| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Manchester, England |
| Key people | Deborah & Pete Jones (managing directors) Gary Leach (technical director) |
| Products | Hydrophobia |
| Website | http://darkenergydigital.net/ |
Dark Energy Digital,[1] is a privately owned video game developer and publisher based in the United Kingdom. It was formed from members of Blade Interactive, which continues to operate as a separate company.[2] On September 28, 2007, following the public announcement of Hydrophobia, it was announced that a deal had been made between Blade Interactive and Total Asset Limited and was to become a publisher in its own right and publish its own titles.[3]
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Blade Interactive was founded in 1998 and are largely known as a developer of pool and snooker games.[4] Three years developing HydroEngine, their dynamic fluid game engine used in Hydrophobia.[5] As part of a major expansion, Blade Interactive has a new mobile game development division based at Blade Interactive's new office complex in Manchester, known as 'BIG' (Blade Interactive Games). One of the founding Directors of Blade Interactive, Peter Jones, was formally Managing Director of Mirage Technologies Multimedia Ltd, the studio behind Rise of the Robots 1 & 2 and the PlayStation/PC title Bedlam.
The company created a new video game engine / game creation system to create a new generation of download games called Infinite Worlds. It also created the world's first fluid dynamics engine known as, HydroEngine, and has a unique capability which allows dynamic modeling of flowing water and other liquids. Fluids are completely dynamic, which means the effect is not repeated and thus allowing different effects each time. The engine also interfaces with solid body physics engines such as Havok, which allows objects and debris to be carried with the flow.
Developed by Blade Interactive:
Developed by Dark Energy Digital: