Chimera Entertainment

Chimera Entertainment is a German video game developer based in Munich. The company is part of Remote Control Productions. As of July 2018, the company employs 60 people.[2]

Chimera Entertainment GmbH
TypeGmbH
IndustryVideo game industry
Founded2006
FounderChristian Kluckner
Hendrik Lesser
Alexander Kehr
HeadquartersMunich, Germany
Key people
Christian Kluckner, Managing & Development Director
Hendrik Lesser, Managing Director
Andreas Katzig, Technical Director
Alexander Kehr, Creative Director
Christian Dreher, Art Director
Bernhard Falk, Head of Project Management
Number of employees
55[1] (2020)
Websitewww.chimera-entertainment.de

History

Chimera Entertainment was founded by the Mediadesign University of Applied Science (short MDH) graduates Alexander Kehr and Christian Kluckner together with Hendrik Lesser and his production house remote control productions (short RCP) in Munich, Germany in 2006.

Kehr and Kluckner were among first game design graduates of the Munich-based design academy MDH. Kehr, having developed board and card games since he was six years old, and Kluckner already having four years of experience as a programmer, started working together while still attending the university and created the base for a team of young graduates eager to work within the games industry. The team of remote control productions provided the framework while the company's Managing Director Lesser took over a part of the management of Chimera Entertainment.

In May 2007 Chimera Entertainment received the LARA Start Up Award from the Bavarian Secretary of Commerce. The first project of Chimera Entertainment was Windchaser (PC), a real time tactical role-playing game set in Ensai, an original fantasy world created by Kehr himself.

June 2009 saw the release of Train your Brain with Dr. Kawashima, created in cooperation with BBG Entertainment. This brain training application for PC and Mac is based on the studies of Japanese Neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima. In cooperation with Bigpoint Games Chimera Entertainment released Warstory - Europe in Flames, a Microsoft Silverlight Browsergame featuring real time battles set in World War II.

In the following years Chimera released several other games on various platforms with Angry Birds Epic (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) being the latest game made by Chimera Entertainment in cooperation with Rovio.

Releases (chronological)

Chimera's debut title called Windchaser (PC) was published in May 2008, followed by several commissioned projects including Train Your Brain With Dr. Kawashima (PC, Mac), memory HD, Demolition Dash and Happy Hills (all iOS). In 2010, Chimera Entertainment launched its first MMO browsergame Warstory – Europe in Flames in cooperation with Bigpoint. In 2012 Chimera Entertainment released in collaboration with different publishing partners the MMO browser games Skylancer: Battle for Horizon and Mission: Genesis and Word Wonders, Sara’s Cooking Class and Towers & Dungeons on mobile platforms. The latest game developed by Chimera in cooperation with Rovio is Angry Birds Epic (iOS, Android, Windows Phone).

YearGamePlatform(s)Genre
2008Wind ChaserWindowsStrategy RPG
2009Farm FeveriOSPuzzler
2009Train your Brain with Dr.KawashimaWindows, MacPuzzler
2009Wiesn FeveriOSPuzzler
2010Memory (HD)iOSPuzzler
2010Warstory - Europe in FlamesBrowserStrategy MMO
2012Demolition DashiOSRunner
2012Happy HillsiOS, AndroidPhysics Puzzler
2012Towers & DungeonsiOSTowerbuilder
2012Sara's Cooking ClassiOSCooking App
2012Word WondersiOS, WindowsWord Puzzle
2012SkylancerBrowserStrategy MMO
2012Mission: GenesisBrowserStrategy MMO
2013Hoppetee!iOSRunner
2013Happy Hills 2iOSPhysics Puzzler
2014John Woo's BloodstrokeiOS, AndroidAction
2014Angry Birds EpiciOS, Windows Phone, AndroidRPG
2017 Angry Birds Evolution iOS, Android RPG

Awards
  • LARA Startup Award 2007 from the Bavarian Ministry of Economics [3]
  • German Game Developer Awards 2008, Winner Sponsorship Prize[4]
  • German Game Developer Awards 2011, Winner Best Mobile Game of the Year (Game: Demolition Dash)[5]
  • German Computergames Award 2013, Winner Best Mobile Game (Game: Word Wonders)[6]

References
  1. Fröhlich, Petra (10 January 2020). "Die größten Spiele-Entwickler in Deutschland 2020" [The largest game developers in Germany 2020]. GamesWirtschaft (in German).
  2. "Deutschlands größte Spielehersteller 2018". GamesWirtschaft (in German). 2 July 2018.
  3. "Preisträger 2007". LARA Award, Homepage (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
  4. "Die Liste der Sieger 2008". German Game Developer Awards, Homepage (in German). 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
  5. "Die Liste der Sieger 2011". German Game Developer Awards, Homepage (in German). 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
  6. "Preisträger 2013". German Computergames Awards, Homepage (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
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