Simutronics Corporation
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Simutronics Corporation was founded in 1987. Incorporated in Virginia, Simutronics has offices in the St. Louis, Missouri and Washington, DC areas with more than 300 employees and contractors around the world. The company is privately held.
Simutronics is one of the pioneers of the multiplayer online gaming experience. The company started off with GemStone II on GEnie, in the late 80's, which quickly evolved into GemStone III, a pay for play MUD type game. Their next game was CyberStrike which became Game of the Year in 1993 as an online graphical "mech" game, the first of its type.
Simutronics capitalized on its Interactive Fiction Engine that ran GemStone III by developing DragonRealms, Modus Operandi (in partnership with Time-Warner) and Hercules and Xena: Alliance of Heroes. Many of these games continue to be available at Simutronics' web site (www.play.net), and have loyal fans.
In 1998, Simutronics made its foray into 3D accelerated games by teaming with Publisher 989 (soon to be Verant Interactive / Sony) and putting out CyberStrike 2, a mech game that recreated the excitement of the original game.
The latest in the Gemstone saga is GemStone IV, which they state is "the longest-running text-based game in the industry".
Their current project is Hero's Journey, a 3D massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG).
Credited on 10 Games from 1988 to 2022
| Galahad 3093 (2022 on Windows) |
| Siege: World War II (2018 on iPhone, iPad, Android) |
| Lara Croft: Relic Run (2015 on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone...) |
| One Epic Knight (2012 on iPhone, Android, iPad) |
| Fantasy University (2010 on Browser) |
| GemStone IV (2003 on Windows, Macintosh, Browser) |
| CyberStrike 2 (1998 on Windows) |
| DragonRealms (1996 on Macintosh, Windows) |
| CyberStrike (1994 on DOS) |
| GemStone ][ (1988 on Amiga, Apple II, DOS...) |
History +
- 1987
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The company is founded.
Trivia +
Company location and contact information (Jan. 2008):
Simutronics Corp.
349 Main Street
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878
Company phone: +1-301-330-0726
Company Fax: +1-301-330-1959
Company email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.play.net
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Simutronics Corporation
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Simutronics Timeline
a detailed timeline of the company and its products
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 2 games with Google LLC
- 2 games with Unity Technologies ApS
- 2 games with Valve Corporation
- 1 game with Square Enix Limited
- 1 game with Playsoft Sp. z o.o.
- 1 game with MicroProse Software, Inc.
- 1 game with Prime31
- 1 game with 989 Studios
- 1 game with Firelight Technologies Pty. Ltd.
- 6 games with David Whatley
- 4 games with Josh Stover
- 4 games with Chris Moore
- 4 games with Mike Anderson
- 3 games with Bryan Files
- 3 games with Tracy Butler
- 3 games with John Donham
- 3 games with Tom Tayon
- 3 games with John W. Ratcliff
- 3 games with Jeff Gatlin
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