Image Space Incorporated

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Image Space Incorporated
Company type Private
Industry Video games
Founded1992 [1]
Headquarters Ann Arbor, Michigan
Key people
Joseph Campana
Gjon Camaj
Tim Wheatley
Products EA Sports F1
NASCAR Thunder
rFactor
Website www.imagespaceinc.com

Image Space Incorporated (ISI) is an American independent video game developer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, specializing in the fields of video game development, man-in-the-loop simulator architectures, computer image generation, and entertainment systems integration. [2] ISI was originally founded by Kurt Kleinsorge who added partners Joseph Campana and Gjon Camaj. ISI began with the development of vehicle simulators used for military training. They have worked on many different types of software, but focused most of their development time over the years on racing games and simulators. [3] ISI also developed the ISImotor game engine, [4] [5] which is used for creating many racing games like GT Legends , GTR 2 – FIA GT Racing Game , ARCA Sim Racing '08 , Race 07 , Simulador Turismo Carretera and others. ISI has not released games for any console; Shadowgate Rising was in development, but ultimately cancelled. [6] Sports Car GT for the PlayStation was made by another company Point of View [7] and all the original EA Formula 1 games for consoles up until 2002 were made by Visual Science. [8]

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Games developed

TitleRelease dateGenrePlatform
Zone Raiders [9] November 30, 1995 Vehicular combat Windows
Sports Car GT [10] April 30, 1999 Sim racing Windows
Trazer [11] [12] 2000 Exergaming
Shadowgate Rising [13] Cancelled Adventure game Nintendo 64
F1 2000 [14] March 31, 2000 Sim racing Windows
F1 Championship Season 2000 [15] December 6, 2000 Sim racing Windows
Hot Rod Monster Squad [16] [17] 2001 Arcade racing Windows
F1 2001 [18] September 28, 2001 Sim racing Windows
F1 2002 [19] June 7, 2002 Sim racing Windows
NASCAR Thunder 2003 [20] September 19, 2002 Sim racing Windows
F1 Challenge '99-'02 [21] June 24, 2003 Sim racing Windows
NASCAR Thunder 2004 [22] September 16, 2003 Sim racing Windows
rFactor [23] August 31, 2005 Sim racing Windows
rFactor Pro [24] 2008 Sim racing software Cross-platform
Superleague Formula 2009: The Game [25] October 31, 2009 Sim racing Windows
rFactor 2 [26] [27] January 10, 2012 (open beta release) Sim racing Windows

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References

  1. ↑ "ISI Profile in Moby Games".
  2. ↑ ImageSpaceInc.com Archived 2008-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Tim Wheatley". Archived from the original on 2010-11-25.
  4. ↑ History of the Image Space Inc. Software Engine, at imagespaceinc.com
  5. ↑ "gMotor2".
  6. ↑ "Shadowgate Rising 2". Archived from the original on 2011-03-14.
  7. ↑ "Sports Car GT (PS)".
  8. ↑ "Visual Science". Archived from the original on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
  9. ↑ "Zone Raiders".
  10. ↑ "Sports Car GT".
  11. ↑ "Trazer". Archived from the original on 2011-03-14.
  12. ↑ "Trazer".
  13. ↑ "Shadowgate Rising". Archived from the original on 2011-03-14.
  14. ↑ "F1 2000". Archived from the original on 2009-09-22.
  15. ↑ "F1 CS 2000". Archived from the original on 2011-05-31.
  16. ↑ "Hot Rod Monster Squad". Archived from the original on 2011-05-31.
  17. ↑ "Hot Rod Monster Squad".
  18. ↑ "F1 2001". Archived from the original on 2009-04-22.
  19. ↑ "F1 2002". Archived from the original on 2009-04-22.
  20. ↑ "NASCAR Thunder 2003". Archived from the original on 2010-02-13.
  21. ↑ "F1 Challenge '99-'02". Archived from the original on 2011-05-15.
  22. ↑ "NASCAR Thunder 2004". Archived from the original on 2011-05-28.
  23. ↑ "rFactor".
  24. ↑ "rFactor Pro". Archived from the original on 2012-06-05. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
  25. ↑ Article title [usurped] |title=Superleague[ permanent dead link ] Formula: The Game
  26. ↑ "rFactor 2 on Facebook". Facebook .
  27. ↑ "rFactor 2 developers on Twitter".
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