Dynamix

Short description: American video game developer

Dynamix, Inc.

Type| Subsidiary
Industry| Video games
Founded| 1984; 42 years ago (1984)
Founder| Jeff Tunnell
Damon Slye
Defunct| August 14, 2001 (2001-08-14);[1][2] 25 years ago
Headquarters|

Eugene, Oregon

U.S.

Owner| Sierra On-Line (1990–2001)
Website| dynamix.com (archived)

Dynamix, Inc. was an American developer of video games from 1984 to 2001, best known for the flight simulator Red Baron, the puzzle game The Incredible Machine, the Front Page Sports series, Betrayal at Krondor, and the online multiplayer game Tribes.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Torque Game Engine
* 3 List of games developed by Dynamix
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

The company was founded in Eugene, Oregon in 1984 by Jeff Tunnell and Damon Slye. Their first title, Stellar 7, was released before company founding and was later remade with the Dynamix name on it. They made a number of games for the Commodore 64, among them Project Firestart, which was one of the most atmospheric titles for the C64.

In the following years, Dynamix created a line of action games for Penguin Software and Electronic Arts, including one of the first games for the Amiga, Arcticfox. Later titles were developed for Activision. After self-publishing their games for a short while, in 1990 Dynamix was bought by Sierra On-Line.

Dynamix had published A-10 Tank Killer and distributed it through Mediagenic, but the acquisition occurred during the development of Red Baron, which became the first game in Dynamix's "Great Warplanes" flight simulator series published by Sierra.[3] Dynamix created some of their most famous games, including a line of adventures and simulators that included Red Baron and The Adventures of Willy Beamish. They also created the puzzle game The Incredible Machine, along with the spinoff Sid & Al's Incredible Toons. Another successful product line was the Front Page Sports series, designed by Pat Cook and Allen McPheeters which included Football, Baseball, and Golf. Versions of Red Baron and Front Page Sports Football were included as part of the ImagiNation Network.

As a developer, Dynamix was notable for their early use of digitized graphics, animations and sounds effects in PC, Atari ST and Amiga games. The techniques were first used in 1988 in Pete Rose Pennant Fever, and used most notably in movie tie-in games like Die Hard and Ghostbusters II, as well as David Wolf and Death Track.

By 1994 Slye agreed with a Computer Gaming World statement that "Now when someone hears 'Dynamix' they immediately think 'flight simulator'".[3] In 1994, the first game in a new series called Metaltech was released, a giant robot combat game with similarities to the BattleTech universe and games. This series resulted in two Earthsiege games and eventually Starsiege. As a side development of the Starsiege game, the successful Tribes series was created. Dynamix also created Outpost 2, the second game in Sierra's strategy/survival franchise, Outpost.

The Dynamix studio was closed by Sierra On-Line on August 14, 2001, as part of Sierra's restructuring under Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing. Several veterans of the studio (including Tunnell), however, stayed in Eugene and founded a new studio / electronic publisher, GarageGames.

## Torque Game Engine

Some of the core Dynamix members started GarageGames, an independent-friendly engine developer and game publisher. They negotiated an agreement with Sierra for the source code to the Tribes 2 game engine. After reworking the code, GarageGames released it as a V12 but were soon told that an engine already had the name, so it was then called the Torque Game Engine (or TGE). The source code for TGE, a professional-grade 3D engine, was available to nearly anyone for fees starting at United States dollar $100, but has since been released as open source under the MIT License.

