InnoGames

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InnoGames GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding January 1, 2007
Seat Hamburg (Germany)
management Hendrik Klindworth, Michael Zillmer, Christian Pern ( Managing Directors )
Number of employees 400
sales 190 million EUR (2019)
Branch Software development
Website www.innogames.com
As of May 4, 2020

The InnoGames GmbH is a game development studio and operators of browser-based and mobile online games based in Hamburg . The company currently has seven games in live operation and several are in development.

history

The founders Eike and Hendrik Klindworth and Michael Zillmer started developing the browser game Die Stämme in 2003 , which reached around 50,000 users by autumn 2005 and today has 59 million registered players worldwide. In 2005, the founders decided to produce browser games full-time. On January 1, 2007, InnoGames GmbH was founded. The number of users of The Tribes continued to grow and new employees were hired. In 2008 the company released The West , the second game of their own development. In the same year InnoGames moved into new business premises in Hamburg-Harburg and took on additional employees. In 2009 the company moved within Harburg to enlarge the office space. In September 2009 the new strategy browser game Grepolis started a beta test with a limited number of users. The game was released on December 8, 2009. Since September and October 2013, Grepolis has also been playable as an app for iOS and Android devices.

On April 1st, 2010 InnoGames founded InnoGames Korea, a subsidiary especially for the Asian market. On May 21, 2010, the investor Fidelity Growth Partners Europe (FGPE) was announced. On February 1, 2011, InnoGames launched a central game portal at innogames.com for its around 60 million registered users at the time. The company also announced on the following day that it would be advised by former EA manager Gerhard Florin as chairman . He most recently worked at Electronic Arts as Executive Vice President of Publishing. InnoGames cooperates with ProSiebenSat.1, among others, to market the games .

In April 2012 InnoGames published the strategy game Forge of Empires . The game includes a journey through time that begins in the Stone Age and leads the player through the ages of human history. Forge of Empires was awarded the German Computer Game Prize as the best browser game in 2013 . Since June 5, 2014, the game can also be played as an app on the iPad. The iPhone version followed on September 27, 2014, and the Android version on March 25, 2015.

On July 17, 2013 InnoGames announced that it would stop work on the free seafaring simulation Kartuga and at the same time close the development studio Ticking Bomb Games. The reasons given were quality defects, a lack of player numbers and a different orientation of the publisher. According to a report by Golem.de , in addition to Remanum from Travian Games, it was another elaborately produced prestige title that could not find a sufficient user base, and thus exemplifies a market for browser games that was in upheaval in 2012/13.

In March 2014, InnoGames moved into new offices in Hamburg's City Süd, while the InnoHub, a start-up center, was launched.

InnoGames opened a new studio in Düsseldorf in January 2015, which has since been devoted to the development of mobile games. In March 2016, the team and the three founders of the Oberhausen developer Funatics Software GmbH added to the Düsseldorf studio. On May 28, 2015 InnoGames published the fantasy building game Elvenar for the browser.

In October 2016, the Swedish media company Modern Times Group (MTG) acquired a total of 35% from the InnoGames founders and the former investor Eight Roads Ventures (formerly FGPE), based on an enterprise value of 260 million euros.

On February 23, 2017, InnoGames announced the purchase of the Mobile Games Warlords , which was produced by the Berlin-based development studio Woogas . In May 2017, MTG announced an increase in its stake to 51% of the shares through an investment of a further 82.6 million euros. On November 1st, 2017, the mobile versions of Elvenar were released.

In June 2018 InnoGames announced that it would continue production in Hamburg for a game previously developed in Düsseldorf. As a result, the office in Düsseldorf was closed on December 31, 2018. Due to the constant growth of InnoGames, the office space of the InnoHub start-up center had to be used for own use in 2018, which led to its closure.

In February 2019 InnoGames released the MMO strategy game God Kings for iOS and Android devices. In June 2019, InnoGames reported that the strategy game Forge of Empires had total sales of 500 million euros. In addition, in November 2019 the company announced that it had reached a total of one billion euros in sales. For the full year 2019, InnoGames reported an increase in sales to 190 million euros in February 2020. The company's apps were the main growth drivers.

criticism

Free-to-play games, which represent InnoGames' business model, are generally criticized for encouraging children, in particular, to spend carelessly and multiple times money for game advantages through quick and easily achievable successes for relatively small amounts of money.

Games

Current games

title genre Appeared in
The tribes MMOG building strategy game June 2003
The West MMORPG June 2008
Grepolis MMOG building strategy game August 2010
Forge of Empires Real time strategy game June 2012
Tribal Wars 2 MMOG building strategy game June 2014
Elvenar MMOG strategy game May 2015
Warlords of Aternum Mobile app strategy game 2017
God Kings Mobile strategy MMO February 2019

These games are based on the freemium cost principle .

Discontinued games

  • Seven Lands
  • Kartuga
  • Lagoonia
  • Rising Generals
  • Tribonia
  • Bounty Hounds

Awards

The browser games The Tribes , The West , Grepolis and Forge of Empires have received several nominations and awards.

