Frictional Games

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Frictional Games

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legal form Private
founding 2006
Seat Helsingborg , Sweden
management Thomas Grip, Jens Nilsson
Number of employees 15 (as of April 2014)
Branch Game development
Website www.frictionalgames.com

Frictional Games is an independent game developer based in Helsingborg ( Sweden ). The leading team consists of Thomas Grip and Jens Nilsson, and people outside the company are also employed for other core elements such as music or storytelling.

To date, Frictional Games is especially for their computer games in Adventure - and survival horror - genre known. They are based on the in-house HPL engine . Penumbra , their first computer game, was initially supposed to be just a technical demonstration for the engine. An outstanding feature for their games are the physical effects, which should enable the player to be more immersed . Penumbra: Overture (German title: Penumbra - Im Halbschatten ) was the game developer's first commercial title.

On September 22nd, 2015, Frictional Games released the sci-fi horror title SOMA for Windows , Mac OS X , Linux and PS4 , which has been in development since 2010.

Computer games

Penumbra

Amnesia

Soma

The title Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs was created in collaboration with the British game developer The Chinese Room .

criticism

The average Metacritic rating of Frictional Games is 78%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soma brings "a much larger world, more attention to details" (English). Retrieved July 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Dom Cook: Interview, Thomas Grip of Frictional Games - Head Programmer / Master of Horror. In: Questional. October 13, 2010, archived from the original on May 15, 2012 ; accessed on February 17, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Penumbra Tech Demo 2006. Frictional Games, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  4. ^ The Penumbra Series. Frictional Games, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  5. ^ Metascore, Frictional Games. In: Metacritic . Retrieved February 17, 2018 .