on this project continued for almost two years and the game was released in the Czech Republic in 2003. Based on the success of that game, the company released another adventure game called Nibiru in 2005 and then in 2006 3D action / RPG Bonez Adventures.
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G.E.Leikam |
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Gagne Software |
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Gainax Co., Ltd. |
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Galifir Developments |
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Game Arts Co., Ltd.
Game Arts is a Japanese video game software developer located in Tokyo. It was founded on March 2nd, 1985. The company has produced a number of games in several genres, beginning with the action game Thexder (1985) for personal computers. Its president is Yōichi Miyaji.
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GameBuilder |
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GameLynk |
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Games Workshop Ltd.
Games Workshop Ltd. was founded in the United Kingdom in 1975. The company has been designing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing tabletop and fantasy war games, replicas and miniatures for the hobby industry for over 30 years. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange under the name Games Workshop Group PLC.
The company's most well-known brands include Warhammer and Warhammer: 40,000, plus Games Workshop holds the global license for The Lord of the Rings strategy battle games.
The company headquarters is located in Nottingham, UK, with direct sales and distribution locations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan.
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GameTek
Also Known As - GameTek, Inc. (from 1987 to 1993-10)
GameTek, Inc. was a company that developed, published, marketed and distributed a broad line of interactive entertainment, educational and productivity software for use on personal computers and Nintendo, Sega, 3DO, and Sony platforms. The company's products, included TV game shows and productivity titles for adults; action, fantasy and simulation games for teenagers; and developmental and educational titles for children.
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GameXP
Nikita Ltd. (from 1991 to 2007)
Никита Russian spelling (from 1991 to 2007)
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Gamos Ltd. |
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Gamtech
Gamtech Software was founded in 1987 by Doug Gamble, when the first two Commodore 64/128 shareware titles were released: Oakflat Nuclear Reactor Simulator and The Number Machine. In 1992 both the games were released for DOS platform and a few years later Oakflat Nuclear Reactor Simulator was ported to the Windows platform.
In recent years the company has focused on encryption software and GUI enhancements.
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Gang of Five |
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Garry F. Taylor |
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Geckosoft |
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Gee Whiz! Entertainment
Gee Whiz! Entertainment was a development studio based in Brisbane, Australia. It was formed in 1996 by the partners John Passfield and Steve Stamatiadis.
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Gene Brown |
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