Some of the late 90s / early 2000s games were under development by other companies at one time, but rights to the game programs and all of the existing code was bought and finished by other developers.

The study found that test users became discouraged when items flagged as needing attention were marked as lower priority by the software developers.

Researchers note that developers began to limit seeking input from test users after the test users suggested remedies the developers felt were improbable, leading the developers to believe consulting the test users would only prove to be more work.

The main developers of the Altai system were VNIIS ( Voronezh Science Research Institute of Communications ) and GSPI ( State Specialized Project Institute ).

In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £ 1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.

With the advent of the free software movement, license schemes were created to give developers more freedom in terms of code sharing.

Programmers complained that it was too hard to write drivers for NT, and hardware developers were not going to go through the trouble of developing drivers for a small segment of the market.

It should be noted that Quake IV and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars were made by outside developers and not Id.

Initially, some users of the Kazaa network were users of the Morpheus client program, formerly made available by MusicCity, but once the official Kazaa client became more widespread, Kazaa developers used its automatic update ability to shut out Morpheus clients by changing the protocol in February 2002, when Morpheus developers failed to pay license fees.

Other early contributors were Bell Labs developers Mike Veach and Pat Sullivan, who wrote the Emacs-and vi-style line editing modes ′ code, respectively.

Numerous game developers were recruited to produce games for the system, including Jeff Minter's Llamasoft, Electronic Arts, Psygnosis, Ocean, Palace and U. S. Gold, with Konix promising 40 games to be available by Christmas.

A number of influential MMORPG designers began as MUD developers and / or players ( such as Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, Matt Firor, and Brian Green ) or were involved with early MUDs ( like Mark Jacobs and J. Todd Coleman ).

DikuMUD had a key influence on the early evolution of the MMORPG genre, with EverQuest ( created by avid DikuMUD player Brad McQuaid ) displaying such Diku-like gameplay that Verant developers were made to issue a sworn statement that no actual DikuMUD code was incorporated.

Debian developers were extremely pleased to find out that an author whom many of them respect uses and approves of their work.

Even without third-party developers, by 1983 over one million Odyssey² units were sold in the US alone.

Given that the authors were the primary developers of the Unix operating system, it is natural that QED had a strong influence on the classic UNIX text editors ed, sed and their descendants such as ex and sam.

1 and pp. 179ff .</ ref > Initially, telephone exchanges were granted to private developers as concessions in the major cities, but in 1884 the government began to construct the first of its own exchanges and subsequently suspended the award of new concessions.

On 5 January 2010, a senior manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft announced on his official blog that Microsoft had just requested to join the SVG Working Group of the W3C in order to " take part in ensuring future versions of the SVG spec will meet the needs of developers and end users ," although no plans for SVG support in Internet Explorer were mentioned at that time.

The development of the Mega-CD was confidential ; game developers were not made aware of what exactly they were working on until the add-on was finally revealed at the Tokyo Toy Show in Japan.

The developers of both projects were interested in seeing the Samba TNG design used to help get ReactOS talking to Windows networks.

This was perceived as far too cathedral-like in its development model: developers were unable to get commit rights quickly and vendors ended up maintaining extensive patches.

At the time of the ceremony, Vinyl, now called Arc, had already been sold to condo developers.

The developers of the business park, St Modwen Developments, would likely fund the new junction, which would be on the A469.

The developers are Exemplar Developments and Canary Wharf Developments, with completion planned for Autumn 2009.

Planning permission was granted in 2005, however developers Miller Developments and Bridgehouse Capital have been granted a five-year extension on planning permission for the V Building meaning it must be built by 2015.

The original developers and owners were Richardson Developments but the Centre has had a number of other owners including Chelsfield and Mountleigh.

While no hockey management game has existed since the demise of NHL Eastside Hockey Manager series, OOTP Developments, the developers of the management sim Out of the Park Baseball, announced in late 2011 that they were developing a hockey management sim to be released in late 2012.

Additionally, developers found it easier to develop for, and it was easier to port from ST to Amiga than the other way.

