Desert combat signs a deal with DICE.

[crabcakes66]

Digital Illusions signs agreement with Trauma Studios
Digital Illusions CE AB (publ) 2004-02-04


Digital Illusions has begun collaboration with game developer Trauma Studios Inc. During one year Trauma will work on an upcoming product, together with Digital Illusions.

Trauma Studios developed the popular mod* to Battlefield 1942, DesertCombat. The new collaboration is for one of Digital Illusions' previously announced projects. The Company estimates the costs for the collaboration to approximately 550 000 USD during a period of 12 months.

- We understood the impact DesertCombat had quite early. This mod kept Battlefield's popularity in place during the last year, as well as helped us sell a considerable amount of games, says Patrick Söderlund, CEO, Digital Illusions.

- We have established a close cooperation with Trauma, and now we have come to an exclusive agreement with them, says Patrick Söderlund, CEO, Digital Illusions.

- We are delighted to be working with Digital Illusions on this project. Digital Illusions is one of the premier game development studios in the world and Battlefield 1942 is the best FPS game to be published in years. Everybody we have met at the company has been fantastic to work with and we are looking forward to collaborating with them on this project, says Frank DeLise, President, Trauma Studios Inc.

* A mod is a kind of modification to a game already existing. With DesertCombat Trauma reprogrammed some parts of Battlefield 1942 and thereby created new environments and new features for the game. To be able to play a mod you need the actual game that the mod was developed for. This means mods push sales of video games.

About Trauma Studios Inc.:
Trauma Studios Inc. is a Manhattan based game developer specializing in FPS military style games. Best known for the DesertCombat MOD for Digital Illusions' hit game, Battlefield1942, Trauma started out in 2002 as a grass roots game developer and created the #1 MOD for 2002 and for 2003 (as voted on Gamespy). Trauma Studios' DesertCombat has had over 3 million cumulative downloads and consistently ranks amongst the top 3 games played online. For more information, please visit www.traumastudios.com

pretty cool if you ask me....

 

[Loke]

Nice, hopefully they will at last get that darn SDK.

 

[simmo]

Excellent...all that hard work the DC team put out has finnaly been worth it :thumbs:

 

[Direwolf]

Sounds cool.
Um, I was under the impression that many of the development tools were released a little while ago? If it wasn't the SDK, what was it?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I don't think they released much really, EA put a lot of preasure, it seems, on the people they publish games for, to not release stuff like that. At least thats the way i see it...

 

[Jammydodger]

Its good to see things like this, It will give the modders somthing to aim for and people 2 look up2. And hopefully they get some shite hot mods out for half life 2.
Well done DC team!
Keep at it modders we do appreciate all the work you do

 

[crabcakes66]

Sounds cool.
Um, I was under the impression that many of the development tools were released a little while ago? If it wasn't the SDK, what was it?

stuff that the community had already figured out for themselves...

 

[craig]

good for the DC team. i just hope that the money is shared out equally and not just kept by frank.