Frog City Software

Frog City Software, Inc. was a video game developer which focused on strategy games, opened in 1995. Frog City Software was a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive until they closed it in 2006.

The company was founded by the brothers Bill Spieth and Ted Spieth and by Rachel Bernstein.^[1][2]

In 2004 Frog City was bought by Gathering, which was itself bought by Take 2 Interactive in 2005.^[3]

Frog City was shut down in 2006; it was the fourth game development studio to be shut down by Take-Two Interactive during that year.^[4] In April of that year, veterans of Frog City including the founders Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein^[5] started a new game development studio called Sidecar Studios. In 2007 Sidecar Studios was closed.^[6]

In 2007 Bernstein joined Electronic Arts as a Senior Producer.

Games developed

• Imperialism, 1997.
• Imperialism II: Age of Exploration, 1999.
• Trade Empires, 2001. - Used the AXVI game engine, initially designed for Pantheon.^[7]
• Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, 2003.
• Snow , 2005. - Strategy game about drug trafficking^[8] that was cancelled in 2006.^[9]
• Pantheon, 1998 - This game, which would use Frog City's new AXVI engine, was a RTS, role-playing video game about the Greek gods, but its development was cancelled in 2000.^[10]

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