SingleTrac
| Company type | |
|---|---|
| Products | Twisted Metal franchise Jet Moto franchise |
SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. was an American video game developer, mostly for the PlayStation platform. The management team and much of the original development team came from Evans & Sutherland, bringing their 3D graphics and software engineering skills into the video game industry.[3] Its most famous titles were the Twisted Metal and Jet Moto video game series.
SingleTrac was founded in 1994 by Michael Ryder (the president), Todd Kelly, and Michael Bartholomew.[4]
The company's first two games, Infogrames.
The SingleTrac studio was closed down in 2000.
Lineage
A group of SingleTrac employees broke off and formed the game studio
LightBox Interactive rendering Incognito defunct.[11] Both studios would go on to develop the same two former SingleTrac franchises Incognito made entries in - Eat Sleep Play developed a PS3 entry in the Twisted Metal series and LightBox Interactive developed a spiritual successor to the Warhawk series, Starhawk. Eat Sleep Play transitioned to mobile development right before releasing its PS3 entry in the Twisted Metal series and shutting down in 2017.[12] LightBox Interactive's contract with Sony expired right after the release of Starhawk and is considered defunct since 2012.[13]
Developed games
- WarHawk (PlayStation, 1995)
- Twisted Metal (PlayStation, 1995)
- Twisted Metal 2 (PlayStation, PC, 1996)
- Jet Moto (PlayStation, PC, 1996)
- Jet Moto 2 (PlayStation, 1997)
- Critical Depth (PlayStation, 1997)
- Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 (PlayStation, 1998)
- Streak: Hoverboard Racing (PlayStation, 1998)
- Outwars (PC, 1998)
- Animorphs: Shattered Reality (PlayStation, 2000)
References
- ^ a b "GT Interactive Buys Singletrac, Makes Agreements with BMG and Warner Bros. Interactive". GamePro. No. 108. IDG. September 1997. p. 20.
Singletrac, which is also a Nintendo 64 licensee, will keep its 70 employees at the company's headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- ^ "GT Interactive Completes Acquisition Of SingleTrac, a Leading Multi-Platform Entertainment Software Developer". Business Wire. October 17, 1997. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2021 – via The Free Dictionary.
- ^ "Peacetime Programmers". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 97. Ziff Davis. August 1997. p. 72.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ "At the Deadline". GamePro. No. 87. IDG. December 1995. p. 206.
- Imagine Media. March 1997. p. 24.
- ^ "SingleTrac Joins 'Dream Team'". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 97. Ziff Davis. August 1997. p. 20.
- ^ "News Bits". GamePro. No. 106. IDG. July 1997. p. 21.
- ^ "Tidbits...". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 98. Ziff Davis. September 1997. p. 23.
- ^ Mullen, Micheal (June 18, 1997). "GT Goes on a Binge". GameSpot. Archived from the original on February 22, 1999. Retrieved July 28, 2022.
- ^ Crecente, Brian. "Warhawk's Dylan Jobe Leaves Incognito, Forms New Studio". Kotaku. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^ Crecente, Brian (26 June 2017). "Former Valve initiative CastAR shuts down". Polygon.
- ^ McWhertor, Michael (18 October 2012). "Starhawk developer LightBox Interactive hit with layoffs, moving from console development to iOS". Polygon. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
