Quiz Me Quik: ‘The Czech Bus Game Powerhouse’

[’Quiz Me Quik’ is a new weekly GameSetWatch column by journalist Alistair Wallis, in which he picks offbeat subject in the game business and interviews them about their business, their perspective, and their unique view of life. First up - the Czech Republic’s SCS on their odd success with… truck/bus driving sims?]
There’s a few things that make game developer SCS Software a tiny bit different: firstly, the company’s based in the Czech Republic, making it one of a relatively small band developing out of that country. But more unlikely still, there’s the focus on trucking games - an odd niche genre, to be sure, but one that’s proved pretty surprisingly lucrative for SCS.
The company formed back in 1997, and released Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter III in 2000. For years before that, though – before SCS was officially formed, even – the group worked on an engine: Prism3D. 2002 […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (alistairw) and software by Elliott Back