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This is a list of games created by Maxis. Maxis is an American video game developer that was founded in 1987 and became a division of Electronic Arts (EA) in 1997. Maxis' second software title was the seminal SimCity, a city simulation and planning game. Maxis is the creator of the best-selling PC game of all time, The Sims, and its sequel, The ...
SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony is a 1991 life simulation video game by Maxis and the company's third product, focusing on the lifecycle of ants. It was designed by Will Wright . In 1992, it was named "Best Simulation Game" at the Software Publishers Association 's Codie awards . [ 2 ]
The former logo of Maxis, used until 2012 Will Wright, Maxis co-founder. Maxis was founded in 1987 by Will Wright and Jeff Braun to help publish SimCity on home computers. . Before then, the game was only available on a limited basis on the Commodore 64 due to few publishers showing any interest in porting a non-traditional game without definite "win" and "lose" condi
El-Fish is a fish and fish-tank simulator and software toy developed by Russian game developer AnimaTek, with Maxis providing development advice. The game was published by Mindscape (v1.1) and later by Maxis (v1.1 + v1.2) in 1993 on 5 diskettes. Each fish in El-Fish has a unique Roe, similar to the genome.
Cinematronics, LLC, later known as Maxis South, was an American developer of computer games for the PC and Mac, based in Texas and founded in 1994 by David Stafford, Mike Sandige and Kevin Gliner. [1] They developed Tritryst for Virgin Interactive, Full Tilt! Pinball for Maxis, [2] and Jack Nicklaus 4 for Accolade.
SimCopter puts the player in the role of a helicopter pilot.There are two modes of play: user mode and career mode. The user mode (free mode) lets the player fly around cities that they have created (which can be imported from SimCity 2000) or any of the 30 cities supplied with the game.
After the success of SimCity, Maxis received numerous requests from various companies to develop simulations for their industries.After rejecting many requests from other companies, the team eventually agreed to make a prototype of SimRefinery for Chevron:
The Sims: Hot Date is a 2001 expansion pack for The Sims developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts.The expansion adds a new community area to the game, Downtown, and provides players with more opportunities for their Sims to interact and romance one another.