NoSense

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NoSense - video game developing studio that was founded by Paul Pospisil in 1994 with friends and classmates in the Czech Republic in Brno. Lasted from 1994 to 1997. Interesting for us because in studio was Jakub Dvorsky, who was invited to work as an animator. Also, with the next games after Dragon History, has connected Tomas (Pif) Dvorak, who now also works in Amanita Design on the sound for games. The studio was closed in 1997, as many staff studio to go to college and universities, and they have no time to develop games.

List of games:
1) Dragon History / Dračí Historie (1995)
2) Katapult (1996)
3) Asmodeus (1997)

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DRAGON HISTORY

   

Release date: 1995
Developer: NoSense
Publisher: Vochozka Trading
Genre: Adventure / Quest
Site: http://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/index-en.html#intro ( <- Download full version)

Screenshots:

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KATAPULT

   

Release date: 01 November 1996
Developer: NoSense
Publisher: Space Interactive
Genre: Artillery, Strategy
Site: - - -

Screenshots:

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ASMODEUS

   

Release date: 01 February 1997
Developer: NoSense
Publisher: Vochozka Trading
Genre: Dungeon-RPG, Adventure
Downloads: http://www.rpghry.cz/game.php?id=697&section=downloads

Screenshots:

[Bedivere]

Download for Katapult:

https://archive.org/details/katapult

I am not certain whether it works.

[BUTLER3]

About a year ago I looked at Jakub Dvorsky's Wikipedia page, and I found these games, but not the company. I also found some gameplay of Asmodeus, and maybe the other games too. But clearly remember Asmodeus, and the name Katapult. I don't really remember Daragon History, but I remember there being three games.

Edit: I just remembered the name and it iwas in fact, NoSence.

[Bedivere]

There are tons of information about NoSense and its games in Czech language. Some members of the company are currently members of Amanita Design. It includes Jakub Dvorský and Tomáš Dvořák. Dvorský himself participated on all three games. There was an interview with Jakub Dvorský in Score magazine (link: http://www.oldgames.sk/mag/score-35/page/12/). He mentions that Katapult was his idea but he didn't focus on its development much as his primary project was Asmodeus. He mentions that he worked on Asmodeus with Marek Floryán. Their original idea with Asmodeus was that it would be a text adventure game but the game evolved into action-adventure game mixed with RPG. Also the team has grown during the development and eventually 5 people worked on it. The game was developed since 1994 according to the interview. Dvorský's role in development of Asmodeus wasn't really large he was one of artists that worked on the game.

Problem with these games is that they were produced only in the Czech Republic so they aren't very known in foreign countries. I don't know if Asmodeus or Katapult were translated to English but english version of Dragon History is avaible on official website. http://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/index-en.html#download