Wadjet Eye Games

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Wadjet Eye Games
TypePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded2006
Headquarters
New York City
,
United States
Key people
Dave Gilbert
ProductsBlackwell series
Gemini Rue
Unavowed
Number of employees
3
WebsiteWadjet Eye Games

Wadjet Eye Games is an American indie video game developer, voice casting/directing contractor/subcontractor and publisher which specialises in point-and-click adventure games. It was founded in 2006 by Dave Gilbert as a means to publish his own games, but has since expanded to publishing games by other designers as well.[1][2][3]

History[]

Gilbert produced The Shivah in 2006 for MAGS, the monthly one-month Adventure Game Studio game contest. After winning the contest, Gilbert continued to improve The Shivah, adding voice acting and extra puzzles, then released it as a commercial title. It was originally sold via Manifesto Games, until Gilbert formed Wadjet Eye Games in order to sell it himself and move into game design full-time.[4]

In 2006, Wadjet Eye released The Blackwell Legacy, the first in the Blackwell series. This was followed in 2007 by the continuation of the series, Blackwell Unbound. In February 2008, a publishing deal was announced between Wadjet Eye Games and PlayFirst. Under the agreement, Wadjet Eye Games would develop a casual adventure game for PlayFirst. The resulting game, Emerald City Confidential, a noir story set in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz, was released on 19 February 2009. That year also saw the release of the third Blackwell game, The Blackwell Convergence.

In 2010, Wadjet Eye Games published the first game developed by somebody other than Gilbert; this was Puzzle Bots, a casual puzzle game developed by Ivy Games. Further third-party games published by Wadjet Eye Games through 2011 and 2012 were Gemini Rue, Da New Guys, Resonance and Primordia. In February 2013 it was announced that Wadjet Eye Games would be publishing their first portable release, with Gemini Rue being ported to both iPhone and iPad.[5]

At one point Wadjet Eye was planning a game based on comic books by Vertigo.[6]

Awards[]

Wadjet Eye Games was nominated for the Best New Studio award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2007,[7] the same year that Gilbert received the AGS Lifetime Achievement Award[8] In 2008, Gamasutra listed Wadjet Eye among their top 20 breakthrough developers.[9]

Games[]

Title Developer Publication year Metacritic Score
The Shivah Dave Gilbert August 14, 2006
The Blackwell Legacy Dave Gilbert December 23, 2006 80
Blackwell Unbound Dave Gilbert September 4, 2007
Emerald City Confidential PlayFirst/Dave Gilbert February 19, 2009 71
The Blackwell Convergence Dave Gilbert July 22, 2009
Puzzle Bots Ivy Games May 7, 2010
Gemini Rue Joshua Nuernberger February 24, 2011 82
The Blackwell Deception Dave Gilbert October 12, 2011 73
Icebox Games February 29, 2012 56
Resonance Vince Twelve June 19, 2012 76
Primordia Wormwood Studios December 5, 2012 72
The Shivah: Kosher Edition Dave Gilbert November 20, 2013 67
The Blackwell Epiphany Dave Gilbert April 24, 2014 83
A Golden Wake Grundislav Games October 9, 2014 68
Technobabylon Technocrat Games 21 May, 2015 82
Shardlight Francisco Gonzalez/Ben Chandler March 8, 2016 75
Unavowed Dave Gilbert August 8, 2018 87
Wormwood Studios 25 May, 2021
Curiosity Engine 2022
Dave Gilbert 2022

References[]

  1. ^ "Wadjet Eye Games (Company)". Giant Bomb. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  2. ^ "Wadjet Eye Games LLC". MobyGames. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  3. ^ "Wadjet Eye Games | IGDB.com". IGDB. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  4. ^ Adventuregamers.com interview with Dave Gilbert
  5. ^ Morgan, Joe (February 27, 2013), Wadjet Eye Games Gives Reason For Retro Adventure Fans To Rejoice, Capsule Computers, accessed March 1, 2013
  6. ^ O'Connor, Alice (4 November 2015). "The Vertigo Comics Games Wadjet Eye Never Made". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  7. ^ Game Choice Awards nominees (cited 12 February 2007)
  8. ^ AGS Awards for 2006 winners (cited 12 February 2007)
  9. ^ Gamasutra Top 20 Breakthrough Developers (cited 20 October 2008)

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