PixelMagic is a CD-ROM developer based in Dublin specialising in highly animated children+s games with a good storyline. Our titles use high quality hand-drawn animation that sets a new standard for graphics in multimedia. New commissioned music and a large amount of sound effects are used throughout.
The main target audience for our products is children aged 6 to 10 years, with a secondary audience of their parents and other adults.
Our first title is "The Great Green Mouse Disaster" which was launched in October 1995. Our second title is "The Witches Academy" which will be launched in October 1996. "Ghost Castle" is our third title and will be completed in spring 1997.
Great Green Mouse Disaster was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October '95 and on sale in the German market before Christmas '95. It was nominated for an EMMA multimedia award at Frankfurt. During 1996 Great Green Mouse Disaster will be on sale in most European markets, the USA and other territories worldwide.
Great Green Mouse Disaster
A Grand Hotel with eccentric guests and an incompetent staff are the backdrop for this wonderful romp of a computer game. The object of the game is to capture the escaped "Great Green Mouse Orchestra" members so they can play at the hotel dance. Help the hotel porter gather the mice, who are hiding in 20 different rooms, and laugh as they leave behind them a trail of destruction, with guests nursing bumps and bruises.
Once you've caught one, you must figure out which instrument the mouse plays, so they will perform their delightful, danceable, swing music (original score). Ingeniously animated, The Great Green Mouse Disaster offers beautiful hand-painted scenes which give a stunning presentation far ahead of many similar projects.
Witches Academy
The Witches Academy trains all apprentice Wizards and Witches for miles around. In the Academy they learn the essential skills of potion-making, spells, flying and other relevent subjects. This is a fun place, with crazy tutors, strange games to play, and the happy room, where all pupils are sent when they don't do their lessons properly.
One day, the Grand High Wizard and the Imperial Witch arrive. They are not happy at the modern methods of teaching used in the Academy, and want to close it down. You are choosen to do a series of tests that will determine whether the teaching results in properly trained witches and wizards. Pass the tests and the academy stays open. Fail, the it will be closed immediatly, and leveled to the ground.
The tests consist of a series of tasks in the classrooms, followed by the ultimate test - the tower game. In the tower you must make a dragon, using a combination of spells, potions and little creatures that are scattered about the place.
Ghost Castle
Every 100 years, a group of ghosts gather at an old Castle for the Ghost Reunion Party. Normally the ghosts race through the castle, scaring all the occupants, who leave in a hurry. However, this century things are different. People aren't easily scared anymore. Since the last visit 100 years ago, humans have discovered television and film. They have seen every possible scary thing and this bunch of ghosts make no impression whatsoever.
The Ghosts gather in the castle basement to consider their options. Your job is to help them scare the people from the rooms so the party can begin.
The Castle itself has spirits within its walls. These spirits, if coaxed properly, can make the walls, furniture, fittings, any physical thing come to life. The only chance you have is to combine the spookiness of the ghosts with the power of the castle spirits scare the humans away.
