Rocket Science Games was a video game developer that created games for consoles and computers from 1994 to 1997. The company was responsible for games such as Obsidian, Rocket Jockey, and The Space Bar. Staffed with some of the brightest rising stars of computer, comics and movie industrys RSG created a huge buzz even before the release of their first titles and claimed to be an on the virge of revolutionizing the video games industry. Founded at the height of the FMV video game craze of the 90's their first three games utilized the technology heavily but as a backlash grew and their fortunes suffered due to poor sales they shifted away from consoles and FMV to concentrate only on more traditional PC games. After the disappointing sales of their early games they received much needed funds from SegaSoft who then became their sole publisher. Unfortunately, while some of there SegaSoft games were critically acclaimed none of them did particularly well financially, and SegaSoft chose to shut down RSG in 1997. Obsidian was a 1996 computer game created by Rocket Science Games for the PC and Mac platforms. ... Screenshot of an FMV from Final Fantasy VIII. Full motion video, usually abbreviated as FMV, is a popular term for TV-quality movie or animation in a video game. ... SegaSoft, headquartered in Redwood City, California was a joint venture Sega and CSK, created to develop and publish single and multiplayer games for the PC, primarily in the North American marketplace. ...
The Space Bar was the last released game worked on by RSG but was not finished by the time the studio was gutted, SegaSoft felt the game had merit and hired Boffo Games to finish the title. Darwin Pond was an unreleased title that was completed before the fall of RSG but was never commercially released, later it was released by Jeffrey Ventrella for free over the internet. Boffo Games was a promising but very short lived computer games developer founded in 1994 by Steve Meretzky, Mike Dornbrook, and Leo DaCosta. ... Jeffrey Ventrella (born 1960) is an artist and programmer who has developed a series of interactive software programs (available for free at ventrella. ...
Obsidian was a 1996 computer game created by Rocket Science Games for the PC and Mac platforms. ... The Space Bar Box Art The Space Bar was part of the Graphical Adventure genre for personal computers co-developed by Rocket Science Games and Boffo Games, later finished by Boffo after the closer of Rocket Science Games. ...
GameScience not only saves considerable time and money, the Rocket Scientists claim, it also allows them to be "platform agnostic" in a business where no particular drive hardware dominates.
The Game Composer draws a diagram of the game that actually is the game, and lets you tinker when and where you want, to add a little bit of video from your library here or adjust the sound there.
RocketScience's Berkeley design facility, located in a spacious four-bay warehouse in the grungy industrial flatlands, hums along like some futuristic movie studio where the soundstages reside in computer terminals.
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