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The gamevial team originally worked in redovado, a Scottish start-up company making in "Multimedia", but eventually specialising in making and selling web games.

At this time web or browser games were a relatively new idea, and 3D shockwave games totally new.

Luckily, we were experimenting in already 3D gaming and shockwave just as the new 3D Shockwave came out, and much of what we did then were world firsts.
This included Roadrage (one of the first 3D web games ever and reccomended on Macromedias web site), Trigocity (One of the first playable shockwave games using Havok for the physics and reccomended on havok's developer site), and many more ground breaking games in Shockwave and Flash.

However, being innovative does not always pay, and at this time few people believed that good web games were possible, and fewer still saw the money making potential.

redOvado finally closed down in 2003. The final nail in the coffin was the server bill (so many people played the games, or deep linked to them, that we couldn't afford to host our site (we didn't know how to monetise our site).

A phoenix, however, rose from the ashes, and the gamevial team, went on to form IMIGEA/gamevial in Autumn 2003. In this time, web games, and particularly Shockwave 3D games had become more respectable, and thus building great games became much more rewarding.

Recently the gamevial team were able to re-aquire many of the old games from redOvado, and whilst many of the web games produced back then seem primitive compared to what we are now doing, there are a few gems that are still great to play, and interesting to see because they played a large roll in the birth of gamevial. We have already re-released some of these games on this site with a bit of extra love, and plan to re-release all of the better games, eventually, but many need a lot of cleaning up, and this may take some time...

redovado.com is now owned by spammers, and has no games, but probably makes them more money than it ever did us :)