World forge
| World forge | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Private |
| founding | 1990 |
| resolution | 2006 |
| Reason for dissolution | Death of the company founder |
| Seat | Munich |
| management | Harald Evers |
| Branch | Software development |
Weltenschmiede was a Munich development studio that existed from 1990 to 2006 and was primarily known for its German-language text adventures .
history
Weltenschmiede was founded in 1990 by the author and programmer Harald Evers and the programmer Andreas Niedermeier . In the same year, the duo programmed Das Stundenglas , one of the few commercially successful German text adventures, under the wing of the distribution company Software 2000 . In 1991 the graphic artist Werner Frankowsky added to the team. When the Amiga Joker magazine voted for Game of the Year 1992 , the world forge adventure Hexuma was voted the third best adventure. With the Adventure Höhlenwelt saga , published in 1994 , the company switched from the text adventure genre of the early years to a point-and-click interface. In 2004 Niedermeier switched to Software 2000, where he programmed the PC version of Jonathan and worked as a programmer for the Bundesliga Manager game series . From this point on, Weltenschmiede's focus was on the design of games; programming capacities were bought in externally. In 2005 Evers published a trading card game called Trivocum , which Weltenschmiede published as a computer game in July 2005. It was a trading card game based on the cave world saga and could be downloaded from the Internet. Until Evers' unexpected death in November 2006, the world forge consisted of three members. Harald Evers was responsible for the game concept, design and graphics, but later concentrated as an author on the Höhlenwelt saga , a fantasy novel cycle. Furthermore, the team only consisted of the programmer Gerhard Hoops and Evers' underage son Eric, who contributed graphics and ideas for the continuously expanded Trivocum game. Since Evers' death, the rights to the Weltenschmiede games have been held by the Bavarian state government.
Games
- 1990: The hourglass
- 1991: The Cathedral
- 1992: Hexuma
- 1994: Cave World saga
- 1995: Archibald Applebrook's Adventure
- 2000: Dragonfire: The Well of Souls (only localization into German)
- 2005: Trivocum
Web links
- World forge at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ASM Inside: Harald Evers . In: ASM . October 1992, p. 36. (PDF, 114 MB)
- ↑ Klaus Trafford: A cathedral that has it all . In: ASM . July 1991, p. 44. (PDF, 93 MB)
- ↑ Dominik Cenia: Trivocum: The magic card game of the cave world . In: Sono . No. 1, 2005, p. 24.
- ↑ Mick Schnelle: The Cathedral . In: Retro Gamer . January 2017, ISSN 2194-9581 , p. 190.