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This a wiki about Pie in the Sky Software, the Power 3D engine and the associated 3D Game Creation System that brought first-person graphics to the masses in the mid-1990s. This wiki shall seek to document the company's products, the games created by others using its tools and the broader community it spawned. Try here and here to get started!

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Pie in the Sky

• Pie in the Sky Software:
  • MVP Software, Expert Software, Froggman, Springsoft, Kevin Stokes, Colin Stokes, Timeline

• Corncob 3D: Corncob 3D (1992), Corncob 3-D: The Other Worlds Campaign (1992), Corncob Deluxe (1994)
  • F4U Corsair, Alien Invaders

• Nick Hunter Series: Power 3D, Stop Nick Macki (beta), Lethal Tender (1993), Terminal Terror (1994)
  • Nick Hunter, Thorne Devereaux, Bruno Riggs, Susan Riker, Operation Body Count (fan remakes)

• Other Software: InnerMission (1987-1991), German FPS (cancelled), Cyberpuck (1992), Baja Bash (1997, cancelled), Physics Demo (2010), Dice App (2010)

Game Creation System

• 3D Game Creation System (1995-2003)
  • Meltdown (GCS Demo; 1995), Industrial Killers (1995), Santa's Rescue 3D (1995), Max Resistance (2001)

• MS DOS: version 1.x or the "classic" versions.
  • Available: 3-D Shooter, Adolf-X 3D: The Execution of Hitler, Area 51, Area Demo, Astroreptilio, Attack of the Genetic Bugs (aka Freedom Soldier), Avenger: the robots of sigma 7, Bark Bark 3D, Bobenstein 3D, Burnt Toast, Castaway: The Ordeal Begins, Cavemaze 3D, Chemical Warfare, Chub Gam 3D (Director's Cut), Comic World, Continuum, Colosso Adventure Series, Delusions, Deadly Technology, D-Day, Dark World, Darkness of Space, Deer Napped, Demon, Delusions, Despair 1-3, Duke Screw'em 38D, Dungeon of Terror, Earth Defender, Egg Hunt, Elapse, Eternal Prison, Escape!, Escape POW, Gaia, Gore Galore, Graliens, Hamster's Adventure, Hover War / Hovercraft Wars, In Her Royal Majesty's Intelligence Service, Jack Westwood, La Cosa Nostra, LifesBattle, Lost in Zapperstein, Mayhem 3D, Meltdown, Metalhead, MOD-G, North v. Memorial, Ninja Commandoes, Outnumbered, Pastor 3D, Pyramid Adventure, Red Babe, Return of the Dämons, Soren 3D, Secret Agent, Sirens' Chamber, Soviet Prisoner, Space Station Escape, Swallowed, Sargent Blood: Alien Challenge, Subterraneans, Terrorist Invasion, The Maze!, Techno Prison, Terror in Christmas Town, Troubled Tower, UFO 3D, Ultimate!, Vehicle of Freedom, Wicked Dream, Wing Do, Zone Force, Zoom, Zyr
  • Missing: Escape from the Ward, Gangbusters Deluxe, Gumby's Violent Adventure, Hallways of Brutality, Iraqi Scum-Bag, Martial Arts Warriors, Mortal Areas, Murk, Narc, Ninjawars, Ninjawars 2: The Revenge, Operation: One Level Quickie Demo, Operation Web, Power Booster 5000, Project Thunderbird, Realms of Evil, Return to Ghost Manor, Serial Granny Killah, Suburbia Squad, Terror out of the Deep, Vitron, Zombie World
  • Moderator's Picks: MOD-G, Continuum, Gore Galore, Colosso Adventure Series, Despair, Space Station Escape, Chub Gam 3D, La Cosa Nostra, Gaia, Chemical Warfare

• Windows: versions 2.x and 3.x
  • Alchemania, Alpha X Command, Apollo's Palace, Badabing, Blast 3D, Captive, Cannibal Island, Captive, City of the Evil Dead, Colosso 4, Defense, Desert Raider, Escape! 3D: The Breakout, Fancy Robot Commandos, Hardcorps, HighRisk: Creatures of the Caverns, House of Cathalon, Infiltration, Mayhem Gold, Militia, Narcos, Norman's Escape, Nuclear Apocalypse, Paul: Vs The CIA (Gold Edition), Pencil Whipped, Project: Undead, Prezzie Hunt, Recall, Red Planet, Robotic Surge, Satellite, The Shortest Straw (alpha demo), Specimen, The Tickle People, Thundra, Wild West Goldhunters, XYLOT's Revenge, Zulu 7
  • Moderator's Picks: House of Cathalon, Pencil Whipped, Prezzie Hunt, Infiltration, XYLOT's Revenge

Gameplay

• Weapons: Ninja Kick, Pistol, Shotgun, Machine Gun, Grenade, Mine, Bomb, Goo Gun, Missile Launcher

• Enemies: Grey Guard, Green Guard, Blue Guard, Blue Armoured Guard, Bed Shooter, Hovercraft, Tank, Skull, Alligator

• Items: Medkit, Uniform, Keys, Keycards,

• Music: The Bog, Riff, Sinister, Wraith, A Dark Place, Gaining the Upper Hand

Community

• Biographies:

• Developers: Acord Games, Campana Productions, PhreAk Software, ChubGamSoft, Wales & Welch Productions, Nic-Ty Entertainment, The DaRK CaVErN Productions, U-Neek Software, Chiselbrain Software, Skyline Software, Spigot Software, Dangaroos Kipawa Entertainment, Spungulas Software/MicroSeth, MKWON's 3D Gaming, Khaz, Lone Wolf 3D, Laser Point, 3D-Zone, Viperbyte 3D, Jester Games, WeierCOM, Dan O 3D Games, Slade 3D, Dog Software, Spunky Software, Speeding Bullet Design, Video Brothers Software, Strange Roads Interactive, Sherwood Forest Software, Markosoft, ZoneSoft

• Persons: Jim Ball, John T. Gallion, Drew Costigan, Michael Zerbo, Johan Peter Lems, Sean Burgoon, Phillip Posante

• Websites: GCS Games, G2 Website, GCS News, Fat Ninja Paparazzi GCS Fan Site, GCS Max, GCS Archive, Internet Archive, Demu, MobyGames, 3D Shooter Legends, Quarantineism, Lazy Game Reviews, Hall of First Person Games, Nap'n'Retrogaming, Pie in the Sky Wiki

• Related: ACK 3D