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How Airtight Games started a console game studio with just $24,000
gameinsano.com - 8/21/2009
How Airtight Games started a console game studio with just $24,000
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In 2004, Microsoft canceled a sequel to its Crimson Skies game, prompting the game’s executive producer, Jim Deal, to leave the company to create a startup. He and his team of four other ex-Microsoft game people had $24,000 of their own money and an idea to create an action-adventure game ...
Microsoft “Destroyed” FASA Development Culture
massivedamage.com - 8/26/2009
Microsoft “Destroyed” FASA Development Culture
— massivedamage.com — FASA was once one of the most notable game development studios in the industry for creating numerous... titles based on original, noteworthy intellectual properties. Founded in 1980 by Jordan Weisman, the company published various tabletop games until getting into computer games in 1989 by ... (more) Microsoft “Destroyed” FASA Development Culture

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