Forge of Empires:

  • 2012 - Nomination for the European Games Award in the Best European Browser Game category
  • 2012 - Nomination for the German Developer Award for Developer Game of the Year in the categories of Best Game Design and Best Browser Game
  • 2013 - Winner of the German Computer Game Award in the Best Browser Game category
  • 2013 - Winner of the “MMO of the Year” award in the Best Strategy Browser MMO category
  • 2019 - Nomination for the German Developer Award in the "Long-running" category

Grepolis:

  • 2009 - Nominations in the categories Best Strategy Game and Best German Browser Game 2009 at the German Developer Award
  • 2010 - nomination for the Bäm! Computec Games Award in the online or browser games category
  • 2011 - Nomination in the category Best Browser Game at the European Games Awards
  • 2012 - MMO of the Year, Jury Award in the Best Classic Browser MMO category
  • 2013 - Nomination in the category Best Classic Browser MMO at the "MMO of the Year" award

The tribes:

  • 2006 - Galaxy News' browser game of the year audience award in the gaming fun category
  • 2010/2011 - Nomination for the Browser Game of the Year - Audience Award in the category Best Game Extension

Seven Lands:

  • 2011 - "MMO of the Year" award

InnoGames:

  • 2020 - Winner of the "Great Place to Work" award at the ITK

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ InnoGames.com: InnoGames at a glance ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Gameswirtschaft.de: The largest game developers in Germany in 2020. Accessed on January 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Press releases InnoGames [1]
  4. ↑ InnoGames: Browser Games and Mobile Games: Play now for free! Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ innogames.de: Company history of InnoGames ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 12, 2012
  6. ↑ InnoGames: The Tribes - The Online Strategy Browser Game. Build your village! Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Additional workplaces at the new location . Press release.
  8. ↑ Grepolis: PC Games is giving away 20 keys for the beta for the strategy game , accessed on February 16, 2016
  9. ↑ Grepolis celebrates release ( Memento of December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Press release on the start of the Android app ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 5, 2014
  11. ↑ Innogames founds subsidiary . Press release.
  12. ↑ Blog entry on the entry of FGPE as an investor .
  13. ↑ Press release ( Memento of March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Gamesmarkt.de: Dr. Gerhard Florin is Chairman at InnoGames. Retrieved July 17, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Gerhard Florin leaves EA - News | GamersGlobal.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  16. ↑ chip.de Forge of Empires: German Open Beta has started , accessed on June 5, 2014
  17. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: German Computer Game Award 2013. Accessed June 4, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Forum announcement on the launch of the iPad version ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Forge of Empires: iPhone app launched | IMAGE plays. Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Now play Forge of Empires on Android! Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Kartuga: The ports are safe again, the pirate simulation is at the end Kartuga: The ports are safe again, the pirate simulation is at the end ( Memento from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ Browser games: Ambitiously flooded - Golem.de. Retrieved on June 4, 2020 (German).
  23. ↑ Jochen Gipp: Harburg loses the successful InnoGames company. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  24. ↑ From hobby project to 6,000 square meter office . In: Gründerszene Magazin . ( gruenderszene.de [accessed on February 10, 2017]).
  25. ↑ K. KACZMAREK: Spieltrieb: Why the gamer industry is more and more on Düsseldorf . In: Express.de . ( express.de [accessed on February 10, 2017]).
  26. ↑ Viktor Pulz - OGLabs Germany UG: InnoGames takes over Funatics-Team - Newsslash.com. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Enter an enchanted world: Elvenar officially launched. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
  28. ↑ 90 million deal - Swedes want to buy InnoGames . In: Gründerszene Magazin . ( gruenderszene.de [accessed on February 10, 2017]).
  29. ↑ InnoGames buys Wooga's strategy game Warlords. In: press.innogames.com. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
  30. ↑ MTG increases ownership in online games developer InnoGames. May 2, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017 .
  31. ↑ A fantasy realm on the go: InnoGames publishes mobile versions of Elvenar. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
  32. ↑ InnoGames continues production in Düsseldorf in Hamburg. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
  33. ↑ Interview with CEO Hendrik Klindworth: Innogames with first billion in sales: "Are clearly profitable and will stay that way". Accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  34. ↑ Mighty Guardians, Mighty Kingdoms: God Kings Conquers Mobile. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
  35. ↑ Forge of Empires brings in more than 500 million euros. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
  36. ↑ InnoGames achieves sales of EUR 1 billion. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
  37. ↑ InnoGames increases sales in 2019 to EUR 190 million. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
  38. ↑ Welt.de: Game manufacturers gamble off children with free apps. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  39. ^ Philipp Blum: Browser games. In: netzsieger.de. Inspectorbest Internetportale GmbH, archived from the original on August 9, 2013 ; Retrieved September 17, 2013 .
  40. ↑ Seven Lands: InnoGames discontinues browser game - News. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  41. ↑ Blog on the discontinuation of Kartuga ( Memento from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  42. ↑ Media report on the setting of Lagoonia ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  43. ↑ Press release on the recruitment of Rising Generals ( Memento from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  44. ↑ InnoGames stops working on MMORPG Tribonia. June 9, 2011, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  45. ↑ InnoGames switches off Bounty Hounds Online - OGLabs.de. Retrieved May 18, 2019 (German).
  46. ^ Forge of Empires | Network winner. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  47. ^ Winner of the German Computer Game Award 2013 ( Memento from July 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  48. ↑ MMO of the Year 2013. Accessed June 4, 2020 .
  49. ↑ Long- running archive »German developer award. In: German Developer Award. Retrieved on May 4, 2020 (German).
  50. ^ German Developer Award 2009: The nominations. November 16, 2009, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  51. ↑ NETZSIEGER - Trust is good, comparison is better! Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  52. ↑ MMO of the Year 2012. Accessed June 4, 2020 .
  53. ↑ NETZSIEGER - Trust is good, comparison is better! Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  54. ↑ Seven Lands on mmooftheyear.com
  55. ↑ InnoGames is one of the best employers at ITK 2020. Accessed on May 4, 2020 (German).