The birth and death of Budcat Creations, Iowa's first (and only) Triple-A game studio

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Tiburon and EA’s Acquisition Tiburon Entertainment was founded in 1994 by Steve Chiang, John Schappert, and Jason Andersen (pay attention to this guy, his name will come up a lot) and resided in Maitland, FL.Jeremy was initially a part-time worker at Tiburon, but this changed around the time he created an access database that tracked the company’s hardware and software for every employee.Florida Men…No More At the time of the acquisition, Jason Andersen had spent years making football games and was creatively hungry to try something new.As Jason told me, "I always loved the Command & Conquer series, so I saw this as an opportunity to work on something outside of football."Despite the fact that the project he joined for had been canceled, Jason only decided to leave Westwood in March 2000 because he wanted to take a break from working in large team development."

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