Philos Laboratories

Philos Laboratories (also known as Philos Laboratories Software Developer Ltd. or Philos Labs and later Philos Entertainment, Inc) was a Hungarian computer software development company known for working with producer Ubisoft and CDV Software Entertainment.[1]

Philos Laboratories
IndustryVideo games
Founded1995
Defunct2004
Headquarters,
Key people
John (Zsolt) Vamosi (CEO) and Antal Ruttmayer (Game Designer)
ProductsTheocracy
Escape from Alcatraz
Rebels: Prison Escape

The company was founded in 1995 by John (Zsolt) Vamosi, working mostly on making graphics for advertisements. In 1997, several developers of the game Perihelion: The Prophecy were hired, and they started making their first title, what would become Theocracy.[2]

It was eventually disbanded in 2004, amid lawsuits of software piracy and much debated financial ventures;[3] Vámosi served a year in prison.[4]

Released titles

  • Theocracy (2000)
  • Tim7 (2001)
  • Rebels: Prison Escape (2003)
gollark: Or you could do laser *thermal* propulsion I guess.
gollark: Alternatively, you wear a 100m² solar sail and it propels you with a laser.
gollark: A laser elevator keeps you on the ground floor, but blinds you so you can't tell.
gollark: Presumably which apartment in a building someone is in is available information to people configuring elevators there.
gollark: Sure it would. None are safe.

References

  1. "Philos Labs Company Profile - GamingExcellence". www.gamingexcellence.com.
  2. "Zsolt Vamosi of Philos Labs". March 24, 2000.
  3. Hanula, Zsolt (January 22, 2009). "Válságban a magyar játékfejlesztés?". index.hu.
  4. "Egy év letöltendő börtön szoftverkalózkodásért". index.hu. January 13, 2003.


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