Help! I'm a Fish (Hilfe! Ich Bin Ein Fisch)
from shoebox Entertainment

shoebox Entertainment™

Founded in March 2000, shoebox Entertainment resulted from the merger of Egmont Interactive and DTP (Digital Tainment Pool). The two companies work together to produce and distribute PC based games. Egmont Interactive focuses on game publishing activities, while DTP deals primarily with game distribution.


Challenge: Create a Highly Interactive Game and Receive Early Feedback on Development

Help! I'm a Fish, based on the popular children's film of the same name, was released in April 2001 in Denmark and Germany. The underwater action game lets players navigate through mazes, caves, solve puzzels and face dangerous enemies, as one of the three main movie characters.

To create Help! I'm a Fish, shoebox needed an application that would alllow them to test and modify gameplay at an early stage in game development, and a software development system flexible enough to let them create their own behaviors.

Solution: Test and Refine the Gameplay Instantly with Dev

Help I'm a Fish was created by a team of six people, including three programmers, two artists and one tester over 8 months. With Virtools SDK (Software Development Kit), the team developed 30 new behaviors.

Using Virtools Dev 2.0, the team received early feedback on their work and allowed them to experience gameplay as it would appear to their target audience. Help I'm a Fish was ready for market release in only eight months.


Key Benefits

The development team at shoebox was able to see instant results and get essential feedback on their game at a very early stage in the development cycle.

Virtools SDK allowed the team to develop their own specifically tailored behaviors to enhance game quality and the interactive experience.

The Virtools technology platform merged programming with graphical aspects of the production process to bring together a diverse team that could now work together more efficiently than ever before.


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