Evryware

Evryware is a video game developer based in Olympia, Washington, US. It was founded in California in 1980 by two engineers, Dave Murry and Joe Gargiulo, with Dave's siblings, Barry Murry and Dee Dee Murry joining a few years later. They are best known for the The Ancient Art of War series.

Evryware created three games for Sierra On-Line: Sierra Championship Boxing in 1983, Manhunter: New York in 1988, and Manhunter 2: San Francisco in mid 1989.

They took a break from game designing and started their own web design firm. The founders went on to create Prime Web Design and Great Big Island Records.

History
Evryware began developing games for the popular CPM home computers in the early 1980s. These games' early graphical work utilized a variety of alphanumeric characters in different combinations. Moving on to the IBM PC as soon as it was introduced, they created Sierra Championship Boxing in 1983. This game featured animation that were advance for its time.

Evryware designed the first two Ancient Art of War strategy games for Broaderbund in 1984 and 1987, winning multiple honors.

The darkly themed Manhunter: New York was devoloped by Evryware and published by Sierra On-Line in 1988. Because of the game's success, they decided to make a sequel, Manhunter 2: San Francisco in mid 1989. The Manhunter games were recognized for their "real-world" settings and distinctive gameplay. Manhunter: New York was named Game of the Year in 1988. Manhunter 3: London was meant to be the third and final game in what would have been a trilogy, but this never came into fruition.

In the early 1990s, Evryware created severial games for MicroProse: 1992's The Ancient Art of War in the Skies, and 1994's SpaceKids. The latter was one of the earliest games that have full-screen pseudo-3D animation, complete audio dialog, and automated game play — the process grew simpler after repeated failed tries. This game was followed by Space Dude in 1996, which aimed towards pre-teens.

In 1997, Evryware's created Pyrosaurus as their first online games. For this game, They created a custom rendering engine that smoothly warped the original picture to simulate extremely realistic dinosaur motions. Players had to train fire-breathing dinosaurs then dispatch them to assault the other teams of players.

The company took a took a hiatus from game designing to start their own web design firm while remaining current with gaming technology, although they did create a small online game (Little Yellow Town) for the Rickie Lee Jones website. Evryware's founders went on to create Prime Web Design and Great Big Island Records.

Evryware returned to gaming in 2014 with The Ancient Art of War 2. The game can to downloaded for free on their website.