Frozenbyte
Frozenbyte | |
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legal form | Osakeyhtiö (Oy) |
founding | 2001 |
Seat | Helsinki , Finland |
management | Lauri Hyvarinen (CEO) |
Number of employees | about 100 |
Branch | Software development |
Website | http://frozenbyte.com |
Frozenbyte is a Finnish development studio for computer and video games based in Helsinki . It was founded in 2001 and is now one of the largest training studios in Finland. The company became known in 2009 through the trilogy " Trine ".
history
Frozenbyte was founded in 2001 in Helsinki, Finland. The company started with a few employees and today has around a hundred jobs.
Frozenbyte's first own titles were Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor , which were released in 2005 and 2007. In 2009, the company launched the first part of the “Trine” game series. The successors Trine 2 and Trine 3 followed a few years later . The games were sold more than eight million times.
In 2013 an expanded version of Trine 2, called “Trine 2: Complete Story”, was released, which contained the “Goblin Menace” expansion, which was previously only available as an in-app purchase, and the additional level “Dwarven Caverns”. A year later, Frozenbyte released an updated version of the first part of the series, the Trine Enchanted Edition . There was u. a. the graphics engine was taken over from the newer Trine 2 and a quick save option was added. In 2015 the last part of the series Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power was released .
The last two titles from Frozenbyte so far are Has-Been-Heroes (March 2017), which was created in collaboration with GameTrust , and Nine Parchments (December 2017). The company is working on other titles. Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince was announced on October 24, 2018 .
technology
Frozenbyte published games on many platforms including Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 , Wii U , Nintendo Switch , Xbox One , PlayStation 4 , Windows , Mac , Linux , Android, and iOS . Most of the games run on their own graphics engine. Frozenbyte's games are based on a. in the programming languages C ++ , C # and LUA .
Games
year | title | genre | Platform |
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2005 | Shadowgrounds | Top-down shooter | Windows |
2007 | Shadowgrounds Survivor | Top-down shooter | Windows |
2009 | Trine | Fantasy action, platformer , puzzle | Linux , Windows, Playstation 3 , Mac |
2012 | Trine 2 | Fantasy action, platformer, puzzle | Wii U , Mac ("Goblin Menace" via in-app purchase for OS X 10.9. Or older) |
2013 | Trine 2: Complete Story | Fantasy action, platformer, puzzle | Android , Linux, Windows, Mac, PlayStation 4 |
2014 | Trine Enchanted Edition | Fantasy action, platformer, puzzle | Linux, Mac, Windows, PlayStation 4, Wii U |
2015 | Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power | Fantasy action, platformer, puzzle | Linux, Mac, Windows, PlayStation 4 |
2016 | Shadwen | Action adventure , stealth | Linux, Mac, Windows, PlayStation 4 |
2017 | Has been heroes | Action-adventure, fantasy action, rogue-like | Nintendo Switch , Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
2017 | Nine parchments | Action adventure, fantasy action | Nintendo Switch, Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
2019 | Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince | Fantasy action, platformer, puzzle | Nintendo Switch, Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jobs | Frozenbyte. Retrieved August 20, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Shadowgrounds | Frozenbyte. Retrieved August 20, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Shadowgrounds Survivor | Frozenbyte. Retrieved August 20, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ About | Frozenbyte. Retrieved August 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Trine 2: Complete Story Edition for PlayStation 4 confirmed & launch trailer . In: playm.de . November 14, 2013 ( playm.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
- ^ Trine Enchanted Edition | Frozenbyte. Retrieved August 21, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Trine Enchanted Edition - Frozenbyte with the sales figures on Wii U very satisfied . In: playm.de . April 6, 2015 ( playm.de [accessed on August 21, 2018]).
- ↑ Has-Been Heroes. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Trine 4 Confirmed! | Frozenbyte. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Frozenbyte. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .