Deck13

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Deck 13 Interactive GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding July 11, 2001
Seat Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
management Jan Klose
Mathias Reichert
Number of employees approx. 70
Branch Game software
Website www.deck13.com/
As of September 24, 2017

Deck13 is a German game developer from Frankfurt am Main , who is best known for his adventures Ankh and Jack Keane as well as the action role-playing game Venetica .

history

When they founded Triggerlab in 2001, the company's managing directors had already been active in the computer games market for Artex Software, which had specialized in developing the first games for the Acorn RiscPC platform, for four years . The first title that the developer released in 2002 was the tactical shooter Stealth Combat . In the same year the name was changed to Deck13 Interactive based on the DM-Deck16 card from Unreal Tournament . The Artex Software label continues to be used for the publication of low-budget productions.

In 2005 the humorous adventure game Ankh was released , which is a remake of the game Ankh: The Tales of Mystery , published by Artex Software in 1998 . Since this title, which is set in ancient Egypt, sold very well and received numerous awards, the production of the sequel Ankh: Heart of Osiris , which appeared almost exactly a year later and reused elements of the previous game, soon began . In early August 2007, the adventure title Jack Keane was published, which is graphically and playfully similar to the Ankh series, but whose plot is set in England and India during the colonial days. Ankh: Battle of the Gods was also released in 2007. Five years after the first part was published, Jack Keane and the Eye of Fate came out . The role-playing game Venetica for the German publisher dtp entertainment was released in 2009. Haunted was released in 2011; after the bankruptcy of the publisher HMH , dtp entertainment took over the publication of the adventure.

In 2012 Deck13 took over some employees of the insolvent dtp entertainment who had previously worked for its development subsidiary Cranberry Production, and with them founded the new Deck13 Hamburg branch; under the new management, the Hanseatic city is now responsible for the TransOcean games. At the end of 2015, Deck13 established a third team in Berlin, which will initially support the main studio in Frankfurt with the development of the role-playing game The Surge .

In September 2016, Florian Stadlbauer retired from the company's management and left Jan Klose and Mathias Reichert to manage ongoing operations.

At the end of June 2020 it was announced that all shares in Deck 13 and the publishing arm Deck 13 Production had been purchased by Focus Home Interactive , a French publisher of computer games. Focus was already the publisher for the two parts of The Surge series. been. The purchase price was 7.1 million euros. Both Klose and Reichert want to continue managing the company after the takeover.

technology

Deck13 develops its own game and graphics engine FLEDGE for several platforms (PC, Mac, XBox 360, XBox One, PS3, PS4, iOS). In previous titles (from Ankh to Venetica / Haunted) the in-house game engine PINA was used, which uses a modified version of the free OGRE engine for 3D rendering .

Games

As a developer

Under the label Deck13 Interactive

  • Ankh for Windows (2005) via Rebel Games and for Mac OS and Linux (2006) via Runesoft as well as Ankh: Curse of the Scarab King for DS (2008) via Xider Games
  • Ankh: Heart of Osiris for Windows (2006) via Xider Games and for Mac OS and Linux (2007) via Runesoft
  • LUKA and the mysterious silver horse for Windows (2007) via police crime prevention of the states and the federal government
  • Jack Keane for Windows (2007) via 10tacle Studios and for Mac OS and Linux (2008) via Runesoft
  • Ankh: Battle of the Gods for Windows (2007) via Daedalic Entertainment / Xider Games and for Mac OS (2009) via Runesoft
  • LUKA and the hidden treasure for Windows (2008) via police crime prevention of the states and the federal government
  • Venetica for Windows and Xbox 360 (2009) and for PlayStation 3 (2010) via dtp entertainment
  • Ankh: The Lost Treasures for Windows (2009) via Prime Games
  • Black Sails: The Ghost Ship for Windows (2010) via Astragon
  • Jade Rousseau: The Secret Gospels - Shadows over Sant 'Antonio (Season 1 / Episode 1) for Windows (2010) via phenomedia publishing and for Mac OS (2011) via Runesoft
  • Reading the Dead for Windows (2010) via Astragon and for Mac OS (under development) via Runesoft
  • Haunted for Windows (2011) via dtp entertainment
  • Jack Keane and the Eye of Destiny for Windows (2012) via Astragon
  • Moorhuhn - Tiger & Chicken for Windows and iOS (2013) via Deep Silver / Deutsche Telekom
  • Blood Knights for PlayStation 3, Windows and Xbox 360 (2013) via kalypso
  • Lords of the Fallen for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One (2014) via City Interactive
  • TransOcean: The Shipping Company for Windows (2014) via Astragon
  • Space Hawk (Toys-to-life) for Android and iOS (2015) via Ravensburger
  • TransOcean 2: Rivals for Windows (2016) via Astragon
  • The Surge for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One (2017) via Focus Home Interactive
  • The Surge 2 for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One (2019) via Focus Home Interactive

Under the label Triggerlab

  • Stealth Combat (working title: Iron Dignity) for Windows (2002) via Modern Games

Under the label Artex Software

  • Exodus: The Colonization of Space for RISC OS (1997)
  • Botkiller for RISC OS (1998)
  • Ankh: The Tales of Mystery for RISC OS (1998)
  • Botkiller 2 for RISC OS (1999)
  • Iron Dignity for RISC OS (development discontinued) and Windows (see Stealth Combat )
  • TEK 1608 for RISC OS (2002) for Windows (2003) via Comport Interactive
  • Ski Resort Tycoon: Deep Powder for Windows (2003) via Activision Value Publishing
  • Carnival Cruise Lines Tycoon 2005: Island Hopping for Windows (2004) via Activision Value Publishing
  • The horse gang and the false knight for Windows (2005) via dtp young entertainment

As a publisher

Awards

For Ankh :

  • German Developer Award 2005 (Best German Game 2005, Best Soundtrack / In-Game Sound, 2nd Place Best Story / Game World)
  • Best German Game 2005 ( GameStar )
  • Best German Game 2005 (4Players)

For Ankh: Heart of Osiris :

  • German Developer Award 2006 (2nd place best German adventure, 2nd place best story / game world, 3rd place level design)

For Jack Keane :

  • German Developer Award 2007 (Best German Adventure, Best Story / Game World)
  • GameStars 2007 (Adventure of the Year)

For Ankh: Battle of the Gods :

  • GameStars 2007 (Category: Adventure, 3rd place)

For LUKA and the mysterious silver horse :

For Moorhuhn - Tiger and Chicken :

  • German developer award 2013 for the best mobile core game

For Lords of the Fallen :

  • German Developer Award 2014 (Best Action Game, Best Game Design, Best German Game)
  • German Computer Game Award 2015 (best German game, best staging)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deck13 team. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ DevPlay - How Many Are We? (from 0:02:52) on YouTube , accessed June 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Visit to Deck 13 in Frankfurt - BartLog # 50 (from 0:03:50) on YouTube , accessed on September 14, 2018.
  4. ↑ Games economy: Focus Home Interactive buys Deck 13 Interactive. In: GamesWirtschaft.de. June 25, 2020, accessed on July 8, 2020 (German).