North West developer - mini-game, due to start on full game
Torc Interactive, the Donegal/Derry based games developer and middleware company, is set for a busy year. Expecting to release a mini-game with the computer processor manufacture AMD early this year, starting work on a full game of their own later in the year, and on the middleware side of things, fully reveal their ‘Instinct’ game engine at the Game Developer Conference (GDC).
The showing of their tech demo at last year’s GDC lead to the developer being noticed, and then to the making of the first person mini-game with AMD, named ‘Dreadnought’. It is set on nuclear warship out at on a stormy sea; Torc proposes to include “a unique sense of realism and depth”.
The confirmation of work on a full game came as a reply to a question on the company’s increased recruitment of staff. Talking today to the Irish game development site GameDevelopers.ie, Torc’s Tony Kelly said "As we approach the launch of Torc's Instinct Engine at GDC in San Francisco at the beginning of March, we're gearing up in order to provide support to our clients on both the Varsity side of things and to our games industry clients. Simultaneously, we're staffing up on the game development side of things in preparation for commencing work on our first full title later this year".
Torc are also active at the education level, providing support games development courses at the North West Institute of Further & Higher Education in Derry city, and the Letterkenny Institute of Technology.
Meanwhile, the Dublin based Kapooki Games should have started external testing on “upcoming titles” sometime around now. It’s all hush, hush with games developers. Currently Kapooki has two games in the oven, PC and console, set for quarter one and two of this year.
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