Dontnod entertainment
| Don't Nod Entertainment SARL
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| legal form | Société à responsabilité limitée (France) |
| founding | June 2, 2008 |
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Paris , France
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| management | Oskar Guilbert ( CEO ) |
| Branch | Computer and video games |
| Website | http://www.dont-nod.com/ |
| As of September 27, 2016 | |
Don't Nod Entertainment SARL , better known as Dontnod Entertainment ( proper spelling DONTИOD ), is a French game development studio based in Paris .
Dontnod was best known for the games Life Is Strange as well as Vampyr and Remember Me .
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history
Dontnod was founded jointly by Hervé Bonin, Aleksi Briclot, Alain Damasio, Oskar Guilbert and Jean-Maxime Moris as well as other former Ubisoft , Electronic Arts and Criterion Games employees on June 2, 2008.
The first published game, Remember Me , received positive to mediocre ratings from IGN and Metacritic, among others, after it went on sale .
On January 31, 2014, French media reported that Dontnod had filed for bankruptcy due to poor sales from Remember Me . Dontnod confirmed the reports and said they were in the process of restructuring. This was followed shortly afterwards by the announcement that with the help of public funding under the project name What If? start a new development project.
On June 5, 2014, Dontnod announced that they were working with Square Enix on a new game for digital distribution, which was released in 2015 under the name Life Is Strange . It later became known that What If? was the project name for the development of Life Is Strange .
From November 2014, the studio then worked on his third title Vampyr , which was released in the summer of 2018. In addition, a previously unannounced project is under development.
The sales success of Life Is Strange increased the awareness of Dontnod Entertainment in the field of video games and also increased its own reputation vis-à-vis other manufacturers and publishers in the industry. After the success of Life Is Strange , Dontnod was no longer (as before) confronted with the problem of looking for a large publisher. Instead, the studio has since received offers and inquiries from publishers without having to do anything.
In April 2016, co-founder and managing director Oskar Guilbert stated that previous plans to develop the studio into a large (triple-A) developer had been put on hold and that they saw themselves more in the development of indie games.
On May 18, 2017, Dontnod announced that it was working on a second part of Life Is Strange . The first of five episodes of Life Is Strange 2 was released on September 27, 2018.
On June 10, 2018, Dontnod Entertainment announced the game The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit at Microsoft's E3 press conference , which is a spin-off from Life Is Strange and an introduction to the universe of Life Is Strange 2 . A special feature of Captain Spirit is that, unlike the previous games, it will not be published in episode format and it will also be free.
Publications
Games from Dontnod Entertainment: (As of August 2020)
| title | Publisher | publication | Platforms |
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| Remember me | Capcom | June 7, 2013 | PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , Windows |
| Life is strange | Square Enix | January 30th - October 20th, 2015 | PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Windows , Linux , macOS |
| Vampire | Focus Home Interactive | 5th June 2018 | PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , Windows |
| The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit | Square Enix | June 25, 2018 | PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , Windows |
| Life Is Strange 2 | Square Enix | September 27, 2018 | PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , Windows |
| Tell Me Why | Xbox Game Studios | August 27 - September 10, 2020 | Xbox One , Windows |
| Twin mirrors | Bandai Namco Entertainment | 2020 (planned) | PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , Windows |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dontnod Entertainment Outlines its First Video Game on Console ( English ) IGN. July 11, 2011. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
- ↑ Remember Me Review . IGN. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
- ↑ Metacritic Review of Remember Me ( English ) Metacritic.
- ↑ Brendan Sinclair: Hitting reset: Dontnod's new episode . In: Gamesindustry.biz . August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
- ↑ Life Is Strange - The episode adventure from the Remember Me developers . IGN. August 12, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
- ↑ Megan Farokhmanesh: From Life is Strange to Vampyr: Dontnod's dark turn ( English ) In: Polygon.com/Vox Media . April 25, 2016. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
- ↑ 2015 was the most successful year for Dontnod . PCGames. March 15, 2016. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
- ↑ Christopher Dring: 'Publishers are now calling us' - How Life is Strange has transformed Dontnod ( English ) The Market for Computer & Video Games. August 19, 2016. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved on August 19, 2016.
- ↑ Life is Strange 2 - sequel officially announced . In: GameStar.de . May 18, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- ↑ Life is Strange 2 Release Date Reveal. YouTube, June 22, 2018, accessed June 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Captain Spirit Announce Trailer [E3 2018] [PEGI]. YouTube, June 10, 2018, accessed June 22, 2018 .
- ↑ The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit - Free spin-off appears one day earlier than expected . In: GameStar.de . June 22, 2018. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
- ^ Projects. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .