Okay, here's a side note story you guys didn't see.
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Monogamous Relationship
Oddworld Inhabitants is a one-franchise kind of developer, a true rarity in this day and age of promiscuous game development. We tried to think of some other notable developers who took one franchise and stuck it through thick and thin, but most of them came up short in the end.
Polyphony Digital
You'd think with a franchise like Gran Turismo to go home to every night, the guys at Polyphony Digital wouldn't feel the need to wander or test the waters. Nevertheless, they had a fling in 1999 with the average sci-fi shoot-'em-up Omega Boost.
Maxis
These guys of course are synonomous with the Sim franchise games, but years ago when they were a publisher (our analogy's equivalent of a pimp we suppose), they also developed an under appreciated PC title about dueling genetic engineers called Unnatural Selection.
Valve
Although they snuck in WWWII title Day of Defeat and are working on Team Fortress 2, Half-Life has always been Valve's true love. Other projects like Team fortress Classic and Counter Strike, are based on, yes, Half Life. We'd think of them as affairs that the wife helped out with, but that's really stretching it...
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I'll type up the other one later today.
-oddguy
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