Black Forest Games

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Black Forest Games
legal form GmbH
founding 2012
Seat Offenburg , Germany
management Adrian Goersch and Andreas Speer
Number of employees 53
Branch Game developer
Website black-forest-games.com
As of December 31, 2018

Black Forest Games is a German game developer from Offenburg . The company emerged in 2012 from the insolvency of the German development studio Spellbound Entertainment . It has been a subsidiary of THQ Nordic since August 2017 . In July 2018 the company employed 60 people.

history

Following the release of Arcania: Fall of Setarrif in 2011, Spellbound Entertainment went bankrupt. Black Forest Games was founded by the core members and the management around Andreas Speer and Adrian Goersch. The company emerged from a subsidiary of Spellbound AG and took over several Spellbound assets and brands. Instead of developing contract work and large projects for publishers as before , the studio wanted to pursue smaller projects and market them digitally itself. A total of 40 of the 65 former members of the Spellbound team became part of the Black Forest Games.

In July 2012, Black Forest Games launched a campaign on Kickstarter.com for Project Giana , a new episode of The Great Giana Sisters , tentatively titled "Project Giana is the grandchild of The Great Giana Sisters". The game features music by Chris Hülsbeck , the composer of the Great Giana Sisters , and the Swedish 'SID Metal' band Machinae Supremacy . Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams was released on October 23, 2012 for the PC and later for Xbox Live Arcade , PlayStation Network and Nintendo eShop and received an award in the German Developer Award 2012 in the category Best Sound and in the following year for the expansion Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord was named Best Youth Game. Also in 2013 it received the TOMMI children's software award for best PC game. When German Computer Game Award 2013 was awarded Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams a nomination for Best Children's Game (Winner: The Great Jitters: Pudding Panic ). Two more titles in the series were released in 2015, the multiplayer-oriented platform game Giana Sisters: Dream Runners and Giana Sisters 2D , an HD remake of the Nintendo DS game Giana Sisters DS .

Back in 2010, Spellbound presented a project called Ravensdale at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco , which the studio had been working on internally since 2007. The project went through several iterations and concept changes. A first attempt at crowdfunding via Kickstarter in 2013 was unsuccessful and the game was initially put on hold. In a second trial beginning of 2014 the game under the title was Rogue Stormers successfully financed and went in July 2014 in the Steam - Early Access . Due to a trademark lawsuit by the fashion label Diesel SpA , Black Forest Games had to change the title to Rogue Stormers .

In August 2017, THQ Nordic took over the studio. At the Game Awards in December 2017, the studio announced the development of its next title, Fade to Silence , a survival role-playing game set in a largely snow-covered world in which the player must gather resources, seek refuge and attract followers in order to survive . The game went into the Early Access phase on December 14, 2017 , which it left on April 30, 2019. In addition, the studio ported the action role-playing game Titan Quest for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Switch consoles in 2018 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Germany's largest game manufacturer 2018 . 2nd July 2018.
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung: Black Forest Games: Offenburg company Spellbound is reinventing itself , last accessed on November 29, 2012.
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  10. ↑ DIESEL STROKE by Black Forest Games. In: Kickstarter. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
  11. ↑ http://blog.black-forest-games.com/2015/10/dieselstormers-became-rogue-stormers/
  12. ↑ Alissa McAloon: THQ Nordic picks up Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams dev Black Forest Games .
  13. ↑ Michael McWhertor: THQ Nordic reveals new survival game, Fade to Silence on polygon.com, accessed August 24, 2018
  14. ^ Dan Roemer: New Early Access survival game Fade to Silence leaked ahead of The Game Awards . In: Destructoid . December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
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