type private industry video game industry founded 1997 defunct february 25 2011 headquarters louisville colorado united states products jumpgate auto assault warmonger lego universe jumpgate evolution number of employees 75 website www.netdevil.com netdevil inc. stylized as netdevil was an american developer of massively multiplayer online games in louisville colorado and owned by gazillion entertainment . contents 1 history 1.1 beginnings 1.2 new location 1.3 acquisition by gazillion entertainment 1.4 departures of founders 1.5 layoffs 2 products 2.1 released 2.2 in development 3 references 4 external links history edit beginnings edit netdevil was founded in 1997 by scott brown peter grundy and steven williams in louisville a suburb north of denver colorado . before forming netdevil brown grundy and williams worked at digital creators an information technology firm located in boulder colorado . the three dreamed of being creators of their own digital worlds and began developing jumpgate a space based flight simulator mmo during their spare evenings and weekends . after a year of part time work they quit their jobs and started netdevil headquartered in the basement of scott brown s home . their first proper office was 750 square feet 70 m2 sub leased from friends with another technology company . in an interview with gamedaily scott brown shared that at one point they had fourteen people packed into one big room . 1 according to the company s website the name netdevil was chosen as a name because of the owners obsession with cool scary things that live in the deep dark waters of the world . all of the company s principals are certified scuba divers including one certified dive master . new location edit in june 2007 netdevil announced that they d completed moving into their new location in louisville colorado a nearly 30 000 sq ft 2 800 m2 office facility which includes a professional sound studio user testing facility and lego model shop . to celebrate their 10th year anniversary they hosted a party at their new location . 2 acquisition by gazillion entertainment edit in july 2008 netdevil was purchased by game publisher gazillion entertainment 3 though this fact was not made public until march 2009 . 4 departures of founders edit in the last months of 2010 all remaining founders of netdevil notably scott brown peter grundy and ryan seabury who headed the lego universe team chose to leave the company . brown and seabury started end games entertainment whose first product is a facebook game titled vorp layoffs edit in february 2011 two rounds of layoffs took place at the netdevil studio . the first round eliminated the jumpgate evolution development team . the second downsized the lego universe team and appears to be part of a deal in which gazillion passed control of development of lego universe to the lego group . this was in affect of the slow failure of lego universe . 5 products edit released edit jumpgate 2001 a massively multiplayer online flight simulator set in space . though it was initially published by 3do netdevil regained control of the game in 2002 due to 3do s bankruptcy . jumpgate was shutdown on april 30 2012 . 6 although the player community has expressed interest in acquiring the source code for jumpgate gazillion has at this time not made it available . auto assault 2006 a massively multiplayer online game that combined vehicular combat with role playing elements allowing the player to explore a post apocalyptic future in customizable cars motorcycles semis and tanks . it was published by ncsoft and shut down in 2007 . warmonger operation downtown destruction 2007 an apocalyptic first person shooter fps built around the ageia physx processor with unreal engine 3 . it featured a piece by piece destruction system and fluid and cloth based effects . 7 lego universe 2010 a children s mmo product in which lego minifigures join the nexus force to defeat the maelstrom . lego universe development largely supported netdevil from 2007 until the studio was closed by gazillion and control of the product released to lego and shut down in 2012 . in development edit jumpgate evolution in june 2007 netdevil announced plans for jumpgate evolution a remake of netdevil s first project the classic mmo jumpgate . the space based title was planned to receive a massive graphical revamp along with many new features . 8 in december 2007 netdevil announced the launch of a website for jumpgate evolution containing backstory written by keith baker in game footage screenshots and video community forums and a fan site kit available for download . this project was cancelled with the layoff of the development team in february 2011 . references edit living the dream netdevil s ten years of independent development an overview of netdevil s open house and anniversary celebration ten ton hammer netdevil now a part of gazillion entertainment netdevil acquired by gazillion entertainment ... last july 1 http www.jossh.com warcry network news netdevil branches out jumpgate evolution officially announced external links edit gazillion entertainment s website interview with peter grundy on filefront.com lego universe website warmonger downtown destruction s website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title netdevil & oldid 706709931 categories companies established in 1997companies disestablished in 2011defunct video game companiesvideo game companies of the united statesvideo game development companiescompanies based in colorado navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page 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