Mountain King Studios Inc.
Overview
Mountain King Studios is a US development studio originally established as Cygnus Studios, Inc. (or Cygnus Software) by
Scott Host. The studio's first release was the top-down shooter
Galactix in 1992. The game attracted the attention of
Apogee and in the vein of
Galactix a similar top-down shooter was created,
Raptor: Call of the Shadows. It was released in 1994.
After that, the company worked on two more titles.
The Second Sword was an RPG based on the engine by
id Software used in
ShadowCaster, but it was abandoned. The second was
Strife, where development was eventually taken over by
Rogue Entertainment when the designer
Jim Molinets left Cygnus for Rogue, shortly followed by
Rich Fleider and
Tim Neveu.
After that Cygnus was renamed Mountain King Studios and work was started on a next top-down shooter:
DemonStar. It was released in 1998 and eventually followed up with two spin-offs based on the same engine:
DemonStar: Secret Missions 1 (2002) and
DemonStar: Secret Missions 2 (2003).
Other released titles are the puzzle game
Treasure Fall, the insect-based real-time strategy games
Swarm Assault and
Swarm Rampage,
Hypertron 2, and the shooters
Juno Nemesis and
Juno Nemesis Remix.
Also Known As
- Cygnus Multimedia Productions, Inc.
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