Silmarils (company)

Silmarils was a French software company. It was founded in 1987 by Louis -Marie and Andre Rocque, who worked as an independent software developer since 1983, and Philippe Plas, and after three known gems from the stories of JRR Tolkien named. Was developed primarily for the PC, the Amiga, the Macintosh and the Atari ST, but also for consoles. Originally connected to the distributor Ready Soft, have been developed for some games, this relationship broke apart in 1996, which led to that Silmarils only brought their games in Europe market.

History

In the founding year released their first game, Manhattan dealer, a mix of adventure and beat-' em up grabbed Even in their next games Silmarils always previously unknown combinations of different genres back, with a focus on adventure and role-playing games, and integrated newly developed and hitherto little-used techniques in their games. The end of 1990, he Crystals of Arborea example, was one of the first games that introduced real time in a 3D environment. Other games, such as the 1994 published Robinson's Requiem, were primarily known for their very high degree of difficulty and the complex world simulation.

One of the greatest successes of the company counted the commercially quite successful Transarctica 1993, the Ishar series ( including the predecessor Crystals of Arborea ), which emerged between 1990 and 1995 and the resulting 1992 Storm Master. In 1998 came out the action adventure Asghan.

In 2001, a last, little successful adventure game Arabian Nights was published before the company went bankrupt in 2003.