Overview

Timeline Interactive is a game development

Game development

Game development is the software development process by which a video game is developed. Development is undertaken by a game developer, which may range from a single person to a large business. Mainstream games are normally funded by a publisher and take several years to develop. Indie games can...

 company based in Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

 Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

 that was established in 2005. The company is privately held and financially backed by the Technology Development Fund and EFG-Hermes

EFG-Hermes Holding Company

EFG-Hermes is an investment bank in the Middle East and North Africa region and specializes in securities brokerage, asset management, investment banking, private equity and research. It serves a range of clients including governments, corporations, financial institutions, high net worth...

. Timeline Interactive is known for having previously participated in the development of the Reality Engine acquired by Epic Games

Epic Games

Epic Games, Inc., also known as Epic and formerly Epic MegaGames, is an American video game development company based in Cary, North Carolina. Its most recent success has been the Gears of War series of games, although it is also known for its Unreal Engine technology. It is the parent company of...

, and having developed the initial prototype for Monster Madness (an Xbox 360

Xbox 360

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 video game title released by SouthPeak

SouthPeak Interactive

SouthPeak Games is a video game publisher of titles in Europe and North America.-History:SouthPeak Games, which was originally a subsidiary of SAS Institute, has been publishing games since 1996 and has worked with multiple development studios, including EAI Interactive, Psyonix Studios and...

).

CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars

The company’s most notable achievement, however, is its co-development of the IP for the CellFactor franchise with Immersion Games

Immersion Games

Immersion Games was a game development company headquartered in Guadalajara, Mexico and Bogota, Colombia. It was founded by Julian Castillo, Miguel Posada, Eivar Rojas y Ernesto Galvez.- Videogames :...

. CellFactor is based on a core concept of using psionic abilities, such as telekinesis, in a first-person shooter

First-person shooter

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 game franchise

Media franchise

A media franchise is an intellectual property involving the characters, setting and trademarks of an original work of media , such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. Generally, a whole series is made in a particular medium, along with merchandising and endorsements...

. The franchise began with CellFactor: Revolution, a demo game designed to show off the multiple physical effects of the AGEIA

AGEIA

Ageia, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company. Ageia invented PhysX – a Physics Processing Unit chip capable of performing game physics calculations much faster than general purpose CPUs; they also licensed out the PhysX SDK , a large physics middleware library for game...

 graphics card. The next installment in the franchise, CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars, was released as a downloadable title for both Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade

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 and Playstation Network.