History
Based in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, [2] Re-Logic was founded during the early development cycle of Terraria, which began development in January 2011 by Andrew Spinks. With the help of a team of game testers, [3] he built the game using the Microsoft XNA framework. [4] Re-Logic released Terraria on May 16, 2011; [5] the game was released earlier than planned, as a beta version was leaked to the public. [6] The developer continued to supply the game with content updates, [7] although in February 2012, Spinks announced that Terraria's development would not continue further. [8] However, in 2013, development resumed, [9] with the second major update being released in October 2013. [10] In the same month of the release, Spinks hinted at creating a sequel, Terraria 2. [11]
Beginning in September 2012, Re-Logic worked with Engine Software and 505 Games on porting Terraria to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. [12] The game was later ported to PlayStation Vita by 505 Games, [13] and to mobile devices by Codeglue. [14] In 2014, Terraria was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. [15] [16] The Nintendo 3DS version was released in 2015, followed by the Wii U version in 2016. [17] [18]
Re-Logic became involved with the development of Pixel Piracy in 2014, a game developed by Quadro Delta. [19] It was released on the Steam digital distribution service on July 31, 2014. [20] Re-Logic ended up publishing the game. [19] In February 2016, the game was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. [21] Beginning in 2016, Re-Logic worked with Quadro Delta on another game called Pixel Privateers. [22] Released in 2017, it was compared to Borderlands and Diablo . [23] [24]
In February 2015, Re-Logic began working on a spinoff of Terraria titled Terraria: Otherworld. [25] The game included strategy and role-playing elements, such as tower defense gameplay. [26] [27] Re-Logic worked with Engine Software on the game until April 2017, when the latter was replaced by Pipeworks Studios. [28] A year later, however, Re-Logic announced that Otherworld had been canceled due to it not being satisfied with its development. [29]
In response to an increasing number of games becoming exclusive to the Epic Games Store, Re-Logic's vice-president Whitney Spinks said that no Re-Logic titles would become Epic Games Store exclusives, stating that the company would never "sell [its] souls" for any amount of money. [30] [31] In February 2021, Spinks and Re-Logic had a public falling out with Google over the suspension of Re-Logic's Google account without a given reason. As a result, Re-Logic canceled the Google Stadia version of Terraria. [32] Later that February, Google reached out to Re-Logic about the account shutdown, provided transparency around the situation and restored its accounts; subsequently, Re-Logic reaffirmed that it would release the game for Stadia, which it did on March 18, 2021. [33] [34]
In September 2023, Unity Engine announced a royalty policy called the Unity Runtime Fee, which imposed charges per installation once a product met specific revenue and lifetime installation thresholds. [35] This change was negatively received by the video game developer community. [36] Although Re-Logic does not use the engine, it condemned the policy and announced donations of $100,000 to open-source Godot and FNA engines, [37] and a $1,000 monthly donation from that point onward. [38]
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