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| [[Mieko|Mieko: A Story of Japanese Culture]] || {{Template:Flag-us}} || Education || [[Digital Productions|Digital Productions]] September 94
| [[Mieko|Mieko: A Story of Japanese Culture]] || {{Template:Flag-us}} || Education || [[Digital Productions|Digital Productions]]
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| [[Whole Dog Almanac|Whole Dog Almanac]] || {{Template:Flag-us}} || Education || [[Digital Productions|Digital Productions]] September 94
| [[Whole Dog Almanac|Whole Dog Almanac]] || {{Template:Flag-us}} || Education || [[Digital Productions|Digital Productions]]
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== The Multimedia Machine ==
== The Multimedia Machine ==


DPI designed a platform and subject matter independent development tool which its programmers use to produce interactive multimedia products. This tool, called The Multimedia Machine is written in the C/C++ computer language and is modular in design, with individual modules being function-specific (e.g. video, audio, image, communications, text, storage, etc). Embodied as a set of C/C++ library routines, The Multimedia Machine offers power, speed, and portability across multiple platforms.
DPI designed a platform and subject matter independent development tool which its programmers use to produce interactive multimedia products. This tool, called The Multimedia Machine is written in the C/C++ computer language and is modular in design, with individual modules being function-specific (e.g. video, audio, image, communications, text, storage, etc). Embodied as a set of C/C++ library routines, The Multimedia Machine offers power, speed, and portability across multiple platforms.


The Multimedia Machine has been used to build DPI's first two titles: Mieko - A Story of Japanese Culture and The Whole Dog Almanac. The Multimedia Machine is now current developed for the MPC and the Macintosh platforms.
The Multimedia Machine has been used to build DPI's first two titles: Mieko - A Story of Japanese Culture and The Whole Dog Almanac. The Multimedia Machine is now current developed for the MPC and the Macintosh platforms.
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== Decline ==
== Decline ==


The company seemed to stopped trading in 1999, with the founder and CEO leaving for a role at EA. The Company actually didn't get dissolved until Jan 2009. Also reviewing their website (Some captures on Archive.org - www.mmdpi.com), there are no updates on the platform from 1998-2002 when the last capture is recorded. However, with its sub site for Mieko (www.japaneseculture.com), this also had no updates, until a year after the last capture of DPI, with just a caption of "Mieko, Under Construction Coming Soon". This has lead me to believe that at some point, there was almost a reboot of Mieko. (If via Digital Productions Inc or not)
The company seemed to stopped trading in 1999, with the founder and CEO leaving for a role at EA. The Company actually didn't get dissolved until Jan 2009. Also reviewing their website (Some captures on Archive.org - www.mmdpi.com), there are no updates on the platform from 1998-2002 when the last capture is recorded. However, with its sub site for Mieko (www.japaneseculture.com), this also had no updates, until a year after the last capture of DPI, with just a caption of "Mieko, Under Construction Coming Soon". This has lead me to believe that at some point, there was almost a reboot of Mieko. (If via Digital Productions Inc or not)


== Games developed ==
== Games developed ==


List of games developed by Digital Pictures and all subsequent releases of the games either by them or successor companies.
List of known games developed by Digital Productions Inc.
 
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Title
! Title
! Cast
! Type
! Date of release
! Date of release
! Format
! Format
! Notes
|-
|-
|''Citizen X''
|''Mieko - A Story of Japanese Culture''
|Sharee Gregory, Charley Hayward, Peter Kent, <br>Rob Narita, Mark Withers
|Eductainment
|2002
|1994?
|Sega CD
|PC-CD ROM/Mac
 
