n-Space

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.{{cite web |last=Wade |first=Kenneth Kyle |title=Meeting n-Space |url=http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=321&page=1 |website=N-sider.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222155016/http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=321&page=1 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |date=August 18, 2005|page=1}} This led to a series of contracts with Sega for the development of the Model 1 and Model 2 arcade boards.{{cite web |title=Sega Model 2 |url=https://segaretro.org/Sega_Model_2 |website=Sega Retro |access-date=4 September 2019 |language=en}} 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.{{cite magazine|title=Peacetime Programmers|magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly|issue=97 |publisher=Ziff Davis |date=August 1997|page=72}} The trio worked with director Hiroshi Kataoka and the head of the Sega AM2 division, Yu Suzuki. In 1994, Dyke, O’Leary, and Purcell founded n-Space with funding from Sony Computer Entertainment of America to develop games on the newly launched Sony PlayStation console. n-Space launched their first video game in 1997 for PlayStation, Tiger Shark.{{cite web |last=Wade |first=Kenneth Kyle |title=Meeting n-Space |url=http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=321&page=2 |website=N-sider.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222155017/http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=321&page=2 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |date=August 18, 2005|page=2}}

In 2011, n-Space announced their largest project yet: developing an all-new property from the ground-up, made exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS in cooperation with Square Enix. This property is Heroes of Ruin and was launched in June 2012. In 2015, n-Space released their first independent title, Sword Coast Legends, with Digital Extremes. It is a role-playing game set within the Dungeons & Dragons universe.{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/12/new-dungeons-dragons-game-storm-coast-legends-coming-in-2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150212162002/http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/12/new-dungeons-dragons-game-storm-coast-legends-coming-in-2015|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 12, 2015|title=New Dungeons & Dragons Game Sword Coast Legends coming in 2015|author=Jared Petty|work=IGN|date=2015-02-13|access-date=2015-02-13}} On March 29, 2016, it was announced that n-Space had closed down, 22 years after its founding.

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