Star Mountain Studios is an independent software developer and publisher formed in 2003 by three veterans from Vivendi Universal Games - Richard Sternberg, Briar Lee Mitchell and Adam Ryan.

Star Mountain Studios produces original computer games and animation for the entertainment and edutainment markets. They have produced titles such as Genie Joe and the Axeman in conjunction with Joe Perry, Findola, Bergman, Frozen, and Weird Helmet. Recently they have worked with The Atlantic Paranormal Society

The Atlantic Paranormal Society

The Atlantic Paranormal Society is an organization that investigates reported paranormal activity. Based in Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, TAPS was founded in 1990 by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. In 2004, the organization itself became the subject of Ghost Hunters, a popular weekly...

 to produce Apparitions: Red Reef Inn and Apparitions: Kotsmine Hills, games targeted at amateur Ghost Hunters.

In 2008 Star Mountain Studios began publishing books; their first was a novel, Apparitions, upon which the game Apparitions is based.

The company has offices located in California

California

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 and Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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.