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Hello everyone! How is life going? After a rather busy September (which included my yearly visit to the Tokyo Game Show) I’m back to talk about the kind of games that some of us love and not many talk about.
In the last entry I talked about Deadlight, a classic style action/adventure game developed in Spain, and for this new entry we are going to remain in the Iberian Peninsula for a while more to talk about another Spanish team that is trying to make a place for themselves in this competitive industry. Maybe some of the younger players do not know it, but Spain was a world-leading industry when it came to video games in the 80s and early 90s, a period that is known to many as the “
Golden age of Spanish software” and in which companies such as Dinamic Software, Topo Soft or Opera Soft, among many others, released some of the best titles of its time. Unfortunately, the Spanish industry was unable to adapt to the 16-bit platforms, which led to a decline of the Spanish game industry and thus the end of its particular golden era. Of course, that was not the end of the Spanish game industry itself, as years later new companies would appear, such as Pyro Studios, who obtained international acclaim with their
Commandos series, however, many of these new companies would also end up in bankruptcy, and the Spanish industry never managed to recover its former glory, while at the same time Japanese companies such as Nintendo, Sega, Konami or Capcom took the industry by storm with games such as Super Mario Bros, Sonic, Street Fighter 2 or Contra just to name a few, games that would end up becoming some of most well-known classics of the industry. However, the Spanish game industry has kept generating interesting teams and games, such as Tequila Works, creators of the previously mentioned Deadlight or the recent and alluring
Rime, or MercurySteam, creators of the latest
Castlevania trilogy and the recent remake of Metroid Samus Returns. Both are just but a small sample of the big amount of talented developers that we can inside the Spanish game industry, a talent which also includes a very lively indie scenes, which includes creators such as Locomalito with games such as
Maldita Castilla,
The Curse of Issyos or
Hydorah, all of them tributes to the 8-bit era and the arcade classics, or the guys from Lince Works and their
Aragami, an interesting proposal inside the stealth genre, and it is precisely in this Spanish indie scene where we find can find also DYA games, which are the protagonists of this new entry.
