Cryptic Allusion

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Cryptic Allusion, LLC.

Type	Limited liability company
Founded	1995
Headquarters	Texas
Key people	Dan Potter, founder, Roddy Toomim
Industry	Video games
Products	Ghetto Pong, Feet of Fury, Marbol, KallistiOS
Revenue	not disclosed
Employees	2
Website	http://www.cagames.com/

Cryptic Allusion, LLC is an American video game and computer game developer.

[edit] History

"Cryptic Allusion" was started by Dan Potter around 1995 for the purposes of web design consulting. Since that area of the business world began to take off on its own and become crowded, the purpose of the group has been redefined several times over the years, but it has found its calling as an independent game development group. They are now Cryptic Allusion, LLC, registered in the state of Texas.

In 2000, Cryptic Allusion started the Cryptic Allusion DCDev Project, whose initial fruits of labor were libdream and KallistiOS. Both were toolkits designed to assist hobbyists and independent developers to work with the Dreamcast console, but KallistiOS is now the preferred and active project, and is developed by a group of developers on the SourceForge Free Software development site. Cryptic Allusion DCDev has slowly become GameDev, as they have started to move to other consoles as well.

Cryptic Allusion made an appearance at E3 2001 to distribute DC Tonic demo CDs to the Dreamcast fans at the show. DC Tonic has been well received and has even been reportedly mistaken for an actual commercial demo, though the developers were rushed for time in its production, and the tools used were not at a very high level of quality at the time.

In 2003, Cryptic Allusion released the first independent commercial Dreamcast game developed with KallistiOS, a multiplayer dancing and typing game entitled Feet Of Fury.

Shortly thereafter, they announced that their demo game that was included on the DC Tonic demo CD, Tryptonite, would be their next commercial Dreamcast game.

In 2005, they shifted from developing for the Dreamcast to developing shareware for Mac OS X and Windows. Their first game was Marbol, a game idea by Brian Peek of Ganksoft Entertainment, originally intended for a Dreamcast release, and demoed for the Dreamcast on the DC Tonic demo CD.

At the Midwest Gaming Classic gaming convention on June 3, 2006, it was revealed that Cryptic Allusion has returned to producing titles for the Sega Dreamcast. The titles announced were Feet of Fury 2, a remake of the Amiga CD32 game Donk. They are also coding the menu system for the upcoming arcade compilation GOAT Games.