Imaginary Numbers is an independent, privately funded, development studio based in Sydney, Australia. We are focused on online titles, particularly in markets not well served by existing products.

Location
Sydney is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Famous for its Opera House and Harbour Bridge, it boasts a climate like LA, a harbour like San Francisco, food like Paris, beaches like Hawaii, and the friendliest people in the world.

Management
Imaginary Numbers was founded by Luke Carruthers, an experienced entrepreneur whose past companies include Magna Data, one of the first ISPs in Australia, sold in 1999 for A$16 million, and now part of NTT Australia, and inter-touch, the largest provider of Internet access in hotels outside the US, recently acquired by NTT DoCoMo for US$70 million.

What's an Imaginary Number?
In one sense every number, all mathematics, is imaginary - a number is just an idea, a commonly agreed upon concept referenced by a symbol like "1" or "7308." In another sense, software is just imaginary numbers, floating around in the mind of your computer - and if all software is just numbers, 1's and 0's, then computer games are surely the most imaginary of all of them.

Flights of fancy aside, an imaginary number is a specific concept in mathematics - the square root of a negative number. The square root of -1 is represented by the symbol i, and all other imaginary numbers are expressed as multiples of i - the square root of -4 is 2i, the square root of -9 is 3i, and so on. Why are they called imaginary numbers? When the concept was first discussed, the prevailing belief was that there was no place in our number system for the square root of a negative number. After all, what two numbers can you multiply together to get -1? Multiply two negative numbers, and you get a positive number, so the answer couldn't be negative. Multiply two positive numbers, you still get a positive number, so the answer couldn't be positive, and what other kind of numbers are there? Eventually mathematicians came to realize that there is more to our system of numbers than meets the eye, and that there is in fact nothing inherently impossible about multiplying a number by itself and reaching a negative result, we just didn't have a way to describe such a number using our traditional symbols. Hence was born i, and the world of complex numbers!