Sixteen Tons Entertainment

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Sixteen Tons Entertainment

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legal form GmbH
founding 1998
Seat Tübingen , Berlin
management Ralph Stock
Number of employees 20+
Branch Game development
Website www.sixteen-tons.de

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Sixteen Tons Entertainment is a German computer game developer based in Tübingen and Berlin , which emerged from the brand label of the Tübingen game developer Promotion Software. The company was founded in 1993 by Ralph Stock . Sixteen Tons Entertainment became known through the Emergency series and Mad TV .

history

Sixteen Tons Entertainment was originally a brand label of the Tübingen-based company Promotion Software. In the nineties, advertising adventures were developed in this studio , as well as indirect successors to the strategy game Mad TV ( Caribbean Disaster , Mad News ) and Hurray Germany , a game for the 1994 federal election.

Emergency was released in 1998 , the first in a series of real-time strategy games . Further successors to the game series followed by 2017, for the PC and mobile platforms. In 2018, Emergency HQ, the first free-to-play game for the series, was released.

Between 2004 and 2009, board game implementations followed for games by Reiner Knizia ( Keltis , Einfach Genial ) as well as educational software for children for the Willi wills Wissen TV series.

In 2009 a second studio was founded in Babelsberg near Potsdam . The Potsdam studio moved to Berlin in 2017.

On January 15, 2020 it was announced that Promotion Software / Sixteen Tons had been taken over by the developer community around Klaas Kersting ( Phoenix Games ). Founder Ralph Stock remains the company's managing director.

Development studios

  • Sixteen Tons Studio Tübingen, founding studio
  • Sixteen Tons Studio Berlin (since 2009)

Games

reception

Emergency is the most popular title from Sixteen Tons Entertainment. In 2019 the mobile game Emergency HQ was played by over 1,000,000 players. The series' ratings for the PC are mixed, ranging from 39% to 86% for various titles. Emergency DS, Emergency 2012 and Emergency iPad were nominated for the German Computer Game Award. Emergency has an active modding community supported by Sixteen Tons by providing editor functions. According to fire department magazine , Emergency is one of the best fire department games.

The game Emergency HQ for iOS and Android, published by Sixteen Tons in 2018, was the first game in the Emergency series to be designed as a purely free-to-play game. According to PocketPC magazine, it is a successful implementation of the emergency game principle: "Conclusion: a strong classic for the mobile gaming market"

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sixteen Tons Website : Sixteen Tons Entertainment - About Us , Retrieved January 15, 2020
  2. ↑ gamesmarkt : [1] , accessed on January 15, 2020
  3. ↑ Feuerwehr-Magazin : [2] , accessed on January 15, 2020
  4. ↑ PocketPC.ch : Alluded to: Emergency HQ is a new edition of the well-known Emergency HD , May 31, 2018, accessed on August 16, 2019