Digital Image Design (DID) was a British
video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with em ...
founded by
Martin Kenwright
Martin Kenwright is a British video game designer and the founder of British-based virtual and augmented reality innovation company vTime Limited, digital media, entertainment and technology company Starship Group, Starship, and video game devel ...
and Phillip Allsopp in 1989. It was originally based in
Runcorn
Runcorn is an industrial town and Runcorn Docks, cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England. Runcorn is on the south bank of the River Mersey, where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. It is upstream from the port of Live ...
,
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...
in England. The company specialized in aircraft simulator games, mostly published by
Ocean Software
Ocean Software Limited was a British software development company that became one of the biggest European video game developers and publishers of the 1980s and 1990s.
The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchest ...
. DID expanded following the release of ''
TFX'', ''
Inferno'', and ''
EF2000'', and subsequently moved offices to
Warrington
Warrington () is an industrial town in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in Cheshire, England. The town sits on the banks of the River Mersey and was Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. It is east o ...
. During this period, the technology from one of its products was spun off into a military laser designation simulator and they would also produce professional flight simulators for customers such as the
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
and
British Airways
British Airways plc (BA) is the flag carrier of the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London, England, near its main Airline hub, hub at Heathrow Airport.
The airline is the second largest UK-based carrier, based on fleet size and pass ...
.
After being taken over by
Infogrames
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, key members of staff including
Kenwright and Mick Hocking left to form
Evolution Studios
Evolution Studios Ltd. was a British video game developer based in Runcorn, Cheshire. The company was founded in 1999 by Martin Kenwright and Ian Hetherington, following the purchase of their studio Digital Image Design's publisher Ocean So ...
together with
Ian Hetherington from
Psygnosis
Psygnosis Limited (; known as SCE Studio Liverpool or simply Studio Liverpool from 1999) was a British video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher headquartered at Wavertree Technology Park in Liverpool. Founded in 1984 by Ian Het ...
. The company was subsequently sold to
Rage Games Limited. After the demise of Rage Games Limited, a company named Juice Games appeared in the same Warrington office, with some key members of staff. Juice Games later became
THQ Digital Studios UK.
Games
* ''
F29 Retaliator
''F29 Retaliator'' is a combat flight simulator video game developed by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software in 1989 for the Amiga and Atari ST, 1991 for the PC, and for the FM Towns and NEC PC-9801 in 1992-1993. Its working ti ...
'' (1989)
* ''
RoboCop 3
''RoboCop 3'' is a 1993 American science fiction superhero action film directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Frank Miller. It is the sequel to the 1990 film '' RoboCop 2'' and the third and final entry in the original ''RoboCop'' f ...
'' (1991)
* ''
Epic
Epic commonly refers to:
* Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
* Epic film, a genre of film defined by the spectacular presentation of human drama on a grandiose scale
Epic(s) ...
'' (1992)
* ''
TFX'' (1993)
* ''
Inferno'' (1994)
* ''
EF2000'' (1995)
* ''
EF2000: TACTCOM'' (1996)
* ''
F-22: Air Dominance Fighter'' (1997)
* ''
F-22 Total Air War'' (1998)
* ''Lethal Encounter'' (unreleased)
* ''
Wargasm'' (1998)
* ''
Eurofighter Typhoon
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'' (2001)
* ''
Eurofighter Typhoon: Operation Icebreaker'' (2002)
References
External links
*
Runcorn
Video game companies established in 1989
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Cheshire
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