Frank Ziemlinski

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Frank Ziemlinski (born December 7, 1968 ) is a German graphic designer , advertising specialist and game developer . Ziemlinski is considered to be one of the fathers of the grouse . He was a co-founder of Phenomedia AG , for which he worked from 1999 to 2006 as creative director .

Life

Frank Ziemlinski worked as a graphic designer at Starbyte , one of the first German computer game development companies , since the late 1980s . As a graphic designer he worked on the titles Winzer , Rallye Master and Table Tennis Simulation, among others . Together with Starbyte founder Markus Scheer, he founded the Art Department advertising agency in the early 1990s, with which he published several advertising games for well-known clients such as Deutsche Telekom , Bi-Fi and Pirelli over the next few years .

The best known title is The Original Moorhuhnjagd . It was developed on behalf of the Hamburg advertising agency V and B (Vorwerk and Buchholz) for their client Johnnie Walker and found over 40 million players. The actual team behind the first version of the game consisted of the programmer Jendrik Posche and the graphic artist Ingo Mesche. The game was completed in autumn 1998 and initially presented by promotion teams on laptops in pubs before it spread via the Internet, supported by media reports.

In 1999, the Art Department advertising agency was renamed Phenomedia, went public and between 1999 and 2001, thanks to enormous sales growth, developed into one of the stars of the New Economy before it slipped into bankruptcy in 2002 after a balance sheet fraud scandal. In the television series The Big Show of the Winners (2000) he played himself in one episode. For Phenomedia AG and its successor company Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, Ziemlinski worked as creative director mainly on the development and maintenance of the Moorhuhn brand. From Grouse Phenomedia made over the years one of the most successful and best-known German computer game series, with far more than 30 different games in different genres. In May 2006 Ziemlinski left Phenomedia GmbH.

He founded the company enter.tv with Phenomedia colleagues and began building a skill gaming portal. The company has since been taken over by the betting provider Tipp24 and renamed Tipp24games. However, due to a strategic realignment of Tipp24, the company gave up the Skillgaming division. Ziemlinski and other employees therefore took over Tipp24games as shareholders and continued to run it independently under the new name m2p.

Ziemlinski is married and has three children.

Game title (selection)

  • 1987: Rallye Master
  • 1989: Table Tennis Simulation
  • 1991: winemaker
  • 1993: Backstage
  • 1993: The telecommando returns
  • 1993: DMSO secret project
  • 1994: The planner
  • 1997: DOG: Fight For Your Life
  • 1998: Metalizer
  • 2002: Moorhuhn Kart XXL
  • 2003: Moorhuhn Adventure: The Pharaoh's Treasure
  • 2003: Moorhuhn X
  • 2004: Moorhuhn Wanted
  • 2005: Grouse Invasion
  • 2005: Moorhuhn treasure hunter
  • 2005: Moorhuhn: The Curse of Gold
  • 2006: Moorhuhn pirates
  • 2007: Moorhuhn treasure hunter 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chip: Phenomedia: On the trail of the grouse makers ( memento of the original from December 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chip.de
  2. ↑ a b Spiegel: Story of a Game: Moorhuhn's mother plans offspring
  3. ↑ Volker H. Peemöller, Stefan Hofmann: Accounting scandals: offenses and countermeasures . Erich Schmidt Verlag , 2005, ISBN 978-3-503-09031-0 , p. 114-116 ( Google Books ).
  4. ↑ a b M2P Games: Exclusive interview with Frank Ziemlinski! (Part 1)
personal data
SURNAME Ziemlinski, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer, advertising specialist and game developer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968 or 1969