Kheops Studio was an independent
video game development studio created in September 2003. Its games were published by
Microïds, which acquired the brand and intellectual property as insolvency assets of
Cryo Interactive in 2002. The company was co-founded by Benoît Hozjan (of Cryo Interactive), who also served as the creative director for the studio and Stéphane Petit (of Cryo Interactive), who served as technical director. Kheops developed
adventure games
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based me ...
for the PC platform and released several major successful games. The studio is best known for creating games that have been described by the developer as "cultural entertainment", that is, games which are heavily drawn from historical or literary sources to include a mixture of history and fiction. After filing for bankruptcy, the studio was closed down in January 2012.
History
Kheops Studio was established in
Paris during September 2003 by Benoît Hozjan and other ex-members of
DreamCatcher Interactive's European branch.
DreamCatcher Europe had been founded that January,
and was in part composed of the development teams behind
Cryo Interactive's ''
Egypt'' and ''
Atlantis'' series.
According to Hozjan, most who migrated to Kheops were initially employed at DreamCatcher Europe to work on ''
Egypt III
''Egypt III'', known as ''The Egyptian Prophecy'' in North America, is a 2004 graphic adventure game developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company. The player must solve an array of ancient riddles that will help a dying Pharao ...
'';
in summer 2003, the publisher had laid off the in-house developers it had carried over from Cryo.
After its founding, Kheops sought and received a contract from DreamCatcher to complete ''Egypt III'' independently,
[ and it became Kheops' first title.]
Games developed
* '' Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds'' (1999)
* '' Egypt 3'' (2004)
* '' Crystal Key 2'' (co-developed) (2004)
* ''Return to Mysterious Island
''Return to Mysterious Island'' is a 2004 graphic adventure game developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company. Based on Jules Verne's 1875 novel ''The Mysterious Island'', the game casts the player as Mina, a shipwrecked woma ...
'' (2004)
* '' Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern'' (2005)
* '' Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne'' (2005)
* '' The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript'' (2006)
* '' Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure'' (2006)
* '' Destination: Treasure Island'' (2006)
* '' Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny'' (2007)
* '' Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy'' (2007)
* '' Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon'' (2008)
* ''Return to Mysterious Island 2
''Return to Mysterious Island 2: Mina's Fate'' is a 2009 adventure video game developed by Kheops Studio and published by MC2 France under their Microïds label. It is a sequel to the 2004 video game ''Return to Mysterious Island'', and is again ...
'' (2009)
* '' The Fall Trilogy: Separation'' (2009)
* '' The Fall Trilogy 2: Reconstruction'' (2010)
* '' The Fall Trilogy 3: Revelation'' (2011)
See also
* The Adventure Company
References
External links
Official website
via Internet Archive
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Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 2003
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