Sunstorm Interactive was an American

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founded in

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by Anthony Campiti, which specialized in

hunting Hunting is the human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide (skin), hide, ...

simulators A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulations require the use of models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or process, whereas the ...

and

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s. The majority of their titles were small-scale "value titles", priced between $20 and $30 as compared to the typical

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that was priced at $50 at the time.

Overview

The company enjoyed their original moderate success by developing add-ons for

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first-person shooters such as ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. At this point, the company had approximately 6 full-time employees. Sunstorm finally made an industry name for itself when it developed the first hunting simulation game '' Deer Hunter'' in

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. ''Deer Hunter'' opened up an entirely new

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and spawned many

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s as well as copycats. The company relocated to a new office and increased the staff size significantly. They followed up with many more hunting simulators and attempted to branch back into developing

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s with titles such as the

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'' Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project''. However, they were not able to achieve the same level of success again and finally shut down in early

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citing financial and staffing difficulties as the primary reasons. Michael Root went on to found

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. In 2009, the company was reborn as Sunstorm Games LLC. by Anthony Campiti. Now creating mobile games for the

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and

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platforms, by 2013 the company had produced over 80 titles in total, averaging one million active users daily. In April of 2015, the company was acquired by TabTale Ltd. for an undisclosed price.

Games

Hunting * '' Bird Hunter: Upland Edition'' * '' Bird Hunter: Waterfowl Edition'' * '' Bird Hunter: Wild Wings Edition'' * '' Bird Hunter 2003: Legendary Hunting'' * '' Buckmasters Deer Hunting'' * '' Buckmasters Top Bow Championship'' * '' Carnivores: Cityscape'' * ''

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'' * '' Deer Hunter'' * '' Deer Hunter's Extended Season'' * '' Deer Hunter II: The Hunt Continues'' * '' Deer Hunter II: Extended Season'' * '' Deer Hunter 3: The Legend Continues'' * '' Deer Hunter 3 Gold'' * '' Deer Hunter 4: World-Class Record Bucks'' * '' Deer Hunter 2003'' * '' Feed'n Chloe'' * ''Fishermans Paradise'' * '' Grand Slam Turkey Hunter'' * ''Hunting Unlimited'' * '' Pro Bass Fishing'' * '' Primal Prey'' * '' Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter: Interactive Big Game Hunting'' * '' Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter: Alaskan Expedition'' * '' Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter 2'' * '' Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter 3'' * ''

Shark! Hunting The Great White Shark ''Shark!'' (also known as ''Caine'' and ''Man-Eater'') is a 1969 Mexican-American action film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Burt Reynolds and Silvia Pinal. Plot Caine, a gunrunning, gunrunner, becomes stranded in a small port on the Red ...

'' * '' Sportsman's Paradise'' * '' Sportsman's Paradise 2'' * '' Wild Turkey Hunt'' Build Engine add-ons * '' Duke Caribbean: Life's A Beach'' for ''

'' * '' Duke It Out in D.C.'' for ''Duke Nukem 3D'' * ''

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'' for ''Duke Nukem 3D'' * ''

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'' for ''

'' * '' Redneck Rampage: Suckin' Grits On Route 66'' for ''

'' * '' Wanton Destruction'' for ''

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'' (Not commercially released. Given away for free years after development on September 5, 2005) Other * ''

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'' * '' Board Game Classics'' * '' Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project'' * '' Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel'' * '' High Impact Paintball'' * '' Indoor Sports Games'' * '' Land Mine!'' * ''

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'' * '' RC DareDevil'' * ''The Skunny series'': ** ''Skunny: Back to the Forest'' ** ''Skunny: In The Wild West'' ** ''Skunny Kart'' ** ''Skunny: Save Our Pizzas!'' ** ''Skunny's Desert Raid'' ** ''Skunny: Lost in Space'' ** ''Skunny: Special Edition'' * '' W!Zone'' * ''

911 Fire Rescue ''911 Fire Rescue'' is a 2001 video game from WizardWorks. Reception IGN gave the game a score of 5.5 out of 10 stating "For what it is, ''911 Fire Rescue'' is a nice little diversion from more complex games that require memorizing 27 keyboard c ...

References

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