Indie Built

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Indie Built, Inc.

logo
legal form Incorporated
founding 1983 (as Access Software)
resolution 2006
Reason for dissolution Closure by parent company Take 2
Seat Salt Lake City , Utah , USA
Branch Software development

Indie Built, Inc. was an American development studio for computer games based in Salt Lake City , Utah . The company was founded in 1983 by Bruce Carver as Access Software .

history

The adventure games based on the character Tex Murphy are among the company's best-known products . From golf game Leaderboard Golf copies were sold over a million. The Links golf game series followed in 1990, part of which appeared in 1992 under the title Microsoft Golf .

In 1999, Access Software was taken over by Microsoft , part of Microsoft Game Studios and renamed "Salt Lake Games Studio"; In 2003 it was renamed "Indie Games" again, although this name was rarely used later. In 2004 the company was finally sold to Take 2 Interactive due to inefficiency . There it became part of the label 2K Sports under the new name “Indie Built” in January 2005 , under which the sports simulations Amped 3 and Top Spin 2 for the Xbox 360 were published.

On April 28, 2006, the studio was unexpectedly closed to the public.

Projects

  • Tex Murphy Games - PC
    1. Mean Streets (1989)
    2. Martian Memorandum (1991)
    3. Under a Killing Moon (1994)
    4. The Pandora Directive (1996)
    5. Tex Murphy: Overseer (1998)
  • World Class Leaderboard
  • Links series (1990 to 2004) - PC, Amiga , Macintosh, Xbox
    1. Links - The Challenge of Golf
    2. Links 386 Pro
  • Amped series (2001 to 2005) - Xbox, Xbox 360
  • Top Spin series in collaboration with Power and Magic (2003 to 2006) - PC, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IGN.com of April 19, 1999: Microsoft Buys Access (Engl.)
  2. ↑ IGN.com of December 17, 2004: Take-Two Picks Up Amped Team (Eng.)
  3. ↑ IGN.com of May 1, 2006: Take-Two Closes Indie Built (English)