Silmarils was a French computer game software company founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and André Rocques. It produced games for PC,

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. The company is most closely associated with its ''

Ishar ''Ishar'' is a series of three role-playing video games by Silmarils for IBM PC compatibles, Amiga, Atari ST, and Macintosh. They are preceded by '' Crystals of Arborea''. The games are played in first-person perspective, with all but '' Crystal ...

'' series. '' Crystals of Arborea'' was one of the first games to offer real-time 3D environment and a large world with very few limits on movement. The company went bankrupt in 2003, and in 2004 the Rocques brothers and another former Silmarils member, Pascal Einsweiler, founded a new studio called Eversim, specializing in political strategy games. It was named after

J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philology, philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was ...

Silmaril The Silmarils (Quenya in-universe ''pl''. ''Silmarilli'', ''radiance of pure light''J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien, J. R. R., "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part Two" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in ''Vinyar Teng ...

Games

*1987 **'' Manhattan Dealers'' *1988 **'' Mad Show'' *1989 **'' Le Fetiche Maya'' **'' Targhan'' (planned for

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) **'' Windsurf Willy'' *1990 **''

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'' (planned for Sega Genesis) **'' Crystals of Arborea'' **'' Star Blade'' (planned for Sega Genesis) *1991 **'' Boston Bomb Club'' **'' Metal Mutant'' **'' Storm Master'' **'' Xyphoes Fantasy'' *1992 **'' Bunny Bricks'' **'' Ishar I: Legend of the Fortress'' *1993 **'' Ishar II: Messengers of Doom'' **''

Transarctica ''Transarctica'' (or ''Arctic Baron'') is a 1993 video game made by the French company Silmarils for the Amiga and ported to IBM PC compatibles, Atari ST, Macintosh and Atari Falcon. Plot The story is based on the post-apocalyptic science fiction ...

'' *1994 **''

Robinson's Requiem ''Robinson's Requiem'' is a 1994 survival simulation video game developed and originally published by Silmarils exclusively in Europe for the Atari ST, Atari Falcon and Amiga. Taking place in the 22nd century where Earth and colonized planets are ...

'' **'' Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity'' *1996 **''

Deus ''Deus'' (, ) is the Latin word for "god" or "deity". Latin ''deus'' and ''dīvus'' ("divine") are in turn descended from Proto-Indo-European *'' deiwos'', "celestial" or "shining", from the same root as '' *Dyēus'', the reconstructed chief g ...

'' *1997 **'' Time Warriors'' *1998 **'' Asghan: The Dragon Slayer'' *2001 **''

Arabian Nights ''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...

'' **'' Les Visiteurs: La Relique de Sainte Rolande'' *2003 **'' Inspector Gadget: Mad Robots Invasion'' *unknown **'' Asghan 2''

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