Luxoflux
| Luxoflux
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1997 |
| resolution | 2010 |
| Reason for dissolution | Closure by parent company Activision Blizzard |
| Seat |
Santa Monica , California , United States
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| Branch | Software development |
Luxoflux was an American video game developer based in Santa Monica , California . The trademark of Luxoflux were the company slogans, which change every time the game is restarted. For example, True Crime: New York City had 25 different ones.
history
The company was founded in 1997 by Adrian Stephens and Peter Morawiec in Santa Monica, California. Their first game was Vigliante 8 , which was developed by a staff of five people until release in 1998 and published by Activision . The immense success of the game brought the developers on the way to develop another episode for PlayStation , Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast . Each of these games was created solely with the small cast of the Luxoflux team.
Initially the company was supposed to be "Alpha Channel", but this name was already taken. "Luxoflux" was the result of mixing different syllables on a white board, and later "movement of light" was established as the meaning.
Luxoflux was acquired by Activision in October 2002 while development of True Crime: Streets of LA was underway. More than 80 people were involved in this project.
In February 2010 it was announced that Activision is closing Luxoflux.
Selection of games
- True Crime: Streets of LA (November 4, 2003)
- True Crime: New York City (November 16, 2005)
- Shrek 2 (April 28, 2004)
- Star Wars Demolition (November 16, 2000)
- Vigilante 8 (June 4, 1998)
- Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense (December 1, 1999)
- Kung Fu Panda (June 26, 2008)