Press kits

Factsheet

• Developer & Publisher:
  enkisoftware
  United Kingdom

• Release Date:
  04 March 2001 to 26 Apr 2003

• Platforms:
  Windows Desktop

• Website:
  Download Avoyd 1999

• Press / Business Contact:
  contact@enkisoftware.com

• Social:
  Blog archive
  

• Price:
  free

Description

Avoyd is a multiplayer first person shooter set in a unique dynamic world in which you can create and destroy your environment, added to which is the freedom of movement in zero gravity.

Avoyd 1999 is first version of our game. First released in 2001, development stopped in 2003. To our knowledge, Avoyd 1999 was the first voxel game to feature a fully editable environment.

History

In 1999 Doug and Juliette started working on a shareware-style game called Avoyd. A six degrees of freedom first-person shooter set in zero gravity, gamers could play deathmatches against bots or other people on a LAN. To our knowledge, it was the first editable voxel game in which the players could build and destroy the entire environment.

In 2000 we founded enkisoftware and started selling digital copies of the game over the internet for a few pounds, steadily increasing the price as we added more features. After Doug joined a games development company, we slowly stopped development and released the last version, Avoyd 1.7.1, in 2003. At that stage, many features and designs we had in mind had yet to be implemented in the game.

Since 2013, the full Avoyd 1999 game is free to download from our website

Features

• First Person Shooter "free-for-all"

• Build and destroy the environment to support your strategy, and for creative purposes

• Six degrees of freedom with localised gravity

• Single-player against bots and LAN multiplayer

Videos

Images

download all screenshots & photos as .zip (1.8 MB)

Logo & Icon

download logo files as .zip (26 KB)

Quotes and Selected Articles

• "Avoyd (1999) is a game I referenced countless times - it was the first game I've seen which didn't kick pitch and yaw during surface change... And now that I think about it, it was doing minecraft style stuff way before even infiniminer."
  Aubrey Hesselgren, 13 Jan 2014

About enkisoftware

Boilerplate

Enkisoftware is an independent game development company co-founded by Doug Binks, Juliette Foucaut and Andy Binks. We make the game Avoyd.

More information

More information on enkisoftware, our logo & relevant media are available in the enkisoftware press kit.

Credits

• Doug Binks
  programming, design, art, audio, business

• Juliette Foucaut
  Testing, design, art, website

• Andy Binks
  Project management, testing

• Sally Cooper
  Legal advice and licensing terms

• Stephen Atkins, James Bird, Charlotte Foucaut, James Gower, Karl Monaghan, Kenneth Nelson, Kofi Poku-Agyemang, Stephen Prescott, Cathy Ross, Neil Winstanley
  Testing

Contact

• Inquiries
  contact@enkisoftware.com
• Skype
  dougbinks (please email to schedule call)
• Mastodon
  @dougbinks
  @juulcat
• Website
  www.enkisoftware.com