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Panther Games Pty Ltd (Panther Games) is an Australian games developer, best known for the WWII Airborne Assault and Command Ops PC video game series. Panther Games specialises in developing operational level wargames for the PC Wargame market. ==History== Panther Games was founded in 1985〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Moby Games: Panther Games Pty Ltd profile )〕 by David O’Connor in Canberra, Australia. In the early years Panther Games initially focused on developing and producing board games and released three titles in the mid 80’s, ''Trial of Strength'', ''Shanghai Trader'' and ''Warlords''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Board Game Geek: Trial of Strength )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Board Game Geek: Shanghai Trader )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Board Game Geek: Warlords China in Disarray 1916-1950 )〕 However, the company shifted their focus to developing computer games in the late 1980s with the release of their first computer wargame, ''Fire Brigade'', in 1988 on Mac, DOS, Atari and Amiga.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Moby Games: Fire Brigade the battle for Kiev 1943 )〕 Fire Brigade currently forms part of the historical collection of software; hardwere; trade and promotional materials that document the history of Apple Inc. and its contributions to the computer industry and society. This collection is currently housed at Museum Victoria, Melbourne.〔Reg. No: HT 13672 (【引用サイトリンク】 Apple Macintosh Software Game - 'Fire Brigade The Battle for Kiev 1943', 3½" Floppy Disk, 1989 )〕 Following the success of Fire Brigade, Panther Games took a step into the mainstream games market with the releases of sci-fi adventure ''Alien Drug Lords'' and puzzle challenge game ''Cubit'' in 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Hall of Light - The database of Amiga Games: Alien Drug Lords: The Chyropian Connection )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Hall of Light - The database of Amiga Games: Cubit )〕 In 1996 Panther Games decided to return to its wargame roots and instigated development of a new real-time computer game engine for a novel operational wargame series to be called Airborne Assault (AA).The use of a real-time engine without a hexagon grid for a wargame was novel as traditional computer wargames run on a turn-based system where there are dedicated phases for planning, movement and engagement. The AA engine (later rebranded Command Ops) allowed for planning, movement and engagement to be played in continues time and the hexagon grid was no longer needed to determine movement capabilities of units. Panther Games' AA game engine and the associated AI capabilities has notably been referenced in publications by Peter Perla at Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), Michael Peck at Defence News and the Digital Humanities at King's College London.〔Perla, Peter P. & Markowitz, Michael C. (January, 2009) 〕〔Peck, Michael (10 August 2010) (【引用サイトリンク】 Battle smarts: Top-notch AI puts command sim ahead of the pack )〕〔Peck, Michael (21 June 2012) (【引用サイトリンク】 Game Review: 'Highway to the Reich' )〕〔Sabin, Philip (2010) (【引用サイトリンク】 Wargames in a Digital Age )〕 The first title to be produced in the series was ''Airborne Assault: Red Devils over Arnhem'' (RDOA) and was released in 2002 through wargame publisher battlefront.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Gamespot AU: Airborne Assault Red Devils over Arnhem )〕 However, in Europe, Panther Games used a different publisher, CDV Software Entertainment AG, and the title for the game was simply Airborne Assault.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Moby Games: CDV cover art for Airborne Assault )〕 The second and third instalments of the AA series were released through a new publisher, Matrix Games, with ''Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich'' (HTTR) coming out in 2003 and ''Airborne Assault: Conquest of the Aegean'' (COTA) in 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Allgame: Airborne Assault Highway to the Reich )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Matrix Games: Airborne Assault Conquest of the Aegean )〕 In 2010, Panther Games rebranded their long running games series to Command Ops and released their latest title, ''Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge'' (BFTB). In 2012, the first official expansion pack Panther Games has ever released came out titled, ''Command Ops: Highway to the Reich''. This is an expansion pack for BFTB and covers content from the original two AA games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Matrix Games: Command Ops Highway to the Reich )〕 18 October 2014, Panther Games in conjunction with Lock 'n Load publishing jointly announce Panther Games' move to Lock 'n Load publishing following the split between Panther games and Matrix Games. Following the announcement it was revealed Panther Games through Lock n' Load would be re-releasing Panther Games' successful 1985 board game Trial of Strength with a new edition. it would be the first time the board game has been re-released since its initial release in 1985. In addition, it was revealed Panther Games' new game engine, Command Ops 2, would be released through the publisher along with all subsequent data packs for the engine. This represented a new method of content delivery for the company. June 2015, Command Ops 2 goes public beta and the "Commander Pack" consisting of all five modual data packs for Command Ops 2 goes on sale 16 June 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Panther Games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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