Sapphire Interactive is an indie gamedesign project founded in 2005, originally consisting of NightZel, Maarkky (now a keyboard player for the band The Sixteens) and Bobby (currently a student of architecture and design). NightZel is the only official member at the moment and is solely responsible for its creative direction. Originally conceived as a MOD development team, Sapphire Interactive was reoriented in 2006, without having released any material.
Their first project, a remake of the 80s cult side scrolling shoot-em up arcade game R-Type was quickly abandoned and the team disbanded, with each member pursuing his own projects. After a short stint with a short-lived, but more experienced gamedesign team (which had NightZel working with his old friend, graphics designer VegetaSJJ8), as well as a period of inactivity, NightZel brought back the Sapphire Interactive name and has been using it ever since. The first game to go into active development was BloodNight, a fighting game based on one of several ideas by the previous team.
In december 2009 BloodNight was finally released, after a 32 months development period.
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Ionuţ-Valentin Cucu NightZel The only official member of Sapphire Interactive.He's done gamedesign, programming, 3D editing and even some audio editing and sound mixing for BloodNight. His other interests include indie filmmaking and free culture. He is also the one writing this stuff :) |
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Andrei Pascale Brainstormer Andrei and Ionuţ have worked on various projects over the years and have always made a competent team. He joined Sapphire Interactive in early 2008 and has left his mark on much of the artistic design. Most of the original 2D artwork was scrapped and reinvisioned. He is now extremely busy with various projects and pursues a career in publicity. Sapphire Interactive thanks him for everything he's done and wishes him best of luck, and maybe someday we will collaborate again. |
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Valeriu-Daniel Stanciu Dj Leinad A local highschool DJ and ocassional composer, keyboardist and guitarist, Dj Leinad wrote "Bounce on Pizzicato", which was used as the audio theme for the Infinitas arena in BloodNight. His current goals include setting up an university radio and as such he hasn't produced any new material in a while. |
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Radu Daniel
Radu is a guitarist and composer and has created material for several bands, including his own side project Redmaze. During the final stages of production for BloodNight, we contacted him for the rights to the song "Unnamed Instrumental", which became the main theme for the game. |
eKlipSe - electronic music producer. Some of his work has been used as the background music for the credits scene in BloodNight under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. (Official site)