Heinrich Meyer

The Guild 3 Team & THQ Nordic, RUNEFORGE Producer Heinrich Meyer
Occupation Video game producer at THQ Nordic, video game designer at 4HEAD Studios, co-founder of RUNEFORGE Game Studio[1]
Title Producer
Website TheGuildGame.com, Gilde2.dehttp://www.gilde2.de, RUNEFORGE Game Studio

Heinrich Meyer is credited as one of the designers and authors of the first two The Guild games as part of 4HEAD Studios and co-founder of RUNEFORGE Game Studio, now a part of Vienna, Austria-based THQ Nordic and producer of The Guild 3.[2][3][4] He has been credited with roles in the following departments of professional video games development: production, design, programming/engineering, writeing, audio, quality assurance, localization and creative services.[5]

Career - The Guild

From its earliest days, Heinrich Meyer has been heavily involved in the creation and maintenance, and thereby the preservation, of The Guild video game series as a series. Gamersglobal.de stated in 2014 [6] that "The Guild Series in the widest sense is a spiritual successor of the Die Fugger series[7][8] (for MS-DOS), and enjoyed great popularity in Germany."[9][10][11][12]

The video game developer helped design & author the Europa 1400: The Guild that was released in 2002[13], and was part of 4HEAD Studios that released The Guild 2. He later co-founded RUNEFORGE Game Studio that took over as developer for The Guild Series. After the release of the standalone version The Guild 2: Renaissance in 2010[14], and the insolvency of the old publisher JoWooD Entertainment, further development of the series was in doubt. Also, a necessary patch to the standalone work could not be delivered until 2014 due to a of resources at RUNEFORGE Game Studio.[15]

With the announcement of The Guild 3 at Gamescom 2014[16][17], as part of the general relaunch of the life simulation, economic simulation series, adequate funding was given to RUNEFORGE to ensure that an update to the old platform was developed after four years before the new generation game platform could be completed and distributed.[18][10]

This update corrected a lot of bugs submitted by the user community, amongst others on the RUNEFORGE forum[19] and Steam[20]. This repair work was done by Heinrich Meyer and the RUNEFORGE team on a voluntary basis, according to the licence owners on Facebook.[21]

Being part of the game development of The Guild Series since the start makes him a veteran in the gaming community and a link back to the first days of the typically German-Austrian ecosim genre.[6][9]

Game Credits

Over the years, Heinrich Meyer has been credited with roles in the following departments: production, design, programming/engineering, writing, audio, quality assurance, localization and creative services.[22] The list is based on MobyGames.com's Game Credits summary for him.

Production

  • The Guild 2: Renaissance (2010) (Project Lead)
  • The Guild 3 (2017/TBA) (Producer)[2][9]

Design

  • The Guild 2: Renaissance (2010) (Lead Game Design)
  • The Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas (2007) (Game Design and Scripting)
  • The Guild 2 (2006) (Gamedesign and Scripting)
  • Back to Gaya (2005) (Author)
  • Big Biz Tycoon! 2 (2003) (Designer)
  • The Guild: Gold Edition (2003) (Game Design)

Programming/Engineering

  • The Guild 2: Renaissance (2010) (Scripting)
  • The Guild: Gold Edition (2003) (Scripting)

Writing

  • Die Gilde Gaukler, Gruften & Geschütze (2003) (Author)
  • Europa 1400: The Guild (2002) (Author)

Audio

  • Big Biz Tycoon! 2 (2003) (Soundtrack + SFX)

Quality Assurance

  • The Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas (2007) (Quality Assurance Manager (AddOn))
  • The Guild: Gold Edition (2003) (Quality Assurance Manager (AddOn))

Localization

  • Big Biz Tycoon! 2 (2003) (Manual)

