Despite the fact it was feed from students from different departments of the U like Electrical, Computer Sciences, Mechanic, Industrial and Chemistry Departments producing code and graphics during their free time and night shifts the group manage to quickly be noticed not only at its original Campus but nationwide.
Special mention deserves Merchise's own engine creation tool known as "Magister Ludi" what could be at that time compared, again, to LucasArt's SCUMM.