Silmarils
| Silmarils | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Private |
| founding | 1987 |
| resolution | 2003 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Lognes ( Marne-la-Vallée ), France
|
| Branch | Software development |
Silmarils was a French software company. It was founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and André Rocques, who had worked as independent software developers since 1983, and Philippe Plas, and named after three well-known gems from the stories of JRR Tolkien . It was developed mainly for the PC , the Amiga , the Macintosh and the Atari ST , but also for consoles. Originally associated with the distributor ReadySoft , for whom some games were developed, this business relationship broke up in 1996, which meant that Silmarils only launched its games in Europe.
Company history
In the year it was founded, their first game, Manhattan Dealers , was released, a mixture of adventure and beat 'em up . In her next games, Silmarils again and again used previously unknown combinations of different genres, with the focus on adventure games and role-playing games , and integrated newly developed and so far little used techniques into her games. For example , Crystals of Arborea , created in 1990, was one of the first games to introduce real-time into a 3D environment. Other games, such as Robinson's Requiem published in 1994 , are known primarily for their very high level of difficulty and the complex world simulation.
The company's greatest successes included the commercially quite successful Transarctica from 1993, the Ishar series (including its predecessor Crystals of Arborea ), which emerged between 1990 and 1995, and the Storm Master from 1992 . In 1998 the action adventure Asghan came out.
In 2001, the last, not very successful, adventure game Arabian Nights was released before the company went bankrupt in 2003 .