Jan Müller-Michaelis

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Jan Müller-Michaelis (left) with Marco Hüllen (2007)

Jan "Poki" Müller-Michaelis (born September 6, 1977 in Hamburg ) is a German author , musician , director and game designer . He is co-founder of the German developer studio and publisher Daedalic Entertainment .

Career

Jan Müller-Michaelis studied media technology at the HAW Hamburg . The production of the graphic adventure game Edna breaks out was also part of his diploma thesis on “The computer game as a non-linear narrative form” . Müller-Michaelis developed the game almost single-handedly and took on many activities (author, illustrator, animator, programmer, scripter) himself.

In 2007 he founded Daedalic Entertainment with Carsten Fichtelmann , about which he also published Edna breaks out . Since then, Müller-Michaelis has managed the production of adventure titles such as A New Beginning and Deponia in the in-house development studio as Creative Director . With titles like Edna breaks out , The Whispered World and A New Beginning , the company won several times the German Developer Award , the Lara Award , the Red Dot Design Award , the Children's Media Price The White Elephant (2011) and the German Computer Game Award of the Federal Government.

In 2013 and 2015 Müller-Michaelis performed with Gunnar Bergmann and Anne Baumann as the music trio "Poki & Band" with self-written songs at the Gamescom game fair . In 2016 the trio completed a small tour of Germany. Also in 2016 the trio renamed themselves " Baumann Bergmann Pokinsson " and released their first album Strange Occurrences at the annual general meeting of the Friends of the South Pole .

Ludography (excerpt)

Discography

  • 2001: Journey to the Center of Error (as Poki)
  • 2016: Strange incidents at the annual general meeting of the South Pole Friends (Spinnup, with Baumann Bergmann Pokinsson )
  • 2018: Trial lesson "Kosmos - Now!" (With Baumann Bergmann Pokinsson)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Making Games - Harvey creator Jan Müller-Michaelis from ... Making Games , September 6, 2011, accessed on August 29, 2015 : "It's Harvey creator Jan Müller-Michaelis from Daedalic's birthday today."
  2. ↑ Jan Müller-Michaelis: The computer game as a non-linear narrative form. (PDF) In: gamesmaster-hamburg.de. July 27, 2006, archived from the original on April 4, 2015 ; accessed on March 4, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Ungerer: Why do your characters sigh? In: faz.net. May 17, 2010, accessed December 11, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Was-ist-der-Irrtum.de: Poki - journey to the center of error. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Michaelis, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller-Michaelis, Poki (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, director and game designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg