Digital Productions

3DO Games

Cancelled

Game	Region	Type	Publisher
Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz		Puzzle	Digital Productions
Mieko: A Story of Japanese Culture		Education	Digital Productions September 94
Whole Dog Almanac		Education	Digital Productions September 94

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 games developed by Digital Pictures and all subsequent releases of the games either by them or successor companies.

Title	Cast	Date of release	Format
Citizen X	Sharee Gregory, Charley Hayward, Peter Kent, Rob Narita, Mark Withers	2002	Sega CD
Corpse Killer	Vincent Schiavelli, Jeremiah Birkett, Bridget Butler	1994	Sega CD
			Sega 32X
		1995	3DO Interactive Multiplayer
			Macintosh
			Sega Saturn
		2019	PlayStation 4
			Steam
		2020	Nintendo Switch
Double Switch	Corey Haim, Deborah Harry, R. Lee Ermey, <Irwin Keyes, Camille Cooper	1993	Sega CD
		1995	Sega Saturn
			Windows 95
		2016	Google Play
			iTunes
		2018	PlayStation 4
			Steam
		2019	Nintendo Switch
Ground Zero: Texas	Steve Eastin, Leslie Zemeckis, Scott Lawrence, Christopher Bradley, Rick Aiello	1993	Sega CD
		2021	PlayStation 4
			Steam
Kids on Site	Larry Grennan, Scott McClain, Robin Joss	1994	DOS
			Macintosh
			Sega CD
Make My Video: INXS	INXS	1992	Sega CD
Make My Video: Kris Kross	Kris Kross	1992	Sega CD
Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch	Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch	1992	Sega CD
Maximum Surge	Yasmine Bleeth, Walter Koenig, Michael Champion, Andy Hirsch	N/A	3DO Interactive Multiplayer
			Macintosh
			Sega Saturn
			Windows 95
Night Trap	Dana Plato, Tracy Matheson, Debra Parks, Allison Rhea, Christy Ford	1992	Sega CD
		1994	3DO Interactive Multiplayer
			DOS
			Sega 32X
		1995	Macintosh
		2017	PlayStation 4
			Steam
		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
Quarterback Attack with Mike Ditka	Mike Ditka, Keith Neubert, Peter Kent	1995	3DO Interactive Multiplayer
			Sega Saturn
		1996	DOS
		2016	Google Play
			iTunes
Sewer Shark	David Underwood, Robert Costanzo, Kari G. Peyton	1992	Sega CD
		1994	3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Slam City with Scottie Pippen	Scottie Pippen, Keith Gibbs, Malcolm Ian Cross, Keith Neubert, Dana Wilkerson	1994	Sega CD
		1995	DOS
			Sega 32X
Supreme Warrior	Vivian Wu, Richard Norton, Roger Yuan, Chuck Jeffreys, Ron Yuan, Chaplin Chang	1994	3DO Interactive Multiplayer
			Sega 32X
			Sega CD
		1996	DOS
			Macintosh
What's My Story?	Jill Wright	1996	Macintosh