White Birds Productions Explained

White Birds Productions
Location City:Joinville-le-Pont, Paris
Location Country:France
Key People:Benoît Sokal, Olivier Fontenay, Michel Bams, Jean-Philippe Messian
Industry:Video games
Services:Computer and video game Development
Num Employees:25

White Birds Productions was a French video game developer. White Birds was founded by Benoît Sokal, Olivier Fontenay, Jean-Philippe Messian and Michel Bams in August 2003. White Birds specialised in adventure games but also handled other work, such as synthetic image creation, comics and merchandising.[1]

The four founders had previously worked together at another French video game company, Microïds, producing Amerzone, Syberia and Syberia II. Microïds has since maintained connections with the company, for example by publishing Sinking Island.

White Birds Productions was based in the Paris suburb of Joinville-le-Pont (94) and employed 20 people.[2] White Birds was a member of the PlayAll project, a middleware cross-platform created in collaboration with other game studios and university laboratories.

The company was shut down late 2010 due to financial problems mostly caused by a cancelled/unpaid for project.[3]

Games

White Birds primarily develop PC games, but they are also work with other consoles such as the Nintendo DS and the iPhone/iPod Touch.[4]

PC

TitleRelease dateNotes
Paradise2006
Sinking Island4 October 2007
10 September 2008[5] [6] Adaptation of The Nikopol Trilogy: La Foire aux immortels.
Aquarica Cancelled[7]
BroadwayCancelled[8]

Nintendo DS

TitleRelease dateNotes
Emma at the Farm2007Adaptation of Martine books.
Emma at the MountainFebruary 2008Adaptation of Martine books.
Last King of AfricaMid-2008Mobile adaptation of Paradise.
Crime Scene (also known as Criminology)[9] 16 February 2010

iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad

TitleRelease dateNotes
Upside Down10 December 2009
Babel Rising9 February 2010
SocCars11 February 2010
Last King of Africa (released as 3 episodes)July 2010 (Episode 1)Mobile adaptation of Paradise.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: White Birds Productions. 4 June 2013.
  2. Web site: About . White Birds . 2011-01-15.
  3. Web site: White Birds shut down . 2011-01-09 . 2011-01-15.
  4. Web site: Taking flight with White Birds, Part One . Adventure Gamers . 2007-07-23 . 2008-04-16.
  5. Web site: Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals . gamesindustry.biz . 2008-05-13 . 2008-05-14.
  6. Web site: Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals Now Set to be Revealed in North America this September . Got Game Entertainment . 2008-08-05 . 2008-08-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080917033510/http://www.gotgameentertainment.com/news/nikopol/5aug08.htm . September 17, 2008 .
  7. Web site: Aquarica . Adventure Gamers . 2013-04-21.
  8. Web site: Taking flight with White Birds, Part Two . Adventure Gamers . 2007-07-26 . 2008-04-16.
  9. Web site: Crime Scene . Adventure Gamers . 2010-08-08.