Why the name Devine?

If you are familiar with the computer games "Quake III Arena", "The 7th Guest", or "The 11th Hour" then you are familiar with Graeme Devine's work. He is one of the head programmers for Id Software. During my freshmen year in high school (1996) I decided that I no longer wanted to call myself "NT Audio" because I was also doing lighting. At the time I was totally fascinated with the computer game "The 11th Hour". I was never a big computer gamer, but the technology in this game was truly amazing. It far surpassed anything out at the time. It was one of the first 3D wire-frame games out and also included a proprietary video compression format that Devine developed. This format allowed several hours of video to fit on the same CD with the game itself!

 

Graeme's company at the time was called "Devine Creations" which I thought was very clever. When I was thinking of a name for my company, this came to mind. At the time, I thought that the amount of work that went into that game was amazing and very inspiring. 

 

Devine is only a name. I did not choose it to mean that my company had anything to do with church,  god, or anything god-like. But on the same note, I do believe that hard work and striving for excellence is the best way to worship god. So if the name has anything to do with god, it is only that I personally put my best effort into what I do to show praise to what truly is divine. 

 

Nason Tackett,

President

Devine Productions LLC


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