White Birds Productions
| White Birds Productions | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Privately owned |
| founding | 2003 |
| resolution | 2011 |
| Seat | Joinville-le-Pont (France) |
| management | Benoît Sokal , Olivier Fontenay, Michel Bams, Jean-Philippe Messian |
White Birds Productions was a French video game developer studio.
history
White Birds was founded in August 2003 by Benoît Sokal , Olivier Fontenay, Jean-Philippe Messian and Michel Bams. All four had previously worked at Microïds and there u. a. participated in the adventures Amerzone , Syberia and Syberia II . The reason for the termination at Microïds was that the four founders saw their creative freedom restricted and wanted to work out their artistic ideas without necessarily being committed to the field of computer games. Joinville-le-Pont was the location of the new studio; 30 people were employed there. In addition to computer games, the company also produced the four-volume comic series Paradise , written by Sokal and drawn by Brice Bingono and distributed by the Belgian publisher Casterman . Adventure Paradise , published in 2006, is based on the content of the comics. In 2008, White Birds ran into financial difficulties as the PC adventure market had shrunk. Two planned projects, the Aquarica, conceived by Sokal and François Schuiten as an animated film as well as a computer game, and a successor to Sinking Island , were discontinued and the company concentrated on artistically less demanding but lucrative games for the Nintendo DS . At the end of 2010, the company finally got into financial difficulties and had to be closed despite recently successfully launched iOS titles.
Published games
| year | title | platform | distribution | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Paradise | Pc | Ubisoft | |
| 2007 | Sinking Island | Pc | Microids | |
| 2007 | Emma at the farm | Nintendo DS | Nobilis (EU), Aspyr (NA) | Based on the book Martine à la Ferme by Marcel Marlier and Gilbert Delahaye (1954). |
| 2008 | Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals | Pc | Got game | Based on the comic trilogy Alexander Nikopol by Enki Bilal |
| 2008 | Emma at the Mountain | Nintendo DS | Nobilis (EU), Aspyr (NA) | Based on the book Martine à la Montagne by Marcel Marlier and Gilbert Delahaye (1959). |
| 2009 | Last King of Africa | Nintendo DS | Focus Home Interactive | NDS adaptation by Paradise . |
| 2009 | Upside down | iOS | White birds | |
| 2010 | Babel Rising | iOS | Bulkypix | Further development by Mando Productions. |
| 2010 | SocCars | iOS | Bulkypix | |
| 2010 | Crime Scene | Nintendo DS | Nobilis (EU), SouthPeak (NA) | Also published as Criminology , depending on the country . |
| 2010 | Last King of Africa | iOS | Bulkypix | Divided into 3 episodes, only episodes 1 + 2 published. |
| 2011 | Cardboard Castle | iOS | Bulkypix | Appeared after liquidation. |
Web links
- White Birds Productions at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adventure-Island.nl: Interviews: Benoit Sokal ( Memento from August 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Adventure-Treff.de: Guest at White Birds ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ AdventureGamers.com: White Birds - Michel Bams and Olivier Fontenay. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
- ↑ AltaPlana.be: Aquarica. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .
- ↑ GameKult.com: White Birds a fermé ses portes. Retrieved January 25, 2018 (French).