Unfortunately for the STE, the Amiga had already captured the market, and developers were reluctant to write software for the STE, preferring to stick with the larger established ST userbase.

Contiki was created by Adam Dunkels in 2003 and is has been further developed by a world-wide team of developers from Atmel, Cisco, Enea, ETH, Redwire, RWTH Aachen University, Oxford University, SAP, Sensinode, SICS, ST Microelectronics, Zolertia, and many others.

Since then a number of independent developers released games into the new decade, like Championship Rally, CyberVirus, and Alpine Games.

In the early 1990s, shareware distribution was a popular method of publishing games for smaller developers, including then-fledgling companies such as Apogee Software ( now 3D Realms ), Epic Megagames ( now Epic Games ), and id Software.

Many American developers tried to capitalize on the template established by Street Fighter II, but it was Chicago's Midway Games who achieved unprecedented notoriety when they released Mortal Kombat in 1992.

On February 12, 2010 it was announced that Obsidian Entertainment, developers of Neverwinter Nights 2, would be working with Red Eagle Games on the new Wheel of Time video game under the EA Partners-Program.

* Take 2 Games, developers of Myth III and current owners of the franchise

Games were designed in a wide variety of genres while developers had to work within strict limits of available processor power and memory.

This includes the Xbox Live Indie Games channel designed specifically for smaller developers who don't have the extensive resources necessary to box games for sale on retail shelves.

The game engine for Doom 3, id Tech 4, has been licensed out for the use of other developers, such as in Human Head Studios ' Prey, Raven Software's Quake 4, Splash Damage's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Raven Software's Wolfenstein and Splash Damage's Brink ; however id Tech 4 has not been widely licensed compared to Epic Games ' Unreal Engine.

Cavedog's developers have played significant roles at Gas Powered Games and Beep Industries.

The NBA was then approached by several developers, but declined to enter into an exclusivity agreement, instead granting long-term licenses to Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, Midway Games, Sony, and Atari.

The Edinburgh Monarchs rode there in 1968-69 ( as the Coatbridge Monarchs ) after losing their track at Meadowbank Stadium to the developers for the 1970 Commonwealth Games.

While board game expansions are typically designed by the original creator, video game developers sometimes contract out development of the expansion pack to a third-party company, ( see Hellfire for Diablo ), it may choose to develop the expansion itself or it may do both ( Ensemble Studios developed the real-time strategy game Age of Empires III and the first expansion called the WarChiefs itself, but contracted Big Huge Games for the second expansion pack, the Asian Dynasties ).

The Independent Games Festival is the first and largest competition for independent games, and highlights the innovative achievements of developers ranging in size from individuals building PC titles to studio teams creating console downloadable titles.

In 2009 he co-founded Nemesis Games, developers of an MMO named Gargantua.

Key developers at Epic Games include chairman, CEO and technical director Tim Sweeney, design director Cliff Bleszinski, and lead programmer Steve Polge.

The game was co-developed by Triumph Studios and Epic Games, Dutch and American game developers respectively, and published by Gathering of Developers in 1999.

In October 2001, McQuaid resigned and went on to found Sigil Games Online, drawing many of the original developers of EverQuest from SOE to develop Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, an MMORPG that was released in January 2007.

Pyramid features general gaming articles by freelance authors, as well as Designer's Notes by Steve Jackson Games product developers, industry news, cartoons, and gaming product reviews.

Games for these systems could be developed by very small teams, anywhere from two to ten developers.

As part of the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention, Activision announced that Treyarch would be one of three developers behind their first James Bond based title, Quantum of Solace.

Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the developers Double Helix Games had planned to include the line " Porkchop Sandwiches " from one of Fensler's film as an exclamation, and had every voice actor record that line for its use.

Also not to be confused with Stainless Games, developers of Carmageddon.

Steam's DRM is available through Steamworks to software developers, but the service allows developers and publishers to include other forms of DRM and other authentication services on top of Steam ; for example, some games on Steam require the use of " Games for Windows – Live ", and various titles from publisher Ubisoft require the use of their " UPlay " gaming service.

On December 8, 2005, video game developer Guerrilla Games, developers of the Killzone series, was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS.