Anuman Interactive
| Anuman Interactive | |
|---|---|
| legal form |
Société Anonyme Subsidiary of |
| founding | 2000 |
| Seat | Montreuil , France |
| management | Stéphane Longeard (President) Marc Laumet (Managing Director) |
| Branch | Software development |
| Website | www.anuman-interactive.com |
Anuman Interactive SA is a French software developer and publisher . The focus is on computer and video games, which are mainly published under the brand name Microïds . In addition, Anuman Interactive has also been selling an app for architecture and interior design under the name Home Design 3D by LiveCAD since 2011 . The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Montreuil .
Since February 18, 2009, Anuman Interactive is a subsidiary of the media company Média-Participations SA in Paris , France .
history
Anuman Interactive was founded in 2000 by Stéphane Longeard, Axel Chambily-Casadesus and Marc Laumet. In the same year, the company signed an agreement with TF1 Vidéo, a subsidiary of the French media group of the private television broadcaster TF1 , over the digital exploitation rights of the series For Dummies ( French : Pur les nuls). The first success in the game market was the successful release of the Trainz Railroad Simulator in France in 2005. Another milestone was Sudden Strike 3 two years later , also in France. In 2008 Anuman Interactive published more than 50 games for Nintendo DS , Wii and PlayStation Portable according to its own information .
In 2009, Anuman Interactive SA was acquired by Média-Participations SA, a Paris- based media company specializing in Franco-Belgian comics . On November 23, 2009, Anuman Interactive announced that it would take over all naming and licensing rights from Microïds from the end of the year. In December of the same year, Anuman Interactive became the official Sony game console publisher in France.
Anuman Interactive has had a subsidiary in the United States since 2010 and is changing from a purely French publisher with physical products to a provider of only digitally available content for the international market.
A remake of the video game based on the comic book series The Blue Boys was released in 2012 as The Bluecoats - North vs South . This was followed by a continuation of the Dracula series with "Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon in December 2013 and in 2014 Anuman published with the Adventure Subject 13 by designer Paul Cuisset ( Flashback: The Quest for Identity , Cruise for a Corpse ) for the first time a project partially financed by the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter . At the Gamescom trade fair in Cologne in 2015, Anuman Interactive promised, in addition to further new games, the imminent completion of Syberia III , a continuation of the Syberia adventure series by Benoît Sokal , the third part of which has already been announced several times It should appear in 2016. Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders was also announced . Anuman Interactive had already acquired a license to develop games based on the novels and characters of the writer Agatha Christie in 2013. The game was released in February 2016 and received mostly positive reviews for his style and the well captured mood, but with a Slights in terms of a linear sequence and the very easy to solve puzzles. In some cases, incorrect German subtitles for the English language output were criticized.
Company name and logo
Anuman is based on Hanuman , a Hindu deity in the shape of a monkey. Accordingly, between 2000 and 2012 the company used the yellow silhouette of a monkey on a black background as its logo. Since 2012 the logo has consisted of a monkey head in profile, white on a light blue background.
Brands and products
Anuman Interactive owns the Microïds , Microïds - Games for All , Joystick Replay and Kid's Mania brands for computer and video games.
While the ports of Microids games for the iOS mobile platform are also offered under the brand name, ports for Android are listed in Google Play with the provider name Anuman alone .
A CAD application for architecture and interior design is sold under the Home Design 3D brand , which, thanks to its comparatively uncomplicated control, is strongly geared towards mobile devices and users in the private sector. The forerunner to this was the D&CO series from 2007 to 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Company Overview of Anuman Interactive SA in Bloomberg Business , accessed September 1, 2015
- ↑ a b The Company , on the company website www.anuman-interactive.com, accessed on September 1, 2015
- ↑ a b Microids five pack: Syberia 3 and Co. in the Gamescom preview , in: PC Games (online) on August 7, 2015, accessed on September 1, 2015
- ↑ Carsten Görig: "Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders" alluded to: Murderer hunt? The hairstyle has to be right there! . In: Der Spiegel , February 22, 2016, accessed June 8, 2016