Creative Services

  • The Guild 2: Pirates of the European Seas (2007) (Manual)
  • The Guild 2 (2006) (Manual)
  • Back to Gaya (2005) (Manual)
  • Die Gilde: Gaukler, Gruften & Geschütze (2003) (Manual)
  • The Guild: Gold Edition (2003) (Manual)
  • Europa 1400: The Guild (2002) (Manual)

References

  1. ↑ Valdenaire, Caroline (5 September 2014). "The Guild 3 – What to expect from Golem Labs' new ecosim". www.gameplane.de. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Heinrich Meyer as Producer for The Guild 3". theguildgame.com. THQ Nordic, GolemLabs. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Brinkhuis, Sergio (24 August 2014). "Interview, Producer Heinrich Meyer". HookedGamers. Cutlass Isle. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Sauter, Marc (16 August 2014). "Gamescom 2014, Heinrich Meyer von Nordic Games, einem der Designer und Autoren der ersten beiden Gilde-Teile (4Head sowie Runeforge Games), über ihr neues Spiel unterhalten. news/wirtschaftssimulation-golem-labs-entwickelt-die-gilde-3". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Heinrich Meyer in Game Credits - developerId 182339". Mobygames.com. JoWooD Entertainment, Nordic Games, THQ Nordic et al. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Die Fugger and The Guild as commercial successes (+ die-gilde-3-details-zum-neuen-serienteil)". GamersGlobal.de. GamersGlobal.de saxz 1818 EXP - 14 Komm-Experte,R5, 6. November 2014 - 21:43 — vor 1 Jahr zuletzt aktualisiert - Mitarbeit — ChrisL— Labrador Nelson— Maverick. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08.
  7. ↑ "Die Fugger II". MobyGames. MobyGames, Blue Flame Labs. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  8. ↑ "Die Fugger II". IGN.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  9. 1 2 3 Valdenaire, Caroline (2 November 2014). "Career and games of Heinrich Meyer & CO (the-guild-3-an-interview-about-the-prequels-jobs-mods-und-dates/)". GamePlane.de. GamePlane.de, ingame.de. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  10. 1 2 "Gameranking - the-guild-2". www.gamerankings.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  11. ↑ Brinkhuis, Sergio (11 August 2015). "Gamescom 2015: Mod heaven: HAIR". hookedgamers.com. Cutlass Isle. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  12. ↑ Brinkhuis, Sergio (24 August 2014). "PREVIEW - Gamescom 2014: Not your mother's The Guild". HookedGamers.com. Cutlass Isle. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  13. ↑ "europa-1400-the-guild/credits". MobyGames.com. Mobygames, Blue Flame Labs. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  14. ↑ "guild-2-renaissance/credits". MobyGames. MobyGames, Blue Flame Labs. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  15. ↑ "die-gilde-3-details-zum-neuen-serienteil". GamersGlobal.de. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  16. ↑ MoK, technischer Administrator, Gilde2.de (13 August 2014). "nordic-games-zeigt-die-gilde-3-auf-der-gamescom-2014". www.gilde2.de. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  17. ↑ "Welcome-to-the-board-of-The-Guild-3". forum.nordicgames.at. Nordic Games, THQ Nordic. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  18. ↑ Widmer, Lukas (9 May 2010). "Finaler Patch für die Gilde 2: Alle Bugs behoben (fixed)?". SpieleTipps.de. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  19. ↑ "forum.runeforge-games.net". forum.runeforge-games.net. RUNEFORGE, Nordic Games, THQ Nordic. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  20. ↑ "Khaos's Guides, DeSync/Bugs and Multiplayer for The Guild II: Renaissance". SteamCommunity.com. 12 March 2015. Archived from the original on 31 March 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  21. ↑ "The Guild 3 PR department at Facebook/social media complimenting patchers & testers". Facebook.com. The Guild 3 licence holders. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original on 31 March 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  22. ↑ "Heinrich Meier in Game Credits". Mobygames.com. JoWooD Entertainment, Nordic Games, THQ Nordic et al. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
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