Remote control productions

remote control productions
Gmbh
Industry Video Game
Founded 2005
Founder Hendrik Lesser
Headquarters Munich, Germany
Number of employees
30+
Website http://r-control.de/

remote control productions GmbH (rcp) is a Munich-based, independent and internationally operating production house for entertainment software. Under the wings of the remote control family, rcp accommodates Europe’s biggest merger of indie-games developers, a network consisting of 150 employees, spread on 14 games-companies that are located in Germany, Austria.[1] and Finland.[2] Along with its developer studios, rcp already produced more than 35 games for (most) diverse platforms, such as the successful and multi award-winning Kickstarter-project Son of Nor, which was developed by stillalive Studios, as well as the 2014 German Computer Games Award (GCGA) nominees Bernd das Brot und die Unmöglichen, John Woo’s Bloodstroke, Warstory - Europe in Flames, and the 2012 GCGA winner Word Wonders.[3]

So far, the mobile RPG Angry Birds Epic, which was jointly developed by remote control family studio Chimera Entertainment and published in association with Rovio Entertainment, that was released in June 2014 on iOS, Windows Phone and Android, was the biggest success on an international level. Since the release, Angry Birds Epic has been downloaded more than 60 Million times.

remote control productions is founding member of the Games Bavaria Munich e. V.,[4] as well as member of the Videospielkultur e. V., which was co-founded by rcp’s managing director, IGDA-member, G.A.M.E. board member and EGDF-president[5] Hendrik Lesser.[6]

rcp already worked with partners such as ProSiebenSat.1 Digital, Rovio Entertainment, Disney, Bigpoint, Ubisoft, Ravensburger Digital, dtp Entertainment, Koch Media/Deep Silver, chillingo, DeNA, Spil Games and other companies.

History

In 2005, the production house was founded as ML Enterprises GmbH under the leadership of Hendrik Lesser and Marc Möhring. remote control productions’ focus lies on the support of developers, publishers, corporations and institutions for mediation, realisation and production of game projects, as well as financing, consulting, development and coaching of start ups and studios from the games industry.

In 2006, Hendrik Lesser founded the developer studio Chimera Entertainment along with Alexander Kehr and Christian Kluckner, which meanwhile became the biggest studio of the remote control productions developer network with more than 40 employees. In September 2008, ML Enterprises was renamed to remote control productions.[7] In the same year, remote control productions and Chimera Entertainment produced their first own game project: the real-time strategy game Windchaser (Windows).

In the meantime, remote control productions co-founded under the aggregation of the rcp developer family further studios such as Brightside Games (2010),[8] Wolpertinger Games (2010),[9] it Matters Games (2012)[10] and expanded the developer merger for the studios TG Nord (2012),[11] stillalive studios (2012)[12] and Zeitland (2012).[13]

remote control productions established with GamesInFlames also an own publishing company in the year 2010.[14] In late 2014, the subsidiary GAMIFY now! was founded,[15] which is specialized in gamification and serious games.

The Austrian developers DoubleSmith, REDOX Game Labs,[16] and the Nuremberg-based developer studio NeoBird[17] are part of the remote control productions developer family since 2014 and 2015, respectively.

In the beginning of 2016, remote control productions successfully expanded to Kotka, Finland. The experienced industry veteran and International Game Developer Association (IGDA) chairman Jyri Partanen was acquired as managing director.[18]

Produces Games

From 2005 till 2007, remote control productions supported Collision Studios’ developer team during the development of Red Ocean, as well as the production of Legend: Hand of God with publisher dtp entertainment, and Crashday along with publisher Atari Europe. In 2008, remote control productions produced their first big game-project with Chimera Entertainment: the real time strategy game Windchaser (Windows). Many more Chimera Entertainment productions followed. In association with Bigpoint, remote control productions and Chimera Entertainment developed the strategy game Warstory - Europe in Flames, a Microsoft Silverlight browser MMO, which takes place in the time of World War II.

Among other things, releases such as Coreplay’s Ion Assault and Brightside Games’ Zeit², one of the first Xbox Live Arcade games from Germany, as well as Chimera Entertainment’s Happy Hills (iOS) and the GCGA-winner Demolition Dash followed in 2011.[19] Moreover, remote control productions participated in the production of the first interactive audiobook, Audigent’s Raumzeit Folge 1: Der verbotene Sektor. In 2012, several Chimera Entertainment productions followed - Mission: Genesis, Skylancer and Word Wonders, which has won the GCGA in the category “Best Mobile Game Of The Year”[20] in 2013.

