n-Space Inc. was an American

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founded in 1994 by Erick S. Dyke, Dan O'Leary, and Sean Purcell. It developed games on nearly a dozen different platforms, but was mostly focused on Nintendo consoles and handhelds in particular since 2001. The game ''

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'' was a second-party project, developed in cooperation with Nintendo. In March 2016, it was announced that n-Space had closed down.

History

n-Space founders Erick S. Dyke and Sean Purcell met while working at General Electric Aerospace (now part of Lockheed Martin) to create advanced military simulators. In 1991, GE Aerospace began to explore the possibility of using its 3D technology for commercial applications. This led to a series of contracts with Sega for the development of the

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and Model 2 arcade boards. Dyke, O’Leary, and Purcell spent two months working with Sega in Japan to complete the development of one of the first Model 2 arcade titles, ''Desert Tank''. The trio worked with director

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and the head of the

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division,

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. In 1994, Dyke, O’Leary, and Purcell founded n-Space with funding from

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to develop games on the newly launched

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console. n-Space launched their first video game in 1997 for PlayStation, ''Tiger Shark''. In 2011, n-Space announced their largest project yet: developing an all-new property from the ground-up, made exclusively for the

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in cooperation with

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. This property is ''

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'' and was launched in June 2012. In 2015, n-Space released their first independent title, ''

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'', with

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. The game is a

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set within the ''

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'' universe. On March 29, 2016, it was announced that n-Space had closed down, 22 years after its founding.

Games developed

Cancelled projects

External links

References

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