Cipher Prime is a video game development studio based in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

. The company was founded in 2008. Cipher Prime is best known for its titles

Auditorium An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres, the number of auditoria (or auditoriums) is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, community ...

(2008),

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(2010), and Splice (2012). On February 27, 2012, Cipher Prime launched a

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campaign to fund a sequel to Auditorium titled Auditorium 2: Duet. The Kickstarter campaign successfully met its funding goal. In 2014, an early development version of Auditorium 2: Duet was available to play through the Indie Media Exchange showcase at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver. However, after years of development, Auditorium 2: Duet would ultimately be canceled in 2017. In 2012, Cipher Prime also began hosting weekly Dev Nights and monthly

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on Thursday nights from their office in Old City Philadelphia, which they made open to the public. In 2013, they enlarged their office to create the Philly Game Forge, a coworking space for independent game developers. For three years, the Philly Game Forge would serve as a hub for game development, hosting regular events such as weekly Dev Nights and a monthly game jams, and seeing the success of numerous game releases before the Game Forge would ultimately close its doors on June 30th, 2016. Several Cipher Prime games have been featured in Humble Bundles, including Humble Bundles With Android 4 and 6.

List of video games

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