| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer and video game industry |
| Founded | 1993[1] |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Products | Video games |
| Website | http://www.logicfactory.com/ |
The Logic Factory is an award-winning video game development company founded by Jason and Todd Templeman in 1993.[2] The company is responsible for Ascendancy (1995), a turn-based science fiction strategy game for the PC, The Tone Rebellion (1997), and Ascendancy for mobile gaming on the iOS platform (2011).
Several years after the release of The Tone Rebellion The Logic Factory revealed several other projects they had been working on, including Ascendancy II, Fire, and a new 3D game engine called "Hydra".[3] Hydra was an "in-house 3D game engine" that "took more than a year of effort and more than $2 million to create". It is a "portable, discreet package of developer resources that ... [had] multiple applications for inputting interactive music, full 3d worlds and the objects and actions that are incorporated into them". It would also be portable across platforms.[3]
Ascendancy II will "take the same fundamental principles of galactic exploration and encounter ... [as] the original ... and modernize and translate them to work in a persistent online multiplayer universe".[3] It will be made using the Hydra engine. Fire meanwhile would "utilize the 3d world creation capabilities of our Hydra development engine to create a ... fire fighting simulation that is simple to use, but hard to master".[3]