Trilobyte (company)
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| Industry | Computer and video games |
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| Founded | 1990 |
| Headquarters | Medford, Oregon, USA |
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Key people
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Graeme Devine (founder), Rob Landeros (founder, CEO), John Fricker (CTO), Charlie McHenry (COO) |
| Products | Video games |
| Website | www.trilobytegames.com (accessed 2011-05-24), www.tbyte.com (1996-2001, archived version 2001-05-06) |
Trilobyte is a computer game developer founded in December 1990 by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros. They are well known in the computer game industry for The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour games, and to a lesser extent for Clandestiny and other titles.
The company was recently reformed by co-founder Rob Landeros, with some of its original titles being re-released.
The official company logo consists of a trilobite superimposed on a pyramid. The design for the logo went through many changes, from the simple, to celebrating holidays on their webpage (now defunct). The logo pictured here is from a mirror of the old official company page, and is more elaborate than versions seen within the games themselves.
The company is most famous for creating the PC game The 7th Guest, one of the first computer games for CD-ROM. Most of the footage for the game was filmed with a US$35,000 budget, Super VHS cameras, and blue butcher paper as a background that would later be removed to help insert the actors in the game, a process called chromakey, or bluescreen. The game was a puzzle-solving game similar in style to Myst. However, most of the puzzles in The 7th Guest were based on versions of real puzzles invented by people such as Max Bezzel, while the puzzles in Myst were largely fantasy-based. Unlike Myst, which used static screens, The 7th Guest was the first game to use full rendered 3D animation and navigation. For the time, it had state-of-the-art graphics by Rob Landeros, Robert Stein III, Gene Bodio, Alan Iglesias, MIDI music by The Fat Man, and a full-fledged story by established author Matthew J. Costello. During planning, a sequel was already being considered in anticipation of success. The final version of The 7th Guest was released in 1993. 60,000 copies were snapped up overnight, and a bevy of requests for reorders arrived days later.
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