GarageGames
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| legal form | Limited Liability Company |
| founding | 2000 |
| Seat | Las Vegas , Nevada , USA |
| management | Eric Preisz , CEO |
| Branch | Software development |
| Website | www.GarageGames.com |
Garage Games is a Computer Games - Publisher of Eugene , Oregon , United States. The company was founded in 2001 by former employees of the game development company Dynamix : Jeff Tunnell , Rick Overman , Tim Gift and Mark Frohnmayer worked there on the development of the computer game series Starsiege and Tribes .
When Dynamix was bought by the publisher Sierra , the four left the company. Their goal was to promote independent game developers and to offer them an inexpensive way to implement their game ideas. GarageGames acquired the rights to the source code of the game engine of the game Tribes , the so-called Torque Game Engine (at that time still V12 Engine ) from Sierra . A large community of developers, artists, musicians and sound specialists quickly formed around GarageGames. They now had the opportunity to acquire inexpensive licenses for this game engine for their game ideas.
Since the source code can also be viewed, this creates the opportunity to learn how a game engine works. After all, more than 400 man-years of development time went into this software. It is now also used in teaching at universities, mainly in the USA, and it is also used in research and in the military.
Web links
- Official website
- Garage Games at MobyGames (English)