Frog City Software
| Former type | Subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive |
|---|---|
| Industry | Interactive entertainment |
| Fate | Shut-down |
| Founded | San Francisco, California, U.S. (1995) |
| Defunct | 2006 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Key people | Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein |
| Products | Imperialism series Trade Empires Tropico 2: Pirate Cove |
| Website | www.frogcity.com (no longer online) |
Frog City Software was a video game developer which focused on strategy games, opened in 1995. Frog City Software was a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive until they closed it in 2006.
The company was founded by the brothers Bill Spieth and Ted Spieth and by Rachel Bernstein.[1][2]
In 2004 Frog City was bought by Gathering, which was itself bought by Take 2 Interactive in 2005.[3]
Frog City was shut down in 2006; it was the fourth game development studio to be shut down by Take-Two Interactive during that year.[4] In April of that year, veterans of Frog City including the founders Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein[5] started a new game development studio called Sidecar Studios.[6]
In 2007 Bernstein joined Electronic Arts as a Senior Producer.
[edit] Games developed
- Imperialism, 1997.
- Imperialism II: Age of Exploration, 1999.
- Trade Empires, 2001. - Used the AXVI game engine, initially designed for Pantheon.[7]
- Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, 2003.
- Snow , 2005. - Strategy game about drug trafficking[8] that was cancelled in 2006.[9]
- Pantheon, 1998 - This game, which would use Frog City's new AXVI engine, was a RTS, role-playing video game about the Greek gods, but its development was cancelled in 2000.[10]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.the-underdogs.info/company.php?name=Frog+City
- ^ http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3013/postmortem_frog_citys_trade_.php?page=1
- ^ http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html
- ^ http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10578
- ^ http://sidecarstudios.com/personnel.html
- ^ http://sidecarstudios.com/news.html
- ^ http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html
- ^ http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html
- ^ http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10578
- ^ http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html
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