RAD Game Tools is privately-held company based in Kirkland, Washington that develops video and computer game software technologies which are licensed primarily by video game companies. RAD Game Tools products have appeared in over 8,400 games which had shipped in over 50 million end-user games in 2001. Motto: Nickname: The Little City That Could Map Location of Kirkland within King County, Washington Political Statistics Founded 1888 Incorporated 1905 County King Borough {{{borough}}} Parrish {{{parrish}}} Mayor Mary-Alyce Burleigh Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Water 28. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Company history

They opened their doors in 1988 as a Windows programming and consulting company located in Salt Lake City, Utah. While consulting, they worked on many products, including Microsoft Golf, Starcraft, Under a Killing Moon, Norton Desktop, and Quattro Pro. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Microsoft Windows is a series of popular proprietary operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ... Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. ... Management consulting (sometimes also called strategy consulting) refers to both the practice of helping companies to improve performance through analysis of existing business problems and development of future plans, as well as to the firms that specialize in this sort of consulting. ... Nickname: Crossroads of the West Motto: Official website: http://www. ... StarCraft (SC) is a real-time strategy computer game by Blizzard Entertainment. ... Under a Killing Moon (1994) was the third installment in the Tex Murphy series of adventure games produced by Access Software. ... Quattro Pro is a spreadsheet program, from Borland, currently sold by Corel, most often as part of WordPerfect Office. ...

In late 1993, they began development of Smacker Video Technology, which was their first product that was not written for any particular company. Smacker was released in spring 1994 and, although it was designed for all video developers, it became most popular with game developers. In the several years since its release, Smacker has appeared in more than 2,600 video games. Throughout the mid-90s, over half of all PC and Mac games employed Smacker technology. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Smacker video is a video file format (with the file extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and oftenly used in computer games. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... Personal computer and peripherals. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh, or Mac, line of personal computers is designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...

In 1994, they were named the 63rd Fastest Growing Company in America by Inc. Magazine (the "Inc. 500"), and the number 1 fastest growing company in Utah. In 1995, they were still the 18th fastest growing company in Utah. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 13th 219,887 km² 435 km 565 km 3. ...

In late 1995, they acquired a sound technology product called the Miles Sound System from Miles Design. Like Smacker, Miles had been used in a huge number of games (over 3,200) and had a very loyal, even "bordering-on-rabid", following. It remains one of the most sophisticated sound system today. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In mid 1998, they moved their headquarters from Salt Lake City, Utah to Kirkland, Washington and later that year, John Miles joined RAD Game Tools as a full time employee and followed them to Kirkland. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Nickname: Crossroads of the West Motto: Official website: http://www. ... Motto: Nickname: The Little City That Could Map Location of Kirkland within King County, Washington Political Statistics Founded 1888 Incorporated 1905 County King Borough {{{borough}}} Parrish {{{parrish}}} Mayor Mary-Alyce Burleigh Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Water 28. ...

In January 1999, they acquired the RSX 3D Audio technology from Intel Corporation and integrated it directly into the Miles Sound System. 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The following article is about the multinational corporation; intel is also an abbreviation for intelligence, used in reference to military intelligence and espionage. ...

Early 1999 also marked the release of their latest video codec, Bink video, which provides better then DVD quality compression at up to three times the playback speed. Bink has gone on to be licensed for over 2,200 games and is one of the most popular video codecs for games. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Bink is a video file format (extension . ... It has been suggested that Dual layer recording be merged into this article or section. ... A video codec is a device or software module that enables the use of compression for digital video. ...

In mid 1999, Casey Muratori joined RAD Game Tools after working at Gas Powered Games and Definition 6 with Chris Hecker. He is currently working on their Granny 3D software. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Gas Powered Games is a computer game developer located in the Seattle, Washington area. ...

Granny 3D is a 3D animation product and has since been licensed for over 400 games. It was released in late 1999. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

In 2001, most of their technologies were available on contemporary video game consoles. Bink, Granny and soon the Miles Sound System were made available for the Xbox and the Nintendo GameCube. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A video game console is a dedicated electronic machine designed to play video games. ... This article is becoming very long. ... It has been suggested that Q multimedia console be merged into this article or section. ...

In late 2001, Mike Sartain joined RAD Game Tools after working on the Xbox at Microsoft. In addition to his work in the ATG group at Microsoft, Mike worked on several Microsoft games as well. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

In early 2002, Michael Abrash also joined RAD Game Tools after working on the Xbox at Microsoft. Michael is well known in the programming community, for articles about computer programming in Byte Magazine and work on the Quake engine for id software. For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Michael Abrash is best known as a technical writer and one of the top optimization and 80x86 assembly language programmers, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book Unfortunately, the original 8086 processor, the focus of the book, was several generations behind the state of the art by the time the... The front cover of the April 1981 issue of BYTE (Vol 6. ... id Software is a computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ...

In mid 2002, Steve Theodore (first company artist) started at RAD after working at Valve on Half-Life and Team Fortress 2. Steve is also well-known in the game development community, having written many articles for Game Developer magazine. For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

In 2002, they introduced Granny 2.0 which combined the dynamic 3D animation system of its predecessor with a completely new and optimized run-time engine to deliver higher performance using a small memory footprint. For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

In late 2002, they released their software 3D renderer, Pixomatic. Pixomatic is a software renderer that provides MIP mapping, bi-linear filtering, alpha-blending, alpha-test, point sprites, multi-texture, 32-bit and palettized textures, DOT-3 bump mapping, fog, specular, stencil and z-buffering, indexed primitives, multiple streams, high-speed blitting, and more. For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...

In March 2004, a well known graphics programmer specializing in real-time character animation, Tom Forsyth, joined RAD to help with various 3D graphics projects. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link

• RAD Game Tools Official Website