Harebrained Schemes

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Harebrained Schemes
legal form Limited Liability Company
founding 2011
Seat Seattle
management Jordan Weisman
Branch Computer games
Website http://harebrained-schemes.com/

Harebrained schemes is an American development studio for computer games from Seattle . It was founded in 2011 by Jordan Weisman and Mitch Gitelman. The studio contributed to the breakthrough of crowdfunding in computer game finance with its Shadowrun Returns project . The studio has been owned by the Swedish computer game publisher Paradox Interactive since 2018 .

history

The studio was founded in 2011 by FASA founder and shadowrun inventor Jordan Weisman and former FASA studio manager Mitch Gitelman. The first productions were the mobile games Crimson: Steam Pirates and Strikefleet Omega , which were released in 2011 and 2012 respectively.

Also in 2012, the studio secured 1.8 million US dollars via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter for the development of a computer game based on the role-playing rules Shadowrun . After an iPhone accessory and the Adventure Broken Age, it was the third project to raise more than a million dollars, which in combination with other successful projects led to a crowdfunding boom in the games industry. Shadowrun Returns came onto the market in 2013, followed by Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Shadowrun: Hong Kong , the latter also financed with 1.2 million dollars via Kickstarter. In 2018, Harebrained Schemes again financed the production of a FASA license, the strategy game BattleTech (for the tabletop game of the same name ), with almost $ 2.8 million via Kickstarter.

In June 2018, Harebrained Schemes was acquired by Paradox Interactive for $ 7.5 million.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harebrained Schemes hints at something new from an old franchise . In: pcgamer . ( pcgamer.com [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  2. ^ Shadowrun Team's Third Project Will Change The Way You Think About Kickstarter . In: Game Informer . ( gameinformer.com [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  3. ^ Shadowrun: Hong Kong Kickstarter passed $ 1.2 million . In: TechnoBuffalo . February 18, 2015 ( technobuffalo.com [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Battletech: The backer beta of the Mech strategy title alluded to . In: PC GAMES . ( pcgames.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Paradox buying BattleTech studio Harebrained Schemes . In: Rock Paper Shotgun . ( rockpapershotgun.com [accessed October 17, 2018]).