NGD Studios
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NGD Studios is a game development company located in Buenos Aires
, Argentina
. They started as a three group fusion and were the creators of an acclaimed game for a construction kit toy called Mis Ladrillos, which is similar to Lego
toys.
They later created a mobile gaming division. Making games for known brands like Axe and doing development for the multinational GlobalFun.
After some successful games, GlobalFun acquired the mobile division from NGD Studios.
They are currently continuing development of a real-time, 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG
) which emphasizes flexible gameplay and dynamic content. The game is called Regnum Online
and it has been in development for more than 5 years before its release in the first quarter, 2007.
The game was intended for the Spanish speaking market at the beginning but then improved enough to be targeted for other zones as well.
The game currently officially supports English
, Spanish
, German
, French
and Dutch
but they have stated plans to open the translation tools so volunteers can incorporate other languages.
The game uses a proprietary engine called NG3D which was built from scratch with Massive Multiplayer games in mind. It supports a variety of features found in today's engines, such as hardware shaders support, continuous world loading, asynchronous resource management and a flexible gameplay system.
Regnum Online was officially released on May 24th, 2007. Any information about future expansions and features have been not disclosed yet.
With the Update of the NG3D Engine, NGD Studios made grafic-Updates on Regnum Online.
In 2011 they released a game called Bunch of Heroes, made with the new NG3D 2.0. In this year, they also helped developing a game called Maldark: Conqueror of Worlds for Cartoon Network
.
NGD said, that they are working on a new mmorpg.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. They started as a three group fusion and were the creators of an acclaimed game for a construction kit toy called Mis Ladrillos, which is similar to Lego
Lego
Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...
toys.
They later created a mobile gaming division. Making games for known brands like Axe and doing development for the multinational GlobalFun.
After some successful games, GlobalFun acquired the mobile division from NGD Studios.
They are currently continuing development of a real-time, 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG
MMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
) which emphasizes flexible gameplay and dynamic content. The game is called Regnum Online
Regnum Online
Regnum Online is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NGD Studios, a game development studio located in Argentina. This game is also known as "Realms Online" in America...
and it has been in development for more than 5 years before its release in the first quarter, 2007.
The game was intended for the Spanish speaking market at the beginning but then improved enough to be targeted for other zones as well.
The game currently officially supports English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
but they have stated plans to open the translation tools so volunteers can incorporate other languages.
The game uses a proprietary engine called NG3D which was built from scratch with Massive Multiplayer games in mind. It supports a variety of features found in today's engines, such as hardware shaders support, continuous world loading, asynchronous resource management and a flexible gameplay system.
Regnum Online was officially released on May 24th, 2007. Any information about future expansions and features have been not disclosed yet.
With the Update of the NG3D Engine, NGD Studios made grafic-Updates on Regnum Online.
In 2011 they released a game called Bunch of Heroes, made with the new NG3D 2.0. In this year, they also helped developing a game called Maldark: Conqueror of Worlds for Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
.
NGD said, that they are working on a new mmorpg.
Games developed by NGD Studios
- (2002) Mis ladrillos
- (2003) Mis ladrillos 2: El Misterio de los Ladrillos Maestros (Programming and Game design by Caiman and Art, Music and Sound by NGD Studios)
- (2007) Regnum OnlineRegnum OnlineRegnum Online is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NGD Studios, a game development studio located in Argentina. This game is also known as "Realms Online" in America...
- (2011) "Bunch of HeroesBunch of Heroes“Bunch of Heroes” is an upcoming humorous 4 player cooperative top-down shooter for the Windows PC through Steam, The game have a Co-op online with up to 4 players, level up and improve the characters....
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Games developed by Globalfun Argentina (formerly NGD Studios mobile division)
- 3d Quad Puzzle
- Absolute Puzzle (programming only)
- Absolute Puzzle Deluxe
- Absolute Puzzle Split
- Absolute Puzzle Winter Edition
- Atomic Betty
- Axe - Marcales el camino
- Axe - Tetris
- Billy the Kid
- Billy the Kid 2
- Darwin's ocean's life
- Freekick
- Robin Hood
Other games developed by team members
- (1995) Regnum: (RTS) First CD-ROM game published in Argentina. Developed by Conde Software.
- (1996) Regnum 2: (RTS) Sequel to Regnum, published in ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
and UruguayUruguayUruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
with over 10,000 copies sold. Developed by Conde Software. - (1997) Pentagon: (RTS) 3rd prize award winner, EnixEnixThe was a Japanese company that produced video games, anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as and renamed Enix in 1982...
Internet Entertainment Contest, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. Developed by Conde Software. - (1998) Crisis: (RTS) Canceled
- (2001) Argentum Online: (MMORPG) Very popular Online game, with more than 10,000 users, originally developed by Pablo Marquez (Noland Studios), Matías Pequeño and Fernando Testa (both NGD Studios founding members).