Adeline Software International

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Adeline Software International was a video game developer founded in February 1993 as a subsidiary company of Delphine Software International, and based in Lyon, France.

The company employed 21 people including graphic artists, developers and musicians. 5 members made up the core of the team: Frédérick Raynal, Director, Yaël Barroz, computer artist in charge of scenery, Didier Chanfray, Artwork Director, Serge Plagnol, Technical Director and Laurent Salmeron, resource manager. The team mostly came from Infogrames, another French video game company, after a disagreement about sequels of the Alone in the Dark hit.

Its products included Little Big Adventure for the PC and PlayStation, Time Commando for the PC, PlayStation and Sega Saturn, and Little Big Adventure 2 for the PC.

After the release of Little Big Adventure 2 in 1997, Adeline Software International slowly went quiet, and at the end of the same year, the core team was sold to Sega becoming No Cliché and leaving Adeline as an empty group inside Delphine.

Despite the apparent demise of Adeline Software International, the brand was still used in 2002 by Delphine Software International for the release of Moto Racer Advance for the Game Boy Advance. However, no members from the original Adeline staff were involved on the development, as they had moved away years before in order to form No Cliché. The Adeline brand was also featured in the cancelled Flashback Legends for the Game Boy Advance.

The liquidation of its parent company, Delphine, in July 2004, also marked the definite death of Adeline.

Little Big Adventure and Little Big Adventure 2 are still supported by a community known as the Magicball Network.

Little Big Adventure 3 has been a talking topic since 2000, with Frédérick Raynal proposing new games to publishers - including a proposal for LBA3.