GAMEBRYO BREATHES LIFE INTO WiiS FIRST BLACK-AND-WHITE HORROR TITLE
April 14, 2008
Highly-Anticipated Wii Game, Sadness, Chooses Emergents Gamebryo
CALABASAS, Calif. (April 14, 2008) Emergent Game Technologies announced today that the highly-anticipated psychological thriller Sadness for Wii is being built on the Gamebryo game development platform. The first Wii title to be presented entirely in black-and-white is in development by Poland-based game studio Nibris. Taking place prior to World War I, Sadness is a crime noir thriller with richly detailed characters and an engaging storyline.
Without a doubt, Gamebryo is the most powerful engine available for the Wii. After getting familiar with the engine several months ago we made the decision to choose Gamebryo. Since then, our team has been working on Sadness and we are quite impressed, said Tomasz Wisniowski, Project Manager of Nibris. We will have quite a few graphical effects in our game, which some believe are impossible to attain on the Wii. Gamebryo helped make it possible. We are firmly convinced we made the right choice.
From the early stages of pre-production with Sadness, Nibris realized that they would need development technology that allowed for an extreme amount of flexibility in the creative process, which is a cornerstone of the Gamebryo framework, said Geoffrey Selzer, CEO of Emergent. Sadness is designed to push the bounds of Wii technically and creatively. We are thrilled to be a part of Nibris ground-breaking product. Were really looking forward to playing Sadness on Wii.
Gamebryo gives Nibris developers a considerable head start by implementing numerous Wii development features that do not typically come with standard SDKs. Loaded with rendering and animation tools, a Wii-specific viewer, extensive libraries and APIs to simplify pipeline integration, Gamebryo provides Wii teams everything they need to optimize and deliver visually stunning games on time and on budget.
Sadness is a horror adventure game aimed at adults with strong nerves. Players will need to confront their greatest fears and protect themselves in hopes of not getting trapped inside the main characters nightmare. The game has eight different extreme endings each with their own premise, which are assigned to a player based on specific factors during the game. To compliment the intense gameplay, the Wii-mote and Wii Nunchuk control the main characters hands so players feel as though they are in the psychological thriller.
About Gamebryo
Gamebryo has been fully optimized for development on PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii, and has recently gained attention as the engine used in Bethesda Softworks record-breaking Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3 and PC title, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and on its upcoming Fallout 3 across the same platforms. Gamebryo is also being used by EA-Mythic on its upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Gamebryo is a mature software product that ships with 3,500 pages of fully indexed, searchable documentation. To date, Gamebryo has been used in more than 200 games titles ranging from massively multiplayer online games, high-end retail games across multiple genres, and casual games.
About Emergent
Emergent Game Technologies provides flexible technologies and services that give developers an unmatched range of integrated capabilities for building, testing and managing games. These proven, stand-alone solutions include the award-winning Gamebryo game engine used to create hit next-generation games for the Wii, PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox 360, and PC. Emergent gives developers the flexibility they need to fuel creativity while reducing risk.
Emergent is headquartered in Calabasas, Calif., and has offices in Chapel Hill, NC; Austin, Texas; London; Tokyo; China; and Korea. To learn more, visit
www.emergent.net.
About Nibris
Nibris Ltd. was created in response to Nintendo's appeal for fresh ideas for video games in 2006. The company is based in the heart of Europe - Cracow, where East meets West. Their geo-cultural placement gives them a unique perspective on game design and development. Nibris is committed to innovative ideas and scenarios which permit players to fully empathize with their onscreen alter egos, and reach a level of immersion that most games pay lip service to, but never achieve. Nibris uses emotioneering to create game experiences that evoke sadness, fear, and joy, in ways other developers have not yet achieved. Nibris is an official Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii developer. Curently Nibris is working on the most anticipated title - Sadness (Nintendo Wii). Nibris is exclusively represented by FOG Studios, Inc. (
www.fogstudios.com), the leading agency for interactive representation since 1979. For more information, visit
www.nibris.net.
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Contact:
Erin Dwyer
Emergent Game Technologies
818-222-5355
marketing@emergent.net
