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 computer game software company named after the Silmaril

Silmaril

The Silmarils are three brilliant jewels which contained the unmarred light of the Two Trees in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. The Silmarils were made out of the crystalline substance silima by Fëanor, a Noldorin Elf, in Valinor during the Years of the Trees...

s of J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

's saga.

Silmarils was founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and Andre Rocques. It produced games for PC

IBM PC compatible

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, Amiga

Amiga

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, Amstrad CPC

Amstrad CPC

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, Macintosh, Atari ST

Atari ST

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 and Atari Falcon

Atari Falcon

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.

The company is most closely associated with its Ishar series. Crystals of Arborea was one of the first games to offer real-time 3D environment and a large world with very few limits on movement. During the past few years, however, the company has concentrated solely on 3D action games. But eventually the company went bankrupt in 2003. In 2004 Rocques brothers and another former Silmarils member - Pascal Einsweiler have founded new studio called EverSim specialized in political strategy games.

List of games

• Manhattan Dealers (1987)
• Mad Show (1988)
• Le Fetiche Maya (1989)
• Targhan (1989)
• Windsurf Willy (1989)
• Colorado (1990)
• Crystals of Arborea
  Crystals of Arborea
  Crystals of Arborea is a medieval fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Silmarils, and released in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS...
  
   (1990)
• Star Blade (Silmarils) (1990)
• Boston Bomb Club (1991)
• Metal Mutant
  Metal mutant
  Metal Mutant is a side-scrolling action-adventure game developed and published for MS-DOS, Amiga and Atari ST by Silmarils and released in 1991...
  
   (1991)
• Storm Master
  Storm Master
  Storm Master is a 1991 video game for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC, produced by the now-defunct French developer Silmarils, which placed the player as the head of government for a fictional semi-medieval country....
  
   (1991)
• Xyphoes Fantasy (1991)
• Bunny Bricks (1992)
• Ishar I: Legend of the Fortress (1992)
• Ishar II: Messengers of Doom (1993)
• Transarctica
  Transarctica
  Transarctica is a 1993 computer game made by the French company Silmarils for the Amiga and ported to the PC, Atari ST, MAC and Atari Falcon...
  
   (1993)
• Robinson's Requiem
  Robinson's Requiem
  Robinson's Requiem is a 1994 survival simulation game developed by Silmarils and published by ReadySoft. Players assume the role of Officer Trepliev, a member of the fictional Alien World Exploration department, whose spacecraft is sabotaged to crash land on a prison planet called Zarathustra...
  
   (1994)
• Ishar III: The Seven Gates of Infinity (1995)
• Deus
  Deus (video game)
  Deus is a 1996 survival simulation game developed by Silmarils and published by ReadySoft. It is the sequel to Robinson's Requiem. The player again assumes the role of Robinson's Requiem protagonist Officer Trepliev, who has become a bounty hunter for the Alien World Exploration department...
  
   (1996)
• Time Warriors (1997)
• Asghan: The Dragon Slayer
  Asghan: The Dragon Slayer
  Asghan: The Dragon Slayer is a fantasy-themed hack-and-slash action role-playing computer game developed by Silmarils and released in December 1998. Players take on the persona of Asghan, a warrior prince who swears to avenge the death of his father by dragons. The game is praised for smooth...
  
   (1998)
• Arabian Nights
  Arabian Nights (disambiguation)
  Arabian Nights is a commonly used English title for One Thousand and One Nights, a Middle-Eastern folk tale collection.Arabian Nights or Knights may also refer to:-Films:...
  
   (2001)
• Ashgan 2 (under development)

External links

• MobyGames' list of Silmarils games