Cavedog Entertainment
Moby ID: 70
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Cavedog Entertainment was a computer game developer based in Bothell, Washington. It was founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day in 1995 as a label and sister company to Humongous Entertainment to work on more mature titles.
The company solely released games in the Total Annihilation franchise, a series of real-time strategy games. The series' creator, Chris Taylor, left the company short after the release of the first game's expansion to set up his own company: Gas Powered Games.
Cavedog Entertainment was working on three more projects: the first-person shooter Amen: The Awakening, the episodic fantasy adventure Elysium and the adventure Good & Evil, but the 3 games were cancelled by the fall of 1999 by parent company GT Interactive. Not long after GT Interactive was purchased by Infogrames, Humongous Entertainment discarded the Cavedog label, releasing their final title Total Annihilation: Kingdoms - Iron Plague in 2000.
Most of the Cavedog developers went on to work at Gas Powered Games and Beep Industries.
Credited on 4 Games from 1997 to 2013
| Total Annihilation: Kingdoms + Expansion (2011 on Windows, Macintosh) |
| Total Annihilation: Gold Edition (1999 on Macintosh) |
| Total Annihilation: Kingdoms (1999 on Windows) |
| Total Annihilation (1997 on Windows) |
History +
- January 7, 2000
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Development of the game Amen: The Awakening is cancelled so the company can focus all inner resources on the Total Annihilation brand.
- February 5, 1997
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Company's launch announced by GT Interactive.
- 1995
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Founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelly Day.
Trivia +
On April 1, 1999, as an April Fool's Day joke, the company announced that due to legal problems with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, they had to rename the company as well as all their games and other trademarks. The company was now called Frozen Yak Entertainment, and their main game Total Annihilation was renamed Really Cool Wargame. Add-ons to the game and titles still in development at the time were also given new names. Cavedog even registered a new website complete with logos, pictures, and a press release.
Related Web Sites +
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Cavedog Entertainment
official site -
Frozen Yak Entertainment
April Fool's joke site from 1999
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 2 games with GT Interactive Software Europe Ltd.
- 2 games with GT Interactive Software France
- 2 games with Halifax S.p.A.
- 2 games with Humongous Entertainment, Inc.
- 2 games with Atari Europe S.A.S.U.
- 2 games with GT Interactive Software GmbH
- 2 games with Bandai Namco Entertainment UK Ltd.
- 2 games with Atari, Inc.
- 2 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 1 game with Mastertronic Games Ltd.
- 2 games with Rebecca Coffman
- 2 games with Jarrett Holderby
- 2 games with Brian W. Brown
- 2 games with Frank Bry
- 2 games with Rick Lambright
- 2 games with John Baron
- 2 games with Ron Gilbert
- 2 games with Clayton Kauzlaric
- 2 games with Adrian Bourne
- 2 games with Kevin Smith
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