Deck Nine Games
| Deck Nine Games
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| legal form | LLC |
| founding | 1997 |
| Seat | Westminster , Colorado , USA |
| Branch | Game development |
| Website | deckninegames.com |
Deck Nine Games (formerly Idol Minds ) is an American game development company based in Westminster .
history
Idol Minds was founded by Mark Lyon on March 31, 1997 after he moved his family from California to Colorado . Originally based in Boulder, the company moved to Louisville in 2003 and Westminster in 2015.
Idol Minds was best known for its ragdoll physics based game Pain, which was first released on November 29, 2007. The game became the “all time top downloaded game” on PlayStation Network in 2008. On October 21, 2009 it was reported that Idol Minds had laid off 26 of its 46 employees in a series of layoffs. A company employee named budget cuts at Pain-Verlag Sony Computer Entertainment as the main reason for the downsizing.
On June 7, 2011 announced Sony Interactive Entertainment on the E3 to ruin, a "Diablo action role-playing game" for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3 , which is being developed in collaboration with SCE San Diego Studio at Idol Minds. Later, on January 13, 2012, the name of the warrior's den was renamed, Idol Minds was withdrawn from the project on April 2 of this year, then the warrior's den was deleted in July 2013.
On August 10, 2015, a Kickstarter project for a game called "Shutterbug" was launched to raise $ 400,000 in funding. The project was canceled 10 days later after it had raised $ 2,973, with Idol Minds stating that things did not work out.
On May 31, 2017, Idol Minds announced that the studio had changed direction to focus on narrative-driven games after developing a toolset called StoryForge and trading it under the trade name Deck Nine. The company said it was already developing a "brand new addition to a critically acclaimed franchise". The next day, June 1, 2017, several images of an alleged prequel to the graphic adventure game Life Is Strange 2015 ran on the Deck Nine website. On June 11, 2017, at Microsoft's E3 2017 press conference, Life Is Strange publisher Square Enix announced that a new episode, Before the Storm, was being developed by Deck Nine Games.
On September 20, 2018, Deck Nine announced they were working on a new game with Square Enix.
Games
| game | publication | platform |
|---|---|---|
| Rally Cross 2 | 1998 | PlayStation |
| Cool Boarders 3 | 1998 | PlayStation |
| Cool Boarders 4 | 1999 | PlayStation |
| SuperCross Circuit | 1999 | PlayStation |
| Cool Boarders 2001 | 2000 | PlayStation , PlayStation 2 |
| My Street | 2003 | PlayStation 2 |
| Neopets: The Darkest Faerie | 2005 | PlayStation 2 |
| Pain | 2007 | PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 |
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | 2008 | PlayStation 2 |
| Ratchet & Clank Collection | 2012 | PlayStation 3 |
| Linked together | 2012 | iOS |
| Ratchet: Deadlocked HD | 2013 | PlayStation 3 |
| Tales of Honor: The Secret Fleet | 2014 | Android , iOS |
| Qube Kingdom | 2014 | Android , iOS |
| Warrior's Lair | canceled | PlayStation 3 , PlayStation Vita |
| MiniTropolis | 2016 | Android , iOS |
| Life Is Strange: Before the Storm | 2017 | Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Louisville company tries to leave mark in video game world. November 20, 2005, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ^ Pain brings pleasure on the PlayStation Network. November 30, 2007, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Pain Tops 2008 PSN Download List. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
- ^ Rumor: PAIN developer Idol Minds lays off more than half of staff. 2009, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ^ Pain Developer Idol Minds Cuts Staff. October 21, 2009, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ^ Ruin preview: Hack and social. June 7, 2011, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Vita / PS3 RPG Ruin gets a new name. January 13, 2012, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ^ Sony takes pain developer off Warrior's Lair. April 2, 2012, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Sony cancels Warrior's Lair on PS Vita and PS3. June 2013, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Colorado team's video game project a fantastical photo safari ( Memento from August 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kickstarter: project canceled. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Pain dev Idol Minds rebrands and shifts focus to 'narrative-driven' games. March 31, 2017, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ^ Report: Life is Strange prequel leaked. June 1, 2017, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ↑ The Stormy Events Before Life is Strange. June 14, 2017, accessed June 2, 2019 .
- ↑ 'Life Is Strange: Before the Storm' Dev Making New Square Enix Game. September 20, 2018, accessed June 2, 2019 .