image resembling him. And only wealthy people can afford these expensive resort prices, so an organization called the "A.A.A" (which stands "Amalgamated Association of Auto-mercenaries") is established to hijack tourists into these sites for discounted photo ops. The playable characters join the A.A.A. and controls one of several mercenary drivers controlling a heavily-armed ground combat vehicle fighting opponents to earn cash from tourists they pick up, bringing them to these photo ops, and on unauthorized vacations. Development and release Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 was developed by SingleTrac. The company had previously developed a string of critically and commercially successful PlayStation titles for publisher Sony Computer Entertainment during the early years of the console's life, including the vehicular combat games Twisted Metal and Twisted Metal 2. Following the release of Twisted Metal 2, SingleTrac entered into a contractual dispute with Sony when the developer's employees argued they were not receiving adequate financial rewards from Sony for their work. This led to the exit of key members like Scott Campbell and Kellan Hatch. SingleTrac was subsequently purchased by GT Interactive in mid-1997 and agreed to a three-to-four game development deal. Because Sony retained the rights to the Twisted Metal franchise, SingleTrac created Rogue Trip as a spiritual successor to those games. Rogue Trip was primarily designed by Campbell and Hatch, who additionally served as the game's producer and creative director respectively. The two created a roster of imaginative characters and personalities, which were then handed off to software development lead Steve Poulson to be implemented into the game via stunts and gameplay mechanics. The ska-inspired soundtrack for Rogue Trip was composed and produced by a team made up of Chuck E. Meyers and Tom Hopkins, both of whom had worked on the musical scores of SingleTrac games during the company's partnership with Sony. In addition to some original music, GT Interactive signed a deal with Mercury Records to feature the songs "The Rascal King" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and "Snake Eyes" by Nashville Pussy. Rogue Trip shares the same game engine technology as the SingleTrac-developed Twisted Metal titles, albeit with several enhancements. Campbell stated that the team optimized their code to gain 35% to 40% more processing power and memory savings and spread this across primary components like graphics, computer artificial intelligence (AI), and gameplay. First, a particle system was added to the give the player what Campbell described as an