Frédérick RAYNAL is a French video game designer and programmer -- notable for his game developments in INFOGRAMES, ADELINE SOFTWARE and NO CLICHÉ.
After joining the infant INFOGRAMES, he ported ALPHA WAVES (1990). He and his team soon went on to produce ALONE IN THE DARK (1992), and worked on parts of the direct sequel before leaving the company. RAYNAL formed ADELINE SOFTWARE under DELPHINE SOFTWARE in 1993 with several former INFOGRAMES members. With this new team, RAYNAL produced LITTLE BIG ADVENTURE (1994), TIME COMMANDO (1996), and LITTLE BIG ADVENTURE 2 (1997). He was also given special thanks on the PlayStation port of FADE TO BLACK (1995).
RAYNAL founded SEGA SOFTWARE in 1999 under SEGA after they acquired ADELINE -- rendering it defunct and pivoted their goals to develop games for the DREAMCAST. It was renamed NO CLICHÉ shortly after. NO CLICHÉ was best known for its first DREAMCAST title -- TOY COMMANDER (1999). In 2000, it produced TOY RACER and helped RASTER PRODUCTIONS into coding localisation for the European release of the QUAKE III ARENA port. In 2001, Sega Europe stopped development on many Dreamcast European games, causing the company to cease development on its current project at the time -- AGARTHA. NO CLICHÉ remained together for a little while after the cancellation -- attempting to create a PC port of TOY COMMANDER. However, the group split before it could be finished.
POP CORN is a Puzzle/Action game by French developers Christophe LACAZE and Frédérick RAYNAL and was released in 1988. The game was available as freeware for DOS with a CGA graphics adaptor, and recieved a reputation for being an improvement over the PC version of ARKANOID. The game was also released with the European version of LITTLE BIG ADVENTURE 2 -- which was also developed by Frédérick during his time as director of the now-defunct video game company ADELINE SOFTWARE.
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend a conference by the great Frédérick RAYNAL (ALONE IN THE DARK/LITTLE BIG ADVENTURE) at the RETRO GAMING PLAY Festival.
Visit the official RETRO GAMING PLAY website:
➡️ rgplay.fr ⬅️
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