Secrets of Novalogic Revealed!

    During its heyday, Calabasas based video game maker Novalogic dazzled consumers with stunning 3D graphics on the primitive "hardware du jour" vaulting them to the forefront of simulation based computer entertainment. Much has changed in the industry since then. Polygonal accelerators and code optimizing compilers aid the already beefy boxes of today allowing "inferior hacks” to focus on game play, rich environments and tantalizing story rather than on the tedious "bit-flipping" of yesteryear. Speaking with their wallets, today's “gamerz” seem to be saying that the satisfaction of playing software with immersive environments and addictive game play somehow outweighs the once comforting knowledge that the game programmer had painstakingly accounted for every CPU cycle.

    With once powerful and familiar video game icons such as Atari and Sega departed and new players such as Sony and Microsoft emerging, what lies ahead for an enigma like Novalogic? Some would say that the privately owned and operated company needs to evolve or risk extinction, but their Vice President of Technology, Kyle Freeman, seems to have a different idea. "We're reaching way back," he states. "We've got to focus on what's important to the computer. Cycles, that's the key!" Kyle has developed a plan for Novalogic by carefully applying his principles of "fuzzy logic." "It's always been about the cycles. A computer can do anything if it's fast enough or if it has enough cycles to do the task in," he says. "Then it hits you. History is cyclical. We can catapult ourselves into the future by using the techniques of the past." With hardware manufacturers bestowing such names as "Voodoo" or "Prophet" upon their video cards, it should come as no shock that Kyle and his team routinely practice Pagan rituals from the 11th century BC to debug or optimize their code. "Our UK office has become a powerful resource for the dev team," Kyle states. "We can batch our debug tasks to Stonehenge at an incredible rate."