Frozenbyte
Native name | Frozenbyte Oy |
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Company type | Limited company (osakeyhtiö) |
Industry | Video games |
Founded | 2001 |
Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
Products |
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Number of employees | ~60 (2024) |
Website | www |
Footnotes / references [1] |
Frozenbyte, Inc. (natively Frozenbyte Oy) is a Finnish video game developer founded in 2001 and based in Helsinki.[2] As of December 2020[update], it had approximately 130 employees. Frozenbyte's first commercial game was Shadowgrounds for Microsoft Windows. Both Shadowgrounds and its follow-up Shadowgrounds: Survivor were released for Linux in 2009, ported by IGIOS and published by Linux Game Publishing. They and all their later games use an engine that has been known internally as Storm3D, originally by Finnish programmer Sebastian Aaltonen.[3][4][5]
Frozenbyte's next commercial game,
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On 4 December 2015, the company announced Shadwen, a stealth game where time moves only when the player moves.[9]
On 28 May 2019, the company announced a new upcoming game Starbase, a sci-fi MMO that was allegedly in development in secret for five years prior.[10]
Games developed
- Shadowgrounds (2005)
- Shadowgrounds: Survivor (2007)
- Trine (2009)
- Trine 2 (2011)
- Splot (2014)[11]
- Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power (2015)
- Shadwen (2016)
- Has-Been Heroes (2017)[12]
- Nine Parchments (2017)[13]
- Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince (2019)[7]
- Starbase (2021)
- Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy (2023)
References
- ^ "About | Frozenbyte". Frozenbyte. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Frozenbyte Oy". Kauppalehti (in Finnish). Retrieved 9 October 2023.
- ^ Frozenbyte. "Jack Claw License". GitHub. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ Bush, Josh (3 May 2012). "Cheese talks to: Frozenbyte (about Trine and other things)". Cheese Talks. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ Faile, Rudy (22 April 2020). "Custom Game Engines: A Small Study". Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ Savage, Phil (26 April 2015). "Trine 3 is out in Early Access next week". PC Gamer. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ a b KaiFB (24 October 2018). "Trine 4 Confirmed! | Frozenbyte". www.frozenbyte.com. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ Plunkett, Luke (11 April 2011). "This Might Be The Best Indie Bargain Of 2011". Kotaku. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
- ^ Matulef, Jeffery (4 December 2015). "Trine developer Frozenbyte reveals time-manipulating stealth game Shadwen". Eurogamer. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ "Starbase – A New Sci-Fi MMO Game By Frozenbyte Revealed! | Frozenbyte". www.frozenbyte.com. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ Haveri, Mikael (2 November 2012). "Official website saying game is set for 'early 2014 release'". Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- ^ "Has-Been Heroes | Frozenbyte". www.frozenbyte.com. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
- ^ Matulef, Jeffery (15 August 2016). "Frozenbyte announces co-op twin-stick wizardry game Nine Parchments". Eurogamer. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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