DreamRift
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Orlando, Florida U.S. |
Key people | Peter Ong (creative rirector) Ryan Pijai (technical director) |
| Products | Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion Monster Tale |
| Website | http://www.dreamrift.com |
DreamRift is an American independent video game developer based in Orlando, Florida, founded in 2009. They have developed two video games for Nintendo's handheld systems Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS: Monster Tale and Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion.
Overview
Founded in 2009, by Peter Ong and Ryan Pijai, the company starting out making nintendo ds games and devoloped an orignal IP called Project Monster. [1]
In an Destructoid interview with Peter Ong, Dreamrift's Creative Director, was asked "There's a lot of experience on the team, but DreamRift is a new studio, and you guys are coming out of the gate with a new IP here. I'd imagine that would be both challenging and scary." He responded by saying:
"It was definitely challenging, and we were aware that taking other routes such as doing licensed games or ports of existing games to different platforms would be safer. Although, many of us have experience making some very successful licensed titles in the past, we felt strongly that for our first game as an independent studio, we wanted to tap into our passion for creating new universes, characters, and innovative gameplay mechanics."[2]
The Project Monster title evolved into the companies first game, titled Monster Tale, Majesco Entertainment published the game 2010.[3]
Monster Tale was released on March 22, 2011 to favorable reviews on Metacritic and was found to have [4] the highest ratings of an original IP released that year, with a User Score of 9.2[5]
Nintendojo reported that Dreamrift had expressed interest in returning to the Monster Tale IP [6]
In 2011, DreamRift transitioned to the Nintendo 3DS and began working on top-secret project, the rumors confirmed the project was in collaboration with Disney Interactive Studios and was confirmed by IGN in March 2012 to be Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion. [7]
Penny Arcade reported that at a press event in Anahiem that "Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion is a faithful spiritual successor to the Genesis game". [8]
According to Siliconera, it will be on the first third-party gane to be released on the Nintendo eShop and retain upon release on November 18, 2012. [9]
On November 8, 2012, Australian Video Game Website, vooks.net, reported that Dreamrift is working on a in a interview that Dreamrift has begun work on another unannounced project. [10]
Games
- 2011 - Monster Tale, Majesco Entertainment Company (Nintendo DS)
- 2012 - Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, Disney Interactive Studios (Nintendo 3DS)
References
- ^ http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/11/06/world-debut-project-monster
- ^ Chester, Nick (20011-3-17). "Interview: DreamRift's Peter Ong talks Monster Tale". Destructoid. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/05/11/project-monster-evolves
- ^ http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/monster-tale/critic-reviews
- ^ http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/monster-tale/user-reviews
- ^ http://www.nintendojo.com/news/news-blip-dreamrift-want-to-work-on-monster-tale-sequel
- ^ http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/03/26/epic-mickey-power-of-illusion-spotted-for-3ds
- ^ http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/epic-mickey-power-of-illusion-is-a-faithful-modern-day-spiritual-successor
- ^ http://www.siliconera.com/2012/10/10/epic-mickey-the-power-of-illusion-will-be-both-a-retail-and-eshop-title/
- ^ http://www.vooks.net/interview-dreamrifts-peter-ong-chats-with-us-about-epic-mickey-power-of-illusion/