Bright Future

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Bright Future

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legal form GmbH
founding 2006
Seat Cologne
management Petr Vlcek
Number of employees 50
Branch Entertainment software
Website www.brightfuture.de

The Bright Future GmbH was founded in January 2006 by Gerald Köhler , Petr Vlcek founded and Thomas Swan. The development studio for interactive entertainment software emerged from internal studios of the US publisher Electronic Arts and is still connected to it through its EA Partners business unit . This partnership enables Bright Future a technology exchange with Electronic Arts and z. As the use of FIFA - game engine for future in-house developments. Bright Future was bought by Travian Games in early 2012 .

Companies

During the period (2000–2006) as an internal studio of Electronic Arts, the soccer manager series was developed and quickly led to market leadership in the segment of sports management simulations in Germany. As the first project after the studio was founded, the Fußball Manager 07 was published in October 2006 .

As in the time before it was founded as an independent studio, Bright Future is based in the offices of Electronic Arts ' German branch in Cologne . A joint move to Cologne's Rheinauhafen took place in October 2007.

The studio founder Gerald Köhler is known in the gaming community as one of the forefathers of football management simulations. During his work at Ascaron he was responsible for the development of the first three parts of the Kick-off series and after moving to Electronic Arts in 2000 he was responsible for the EA Sports label for the so far relatively unsuccessful Football Manager series. At the beginning of 2012, Bright Future was taken over by the Munich browser game manufacturer Travian Games .

meaning

With the Football Manager series, Bright Future is developing the market leader in the field of sports management simulations in Germany and can also achieve success in the international market dominated by its competitor Football Manager , e. B. in Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain. In these countries the game is sold under the name FIFA Manager (in France the game is called 'LFP Manager'). In the first few weeks after its appearance in Germany, the Fußball Manager 07 has already sold over 130,000 copies and for several weeks the title topped Media Control's German PC game sales charts .

On March 22nd, 'Football Manager 07 - Extension', the first add-on in the series, was launched. Football Manager 08 was released on October 30, 2007 . By February 2008, more than 130,000 copies of the FM08 were also sold in Germany.

There are only very few active independent development studios in Germany that have been able to achieve similar sales figures with their products in recent years ( Crytek , Piranha Bytes , Related Designs , Studio 2 Software ). If you add up the games sold since 2000, there is no other PC product developed in Germany that has been sold so frequently on the German market.

Bright Future is one of only two studios worldwide (next to EA Vancouver) that is allowed to use the original data of the players and clubs in the Bundesliga in a computer game. In addition, the studio develops only one of two games worldwide (besides FIFA Football from EA Vancouver) that has the official FIFA license and is allowed to use the name FIFA as a game title. This is currently only used in the international version of the Football Manager.

In addition, Bright Future has been developing Nintendo DS games since the end of 2008 . In the summer of 2009, for example, the instructive etiquette game "Knigge - spielend zum good behavior" was published on behalf of RTL Playtainment and was nominated for the "Best German Casual Game" category at the German Developer Award in 2009.

Games

Under the company name Bright Future (from March 2006):

  • Football Manager 07 (2006: PC, testimonial: Thomas Doll )
  • Football Manager 07 - extension (2007: PC)
  • Football Manager 08 (2007: PC, testimonial: Hans Meyer )
  • UEFA EURO 2008 (2008: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2), in collaboration with EA Canada
  • Football Manager 09 (2008: PC, testimonial: Joachim Löw )
  • Knigge - playing for good behavior (2009: Nintendo DS)
  • Football Manager 10 (2009: PC, testimonial: Ralf Rangnick )
  • Football Manager 11 (2010: PC, testimonial: Felix Magath )
  • Football Manager 12 (2011: PC, testimonial: Thomas Tuchel )
  • Football Manager 13 (2012: PC, testimonial: Lucien Favre )
  • Football Manager 14 (2013: PC, was only sold as a "database update")

As part of Electronic Arts (before March 2006):

Awards

The product football manager , the company or its predecessor company has received numerous awards Developer Award in various categories for the first time in 2004 the Deutscher:

  • 2004
    • 1st place in the category best community support (Fußball Manager 2004)
    • 2nd place in the category best game design (Fußball Manager 2004)
  • 2005:
    • 1st place in the category best sports game PC (Fußball Manager 06)
    • 2nd place in the category best community support (Fußball Manager 06)
  • 2006:
    • 1st place in the category best German sports game (Fußball Manager 07)

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