Matt Kempke

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Matthias "Matt" Kempke (* 1980 in Hamburg ) is a German author and game designer. He works as a designer at Daedalic Entertainment . He previously produced the Independent games of What-Makes-You-Tick? -Line.

Career

Kempke's passion for classic adventure games from LucasArts grabbed him early on. At the end of the 1990s , he designed a fan page about the Monkey Island games. Kempke studied Japanese and African Studies at the University of Leipzig and developed point-and-click adventures during his studies .

What Makes You Tick? was initially only available in English in 2007 and in 2010 as a download from Lassie Games , a label owned by programmer Greg MacWilliam . The second part of the series, A Stitch in Time , was also published in German in 2011 by a German publisher.

After completing his studies, Matthias Kempke was hired by the Hamburg developer Daedalic Entertainment as a game designer in autumn 2011 . His first game at Daedalic was the 2013 point-and-click adventure The Night of the Rabbit . Most recently, he worked as lead designer with Kevin Mentz on the implementation of the Ken Follett novel The Pillars of the Earth as a video game , which was published in three chapters from August 2017 to March 2018.

Motifs

Matthias Kempke draws many background illustrations of his games himself.

Some common themes can be found in his games: In What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time and The Night of the Rabbit , a threat arises from foreign forces that subvert and / or suppress the inhabitants of the respective game worlds. The plot of What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time was inspired by Franz Kafka and his novel Das Schloss .

Games

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jack Allin: The Night of the Rabbit - Daedalic's Matt Kempke interview. In: adventuregamers.com. Adventure Gamers, August 6, 2012, accessed July 11, 2013 .
  2. ^ What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time - About the Authors. In: lassiegames.com. Lassie Games, accessed July 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Jack Allin: The Night of the Rabbit - Daedalic's Matt Kempke interview. In: adventuregamers.com. Adventure Gamers, August 6, 2012, accessed July 11, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Adventure-Treff - Test: What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time. In: adventure-treff.de. Adventure-Treff, accessed on January 17, 2015 : “A Stitch in Time has been available in Germany [...] since June 10, 2011. The version distributed by Just A Game is completely translated, [...] "
  5. ↑ Tobias Maack: Daedalics plans for 2012: Six own adventures, RPG in 2013. In: adventurecorner.de. Adventure Corner, December 7, 2011; accessed July 11, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Benjamin Braun: The Rabbit's Apprentice: Daedalic announces another 2D adventure. In: gamersglobal.de. GamersGlobal, August 2, 2012, accessed July 11, 2011 .
  7. ↑ What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time. (No longer available online.) In: justagame.com. Just a Game, archived from the original on August 3, 2014 ; accessed on January 12, 2015 : "The narrative and characters were inspired by Franz Kafka's short story" Das Schloss "[...]" Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.justagame.com
personal data
SURNAME Kempke, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kempke, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg