DreamForge Intertainment, Inc. was an American computer game developer.
History
DreamForge was founded as Event Horizon Software, Inc. by the computer game developers Thomas Holmes, Christopher Straka and James Namestka in
Greensburg. Until its dissolution the company produced several well-known and awarded computer games, most of them in the genre of
role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...
s and
strategy video games
Strategy is a major video game genre that emphasizes thinking and planning over direct instant action in order to achieve victory. Although many types of video games can contain strategic elements, as a genre, strategy games are most commonly defi ...
.
After producing several games, the team changed its name to DreamForge Intertainment after learning that its Event Horizon name was shared with a developer of pornographic software.
The company was dissolved in 2001 after struggles with its publishers while working on several titles, including the never finished game ''
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - The Heart of Gaia'', as well as ''
Myst IV'', with the latter being subsequently continued by a different studio.
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List of games
* ''DarkSpyre
''DarkSpyre'' is a 1990 video game produced by Event Horizon Software (later known as DreamForge Intertainment) for MS-DOS. It was released the following year for the Amiga. ''Darkspyre'' is a dungeon crawl style role-playing game. It uses top ...
''
* '' Dusk of the Gods''
* '' The Summoning''
* ''Dungeon Hack
''Dungeon Hack'' is a 1993 role-playing video game developed by DreamForge Intertainment and published by Strategic Simulations for DOS and NEC PC-9801.
The game is based in the '' Advanced Dungeons and Dragons'' world of Forgotten Realms. It ...
''
* ''Veil of Darkness
''Veil of Darkness'' is a horror-action-adventure game for MS-DOS, FM Towns and PC-98, which was developed by Event Horizon Software and published by Strategic Simulations in 1993. Veil of Darkness is a third person, 2D point-and-click adventur ...
''
* '' Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession''
* ''Menzoberranzan
Menzoberranzan, the "City of Spiders", is a fictional city-state in the world of the ''Forgotten Realms'', a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting. The city is located in the Upper Northdark, about two miles below the Surbrin Vale, between the M ...
''
* ''Anvil of Dawn
''Anvil of Dawn'' is a 1995 fantasy role-playing video game developed by DreamForge Intertainment and published by New World Computing. ''Anvil of Dawn'' was named the best role-playing game of 1995 by '' Computer Gaming World'' and ''Computer G ...
''
* '' Ravenloft: Stone Prophet''
* ''Chronomaster
''Chronomaster'' is adventure game developed by DreamForge Intertainment for MS-DOS compatible operating systems and published by IntraCorp on 20 December 1995. Its main plot was written by novelist Roger Zelazny and was his last known work, as ...
''
* ''War Wind
''War Wind'' is a science fantasy real-time strategy game developed by DreamForge Intertainment and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI). It was released in 1996 for Microsoft Windows and used DirectX 2.0. The game features four ...
''
* '' War Wind II: Human Onslaught''
* '' 101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor''
* '' Sanitarium''
* ''TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter
''TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter'' is a sports game developed by DreamForge Intertainment and published by ASC Games for Microsoft Windows in 1998. A sequel, ''TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter 2'', was released in 1999 developed by Monolith Productions using the ...
''
* '' Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War''
Unfinished
* ''Kehl: Fury Unbound'' (unfinished Xbox title)[
* '' Myst IV''][
* '' Werewolf: The Apocalypse – The Heart of Gaia''][
]
References
External links
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1990 establishments in Pennsylvania
2001 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
American companies established in 1990
American companies disestablished in 2001
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Game manufacturers
Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 1990
Video game companies disestablished in 2001
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