Game related companies in the MD-DC-VA area
... and beyond ...
Derived from a list at the Montgomery College Computer Gaiming and Simulation site. Send updates or suggestions for additions to gaming@cs.umbc.edu.
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Companies in
the Middle Atlantic States
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| AAI Corporation | MD | AAI Corporation is a global corporation whose products and services include an array of innovative aerospace and defense technologies. |
| AT Kid Systems | MD | AT KidSystems creates products that emerge from the human factors engineering research and development activities of AnthroTronix, Inc. |
| Absolute Quality | MD | Absolute Quality was incorporated in 1996 by 5 members of Microprose Software to answer the industry’s call for a highly sophisticated outsourcing option in multimedia software testing. |
| Anthrotronix | MD | AnthroTronix is a human factors engineering firm committed to optimizing the interaction between people and technology. |
| Antic Games | VA | site offline? |
| Artistech | MD | ArtisTech, Inc. is engaged in the critical process of transforming leading research into applications for the U.S. DoD and the Intelligence Community. |
| Bean Creative | VA | Bean Creative is a woman-owned company, founded in 1997, and is based in Alexandria, Virginia. (Flash games) |
| Bethesda Softworks | MD | Rockville, MD |
| Big Huge Games | MD | Big Huge Games is based in Baltimore and was founded in February of 2000 by four veteran game developers. |
| Blue Omega | MD | The development of quality marketable entertainment content with a focus on original Intellectual Property that has cross-market appeal and long-term potential for growth. |
| BreakAway Games | MD | BreakAway Games designs and develops entertainment software for all platforms. It is best known for its strategy games, city builders, and historical simulations. |
| Claymore Audio | MD | Custom music and sound for PC CD-ROM games, commercials and multimedia presentations |
| Day 1 Studios | MD | Day 1 Studios is a creative, independent developer on the cutting edge of emerging interactive entertainment and technology. |
| Digital Magnet | MD | The Digital Advertising System by Digital Magnet is a state of the art video and music distribution system like no other that allows your business to create unique point of purchase digital solutions on the retail floor. |
| Discovery Communications, Inc. | MD | A leading global real-world media company with operations in 170 countries reaching 1.4B cumulative subscribers. DCI’s over 100 networks of distinctive programming represent 28 brands including Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet. |
| Dynamic Animation Systems | VA | Dedicated to the development of distributed, interactive, and immersive virtual reality applications. |
| eBrainyGames | MD | Develops challenging interactive PC and Java games in the world, all crafted with a generous portion of pure fun. |
| Electric Sheep Company | DC | The Electric Sheep Company is the largest company in the world dedicated to designing experiences and delivering add-on software for 3D virtual worlds. |
| Epic Games | NC | (started in Rockville, now in NC) |
| EyeMaginations | MD | interactive design and multi-media form in Towson. |
| Firaxis Games | MD | Welcome to Firaxis Games, home of legendary game designer Sid Meier and the hit PC game, Sid Meier's Civilization IV. |
| Fourth Wave | VA | Provides analytical and strategic evaluation of markets which use computing technology. |
| GMA Industries | MD | Our imaging research focuses on analysis of images for detection of anomalies such as foreign objects and defects in manufactured materials, as well as features of interest related to pattern recognition problems. |
| GSE Systems | MD | GSE is a world leader in real-time, high fidelity simulation and educational solutions to the nuclear and fossil fuel (coal and natural gas) electric power industry, the chemical, process and manufacturing industries, and to the Government and U.S. military complex. |
| GameDogma | VA | GameDogma provides expert project management services for the game development industry |
| Gene Logic | MD | comment |
| Health Management Consultants of VA | VA | Funded through the National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovative Research Program, HMCVA has developed and evaluated Internet programs, Internet-enabled devices, and Internet-enabled games that help people manage and/or prevent chronic diseases. |
| Immersion Medical | MD | A Gaithersburg company that specializes in surgical and medical simulation systems. |
| Infinite Ventures | VA | Infinite Ventures is an independent production and consulting company to the entertainment software industry. |
| Interact Accessories | MD | A Hunt Valley MD company that sells hardware accessories for games. |
| Juxtopia | MD | Juxtopia is a Baltimore-based biomedical and information technology company and an innovative leader in the design and development of human performance products and services. |
| MDLogix | MD | MDLogix combines theory-based intuitive innovation with model-driven analytic software engineering to create software tools, components, and systems that automate and integrate information processes in public health, biomedical research, and clinical practice. |
| My3D | VA | My3D provides customers with expertise in modeling and simulation, specializing in design and integration of visual simulation capabilities in both commercial and government applications. The company's staff uses a combination of programming and commercial-off-the-shelf tools to answer diverse customer needs. |
| Mythic Entertainment | VA | Mythic Entertainment consists of a small group of people dedicated to providing the very best in multi-player gaming. In addition to a professional team of programmers and artists, Mythic works with experienced gamers to produce the highest quality products for the gaming public. |
| Nemetschek N.A. | MD | Nemetschek North America is a global leader in design technologies. The VectorWorks line of software provides professional design solutions for the AEC, entertainment, landscape design and machine design industries. |
| OPNET Technologies | MD | OPNET Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of management software for networks and applications. |
| OpenPath Products | MD | OpenPath Products provides premium entertainment, business, and utility porting services for wireless developers, publishers and carriers. |
| Planit | MD | A Baltimore based ad agency that makes effective use of technology, including animation. |
| Powergrid Fitness | MD | Exer-station transforms game play into muscle burning sport. Designed for use with PlayStation, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, and PC, this health-conscious controller translates force applied to a shoulder-height joystick into in-game motion. |
| Qwato Interactive Studios | VA | Video Game That Will Challenge Your Belief System. |
| Red Aphid | MD | Flash interactive media |
| SAIC | VA, MD | SAIC is a large DoD contractor focusing on scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services. |
| SimVentions | VA | SimVentions is focused on providing component solutions. This is true whether it be for modeling and simulation, software engineering, or systems engineering. |
| SouthPeak Games | NC | Now located in North Carolina |
| Take One Digital Media Works | MD | comment |
| Technest | MD | Technest is a provider of advanced technologies, products and services to the defense, homeland security, law enforcement and healthcare markets, including 3D graphics based systems. |
| The Berndt Group | MD | A Web development and interactive brand communications firm located in Baltimore. |
| Valador | VA | Valador, Inc. is an information architect whose mission is to protect and develop our nation's technological, strategic, and military assets. |
| Vertis Inc. | MD | Located in Baltimore, marketing oriented. |
| Vir2L Studios | MD | An award winning interactive design firm with expertise in developing compelling, cross-platform entertainment content for mass-market connected devices including PCs, handheld devices, and mobile phones for the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia. |
| Vision Videogames | MD | Vision Videogames, LLC is a self-funded company with the mission to create exciting, high quality video games where the player benefits in a tangible way by playing. |
| Will Interactive | MD | WILL is the pioneer developer of computer-based full-screen, full-motion interactive movies known as Virtual Experience Immersive Learning Simulations that allow people to become the lead characters in movies, make real-life decisions, take real-life risks, and experience the consequences of their actions in the safety of cyberspace. |
| Zenimax Media | MD | ZeniMax Media is a unique media organization which has brought together a powerful creative force of world-class game developers, artists and designers, programmers, and leading executives and talent from traditional media. |
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Outside the
Middle Atlantic States
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| Electonic Arts | CA | Electronic Arts (EA) is a world leading independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for advanced entertainment systems. |
| Emergent Game Technologies | NC | Emergent Game Technologies is the single source for all the tools required to build, test, manage and expand interactive games. |
| CDIV Software | NC | |
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