Mountain King Studios Inc.
Moby ID: 506
- Cygnus Studios Inc. (from 1994 to 1995-12)
- Cygnus Software Inc. (from 1991 to 1994)
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Mountain King Studios is a US development studio originally established as Cygnus Software (later renamed to Cygnus Studios) 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.
The company also worked on two more titles. The Second Sword was a 3D RPG based on the engine by id Software used in ShadowCaster, but it was abandoned during the work on Raptor. 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 Scott Host moved back to Chicago, renamed Cygnus to Mountain King Studios and started (with Matt Murphy) a 3D RPG game called Mantra. After a year being half way done they stopped Mantra 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.
Credited on 10 Games from 1992 to 2003
| DemonStar: Secret Missions 2 (2003 on Windows) |
| Juno Nemesis Remix (2003 on Windows) |
| DemonStar: Secret Missions 1 (2002 on Windows) |
| Swarm Rampage (2002 on Windows) |
| Xarlor (2000 on Windows) |
| Swarm Assault (1999 on Windows) |
| DemonStar (1997 on Windows, Macintosh) |
| Raptor: Call of the Shadows (1994 on Linux, DOS, Windows...) |
| Hamsters (1994 on DOS) |
| Galactix (1992 on DOS, Windows) |
History +
- December 1995
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Cygnus Studios is renamed to Mountain King Studios.
- 1991
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Company founded by Scott Host.
Trivia +
id Software moved Cygnus Studios into an office next to theirs while they were making Raptor: Call of the Shadows so they could work on Strife when they were finished with it.
Company name and address (1992)
Cygnus Software Inc.
Suite 309
98 W. 63rd Street
Willowbrook
Illinois 60514
United States of America
Related Web Sites +
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Mountain King Studios Inc.
official site
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 2 games with Gate 5 Creations
- 1 game with Apogee Software, Ltd.
- 1 game with 3D Realms Entertainment ApS
- 1 game with WizardWorks Group, Inc.
- 1 game with Manaccom Pty Ltd.
- 1 game with ionos, Inc.
- 1 game with BitWise Computer Software
- 1 game with Apple Inc.
- 1 game with InterQuest Productions
- 1 game with Digital River, Inc.
- 7 games with Scott Host
- 3 games with Rodney Smith
- 3 games with Eddie Retelj
- 3 games with Marcus Knudsen
- 2 games with Jim Molinets
- 2 games with Terry Herrin
- 2 games with Paul Radek
- 2 games with Robert Prince
- 2 games with Rich Fleider
- 2 games with Kevin Blackman
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