Gaming Technology

DR Studios’s technology has helped define the mass-market simulation genre. The company has earned substantial recognition from its peers by developing bespoke technology consisting of Wii and DS-standard specs that generate surprisingly sophisticated player experiences.

Developing such technology is really the name of the game for DR Studios. Creating its own multiplatform in-house game engine to work with the Nintendo DS, Wii, PC and Xbox 360, as well as trademark authoring tools, has provided the team with enviable development freedom.

One of DR Studios’s most notable developments is that of its scripting language. This required incorporating the syntax and synchronisation techniques used for multithreading scripts, techniques which did not previously exist in the marketplace. Further to this, existing technology did not account for the low specifications of appropriate platforms. This technology was directly fabricated from DR Studios’s unique set of expertise.

The second notable development is the team’s conversation and narrative technology, which allows for simple synchronisation between separate threads of a script. This intelligent technology ensures its ‘strings’ remain transparent to the end-user. It is also able to quickly develop complex scripts without the need for programming resources, producing highly organised script structures and reducing the occurrence of in-game bugs as a result.

DR Studios has become synonymous with the mass-market simulation genre. Its technology allows scripted emotional states of characters to be overlaid onto the animation script depending on the emotional state of these characters. The team has been able to achieve perfectly tailored simulation technology in this way.

DR Engine & Art Tools

DR Studios utilises an advanced suite of art tools which allow our talented artists to achieve quality visuals first time, every time.

Our adaptive rigging system allows effortless re-use of animations, recompiling animations at the touch of a button to match your models. Able to convert four or two-legged animations in seconds, our innovative toolset allows maximum re-use of assets with minimum effort.

Our automatic lip-synch generation further extends the power of our animation system. Using our proprietary speech-to-phoneme tools, we can take files directly from the recording studio and produce accurate animations automatically.

Multichannel texture support comes in-built with our art tools, allowing normal maps, specular maps and reflection maps as standard. What is more, being highly extensible, new channels can be added as required by the project.

Since our toolset features the integrated DR Engine, all of the models and animations can be previewed as they are built, levels can be built within the game engine and the output can be exported ready for PC, Wii or Xbox 360 at the touch of a button. To further streamline the process, the art tools are tied into the content management system; as soon as a file is submitted, it can be immediately integrated into the current game-build for testing.

And since our artists make use of the most up-to-date industry-standard 2D and 3D art packages, together with our cutting edge proprietary development kit, we can be certain that they always have not only the right tool for the job, but the best tool for every job.