Pipeworks Spigot Engine

History

The Spigot engine appears to have been developed for their second game, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (Gamecube, 2002). The June 3rd, 2002 copy of Pipework's Gallery page calls the engine Spigot, confirming the name.

It was expanded and ported to multiple platforms, being used as late as 2012 (Wheel of Fortune for the Wii U) by Pipeworks, and 2014 by external developers (Colossal Kaiju Combat: Kaijuland Battles, by Sunstone Games)

Games possibly using the Spigot Engine

Title	Year	Platform	Bundle version	Game version	Build date	Internal name
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee	2002	GameCube	1.18	No version.txt file	?	?
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee	2003	Xbox	?	?	?	?
Godzilla: Save the Earth	2004	PS2	1.3	No version.txt file	?	?
Godzilla: Save the Earth	2004	Xbox	?	?	?	?
Rampage: Total Destruction	2006	GameCube	1.3	6.1.0.25	02/24/2006	?
Rampage: Total Destruction	2006	Wii	1.4	7.1.0.54	10/16/2006	?
Rampage: Total Destruction	2006	PS2	?	?	?	?
NHRA Drag Racing: Countdown to the Championship	2007	PSP	1.4	No version.txt file	?	?
NHRA Drag Racing: Countdown to the Championship	2007	PS2	?	?	?	?
Godzilla: Unleashed	2007	PS2	?	?	?	?
Godzilla: Unleashed	2007	Wii	1.4	6.12.0.0267	10/18/2007	?
Boogie	2007	PS2	1.4	5.1.1.398	10/15/2007	Boogie
Merv Griffin's Crosswords	2008	Wii	1.03	6.0.0.402	09/26/2008	Crossword
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	2009	Wii	1.03	1.0.0.779	03/07/2009	Night
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian	2009	Xbox 360	?	?	?	?
Charm Girls Club: Pajama Party	2009	Wii	1.03	1.0.0.512	08/04/2009	GirlsClub
GeoStorm	2009	Windows (32bit)	?	?	?	?
Monopoly	2010	PSP	1.13	No version.txt file	?	Monopoly
Jeopardy	2010	Wii	1.20	1.0.0.430	08/11/2010	Jeopardy
Wheel of Fortune	2010	Wii	1.20	1.0.0.415	08/11/2010	Wheel
Deadliest Warrior	2010	PS3	?	?	?	?
Deadliest Warrior	2010	Xbox 360	?	?	?	?
Zumba Fitness	2010	PS3	?	?	?	?
Zumba Fitness	2010	Wii	1.20	1.0.0.508	10/11/2010	Zumba
Zumba Fitness	2010	Xbox 360	?	?	?	?
UDraw Studio	2010	Wii	1.20	1.0.0.129	09/11/2010	TabletPaint
UDraw Studio: Instant Artist	2011	Wii	1.30	1.0.0.213	09/05/2011	TabletPaint2
Deadliest Warrior: Legends	2011	PS3	?	?	?	?
Deadliest Warrior: Legends	2011	Xbox 360	?	?	?	?
Gremlins: Gizmo	2011	Wii		1.0.0.309	08/29/2011
Devil May Cry: HD Collection	2012	PS3	?	?	?	?
Devil May Cry: HD Collection	2012	Xbox 360	?	?	?	?
Wheel of Fortune	2012	PS3	?	?	?	?
Wheel of Fortune	2012	Wii U	1.30	1.0.0.076	11/19/2012	Wheel
Wheel of Fortune	2012	Xbox 360	1.30	1.0.0.565	09/03/2012	Wheel
Jeopardy!	2012	PS3	?	?	?	?
Jeopardy!	2012	Wii U	1.30	1.0.0.073	11/14/2012	Wheel
Jeopardy!	2012	Xbox 360	?	?	?	?
Deadliest Warrior Ancient Combat	2012	PS3	?	?	?	?
Deadliest Warrior Ancient Combat	2012	Xbox 360	?	?	?	?
Colossal Kaiju Combat™: Kaijuland Battles	2014	Windows (32bit)	1.30	1.0.0.467	09/24/2015	Kaiju

Pipeworks games NOT using the Spigot Engine

Title	Year	Platforms	Engine
GLOM	2001	PalmOS	?
Prince of Persia: Revelations	2005	PSP	?
Godzilla: Unleashed: Double Smash	2007	DS	?
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords	2007	PSP/Wii	?
Wreck-It Ralph	2012	Wii/DS/3DS	?
Godzilla: Smash 3	2014	Android/iOS	Unity
Prominence Poker	2016	Windows (32bit)/PS4/Xbox One	Unreal
Magic Spellslingers	2022	Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android	Unity

Virtual Machine

Spigot uses a "PWK Virtual Machine", version 3.01 in Wheel of Fortune (2010, Wii). It appears to be used for scripting, and the scripts are contained in matching .pvd and .pvm files.

Debug info

Some games have shipped with debugging information included, allowing for function/class names to be extracted.

Known games with debugging info:

• Wheel of Fortune (2010, Wii)
• Jeopardy (2010, Wii)

Other software

at least Wheel of Fortune (2010, Wii) has a separate engine called "RockNRoll" which appears to be used for collision/physics.

It also uses the Fonix middleware for speech (recognition or lip-syncing?), and FMOD for audio playback. Videos are encoded in the THP format.