Radon Labs

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Radon Labs GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 2000
resolution June 1, 2010
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Berlin
management
  • Andre Blechschmidt
  • Bernd Beyreuther
Number of employees 40 (June 2010)
Branch Entertainment software
Website www.radonlabs.de

The Radon Labs GmbH was a development studio for computer games from Berlin . The company was founded in 1995 from one of several teams from the “Terratools” in Potsdam- Babelsberg. The GmbH was founded in 2000. Radon Labs was a founding member of the Association of German Game Developers ( GAME ), which was founded on March 6, 2004 in Berlin .

On May 12, 2010, Radon Labs filed for bankruptcy at the Charlottenburg District Court . Shortly thereafter, Radon Labs was taken over by the Hamburg browser game provider Bigpoint and fully integrated into its Berlin development studio.

history

Radon Labs was founded in 2000. After great success with the first publications Urban Assault and Project Nomads , the developers were able to secure a computer game license for the German pen & paper role-playing game Das Schwarze Auge in 2001 . After signing a publishing contract with the Hamburg game publisher dtp entertainment , full production for a new DSA computer role-playing game began in 2005.

To finance the game, Radon Labs received 500,000 euros from the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung ; In accordance with the funding guidelines, a second studio was opened in 2006 within the scope of the institution, in Halle . The development of the first person shooter "Schwarzenberg", which was announced in 2002 and was never completed, was also funded with 100,000 euros.

In 2008, Das Schwarze Auge: Drakensang Radon Labs' first title based on this license was published for the PC. Initially only available in Germany, the game was released in other languages ​​worldwide in 2009. In 2010 the successor Drakensang appeared: At the river of time , which is located before the plot of the first part.

In addition, Radon Labs took on numerous smaller commissioned works, such as the companion game to the telenovela Verliebt in Berlin or educational games. Radon Labs was a certified developer for PC , Xbox 360 , PS3 , Wii and Nintendo DS .

In May 2010 Radon Labs had to file for bankruptcy. The reasons were several publisher bankruptcies, a slump in the Nintendo DS market and problems with investors. The Hamburg browser game provider Bigpoint took over Radon Labs shortly afterwards. The studio was then fully integrated into Bigpoint's Berlin office. The first game after the restart was Drakensang Online , but without a DSA license.

Awards

  • Project Nomads was on the 2001 London Games exhibition ECTS awarded the prize for the best PC game of the fair.
  • In 2005 Radon Labs received the coveted children's software award TOMMI for the educational game GENIUS - Task Force Biology
  • In 2009, Das Schwarze Auge: Drakensang was awarded the German Federal Government's German Computer Game Prize for the first time in the categories “Best German Game” and “Best Youth Game”.

Graphics engine

Radon Labs was the developer of the open source graphics engine The Nebula Device , which was used in all of the company's important publications (including Drakensang , Treasure Island ).

Published games

  • Urban Assault (1998)
  • Project Nomads (2001)
  • Torres (2003)
  • Genius Enterprise Physics (2004)
  • Genius Task Force Biology (2005)
  • Sport fishing professional (2005)
  • Horse and Pony: My Stud (2005)
  • My veterinary practice (2005)
  • The Dragon Hunters (2005)
  • In love with Berlin (2005)
  • Moorhuhn Action - On the Approach (2005)
  • Horse and Pony: Best Friends - My Horse (2006)
  • My Animal School (2006)
  • Horse Gang - Wrong Game at the Horse Show (2006)
  • Riding Star 2 (2006)
  • My veterinary practice in Australia (2007)
  • Riding Star 3 DS (2007)
  • Treasure Island (2008)
  • My veterinary practice in Australia NDS (2008)
  • Powerquiz Duden (2008)
  • The Dark Eye: Drakensang (released August 1, 2008)
  • Langenscheidt VokabelStar English - For Beginners (published on April 17, 2009)
  • PowerQuiz Sport Edition DSF (released August 6, 2009)
  • PowerQuiz GEOLino (released August 6, 2009)
  • Langenscheidt VokabelStar English - For advanced learners (published on September 18, 2009)
  • Drakensang: On the River of Time (released February 19, 2010)
  • Future Wars (released March 25, 2010)
  • Crazy Quiz (released May 2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.radonlabs.de ( Memento from March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) former homepage
  2. ^ Radon Labs GmbH. ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Company portrait on the website of the Central German Multimedia Center in Halle. Retrieved March 26, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mmz-halle.de
  3. ↑ Peter Steinlechner: Bigpoint saves Radon Labs . Golem.de. June 1, 2010. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
  4. ↑ Jörg Langer: spieletipps asks: Bernd Beyreuther . Spieletipps.de. 2008. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
  5. ↑ http://www.mdm-online.de/uploads/media/foerderentscheidungen_2005.pdf
  6. ↑ Golem.de , June 1, 2010: Bigpoint saves Radon Labs
  7. ↑ Sam Parker: ECTS 2001: First look: Project Nomads. In: GameSpot , September 4, 2001. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
  8. ^ Peter-Michael Ziegler: First German Computer Game Prize awarded. In: heise online , March 31, 2009. Retrieved March 26, 2010.