## List of games developed by Dynamix

Title | Release | Publisher

|
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Stellar 7 | 1983 (Apple II)
1984 (C64)  | Software Entertainment Company
Penguin Software (C64)
Sword of Kadash | 1985 (Apple II, C64)
1986 (Atari ST, MacOS)  | Penguin Software
Polarware (MacOS)
Skyfox (ports only)  | 1986 (Atari ST, MacOS)  | Electronic Arts
Arcticfox | 1986 (Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64)
1987 (DOS)
1988 (Amstrad CPC, PC-98, ZX Spectrum)
1989 (MSX)  | Electronic Arts
DROsoft (MSX)
GBA Championship Basketball | 1986 (Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, DOS)
1987 (Apple IIGS, ZX Spectrum)  | Activision
Championship Baseball | 1987 (Amiga, Atari ST)  | Activision
Skyfox II | 1987 (C64)
1988 (Amiga, DOS)
1989 (Atari ST)  | Electronic Arts
The Train | 1988 (DOS)  | Accolade
Pete Rose Pennant Fever | 1988 (DOS)  | Gamestar, Inc.
Caveman Ughlympics | 1988 (C64)
1989 (DOS)
1990 (NES)  | Electronic Arts
Data East (NES)
F-14 Tomcat | 1988 (C64)
1990 (DOS)  | Activision
Abrams Battle Tank | 1989 (DOS)
1991 (Genesis)  | Electronic Arts
Sega (Genesis)
Motocross | 1989 (DOS)  | Gamestar, Inc.
MechWarrior | 1989 (DOS)
1992 (X68000)
1993 (PC-98)  | Activision
Cross Media Soft (PC-98, X68000)
A-10 Tank Killer | 1989 (DOS)
1991 (Amiga)  | Dynamix
Ghostbusters II | 1989 (DOS)  | Activision
Deathtrack | 1989 (DOS)  | Activision
Die Hard | 1989 (C64, DOS)  | Activision
David Wolf | 1989 (DOS)  | Dynamix
Project Firestart | 1989 (C64)  | Electronic Arts
Stellar 7 (re-release) | 1990 (DOS)
1991 (Amiga)
1993 (MacOS)  | Dynamix
Red Baron | 1990 (DOS)
1992 (Amiga, MacOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Rise of the Dragon | 1990 (DOS)
1991 (Amiga, MacOS)
1992 (Sega CD)
2017 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Dynamix (Sega CD)
Activision (Windows)
The Adventures of Willy Beamish | 1991 (DOS)
1992 (Amiga, MacOS)
1993 (Sega CD)
2017 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Sega (Sega CD)
Activision (Windows)
Nova 9 | 1991 (DOS)
1992 (Amiga)  | Sierra On-Line
Heart of China | 1991 (Amiga, DOS)
1992 (MacOS)
2017 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Dynamix (DOS)
Activision (Windows)
Red Baron: Mission Builder | 1991 (DOS)  | Sierra On-Line
WWII: 1946 | 1992 (DOS, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
Aces of the Pacific | 1992 (DOS, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
The Incredible Machine | 1992 (DOS)
1994 (3DO)  | Sierra On-Line
Dynamix (3DO)
Front Page Sports Football | 1992 (DOS)  | Dynamix
Stellar 7 | 1993 (3DO)  | Dynamix (3DO)
Stellar-Fire | 1993 (Sega CD)  | Dynamix
Sid & Al's Incredible Toons | 1993 (DOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Betrayal at Krondor | 1993 (DOS)
2010 (Windows)  | Dynamix
Activision (Windows)
Alien Legacy | 1993 (DOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Space Quest V | 1993 (DOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Front Page Sports Football Pro | 1993 (DOS)  | Dynamix
Aces Over Europe | 1993 (DOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Take a Break! Pinball | 1993 (Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
Sierra Soccer | 1994 (Amiga)  | Sierra On-Line
Metaltech | 1994 (DOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Metaltech | 1994 (DOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Front Page Sports: Baseball '94 | 1994 (DOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Bouncers | 1994 (Sega CD)  | Sega
3-D Ultra Pinball | 1995 (Windows, Windows 3.x, MacOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Command: Aces of the Deep | 1995 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
The Incredible Machine 3 | 1995 (Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
Earthsiege 2 | 1995 (Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
Aces of the Deep Expansion Disk | 1995 (DOS, Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
Trophy Bass | 1995 (Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
Silent Thunder | 1996 (Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
MissionForce | 1996 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Front Page Sports: Trophy Bass 2 | 1996 (Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night | 1996 (Windows, Windows 3.x, MacOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Hunter Hunted | 1996 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Front Page Sports: Trophy Bass 2 - Northern Lakes | 1997 (Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent | 1997 (MacOS, Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
Red Baron II | 1997 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Front Page Sports: Trophy Rivers | 1997 (Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Sierra On-Line
Front Page Sports | 1997 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Red Baron With Mission Builder | 1997 (DOS, Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Outpost 2 | 1997 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Sierra Pro Pilot 98: The Complete Flight Simulator | 1997 (Windows)[4] | Sierra On-Line
3-D Ultra NASCAR Pinball | 1998 (Windows)
1999 (MacOS)  | Sierra On-Line
Starsiege | 1998 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Starsiege | 1998 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
CyberStorm 2 | 1998 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Pro Pilot '99 | 1998 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Red Baron 3-D | 1998 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Driver's Education '99 | 1998(Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Field & Stream: Trophy Bass 3D | 1999 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Curse You! Red Baron | 1999 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
3D Ultra Lionel Traintown | 1999 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
3-D Ultra Radio Control Racers | 1999 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
3-D Ultra Cool Pool | 1999 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Field & Stream: Trophy Bass 4 | 2000 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Field & Stream: Trophy Hunting 4 | 2000 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Return of the Incredible Machine | 2000 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
RC Racers II | 2000 (Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Tribes 2 | 2001 (Linux, Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions | 2001 (MacOS, Palm OS, Windows)  | Sierra On-Line
Mini Golf Maniacs (Unreleased)  | 2001 (Windows, PS2)  | Sierra On-Line

## References

1. ↑ "Sierra shifts course". https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sierra-shifts-course/1100-2804424/.
2. ↑ "Sierra reorganizes its operations". https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sierra-reorganizes-its-operations/1100-2804362/.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Basham, Tom (May 1994). "Ace Over The PC". Computer Gaming World: 72–76. http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=118.
4. ↑ "A Civilian Flight Simulator For Everyone". December 5, 1997. Archived from the original on June 27, 1998. https://web.archive.org/web/19980627112336/http://www.dynamix.com:80/pr/pp-pr.html. Retrieved April 24, 2022.

## External links

* Official website via Internet Archive
* Dynamix at MobyGames

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