Along with stillalive studios, remote control productions was able to successfully complete a Kickstarter campaign for the game Son of Nor in May 2013.[21] As a result, more than 150,000 Dollars have been funded. In April 2015, the game was released for PC, Mac and Linux on Steam. In June 2014, remote control productions released the Angry Birds game Angry Birds Epic in co-production with developer Chimera Entertainment and partner Rovio Entertainment.[22] The mobile RPG, which is based on the popular “Angry Birds” brand, emerged into a global mega hit and has been downloaded more than 50 Million times.[23]

The Hidden object game Mystery of Neuschwanstein, developed by Chimera Entertainment and funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, followed in February 2015[24]

Year Game Platform Genre Team Partner
2006 Red Ocean PC Ego-Shooter Collision Studios Anaconda
2008 Windchaser PC Strategy-RPG Chimera Entertainment dtp interactive
2009 Wiesn Fever iOS Puzzle Chimera Entertainment -
2009 Farm Fever iOS Puzzle Chimera Entertainment -
2009 Ion Assault XBLA Shooter Chimera Entertainment RTL Interactive
2009 Gehirntraining mit Dr. Kawashima PC, Mac Puzzle Chimera Entertainment -
2010 Memory (HD) iOS Puzzle Chimera Entertainment Ravensburger Digital
2010 Warstory - Europe in Flames Browser Strategy-MMO Chimera Entertainment Bigpoint
2010 Greed: Black Border PC Hack’n’Slash Clockstone Headup Games
2011 Zeit² PC, XBLA Shooter Brightside Game Ubisoft
2011 Demolition Dash Android, iOS Jump'n'run Chimera Entertainment Dreamfab
2011 Happy Hills iOS Physical Puzzle Chimera Entertainment Dreamfab
2012 Skylancer - Battle for Horizon Browser Strategy-MMO Chimera Entertainment Pro7Games
2011 Bridge Constructor Android, iOS, PC Physical Puzzle Clockstone Headup Games
2012 Word Wonders - The Tower of Babel iOS Word-Puzzle Chimera Entertainment Dreamfab
2012 Sara’s Cooking Class Android, iOS Cooking-App Chimera Entertainment Spil Games
2012 Towers & Dungeons iOS Towerbuilder Chimera Entertainment Ravensburger Digital
2012 Mission: Genesis Browser Strategy-MMO Chimera Entertainment dtp interactive
2012 Happy Hills Android Physical Puzzle Chimera Entertainment The9
2013 Rally the World Android, Browser, iOS Racer Brightside Games Aperto/VW
2013 Warstory Europe Browser Strategy-MMO Chimera Entertainment RNTS
2013 My Dolphin Show Android, iOS Arcade itMatters Games Spil Games
2013 Sheep Shack iOS Action-Puzzle Brightside Games Just A Game
2013 Hoppetee! iOS, Android Jump'n'run Chimera Entertainment Brigit Stock Verlag
2013 Sidekick Cycle iOS, Android Downhill Racer itMatters Games GGI
2013 Little Islands iOS Puzzle Chimera Entertainment GamesInFlames
2013 Happy Hills 2 iOS Physical Puzzle Chimera Entertainment Dreamfab / Thumbstar
2013 MS COPAKTIV iOS, Android App Chimera Entertainment / Zeitland TEVA GmbH
2014 John Woo’s Bloodstroke iOS, Android Action Chimera Entertainment / Wolpertinger Games Moonshark / Chillingo
2014 Aloha Paradise Hotel Browser Business simulation game TG Nord GamesInFlames
2014 netwars — The Butterfly Attack — Episode 1 iOS, Android Interactive Graphic Novel Chimera Entertainment Filmtank / Bastei Luebbe
2014 Crash! UFO iOS, Android Endless RunnerChimera Entertainment DeNA
2014 Angry Birds Epic iOS, Windows Phone, Android RPG Chimera Entertainment Rovio Entertainment
2014 GTS Driver Browser Racer it Matters Games Porsche
2014 ONE TEVA (internal) iOS, AndroidApp Chimera Entertainment / Zeitland TEVA GmbH
2014 ratiopharm Gute Reise iOS, AndroidHealt App TG Nord TEVA GmbH
2014 Bernd das Brot und die Unmöglichen PC Adventure Chimera Entertainment deepsilver / Bumm Game
2014 Aktiv mit MS iOS, AndroidHealt App Zeitland / Wolpertinger Games TEVA GmbH
2014 Firewater iOS, Android Endless Runner Doublesmith B!
2015 DogHotel iOS, Android Simulation it Matters Games Tivola
2015 Mystery of Neuschwanstein Android, iOS, PC Hidden Object Adventure Chimera Entertainment Astragon
2015 Son of Nor PC, Mac, Linux RPG stillalive studios Viva Media
2015 Impossible Super Ninja iOS, Android Action / Arcade Doublesmith Thumbspire
2016 CatHotel iOS, Android Simulation it Matters Games Tivola

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