Virtual Design

Virtual Design was a Polish Amiga game developer company, formed in 1994.

The company stemmed from Suspect, an amateur demoscene group of which composer Artur Opala and artist Artur Bardowski were members. In the early 90s, the then-teenage programmer Paweł Matusz was introduced into the group after they had witnessed his impressive coding skills.

After the release of Doom on the PC, Paweł Matusz decided, ignoring the experts' opinions, to create a similar working game on the Amiga. Just a few weeks later he demonstrated a working prototype (with graphics by Radek Czeczotka).

Matusz, Czeczotka and Bardowski then set down to produce an actual, commercial game: Citadel; Opala joined soon afterward. The four developers, in order to underline the commercial nature of their project as opposed to amateur demoscene productions, founded the company Virtual Design.

Citadel was the company's sole release; due to problems with the publisher, the developers received barely any profits. The company folded soon afterwards.