Artematica - Martin Mystère

Artematica

Founded in 1996, Artematica has become one of the mostdistinguished companies in the digital entertainment and high-tech application sectors. Artematica's goal is to produce interactive videogames, virtual reality simulations and custom applications characterized by quality artwork and technological innovation. Artematica's development team (which achieved I Play 3D Soccer in 1990, the first 3D soccer videogame ever) takes pride in its well rounded experience to create videogames and high quality applications in record time.

The Application

Martin Mystere is a story based on Dorian Gray's recurring dream: everlasting youth and immortality. In the role of Martin Mystere, the player leads the investigation into the death of Professor Eulemberg, an important M.I.T researcher who's recent discovery had perhaps brought that dangerous and mysterious dream within reach, possibly changing the world forever.

The Challenge

Artematica's development team set out to create an adventures game for casual gamers based on a famous Italian comic strip. With Martin Mystere, Artematica wanted to confirm its game development reputation regarding quality content and state-of-the-art technology.

Artematica searched for a toolset with the following characteristics:

• Seamless multiplatform deployment Xbox/PC/Mac.
• Flexibility and versatility,
• Works with other development tools: 3ds max, Maya
• Innovative technology to optimize the development process
• State of the art rendering engine
• Technical support
• Collaborative development environment

Martin Mystere targets a wide audience and aspires to become a AAA title. With an enticing scenario and a captivating gameplay, the goal is to immerse the player in an innovating and thrilling 3D adventure.


The Solution

The development team was a fan of the Virtools philosophy and its innovating behavioral engine that enabled the development of visual scripts by attaching behaviors to 3D entities. Moreover, Virtools empowers developers with a high performance Scripting Language, VSL, particularly helpful for customizing routines and tasks and creating specific features, allowing the development team to keep better control over the production process.

Virtools solutions allowed Artematica to create games playable on the PC, Mac and Xbox (with the Virtools Xbox Kit) using a common development platform. Virtools solution allowed them to create optimized applications for all three target platforms simultaneously with hardly any modification or difficulty.

Key Benefits

• Intuitive graphic user interface and VSL scripting language to easily create highly-optimized custom behavior building blocks.
• Innovative and flexible approach to game development.
• Virtools Dev and Virtools Xbox Kit allow multi platform games for PC/Mac/Xbox.

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