House of Tales
| Company type | Defunct |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Defunct | 2010 |
| Headquarters | , Germany |
Key people |
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| Website | www.house-of-tales.com (archived) |
House of Tales Entertainment GmbH, trading as House of Tales, was a German
History
House of Tales was founded in 1998 by Tobias Schachte and Martin Ganteföhr, who had previously developed children's
In December 2014, the Swedish publisher THQ Nordic acquired the rights to House of Tales' adventure games and made them available via digital distribution platforms.
Games
| Title | Publisher | Genre | Date | Platform | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mystery of the Druids | CDV Software | Adventure | 2001 | Windows | |
| Black Hole | elkware | Adventure | 2003 | J2ME
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| The Paper Menace | elkware | Adventure | 2003 | J2ME | |
| The Moment of Silence | DTP Entertainment | Adventure | 2004 | Windows | |
| Secret of the Lost Link | elkware | Adventure | 2004 | J2ME | |
| The X-Files: The Deserter | elkware | Adventure | 2004 | J2ME | Part of The X-Files franchise |
| Verliebt in Berlin | DTP Entertainment | Adventure | 2005 | Windows | Part of the Verliebt in Berlin franchise; co-developed with Radon Labs |
| Overclocked: A History of Violence | Anaconda (DTP) | Adventure | 2008 | Windows | |
| 15 Days | DTP Entertainment | Adventure | 2009 | Windows | |
| The Mystery of the Ghost Ship | DTP Entertainment | Hidden object game | 2010 | Windows |
For all of its games, House of Tales used a proprietary development environment called Inca ("Interactive Narrator's Companion for Authoring"), which includes a graphical user interface for building the infrastructure of a game and an adventure-specific scripting language.[3]
Awards
The Moment of Silence was voted Adventure of the Year in 2004 by PC Games and the website Adventure-Treff. Overclocked received the Innovation Award at the 2007 Deutscher Computerspielpreis.[2]
See also
- Daedalic Entertainment – German adventure game developer
- King Art Games – German adventure game developer
- Frogwares – adventure game developer from the same period
- Pendulo Studios – adventure game developer popular in Germany during the same time
References
- ^ "Firmenportrait auf Mediabiz.de". Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Meldung auf Gamezone.de". 7 June 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ^ "Feature auf Adventure-Treff.de". Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.