Cavedog Entertainment
Cavedog Entertainment's logo
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| Division of Humongous Entertainment | |
| Industry | Video games |
| Fate | Bankruptcy, Brand name scrapped |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Defunct | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Bothell, Washington, USA |
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Key people
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Ron Gilbert Chris Taylor |
| Products | Total Annihilation series |
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Number of employees
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approx. 20 (1997) |
| Parent | Humongous Entertainment |
| Website |
cavedog.com (archived version 1998-04-28) cavedog.com (archived version approx. 2000) |
Cavedog Entertainment, or Cavedog, was a video game developer based in Bothell, Washington. Cavedog gained the attention of gamers and the gaming press alike with the 1997 release of Total Annihilation (TA), winning many accolades such as multiple Game of the Year honors or being one of The Greatest Games of All Time.
Cavedog Entertainment was a label created in 1996 by Humongous Entertainment, a developer of children's computer games founded by Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day, to pursue the creation of mainstream games. Humongous Entertainment was originally independent, but was purchased in 1996 by GT Interactive, a video game publisher later acquired by Infogrames in 1999 (later renamed to Atari).
In the same year Squaresoft closed its office in Redmond, so many of their former developers were hired for Cavedog, notably game music composer Jeremy Soule and graphics designer Clayton Kauzlaric, who created the logo for Cavedog. After two years of development on Cavedog's first product, Total Annihilation, it was presented at the E3 at Atlanta 1997 and published on September 30, 1997.
The game's creator, Chris Taylor, left the company shortly before the release of the Total Annihilation: Core Contingency expansion pack to found his own development house, Gas Powered Games. Despite this loss, Cavedog released one more expansion pack, Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics, as well as many freely downloadable enhancements and patches, and built strong community support with their own online service Boneyards (now shut down) that matched opponents and provided a continuing game campaign.
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