Deep Shadows is a software developing company based in Kiev, Ukraine. It was founded in 2001 by the authors of the Vital Engine: Sergey Zabaryansky and Roman Lut. They began working together as a team in 1998. Lut came to the game industry from demo making. By the time of their meeting, two of his demos were the prizewinners on the well-known Russian demo-party "Enlight". Meanwhile, Zabaryansky worked in two USA software companies before. In 1999 they started to work in GSC Game World on Codename: Outbreak (Venom). Zabaryansky was producer and lead programmer of this game. Lut was a programmer and level designer. Having finished successfully this project, they left the company and founded Deep Shadows to develop a new RPG/action title based on Vital Engine 2. This game eventually became Boiling Point: Road to Hell (2005). The company continued developing free-roaming action games with role-playing and driving elements afterwards.
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