|Different versions including Consumer, Lab, School and Site Editions, as well as Lab and School Upgrades
|-
|rowspan="8" |''Corpse Killer''
|rowspan="8" |Vincent Schiavelli, Jeremiah Birkett, Bridget Butler
|rowspan="2" |1994
|Sega CD
|-
| Sega 32X
|-
|rowspan="3" |1995
|3DO Interactive Multiplayer
|-
|Macintosh
|-
|Sega Saturn
|-
|rowspan="2" |2019
|PlayStation 4
|-
|Steam
|-
|2020
|Nintendo Switch
|-
|rowspan="8" |''Double Switch''
|rowspan="8" |Corey Haim, Deborah Harry, R. Lee Ermey, <Irwin Keyes, Camille Cooper
|1993
|Sega CD
|-
|rowspan="2" |1995
|Sega Saturn
|-
|Windows 95
|-
|rowspan="2" |2016
|Google Play
|-
|iTunes
|-
|rowspan="2" |2018
|PlayStation 4
|-
|Steam
|-
|2019
|Nintendo Switch
|-
|rowspan="3" |''Ground Zero: Texas''
|rowspan="3" |Steve Eastin, Leslie Zemeckis, Scott Lawrence, Christopher Bradley, Rick Aiello
|1993
|Sega CD
|-
|rowspan="2" |2021
|PlayStation 4
|-
|Steam
|-
|rowspan="3" |''Kids on Site''
|rowspan="3" |Larry Grennan, Scott McClain, Robin Joss
|rowspan="3" |1994
|DOS
|-
|Macintosh
|-
|Sega CD
|-
|''Make My Video|Make My Video: INXS''
|INXS
|1992
|Sega CD
|-
|''Make My Video|Make My Video: Kris Kross''
|Kris Kross
|1992
|Sega CD
|-
|''Make My Video|Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch''
|Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
|1992
|Sega CD
|-
|rowspan="4" |''Maximum Surge''
|rowspan="4" |Yasmine Bleeth, Walter Koenig, Michael Champion, Andy Hirsch
|rowspan="4" |N/A
|3DO Interactive Multiplayer
|-
|Macintosh
|-
|Sega Saturn
|-
|Windows 95
|-
|rowspan="9" |''Night Trap''
|rowspan="9" |Dana Plato, Tracy Matheson, Debra Parks, Allison Rhea, Christy Ford
|1992
|Sega CD
|-
|rowspan="3" |1994
|3DO Interactive Multiplayer
|-
|DOS
|-
|Sega 32X
|-
|1995
|Macintosh
|-
|rowspan="2" |2017
|PlayStation 4
|-
|Steam
|-
|rowspan="2" |2018
|Nintendo Switch
|-
|PlayStation Vita
|-
|''Power Factory Featuring C+C Music Factory''
|C+C Music Factory
|1992
|Sega CD
|-
|''Prize Fighter''
|Jimmy Nickerson, Manny Perry, Billy Lucas, Ben Bray
|1993
|Sega CD
|-
|rowspan="5" |''Quarterback Attack with Mike Ditka''
|rowspan="5" |Mike Ditka, Keith Neubert, Peter Kent
|rowspan="2" |1995
|3DO Interactive Multiplayer
|-
|Sega Saturn
|-
|1996
|DOS
|-
|rowspan="2" |2016
|Google Play
|-
|iTunes
|-
|rowspan="2" |''Sewer Shark''
|rowspan="2" |David Underwood, Robert Costanzo, Kari G. Peyton
|1992
|Sega CD
|-
|1994
|3DO Interactive Multiplayer
|-
|rowspan="3" |''Slam City with Scottie Pippen''
|rowspan="3" |Scottie Pippen, Keith Gibbs, Malcolm Ian Cross, Keith Neubert, Dana Wilkerson
|1994
|Sega CD
|-
|rowspan="2"|1995
|DOS
|-
|Sega 32X
|-
|rowspan="5" |''Supreme Warrior''
|rowspan="5" |Vivian Wu, Richard Norton, Roger Yuan, Chuck Jeffreys, Ron Yuan, Chaplin Chang
|rowspan="3" |1994
|3DO Interactive Multiplayer
|-
|Sega 32X
|-
|Sega CD
|-
|rowspan="2" |1996
|DOS
|-
|-
|Macintosh
|''Whole Dog Almanac''
|Eductainment
|1994?
|PC-CD ROM/Mac
|
|-
|-
|''What's My Story?''
|Jill Wright
|1996
|Macintosh
|}
|}

Latest revision as of 09:29, 21 July 2023

3DO Games

Cancelled

Game Region Type Publisher
Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz
Puzzle Digital Productions
Mieko: A Story of Japanese Culture
Education Digital Productions
Whole Dog Almanac
Education Digital Productions

Overview

Digital Productions Inc was an American development house founded California Chapter-S Corporation on January 30, 1992. DPI is located in Idyllwild, California. that offered several services including:

  • Multimedia Development Services (Title Development, Service Bureau, Development Support (MS Windows, Mac/Power Mac) and 3D Modelling)
  • Internet Services (Content Development, Web Page Design, Unique Domain Names, Shopping Cart, CGI, PERL, HTML, "C"/"C++" Authoring, Secure Pages and Site Publicizing & Promotion)
  • Inhouse Tools (Scanning (Flatbed & Film), Digital Audio (Recorded & MIDI), Digital Video Capture & Editing and 3-D modeling)

The Multimedia Machine

DPI designed a platform and subject matter independent development tool which its programmers use to produce interactive multimedia products. This tool, called The Multimedia Machine is written in the C/C++ computer language and is modular in design, with individual modules being function-specific (e.g. video, audio, image, communications, text, storage, etc). Embodied as a set of C/C++ library routines, The Multimedia Machine offers power, speed, and portability across multiple platforms.

The Multimedia Machine has been used to build DPI's first two titles: Mieko - A Story of Japanese Culture and The Whole Dog Almanac. The Multimedia Machine is now current developed for the MPC and the Macintosh platforms.

It was planned at some point that The Multimedia Machine could be packaged, marketed and licensed as a product for other multimedia developers and published.

Decline

The company seemed to stopped trading in 1999, with the founder and CEO leaving for a role at EA. The Company actually didn't get dissolved until Jan 2009. Also reviewing their website (Some captures on Archive.org - www.mmdpi.com), there are no updates on the platform from 1998-2002 when the last capture is recorded. However, with its sub site for Mieko (www.japaneseculture.com), this also had no updates, until a year after the last capture of DPI, with just a caption of "Mieko, Under Construction Coming Soon". This has lead me to believe that at some point, there was almost a reboot of Mieko. (If via Digital Productions Inc or not)

Games developed

List of known games developed by Digital Productions Inc.

Title Type Date of release Format Notes
Mieko - A Story of Japanese Culture Eductainment 1994? PC-CD ROM/Mac Different versions including Consumer, Lab, School and Site Editions, as well as Lab and School Upgrades
Whole Dog Almanac Eductainment 1994? PC-CD ROM/Mac
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