Hamburg is traditionally a stronghold of the video game industry. Large, internationally successful companies have their place here, as do small, independent development teams. In this article, we present three gaming startups.
Rockfish Games
Rockfish Games is an independent game studio founded in 2014 in Hamburg, Germany. It specializes in Unreal Engine 4 action RPG video games for PCs and consoles. With over 20 years of experience as entrepreneurs in the 3D graphics and mobile gaming industry, founders Michael Schade and Christian Lohr have built Rockfish Games into a studio with 25 developers. They achieved great success with the space shooters Eversprace and Everspace 2, which were funded through Kickstarter campaigns.
bad monkee
Founded in 2018, bad monkee is a Hamburg-based company that develops apps for iPhone and iPad. The startup is led by experts in different media: games, mobile, TV, movies, music and technology. Currently, they develop games and entertainment apps and mainly rely on native development with Cocoa and various opensource frameworks. Their portfolio includes such titles as Goal1, My Diamonds, Giana Sisters and Fanta4 Pinball.
Sviper
Founded in 2016, Sviper is a game development studio that produces both their own games as well as games in collaboration with other industry partners. Their latest release is Super Spell Heroes, a real-time strategic PvP game in which wizards duel with elemental powers. Other projects are currently in development. Sviper is backed by well-known investors such as Rocket Internet, MTG and several business angels and is managed in Hamburg by Ole Schaper and Mark Buchholz.
