SOFTWARE developer Onisoft is hoping to break into the video games market with the launch of its first title.
The Teesside company has spent more than two years working on Fate of Ages, a fantasy role-playing game, and is now marketing it to some of the industry's publishing houses.
The game allows players to control a group of heroes who fall back in time, fighting various enemies along the way as they explore new worlds.
Onisoft was set up in November 2002 by Canadians Paul Dolhai and Doug Wolff, masters graduates from Teesside University's game programming degree course, along with their friend, Mark South.
The company received £15,000 from the Business Link Micro Loan Fund to help with its development. The loan scheme is funded by regional development agency One NorthEast and managed by the North-East Business and Innovation Centre (BIC).
Mr South said: "The micro loan in particular has been a great boost to the organisation as we needed to move our first video game from a prototype into a commercial product."
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