Beholder Kft.
Company type | multiplayer games |
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Founded | 1992 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Miklós Tihor |
Website | www.beholder.hu |
Beholder Kft. is a Hungarian book publisher and video game developer company. It was established in 1992 by Miklós Tihor and Zsolt Mazán. The name was chosen after the famous Dungeons & Dragons monster, the Beholder, to reflect their devotion to fantasy.
History
The company's first project was a Hungarian language
Beholder Kft. also began publishing fantasy and sci-fi books in Hungarian. Most of these were translations of English books (from
In 1995, Beholder Kft. published its own Hungarian language
In 1996, Beholder Kft. started a monthly fantasy magazine by the name Alanor Chronicles (Hungarian name: Alanori Krónikák). The last, 149. issue of the magazine was published in 2008. December.
In addition to the above, Beholder published two more pbm games, Chaos Galactica (Káosz Galaktika), and City of Ancients (Ősök Városa). Chaos Galactica was a
In 2002, Beholder launched its first Internet
In Sept 2008, Beholder published another browser game, Doomlord (Hungarian name:
Games
- Túlélők Földje (Land of Survivors), play-by-mail game (1992)
- Hatalom Kártyái (Cards of Power), trading card game (1995)
- Káosz Galaktika (Chaos Galactica), play-by-mail game (1997)
- Ősök Városa (City of Ancients), play-by-mail game (1999)
- Káosz Galaktika (Chaos Galactica), trading card game (1999)
- Kalandok Földje (Land of Adventures), browser-based game (2002)
- Sárkányölő (Dragonslayer), browser-based game (2004)
- Álomfogó (Dreamcatcher), trading card game (2007)
- Doomlord), browser-based game (2008)
References
- ^ Article on Beholder and the Hungarian RPG scene on rpg.net (English)
- ^ Article on Wastelands Archived 2009-09-14 at the Wayback Machine (Czech)
- ^ 'Interview with Kalandok Földje author Zsolt Mazán', rpg.hu (2002) Archived 2007-11-22 at the Wayback Machine (Hungarian)
External links
- Beholder Kft. webpage (Hungarian)
- Doomlord, the game (English)
- Doomlord info and guide (English)