The Collective, Inc. is a video game development company located in Newport Beach, California. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual that creates Video games A developer may specialize in a certain video The company has created several games based on movies and television shows since its founding in 1997. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar
It was founded by three former Virgin Interactive employees, Douglas Hare, Gary Priest, and Richard Hare, in 1997. Virgin Interactive was a successful and influential British Video game publisher. The company's first projects were to port Men in Black and The Game of Life Windows games to the PlayStation game console. See also Software portability In Computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or informally as PSX) is a 32-bit fifth generation Video game console
The developer predominantly works on titles licensed from movies and TV. The Collective created their own game engine called Slayer that they used for Buffy, Indiana Jones, and in current projects. A game engine is a software system designed for the creation and development of computer and video games As of 2004, the company has grown to 90 employees. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "
On March 29, 2005, it was announced that The Collective had merged with Backbone Entertainment to form a new company, Foundation 9 Entertainment. Backbone Entertainment is an independent Video game development company with offices in Emeryville California, Vancouver British Columbia, and formerly Foundation 9 Entertainment (sometimes abbreviated as F9E is an entertainment products developer which works on properties for multiple media including Video games Comic