Frederic Raynal, creative director at the Sega-owned No Cliché, is one devotee of the system which he currently uses to test ideas for upcoming projects. "From my point of view, the main attraction is the speed at which you can create something playable..." ...The demo Edge witnessed certainly bore out this claim. The Virtools environment is super-friendly, allowing game logic to be pieced together in a very graphical fashion, negating the need to get your hands dirty with reams of instructional data.

Comparing the actual origins of the multimedia industry with those of the movie industry, Bertrand Duplat [Virtools CEO] knows what he wants to do...

Thomas Ormond, managing director of Virtools: "One of the key problems facing game developer is how to reduce development costs and increase productivity while still maintaining a high standard of production..."

...Virtools can then claim the paternity of the Lara Croft's children.

...Simple, flexible and extremely complete, Virtools Dev accelerates the game production process...

...Specially elaborated to the attention of neophytes of in the world of 3D, Virtools is a veritable "Open Sesame" specialists, on the other hand, will appreciate its potential of quick and simple creation...

... Virtools allows a computer artist, game designer, programmer or author to create elements of a game in a drag and drop environment in such a way that a workable prototype emerges at a very early stage...

Virtools Dev is a new 3D authoring system from Virtools. It offers radical advantages over other systems...

...Virtools wants to put within the reach of artists tools that were once reserved for programmers...

...Like Director for 2D multimedia titles, Virtools posesses artistic and technical qualities exploited to serve the requirements of the software publishing industry...