- Massive Development
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Massive Development Former type 1994 private
2000 subsidiary of JoWooDIndustry Computer and video games Founded October 1994 Defunct May 2005 Headquarters Mannheim, Germany Key people Alexander Jorias, Ingo Frick, Oliver Weirich (founders)[1] Products Video games Website www.massive.de (archived version) Massive Development was a computer and video game developer based in Mannheim, Germany. The company was active between 1994 and 2005 and is primarily known for their submarine Video games Archimedean Dynasty and AquaNox.
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History
Massive Development was founded 1994 by Alexander Jorias, Ingo Frick and Oliver Weirich in Mannheim. First product was the porting of a Amiga game to the PC platform, The Settlers, 1994. 1996 followed the successful[2][3] Science-Fiction Submarine RPG Archimedean Dynasty, published by BlueByte.[4]
In December 2000 Massive Development was bought by the Austrian publisher JoWooD.[5] Until 2001 Massive Development worked on a own game engine, called KRASS-Engine, which was used for their next title AquaNox.[6] It was one of the first games which make use of the new capabilities of Graphic cards with T&L, what was the reason why AquaNox was also in Product bundling with new graphic cards. In 2003 the second part AquaNox was published.[7] In May 2005 the development studio was closed by JoWooD,[8] also the development of AquaNox 2: The Angel's Tears for the PS2 was dropped.[9]
Two of the original founders, Alexander Jorias und Ingo Frick, working now on a 3D-Chat with Social Networking Features, Club Cooee.[10][11]
Products
- Die Siedler (1994) - international published as Serf City: Life is Feudal, porting to the PC[12]
- Schleichfahrt (1996) - international published as Archimedean Dynasty
- KRASS Engine (2001) - base of AquaNox and SpellForce[13]
- AquaNox (2001)
- AquaNox 2: Revelation (2003)
- AquaMark
External links
References
- ^ "Massive ist krass!" (in german). KrawallGamingNetwork. 2000-11-24. http://www.krawall.de/web/AquaNox/interview/id,5115/s,,. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
- ^ Powerplay 12/96: Schleichfahrt - archived version on Kultboy.de (german)
- ^ "Schleichfahrt - Presseberichte - Deutschland" (in german). massive.de. 2001-02-21. Archived from the original on 2001-02-21. http://web.archive.org/web/20010221012951/www.massive.de/project_sf/sf_press_d.html. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
- ^ (pdf) Schleichfahrt Bedienungsanleitung. Blue Byte Software GmbH. 2000. http://corny.silentdepth.com/Downloads/sfmanual.pdf. Retrieved 2010-11-17.
- ^ "JoWooD: Übernimmt Massive Development". massive.de. 2000-12-14. Archived from the original on 2001-02-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20010203192600/http://www.massive.de/news/news_d.shtml. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Technische Eigenschaften Krass Engine". massive.de. 2001-04-12. Archived from the original on 2001-04-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20010412075537/www.massive.de/project_kr/krass_tec_d.html. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ Minkley, Johnny (2002-09-24). "Interview: AquaNox 2 surfaces" (in englisch). computerandvideogames.com. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=80956. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
- ^ JoWooD schließt Studio - medibiz.de (Rottenmann, 2005-05-30, german)
- ^ Verena Vlajo: Stop of Development "Aquanox 2: The Angel’s Tears". 23. May 2008.
- ^ "Interview mit Stefan Lemper von Club Cooee" (in german). gamebizz.de. 19. April 2010. http://gamebizz.de/interview-mit-stefan-lemper-von-club-cooee. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Alexander Jorias" (in german). xing.com. 2011-01-16. http://www.xing.com/profile/Alexander_Jorias. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Umsetzung Siedler 1 auf PC" (in german). massive.de. 2002-08-17. Archived from the original on 2002-08-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20020817060106/http://www.massive.de/german/games_siedler1_ger.html. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ Aihoshi, Richard (2003-12-09). "SpellForce - The Order of Dawn Interview, Part 2 , Page 2" (in englisch). RPG Vault. http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/448/448289p2.html. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
Categories:- Video game companies of Germany
- Video game companies established in 1994
- Video game developers
- Companies disestablished in 2005
- Defunct video game companies
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