Image-Line
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| Software | |
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | 1994 Belgium |
| Headquarters | Belgium |
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Key people
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Jean-Marie Cannie (Founder, CTO) Frank Van Biesen (Founder, COO) |
| Products |
FL Studio / FL Studio Mobile Deckadance EZGenerator |
| Website | www.Image-Line.com |
Image-Line is a Belgian software company best known for its digital audio workstation program FL Studio and related audio plugins such as Sytrus and Harmor Founded in 1994, in 2007 Image-Line introduced Deckadance, a virtual DJ console application. The company also produces EZGenerator, a template-based web editing program.
Image-Line was founded by Jean-Marie Cannie and Frank Van Biesen, who after seven years of creating software for Pavell Software, decided in 1992 to branch into video games. Their first product was an adult video game of Tetris, which they then offered on floppy disks in the ad section of Computer Magazine. Around this time CD-ROM games such as The 7th Guest were becoming popular, inspiring Van Biesen and Cannie to begin working with Private, one of the larger producers of adult video games at the time. Private released multiple Image-Line CD-ROM games including Private Prison and Private Castle. The company officially adopted the name Image-Line in 1994.
Around the time they released the games for Private, IBM launched the "Da Vinci" contest where the first prizes were color laptops. Image-Line, which at the time had little money, won the contest in the multimedia category after reworking one of their game environments to fit the contest criteria.
Image-Line took an interest in Didier "Gol" Dambrin, the developer who won the overall Da Vinci contest as well as the Game category. They hired the 19-year-old to work for them, and his first game for the company was the game Private Investigator. Dambrin's next project for Image-Line was the platform game Eat This, a shoot 'em up game that involved killing aliens.
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