Tursiops Truncatus Studios : About
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Tursiops Truncatus Studios LLC, is an independent computer game studio run by Catherine Kimport.
The company was founded informally in 1995 by Catherine Kimport, originally named "Tursiops Truncatus Software." Our first freeware title, Drops of Light was released in 1998; following this, unfortunately, other factors interfered, for several years no games were released, and eventually in 2004 the company was put into hibernation and hidden in the broom closet, to be awoken at some unknown future date.
In January 2007, production resumed on the nearly-complete Aura, with the intent to finally publish the game, and, in April 2007, the company was formally relaunched as Tursiops Truncatus Studios LLC. I made the change from "software" to "studios," because after some time I started to realize that I really envisioned the company as more of an interactive art studio than a software company, and wanted to leave the door open to producing other forms of art as well under the same banner.
One might guess, from looking at the game we've already produced and the next two in production, that we exclusively design puzzle games. This, however, is not our long-term intent. We've only just started, and it's too early for us to already be pidgeonholing ourselves.
Tursiops truncatus is the genus and species name of the bottlenose dolphin. Dolphins are intelligent and playful, and seem to enjoy interacting with people, and as such make the perfect mascot for our studio.