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Company at a glance

Metafocus Entertainment, LLC is a game development company focusing exclusively on software for the Windows/PC platform and the web. The company's primary purpose is to build games from start to finish, from the concept level to the finished working product. That is the palatable company description; there is quite a lot that goes into making a game "from start to finish."


What is a Metafocus?

It is a wordplay on meta-analysis. In the Fall of 1998 the would-be founder David Strait was reviewing a set of computer games in a cerebral way as one reviews a movie or book, and saw a "rock, paper, scissors" scenario in a handful of the samples he chose to work with, some seeming a little better than others when compared side by side, but collectively all of them were about the same. While one game may have had excellent graphics, another good game play, and another very good sound, none of them had been able to excel in all of them and tie them together in a synergistic way to bring together a heigtened playing experience. Exasperated at the chosen titles, he threw up his arms and muttered, "They need to metafocus!"

We like the company name to serve as a reminder that we are not about to put all our chips on a games' success because it has caught the latest fad in graphics, or "in this, that, or the other thing." There is no unified field theory for game design; no overarching all supreme principle. We are here to make good games that pay attention to all the details, and we make them to flow together in a way that is fun.

Partners

  • Beijing MeiZhong - Beijing, China.
  • Goney Studios - Santa Barbara, CA U.S.
  • Maniacs of Noise - Helmond, the Netherlands.