Black Widow Games
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Black Widow Games is a computer games developer specializing in promotional mods for Quake and Half-Life 3D engines. Prominent members include Neil Manke (Game & Level Design), Einar Saukas (Game Design & Coding), and Magnus Jansén (Game Consultant & Sound Engineer). The company business model is based on developing contract-work mods for the marketing campaigns of customer companies and products (such as the S.O.F. TV series from Rysher Entertainment and the movie Underworld from Sony Pictures), freely distributed for promotion.
In October 2005, the company declared it was not possible anymore to produce full fledged single player mods working on low budget promotional projects within reduced development cycles, because of the higher level of detail required for modern 3D engines. At this time, the company revealed it had been secretly developing for almost a year its first commercial game They Hunger: Lost Souls, based on the Half-Life 2 Source engine.
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[edit] Non-Contract mods
- Jan. 1997: Dark Night (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- Feb. 1997: Outpost (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- Mar. 1997: Monastery (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- Apr. 1997: SlaughterHouse (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- Jul. 1997: Alba 1 (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- Jul. 1997: Alba 2 (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- Aug. 1997: Starship (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- Nov. 1997: Starship II (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- 1997: Silhouette Of Darkness (Quake I multiplayer mod)
- Special Ops Force: Deathmatch (Quake II multiplayer mod)
- SlaughterShip (Quake II single player mod)
- They Hunger Deathmatch 1-5 (Half-Life multiplayer mods)
- 2003: Abandoned Factory (Half-Life multiplayer mod)
[edit] Contract-work mods
- Oct. 1997: Soldier Of Fortune (Quake I single player mod for Rysher Entertainment)
- Dec. 1997: Soldier Of Fortune: Deathmatch (Quake I multiplayer mod for Rysher Entertainment)
- Apr. 1998: Soldier Of Fortune: Mission 2 (Quake II single player mod for Rysher Entertainment)
- Jul. 1998: Coconut Monkey: Paradise Lost (Quake II single player mod for PC Gamer)
- Sep. 1998: Special Ops Force: Mission 3 -- Desert Bloom (Quake II single player mod for Rysher Entertainment serving as a continuation of the Solder Of Fortune Series upon the renaming of the original series by Rysher [see Soldier of Fortune, Inc.])
- Oct. 1998: Coconut Monkey: Dry Gulch (Quake II single player mod for PC Gamer)
- Dec. 1998: Special Ops Force: Mission 4 -- Cold as Ice (Quake II single player mod for Rysher Entertainment)
- Jan. 1999: Coconut Monkey: Saving Private Monkey (Quake II single player mod for PC Gamer)
- Aug. 1999: USS Darkstar (Half-Life single player mod for PC Gamer)
- Feb. 2000: They Hunger (Half-Life single player mod for PC Gamer)
- Sep. 2000: They Hunger 2: Rest in Pieces (Half-Life single player mod for PC Gamer)
- Nov. 2000: Vidar's Niflheim (Half-Life multiplayer TFC map for CNET Gamecenter [later updated to Vidar's Niflheim 2])
- Jun. 2001: They Hunger 3: Rude Awakening (Half-Life single player mod for PC Gamer)
- Sep. 2003: Underworld Bloodline (Half-Life multiplayer mod for Sony Pictures and Big Spaceship LLC)
[edit] Skin Work
- Female Player Model for Counter-Strike (Half-Life multiplayer CS model)
- HK G36 Model (Half-Life multiplayer CS model)
- HK PDW Model (Half-Life multiplayer CS model)
- M16 w M203 Model (Half-Life multiplayer CS model)
- M82A1 Barrett .50 cal Model (Half-Life multiplayer CS model)
- They Hunger Multiplayer Models Pack (Half-Life multiplayer They Hunger models)
