- Haiku Studios
Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = Haiku Studios
company_
slogan =
fate = Bankrupt
successor =
foundation = 1993
defunct = 1997
location =France
industry = Software & Programming
key_people =
products =Adventure games
num_employees = 11-50 [http://www.linkedin.com/in/3dpili]
parent =
subsid =Haiku Studios was a
video game developer based inFrance , founded by Olivier Cordoleani and Hervé Lange in 1993. Cordoleani and Lange both worked on "Iron and Flame " (ATARI ), "B.A.T. " (1990,UbiSoft ) and "B.A.T. II - The Koshan Conspiracy" (1992, UbiSoft) under the name "Computer's Dream " during the1980 s. The name "Haiku Studios" was coined in 1993 and consisted of "Computer's Dream" and several other developers. The company developed "Down in the Dumps ", which was published by Philips Media forMSDOS ,Microsoft Windows ,Playstation andApple Macintosh in 1996. A 3D racing game, "Demon Driver", and "Moreau", believed to be atie-in of the1996 movie "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (starringMarlon Brando andVal Kilmer ), were in development when the company went out of business in1997 .External links
* [http://web.archive.org/web/19961225045749/http://www.haikustudios.com/ Haiku Studios Official website] (defunct, via the Internet Archive)
* [http://www.aitpast.com/dossiers/interview_cordoleani/interview_cordoleani.htm Alone in the Past? Interview with Olivier Cordoleani] (French)
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