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Ratloop, Inc. is an American
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based in
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, and founded in 1997 in
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. In addition to traditional retail game products, Ratloop has also done contract work for various 3D
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projects such as training tools and "
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s". Their earliest work used the label "Team Epochalypse", and they also own the DBA brand "Mekada", which is oriented towards
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s. In 2007, Ratloop Asia Pte. Ltd. was incorporated to support a development team based in
Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
. In 2017, Ratloop Canada was incorporated.


Notable projects

* '' Malice'' (Quantum Axcess, 1997) - A commercially released total conversion for '' Quake''. * '' Snap-on Gearhead Garage'' ( Head Games Publishing, 1999) - Original game allowing players to customize and repair cars. * ''Rocketbirds: Revolution'' - a 2D cinematic action-adventure puzzler game made with
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. *'' Helsing's Fire'' (2010): a
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for
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. *'' Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken'' (2011) - An action game for PlayStation Network and PC. PC version published by Reverb Publishing. *''Rocketbirds 2: Evolution'' (2016) - An action game for
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,
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and
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. *'' VROOM KABOOM'' (2017) - A free-to-play Tower Defense with vehicles game for
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and
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.


References


External links

* {{Official website, www.ratloop.com Video game companies of the United States Video game development companies Ratloop games