Darkworks

Darkworks
Darkworks S.A.
Type Independent
Industry Computer and video games
Founded 1998
Headquarters Paris, France
Key people Antoine Villette (President)
Guillaume Gouraud (General Manager and Artistic Director)
Products Video games
Website www.darkworks.com

Darkworks S.A. is an independent video game developer and technology company based in Paris, France. The company is known for its games that include Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare and Cold Fear.

Darkworks was founded in 1998 by Antoine Villette (President) and Guillaume Gouraud (General Manager and Artistic Director). The studio employs more than 100 people.

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PlayAll

In addition to its game development activities, the company leads several other companies on PlayAll, an integrated multimedia production toolchain and set of engines funded by the Cap Digital cluster.

TriOviz for Games Technology

TriOviz company in partnership with Darkworks developed the TriOviz for Games Technology, a technological solution that enables smooth stereoscopic 3D conversion of video games or multimedia products.

TriOviz for Games Technology is a software development kit that works with Sony PlayStation 3,[1] Microsoft Xbox 360, and PC.

TriOviz for Games Technology allows a video game to display on a 3D-TV (via HDMI 1.3 or HDMI 1.4 connection) as well as on a traditional 2D-HDTV set (LCD and Plasma) with the TriOviz Inficolor 3D technology. It uses glasses with complex color filters and dedicated image processing that allow natural color perception with a pleasant 3D experience. When observed without glasses, some slight doubling can be noticed in the background of the action which allows the film or game to be watched in 2D without the glasses. This is not possible with traditional brute force anaglyphic systems.[2]

TriOviz for Games Technology was showcased in June 2010 at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 by Mark Rein (vice president of Epic Games) as a 3D tech demo running on an Xbox 360 with Gears of War 2.[3] In October 2010, this technology was integrated in Unreal Engine 3,[4][5] the computer game engine developed by Epic Games, allowing numerous past and upcoming games developed on Xbox 360 and PS3 to be updated with 3D.

TriOviz for Games Technology is used by video games like "Batman Arkham Asylum: Game of the Year Edition" (March 2010)[6][7][8], "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West + DLC Pigsy's Perfect 10" (Nov. 2010),[9][10] "Thor: God of Thunder" (May 2011), "Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters" (June 2011), "Captain America: Super Soldier" (July 2011), "Gears of War 3" (September 2011), "Batman: Arkham City" (October 2011).

Games

Game Release Platform Publisher Notes
1906: An Antarctic Odyssey 1998 PlayStation 2 - Sales demo
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare 2001 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Dreamcast Infogrames Entertainment
U.S.S. Antarctica - Xbox - Cancelled
Cold Fear 2005 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2006 Xbox, PlayStation 2 Ubisoft
I Am Alive 2011 Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Ubisoft Game concept and R&D - Development to be completed by Ubisoft Shanghai
Black Death TBA Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 TBA

References

  1. ^ www.prnewswire.com: TriOviz for Games Adds 3D TV Support for Console Titles
  2. ^ www.digitalcinemareport.com: The Games We Play, by Michael Karagosian
  3. ^ Computer and Video Games.com: E3 2010: Epic makes 3D Gears Of War 2 - We've seen it. It's mega. But retail release not planned (17-Jun-2010)
  4. ^ www.joystiq.com: Epic's Mark Rein goes in-depth with Unreal Engine 3's TriOviz 3D
  5. ^ www.epicgames.com: TriOviz for Games Technology Brings 3D Capabilities to Unreal Engine 3
  6. ^ Engadget.com Darkworks shows off TriOviz for Games 2D-to-3D SDK, we get a good look
  7. ^ Spong.com, Reviews of Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition in 3D
  8. ^ Batmanarkhamasylum.com, How do you add another dimension to one of the best games of 2009?
  9. ^ Enslaved.namco.com Pigsy's DLC in 3D
  10. ^ Gamesradar.com Enslaved: Pigsy's DLC review

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