- DragonLord Enterprises, Inc.
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DragonLord Enterprises, Inc. Type Private Industry Mobile Development
Artificial Intelligence
RoboticsFounded 1996 Headquarters North Hills, CA, USA Products Tetris on Kyocera phones Services Artificial Intelligence solutions Website DragonLord.com DragonLord Enterprises, Inc. is an American corporation that develops games, mobile apps, and 3D simulations. Under the Sequoia Consulting brand, it also specializes in robotics, machine learning, and applied artificial intelligence.
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Mobile Games
DragonLord was one of the first developers in America to create games for cell phones, shipping from 2001[1]. DragonLord's original titles Cavern Crawl and Mystic I Ching were licensed by Kyocera and factory-built into the firmware of such cell phones as the Kyocera Model 2235 handset, distributed by Verizon[2]; the S14 Opal, distributed by Cricket and MetroPCS[3]; and the 2255[4] and 2325[5], distributed by Sprint PCS in America[6] and Virgin Mobile in the UK.[7] The games were noted for providing animation and game play that were ahead of their time.[8]
DragonLord also made multiple versions of Doodler, Race-21, and Tetris, that were built into the factory firmware of various Kyocera handsets through at least 2004.[9][10]
Robotics and A.I.
DragonLord's Sequoia Consulting created the software for a humanoid robot for NASA JPL, from April 7, 2006 to June 26, 2006.[11] The robot integrated speech recognition of commands, and speech generation of responses. It used a real-time expert system shell to plan and sequence actions. It used primitive model-based stereo vision to locate and track objects in its environment. It was able to turn, walk over to a spar, squat down, bend over, and pick the spar up, using an arm with no wrist joints.[12]
Bioinformatics
From 2006, DragonLord and a Virginia Commonwealth University team created a box-driven visual programming web front-end for a general-purpose bioinformatics calculation system called BioBike. This is one of the first systems to allow non-programmer biologists to form program queries directly by themselves, by putting up animated nested boxes on a webpage screen.[13]
Popular Culture
DragonLord is featured in the book The Fat Man on Game Audio.[14]
References
- ^ "User's Guide for the Kyocera 2235 phone (English version)". Kyocera Wireless. http://www.kyocerawireless.com/2200-phone/pdf/2235_user_guide_english.pdf. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "Kyocera 2235 Cell Phone". Epinions. http://www.epinions.com/review/Kyocera_2235_Cellular_Phone/content_76337811076. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "Kyocera Opal S14 User Guide". Kyocera. http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/opal-phone/pdf/opal_user_guide_english.pdf. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "User's Guide for the Kyocera 2255 Phone". Kyocera Wireless. http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/2200-phone/pdf/2255_user_guide_english.pdf. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "User's Guide for the Kyocera 2325 Phone". Kyocera Wireless. http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/2300-phone/pdf/2325_user_guide_english.pdf. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "Sprint Introduces Feature-Rich Kyocera 2255". Mobile Tech News. November 1, 2001. http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2001/11/01/003202.html. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "Kyocera 2255". Phone Scoop. http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=7. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ Charny, Ben (May 20, 2002). "Sprint looks to liven up wireless games". CNet. http://news.cnet.com/Sprint-looks-to-liven-up-wireless-games/2100-1033_3-918180.html. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "Slider User Guide". Kyocera Wireless. http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/slider-phone/pdf/se44_user_guide_largeprint_english.pdf. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "Kyocera 3245 User Guide". Kyocera Wireless. http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/3200-phone/pdf/3245_user_guide_english.pdf. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ System Integration of a Humanoid Robot Testbed, Final Report. Sherman Oaks, CA: DragonLord Enterprises, Inc. 2006.
- ^ "JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories): System Integration of a Humanoid Robot". Sequoia Consulting. http://www.seqcon.com/caseJPL.html. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ Elhai, Jeff; Taton, A.; Massar, J.; Myers, J. K.; Travers, M.; Casey, J.; Slupesky, M.; Shrager, J. (May 11, 2009). "BioBIKE: A Web-based, programmable, integrated biological knowledge base". Nucleic Acids Research 37 (Web Server issue suppl 2): W28–W32. PMID 19433511. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/suppl_2/W28. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ Sanger, George Alistair (2003). The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness. America: New Riders Publishing. pp. 86-91,118-119. ISBN 1-5927-3009-4.
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Categories:- Mobile phone game companies
- Robotics companies
- Information technology companies of the United States
- Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
- Video game development
- Artificial intelligence
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