Mog Complete
"Automation toolset" licensed by Smart Bomb Interactive.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Pleasant Grove, Utah – November 13, 2008 – Mogware, Inc. today announced that Smart Bomb Interactive is licensing ‘Mog Complete’; Mogware’s automation toolset. Smart Bomb will be using Mogware products in conjunction with its proprietary game development engine.
“As an independent game developer with a host of proprietary technology, we are always looking for ways to improve our efficiency and increase the quality of our products. After our evaluation, Mogware was just that; a perfect fit for our asset management needsm,”said Clark Stacey, Vice President of Smart Bomb Interactive.
Mogware’s products improves game development by automating a team’s workflow and removing many of the mundane, manual tasks that often lead to human error. Mogware’s technology works across a variety of commercial engines as well as in-house proprietary engines. MOG is more than just traditional asset management as it provides workflow automation.
“We chose Mogware due to its reputation as a scalable and robust asset management and automation pipeline. We are happy with its ever increasing feature set and feel like we made a good choice for our current and future projects,”said Peter Dalton, Lead Engineer of Smart Bomb Interactive
About Mogware
Founded in 2005 by game industry veterans, Mogware has years of real-world experience creating solutions for today’s complex data management and workflow automation needs. With a comprehensive suite of professional products, Mogware combines a variety of philosophies in a unique way solving many of the age-old problems of the past.
‘Mog Complete’, a team-centric automated asset pipeline released in 2006, encompasses everything a studio needs for large team development. The automated pipeline greatly simplifies the complexities of multi-platform development with powerful custom asset processing and lateral asset sharing. Mundane repetitive workflow can be fully automated down to simple one-click events making it easier and safer for the less technical team members. Additional Info: www.mogware.com/products/mog
FileHamster, a real-time personal revision control tool released in 2007, has grown world-wide and now enjoys a user base in more than 150 countries. Originally built for content creators, FileHamster has also been adopted by numerous other industries that commonly work with electronic documents or files. Additional Info: www.filehamster.com
MoxBox, a powerful multi-threaded flowchart-style data processing chain released in 2008, built to help simplify complex data conversions in a fraction of the time needed for manual processing, allows high poly 3D objects to be reprocessed, decimated, UV remapped, texture reduced, skeleton re-rigged and finally deposited directly into a real-time rendering engine such as a game or online virtual world. Additional Info: www.mogware.com/products/mog/mogbox.html
Mogware’s products help studios free themselves from having to divert internal resources to develop their own internal proprietary tools that often end up becoming a significant distraction from their project’s primary focus. Mogware’s products continue to be adopted by companies throughout the industry including some of the most well respected studios.
Additional information: www.mogware.com
About Smart Bomb Interactive
Smart Bomb Interactive is a VC-funded console and PC game development studio based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Smart Bomb offers top-tier publishers comprehensive development services with an emphasis on kid-friendly games for all three next-generation consoles. In addition, the studio self-funds the development of new game franchises based on both licensed and original intellectual properties. Smart Bomb is the creator of the Bombshell Engine, a cross-platform game development platform that empowers artists and designers to deliver great game experiences on time and on budget.
Additional information: www.smartbombinteractive.com, or contact Clark Stacey, clark@smartbombinteractive.com