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Terraglyph Interactive Studios

video game development studio

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7703218 ↗
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TerraGlyph Interactive Studios was a multi-platform game development studio located in Schaumburg, Illinois, and was founded in 1994. The company was the game development division of the TerraGlyph group of companies, which also includes a feature animation studio in Dublin, Ireland; a web/media services division; and a business visualization company, both located near Chicago, Illinois.

Terraglyph's main product line consisted of rendered CD-ROM-based children's games. Originally, their concept was to create several edutainment games based on classic fairy tales such as Hansel and Gretel that were both fun to play as well as developed in five different languages for kids to learn new languages as they played. Later, their game development included popular licensed titles such as Kidsongs and Tiny Toon Adventures.

Games published

Win95/Mac/MS-DOS

Hansel & Gretel and the Enchanted Castle (1995)

Rumpelstiltskin's Labyrinth of the Lost (1995)

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster and the Beanstalk

Kidsongs Musical Mystery

Beowulf (99% finished)

Scooby-Doo! Showdown in Ghost Town

PlayStation

Tiny Toon Adventures: Toonenstein

Tiny Toon Adventures: The Great Beanstalk

Blue's Big Musical

Nintendo 64

Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers

Carnivalé: Cenzo's Adventure (cancelled)

Animated films (TerraGlyph Productions Dublin)

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