interactive entertainment founded eugene oregon u.s. 2000 founder jeff tunnell tim gift rick overman mark frohnmayer headquarters vancouver wa u.s. area served worldwide key people eric preisz ceo products torque 3d torque 2d itorque 2d torque x website www.garagegames.com garagegames is a game technology and software developer . garagegames is also the parent company to gg interactive developers of educational technology in the areas of computer science video game development and programming . in addition the company has been a video game developer and publisher . garagegames created several game engines targeted for indie development . originally founded in eugene oregon the company now has offices in las vegas nevada united states and its headquarters in vancouver washington . in 2007 garagegames was acquired by iac 1 and the company was renamed torquepowered . in 2011 the company was purchased by graham software development and reverted to the original name garagegames . contents 1 history 2 torque 3 game development 4 references 5 external links history edit see also instantaction garagegames was founded in eugene oregon in 2000 by jeff tunnell tim gift rick overman and mark frohnmayer . working in their garage on severance checks the founders derived the name garagegames as a play off the term garage band and is meant to evoke a similar attitude in game development . the stated goal of the original founders of garagegames was to offer licensing of game engines to virtually anyone allowing independent game makers more options in developing and publishing video games . in 2001 garagegames released the torque game engine . it was used to create the tribes game series and was released at an initial price point to allow independent game developers access . later the company expanded its product lines with additional tools and more advanced engines and introduced tiered licensing . in 2005 the company introduced enterprise licenses for large companies and educational institutions available for annual fees ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year . in 2006 its developer community surpassed 100 000 users . over its history the company launched several of its own games including marble blast ultra for microsoft windows and xbox live arcade . citation needed in 2006 garagegames acquired bravetree technologies developers of think tanks and real time networked multiplayer physics technology . citation needed in 2007 barry diller and interactive corporation nasd iaci acquired a majority interest in garagegames for an estimated 80 100m in cash 2 and renamed the company instantaction . 3 interactive corporation later bought out the remainder of garagegames equity for an undisclosed sum and on july 15 2009 louis castle notable for his command & conquer series would become the ceo of garagegames and instantaction . 4 the company headquarters were subsequently moved to las vegas with some employees relocating to portland oregon . shortly after the move the garagegames brand was retired . citation needed on november 11 2010 it was announced that iac was shutting down instantaction and the intellectual property for the torque game engine would be sold off . 5 on january 20 2011 the torque engine and garagegames brand was purchased and the company was re launched as garagegames once again with new ceo eric preisz . the company moved to a new office in las vegas nevada . 6 in 2011 garagegames began doing game and technology based service work . the company created the microsoft digital literacy program for windows 8 and an undisclosed project for a world famous theme park . the company also created game based learning courses for online colleges in the areas of criminal justice customer service and career development . citation needed in 2014 garagegames ceo eric preisz announced the establishment of gg interactive a subsidiary of garagegames that would focus on bringing game design game programming and game development courses to middle schools high schools and colleges . under the product name dev pro game development curriculum the company offers digital education courses in the areas of computer science game design and programming . offices for gg interactive were established in vancouver washington while the las vegas offices remained open . citation needed torque edit main article torque game engine garagegames originally offered the torque game engine for sale in 2000 offering the technology under a per seat indie license . 7 garagegames also offered commercial licensing options to companies with more than 250 000 in annual revenues . in september 2012 garagegames announced that both the torque 2d engine and torque 3d engine would be offered free as an open source mit license . citation needed torque is primarily a video game development technology . various versions of the engine have been used to develop more than 200 published games . 8 it has been licensed by electronic arts nc soft sony disney vivendi universal hasbro and many other game teams and publishers and it s officially supported middleware for microsoft and nintendo . citation needed torque is also used for non game applications like serious games and virtual worlds . it s been licensed by nasa l3 lockheed martin and it has been used for dozens of virtual worlds applications like onverse 9 and by ibm for internal and external training simulations . 10 torque is currently used for education in more than 200 schools and universities worldwide . 11 game development edit title system release date genre ref s chain reaction windows puzzle citation needed fallen empire legions windows 000000002008 01 01 00002008 action citation needed legions overdrive windows 000000002010 12 20 0000december 20 2010 action citation needed marble blast gold linux 000000002002 09 01 0000september 1 2002 platform puzzle citation needed macintosh citation needed windows citation needed xbox live arcade citation needed marble blast ultra xbox 360 000000002 006 01 25 0000january 25 2006 platform puzzle citation needed rack em up roadtrip windows sport citation needed rokkitball windows 000000002008 04 01 0000april 2008 action sport citation needed think tanks windows 000000002005 01 01 00002005 action 12 xbox live arcade 13 z.a.p. windows 000000002008 03 01 0000march 2008 action 14 tribes 2 windows 000000002001 03 30 0000march 30 2001 first person shooter 15 references edit iac interactivecorp takes game designer stake . wall street journal . 2007 09 18 . retrieved 2012 06 30 . barry diller s web gaming play . bloomberg.com . iac s grand acquisitor . fast company . 2007 12 01 . retrieved 2012 06 30 . lou castle to head up instantaction as new ceo . industrygamers.com . retrieved 2012 06 30 . november update eric preisz blogs community garagegames.com . torquepowered.com . retrieved 2012 06 17 . welcome back garagegames . garagegames.com . 2011 01 20 . retrieved 2012 06 30 . torque game engine engine details . devmaster.net . products torque powered . . garagegames . 2006 09 21 . retrieved 2012 06 30 . the world is your playground with onverse . garagegames.com . 2009 08 31 . retrieved 2012 06 30 . blog archive the ibm innovate quick internal metaverse project . eightbar . 2007 05 08 . retrieved 2012 06 30 . solutions education . . garagegames . retrieved 2012 06 30 . . ign http www.ign.com games thinktanks pc 664193 . missing or empty title help garagegames acquires bravetree . gamasutra . retrieved 2012 06 30 . . ign http www.ign.com games zap pc 14345198 . missing or empty title help . gamespot http www.gamespot.com tribes 2 reviews . missing or empty title help external links edit official website garagegames s channel on youtube garagegames on facebook garagegames on twitter garagegames on mobygames garagegames community official garagegames community v t e garagegames game engine torque developed games legions overdrive marble blast gold marble blast ultra realm wars zap 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