Alcachofa Soft
Alcachofa Soft is a Toledo-based video game developer founded in 1995, specialized in graphic adventure games.[1]
| Industry | Video games |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| Founders | Emilio de Paz |
| Headquarters | Toledo, Spain |
Key people | Emilio de Paz Ramón Hernáez Santiago Lancha |
| Products | Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico El Tesoro de Isla Alcachofa |
| Website | alcachofasoft.com |
History
Their first work was the game Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back, a comedy adventure.[2]
In 1997 they made Ping Pong. In 1998 they made Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico a graphic adventure based on the Spanish comic characters Mort & Phil and distributed by Grupo Zeta. It was successful and spawned similar games based on the characters.[3]
In 2000 they published El Tesoro de Isla Alcachofa a pirate adventure game which represented Alcachofa Soft's first effort entirely independently, without a publisher or external distributor.[4]
Other Mort & Phil-based games they made were Mortadelo y Filemón: Dos Vaqueros Chapuceros and Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor (2000), Mortadelo y Filemón: Operación Moscú and Mortadelo y Filemón: El Escarabajo de Cleopatra (2001), Mortadelo y Filemón: Balones y patadones and Mortadelo y Filemón: Mamelucos a la romana (2002) and Mortadelo y Filemón: Una aventura de cine (2003).
In 2008 they made Murder in the Abbey, an homage to La Abadía del Crimen.
References
- Desarrolladores “made in Spain” in elmundo.es (in Spanish)
- Entrevista a Emilio de Paz in frodrig.com (in Spanish)
- El sulfato atómico in La página no oficial de Mortadelo y Filemón (in Spanish)
- "LAS AVENTURAS 3D". Macedonia Magazine.