Daedalic Entertainment
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| Industry | Video game industry |
| Founded | March 29, 2007 |
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| Headquarters | Hamburg, Germany |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Number of employees | 80 (2018) |
| Parent | Bastei Lübbe (2014–present)[1][2] |
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| Website | daedalic.com |
Daedalic Entertainment GmbH is a German video game developer and publisher based in Hamburg. They are best known for developing point-and-click adventure games. Daedalic operates two subsidiary studios: Daedalic Entertainment Studio West (in Düsseldorf) since July 2014,[3] and Daedalic Entertainment Bavaria (in Munich) since February 2018.[4][5]
History
Before Carsten Fichtelmann founded Daedalic Entertainment GmbH in 2007, he had been the marketing director and head of product management at Hamburg-based publisher DTP Entertainment for six years. Daedalic published their first game on 5 June 2008, which was a humorous adventure game called Edna & Harvey: The Breakout, which emerged from a thesis by the Creative Director Jan Müller-Michaelis. It has sold very well and received numerous major awards.
Shortly afterwards, the adventure game 1½ Knights – In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde was published, named after the same film. On 28 August 2009, the adventure game The Whispered World followed and the adventure title A New Beginning, which focuses on climate change, was published on 8 October 2010. In 2011, the sequel to Edna & Harvey: The Breakout was released with the title Harvey’s New Eyes. A year later, a new adventure named Deponia was released to the market, which received several awards as well.
In May 2014, German publisher Bastei Lübbe acquired a majority share of 51% in Daedalic Entertainment.[6]
Games
- Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (2008)
- Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes (2012)
The Whispered World series
- The Whispered World (2009)
- Silence: The Whispered World 2 (2016)
Ravensburger Puzzle series
- Ravensburger Puzzle (2010)
- Ravensburger Puzzle 2 (2011)
The Chronicles of Shakespeare series
- The Chronicles of Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (2010)
- The Chronicles of Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2011)
Deponia series
- Deponia (2012)
- Chaos on Deponia (2012)
- Goodbye Deponia (2013)
- Deponia Doomsday (2016)
The Dark Eye series
- The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav (2012)
- The Dark Eye: Memoria (2013)
- The Dark Eye: Blackguards (2014)
- Blackguards 2 (2015)
Other titles
- 1½ Knights: In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde (2008)
- The Tudors (2009)
- Wolfgang Hohlbein: The Inquisitor (2009)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2010)
- A New Beginning (2010)
- Sinister Affair: Immortal Lovers (2010)
- Winterfest (2010)
- The Skillz (2010)
- Robin Hood: King of the Outlaw (2010)
- Derrick: Death in the Flower Bed (2010)
- Dragon Guardian: The Prophecy (2011)
- Borgia (2011)
- The Night of the Rabbit (2013)
- Journey of a Roach (2013)
- 1954: Alcatraz (2014)
- Fire (2015)
- Anna's Quest (2015)
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (2016)
- The Franz Kafka Videogame (2017)
- The Long Journey Home (2017)
- Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth (2017)
- State of Mind (2018)
References
- ↑ https://www.golem.de/news/spielebranche-bastei-luebbe-kauft-mehrheit-an-daedalic-entertainment-1405-106539.html
- ↑ https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/wirtschaft/bastei-luebbe-geschaeftsjahr-2017-2018-daedalic/
- ↑ http://www.4players.de/4players.php/spielinfonews/Allgemein/8981/2142050/Daedalic_Entertainment_-Studio_in_Duesseldorf_gegruendet.html
- ↑ https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/daedelic-neues-studio-in-muenchen-eroeffnet,3326073.html
- ↑ https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/wirtschaft/daedalic-entertainment-bavaria-klonk-games-muenchen/
- ↑ http://www.teletrader.com/news/details/25552039