BreakAway’s History Timeline

2007

• mōsbē™, BreakAway’s desktop development studio is used by Rockwell Collins, SAIC and the Army War College for visualization and concept analysis
• Ex-Microsoft gaming exec and gaming veteran, Dave Curtin is hired to run Product Development
• Innovative strategy game designed exclusively for middle east markets is released

2006

• mōsbē™ launches - BreakAway’s desktop development studio created to power serious games.
• Deb Tillet wins Next Generation's, Game Industry's 100 Most Influential Women
• BreakAway’s Doug Whatley Named Business Week Online Top Ten Cutting Edge Designers
• BreakAway awarded Deloitte and Touche, Technology Fast 50 Company for third consecutive year

2005

• BreakAway partners with Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi to create Pulse!!, the first ever virtual learning lab for medical professionals
• Opens a studio in Texas to develop this ground-breaking first-person simulation
• Continued development on major military and healthcare sims
  • Completes 24 Blue – 3D simulation to train Navy flight deck personnel
• BreakAway awarded Deloitte and Touche, Technology Fast 50 Company for second consecutive year

2004

• Company continues to steadily grow and expands management team to further strengthen position as the worldwide leader in serious games, modeling and visualization.
• Doug Whatley wins Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the Year
• BreakAway awarded Deloitte and Touche, Technology Fast 50 Company
• Expands into HLS and medical market segments with development projects:
  • Code Orange – multi-player real-time sim that trains physicians and other medical staff on mass casualty incidents
  • AFMP – teaches planning and coalition building through political and cultural modeling and planning.
  • FreeDive – Immersive virtual reality based underwater environments used to manage pediatric pain.
  • Incident Commander – NIMS-compliant incident management sim to teach correct strategic and operational responses and build effective interoperability within and between agencies

2003

• Releases top-selling expansion pack,Sid Meier’s Civilization III: Conquest

2002

• Release RTS strategy games Tropico: Paradise Island, Austerlitz and city-builder Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
• Develops RTS strategic simulations, visualization and modeling projects for major defense contractors

2001

• Releases Wargame - Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Battle

2000

• BreakAway continues to be a powerhouse in the city-builder and strategy game genre: Releases Cleopatra wins Best RTS game – Wargamer.com
• Creates South Mountain scenario for the top-selling Sid Meier’s Civil War Collection
• BreakAway brings on development expertise and talent from the DoD, military and healthcare to continue development for these emerging serious game markets
• Development focuses on creating and repurposing serious IP for the military and other markets

1999

• BreakAway release Sid Meier’s Antietam! wins Wargame of the Year from Computer Gaming World.
• BreakAway builds reputation for high-quality work and the ability to accurately simulate battlefield awareness and strategic decision making – brings in additional military contracts:
  • Booz Allen Hamilton – key sim tool for joint forces command, Army and Navy War College
  • Peloponnesian War – takes board game to multiplayer game for National Defense University

1998

• BreakAway founded by game industry veteran Doug Whatley
• Assembles team with decades of experience in developing strategy/wargames/sports games
• Company consults and does development work on DoD projects continues to strengthen that relationship with major defense contractors and Army and Navy War College