Difference between revisions of "Dotemu"

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Dotemu

Founded: 2007

Headquarters:

Paris, France

Dotemu is a french video game company specializing in modern releases of beloved retro games. Our mission is simple: give every gamer access to yesteryear’s classic video games on today's platforms, including PC, mobile, console and more. Founded in 2007, Dotemu leverages its considerable technological know-how to maintain the original spirit of classic games while giving them a second life as rediscovered gems for a new generation of gamers.

History

Founded in 2007 by Xavier Liard and Romain Tisserand, Dotemu is a video game developer and publisher. Based in Paris, they are specialised in retrogaming: they bring back the best games from the past on the most recent platforms.

They worked with talented creators from all around the world including companies like SNK or Square Enix and living legends like Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia, The Last Express), Yoshihisa Kishimoto (Double Dragon series), Frederick Raynal (Little Big Adventures, Alone in the Dark), Shinji Hashimoto (Final Fantasy series) or Eric Chahi (Another World).

For 10 years, they re-published a lot of classics from the West and Japan, porting them to modern platforms sometimes by adding improvements over the original versions. To help them in this task, they created their own digital distribution service in April 2010 thet sold games without digital rights management, similarly to Good Old Games. But they closed their online store on 1 June 2017 because of the strong competition in the Electronic Distribution Service market and their shift from video game distribution to video game development. In September 2015, Liard and Tisserand sold their company to an unnamed, private investor. Later that month, they founded a new video game publisher, Playdigious. Subsequently, in October 2014, Cyrille Imbert was appointed as Dotemu's chief executive officer. In March 2018, Dotemu announced the creation of The Arcade Crew, a publishing label that would support small development teams.

They first venture into complete remakes with Lizardcube and the digital release of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap in 2017, then started in parallel the development of the sequels of 2 video game series, cult series in France: Streets of Rage 4 and Windjammers 2, both released in 2020.

Softography

PlayStation 4

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2017) (as Dotemu)
Streets of Rage 4 (2020) (as Dotemu)

Xbox One

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2017) (as Dotemu)
Streets of Rage 4 (2020) (as Dotemu)

Nintendo Switch

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2017) (as Dotemu)
Streets of Rage 4 (2020) (as Dotemu)

Windows PC

Streets of Rage 4 (2020) (as Dotemu)

Steam

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2017) (as Dotemu)
Streets of Rage 4 (2020) (as Dotemu)

Android

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2019) (as Dotemu)

iOS

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (2019) (as Dotemu)

References

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 They worked with talented creators from all around the world including companies like SNK or Square Enix and living legends like Jordan Mechner (''Prince of Persia'', ''The Last Express''), Yoshihisa Kishimoto (''Double Dragon'' series), Frederick Raynal (''Little Big Adventures'', ''Alone in the Dark''), Shinji Hashimoto (''Final Fantasy'' series) or Eric Chahi (''Another World'').
-For 10 years, they re-published a lot of classics from the West and Japan, porting them to modern platforms sometimes by adding improvements over the original versions. To help them in this task, they created their own digital distribution service in April 2010 thet sold games without digital rights management, similarly to [[Good Old Games]]. But they closed their online store on 1 June 2017 because of the strong competition in the Electronic Distribution Service market and their shift from video game distribution to video game development. In September 2015, Liard and Tisserand sold their company to an unnamed, private investor. Later that month, they founded a new video game publisher, Playdigious. Subsequently, in October 2014, Cyrille Imbert was appointed as Dotemu's chief executive officer. In March 2018, Dotemu announced the creation of The Arcade Crew, a publishing label that would support small development teams.
+For 10 years, they re-published a lot of classics from the West and Japan, porting them to modern platforms sometimes by adding improvements over the original versions. To help them in this task, they created their own digital distribution service in April 2010 thet sold games without digital rights management, similarly to Good Old Games. But they closed their online store on 1 June 2017 because of the strong competition in the Electronic Distribution Service market and their shift from video game distribution to video game development. In September 2015, Liard and Tisserand sold their company to an unnamed, private investor. Later that month, they founded a new video game publisher, Playdigious. Subsequently, in October 2014, Cyrille Imbert was appointed as Dotemu's chief executive officer. In March 2018, Dotemu announced the creation of The Arcade Crew, a publishing label that would support small development teams.
 They first venture into complete remakes with [[Lizardcube]] and the digital release of [[Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap]] in 2017, then started in parallel the development of the sequels of 2 video game series, cult series in France: [[Streets of Rage 4]] and Windjammers 2, both released in 2020.