Into the Shadows

Into the Shadows is a cancelled Saturn and PC game by Triton for Scavenger, Inc. It was to be an impressive fighting game for its time.

Plot
You would take the role of Eric Lionheart. Your quest was to rescue the moonschild from the evil necromancer. It has the typical tropes of locked doors and keys to find.

Gameplay
Into the Shadows was to be a D&D inspired fighting-exploring game. You would travel in a dungeon and enter rooms to fight monsters. Characters would have in included ogres, orcs, and more.

Development
Into the Shadows began development as Huntdown in 1993 on the Amiga 500. It involved a lunar base, with driving vehicles and flying jetpacks. Scavenger was not keen on it and did not invest in the project.

In early 1995 the Triton staff flew to Los Angeles in 1995 to work for Scavenger. There they redesigned Huntdown into Into the Shadows. At E3 1995 it made a big impression, being compared to Quake in technical prowess.

Cancellation
Into the Shadows was cancelled when Scavenger went bankrupt in 1998. GT Interactive, among other companies, did not pay Scavenger their money owed. Triton went from being a demoscene group into Starbreeze Studios.

Timeline:
 * 1993: game begins as Huntdown for the Amiga 500
 * 1995: Scavengera acquired as publisher, game is redesigned into Into the Shadows
 * 1998: Scavenger goes bankrupt, game cancelled

Prototype
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2588