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Liquid Digital Gaming
Trade name	Liquid Digital Gaming
Company type	Private
Industry	Video games
Founded	August 2021; 3 years ago
Founders	Alex Rules; Caleb J; Alex Duganla;
Headquarters	Manchester, New Hampshire, US
Key people	Alex Rules (CEO; 2021–Current); Alex Dungula (Programming Manager; 2021–Current);
Number of employees	5 (2021)
Website	liquiddigitalgaming.com

Liquid Digital Gaming is an American video game developer based in Manchester, New Hampshire. The company was founded on August 23, 2021, by Alexander Rules, and co-founded by Caleb J. The organization started as a volunteer-based educational platform that would allow students of video game development and related fields to work in a team that would create public titles.

History

Creation and Initialization (2014–2021)

The name Liquid Digital Gaming was first used back in 2014 by Rules in batch file and Python projects^[1]. It would later be utilized as the name for the organization in 2021. The first concept of the organization was conceived in the first few months of the year. Rules had the idea to employ volunteers to run the majority of the company after being part of a similar project in June of 2021, instead, working as a content creator for the project.

The company was officially started on August 23rd, 2021. The initial team was developed over the span of two weeks, from August 31st to September 14th. It was during this period where Rules met Alex Dungula, a programmer working on backend client services and with CloudFlare^[2]. Dungula would eventually become the company Programming Manager before the end of 2021. From its conception, the idea of the organization was to solicit students of video game and computer application development to operate on a volunteer basis. "The very idea was not to create games, but rather to expand and encourage those who wished to. The purpose of our team is not to grow based on our abilities to create a game, but rather to build knowledge on our ability to grow." -Rules, after a year conclusion meeting on December 28th, 2021^[3]. On November 2nd, 2021, the operating programmer, Alex Dungula, was promoted as the Programming Manager and was given the responsibility to direct the entirety of the programming team.

On September 15th, 2021, the company started work on a mobile game known as Void Legion. It is a platformer-style game for Android and iOS devices. The project was initially supposed to be a test run of the newly developed team, but after a company reform on October 31st, Alex Rules was solely responsible for the development of the game. This project would use the Unity game engine for its development and would be the only game the company would make using Unity, before switching to Unreal Engine for their next projects, in favor of their simpler node editor for first-time students.^[4]

Similar to his ArcSky organization, Alex Dungula approached Rules about a project he created called PixB in December of 2021^[5].

The organization started as a side project from its conception, until July 12th, 2022, when the company legally registered for its LLC.

Company Growth (2022–Current)

Living in New Hampshire, Alex Rules decided to base the location of the company out of Manchester, despite not having a legal address yet for the company. On January 26th, 2022, Rules rented a P.O. box out of Derry, New Hampshire to use as the companies address instead of Manchester, as Alex attended Pinkerton Academy at the time.

On March 5th, 2022, the company held a meeting to discuss and finalize the upcoming release of PixB. During this meeting, it was decided to freeze the ArcSky project in favor of operating under Liquid Digital, a holding company which would own Liquid Digital Gaming and PixB.

Aquisition of ArcSky (2022)

Not long after the formation of the company, discussions have started between Alex Rules and programming Manager Alex Dungula about merging Liquid Digital Gaming with another start-up company, ArcSky. ArcSky is a project created by Dungula and was used to create software applications for private clients^[6]. The merge was thought to allow ArcSky to be in charge of Digital Liquid Gaming's backend services, such as accounts and websites. It was later theorized that the newly acclaimed company can be used as the front for any software applications Liquid Digital Gaming makes that would not be categorized as a game or entertainment. The idea of the acquisition came about by Dungula on November 15, 2021.

On March 5th, 2022, Liquid Digital decided the use of ArcSky was rendered irrelevant following the change to operate under a holding company called Liquid Digital, which would have served the same purpose as ArcSky.

Major Projects

PixB

Programs developed

Games developed (Liquid Digital Gaming)

Title	Development Date	Release Date	Platform(s)
Void Legion	September 15, 2021—October 5, 2021 October 31, 2021—Current	January 15, 2022 (Alpha Version) April 9, 2022 (Beta Version)	Android, iOS
Space	September 15, 2021—October 5, 2021 October 31, 2021—Current	January 15, 2022 (Alpha Version) April 9, 2022 (Beta Version)	Android, iOS

Other applications developed (Liquid Digital Gaming & ArcSky)

Title	Development Date	Release Date	Platform(s)
LDG Website	October 31, 2021—Current	January 1, 2022	N/A
PixB	December 26, 2021—Current	February 19, 2022 (Alpha Version)	Android, iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows