Ankama Games

ANKAMA is a French company founded in 2001 Group, which is active in the arts and digital design. Your original main activity was the design of websites for external clients. Meanwhile ANKAMA is mainly known for its online role-playing game Dofus. The name of the company goes back to the first names of the three founders of the company, Anthony Roux, Camille Chafer and Emmanuel Darras, back: Anthony, chamomile, MAnu. ANKAMA is located in a former textile factory in Roubaix ( near Lille ) in northern France and currently employs approximately 400 employees.

History

2001 was the establishment of Ankama Web service provider in the field of internet sites. 2003 saw the launch of the development of Dofus, the first computer game company, a combat -based at the start of game that was over time to an online role-playing game. After nearly a year in beta testing phase Dofus was published on the Internet and has since been regularly updated. In the same year Dofus won the award for the best play and the audience prize at the Flash festival in Paris. In September 2005, the English version of the game appeared. Ankama starts working on his second feature, Dofus - Arena, a combat based game. The in-house publishing, Ankama Editions, is founded.

A new project, Wakfu, a continuation of Dofus, was developed in 2006, while Dofus was awarded as the best game and the audience award at the Flash festival in Seattle (USA), Audience Award at the Independent Game Festival in San Jose (USA ), price media for youth. In 2007, a subsidiary, Ankama Animation founded. It will mainly deal with the production of a TV series to Wakfu. The alpha version of Wakfu will be presented at the Japan Expo, and new extensions for Dofus published. The first German Server Nehra is opened for DOFUS. The TV series was broadcast in 2008 on the Wakfu channel France 3 in France. Ankama Play is founded, developed a subsidiary, the console games. His first project for Xbox Live Arcade, Islands of Wakfu, is being developed in partnership with Microsoft. In 2009 a branch in Nakano, a district of Tokyo, opened, be carried out in the animation projects.

Ankama presented in 2009 on a stand at the Gamescom in Cologne and presented before DOFUS 2.0, a graphical and technological update for DOFUS. In April 2010 appeared Slage, a game for the first time did not appear in Flash, but in 3D. A new extension of Dofus appears and Ankama has announced a collaboration with the German publisher TOKYOPOP, who will publish comics and mangas in German language.

Business

Ankama Web

Ankama Web is a communications agency founded, interactive 2001, which deals with the design and production of websites for external clients and the development of interactive marketing solutions.

Ankama Games

Ankama Games is a company founded in 2003, which mainly deals with the development of online games.

• Dofus is the first game of Ankama and at the same time also the first programmed in Flash MMORPG.
• Dofus Arena, whose public beta testing began in early 2006, is the tournament version of Dofus: The combat system has been maintained in the game, but the players must put together within a given budget, a team of fighters, equip and in tournaments against other players compete.
• Wakfu is also a MMORPG taking place 1000 years after Dofus. Players have the opportunity, shape the society in which they play themselves.
• Wakfu - the Guardians, a browser game, which is related to the Wakfu TV series. Players have the opportunity to take on different missions in the enemies of the TV series.

A game that is still in development, is Slage, the first game of Ankama, which makes use of 3D graphics.

Ankama Editions

Ankama Editions is the publishing house founded in 2005, the Ankama Group and published mainly in-house comics, mangas and artbooks. The most successful publications of the publishing house are closely related to the universes of Ankama Games, such as DOFUS Artbooks ( 3 volumes), the DOFUS Manga Series ( 12 volumes), the Pandala Comic (3 series ) and the DOFUS Monster series ( 3 volumes). The first German Manga of the publisher, Dofus Monster: The Black Knight, was published in April 2008.

Ankama animation

Ankama Animation is a company founded in 2007 that produces animated films and TV series. Their first project is Wakfu, a TV series of 52 episodes of 26 minutes each.

Ankama press

The company Ankama Press, founded in 2007 published the newspapers and magazines of Ankama. This includes, among other things DOFUS Mag, which reports on news from the game universes of Ankama, and IG Mag, a general magazine about computer games.

Ankama Play

Ankama Play is a 2008 based, independent development studio for console video games, and a company of Ankama Group. The first project of Ankama Play 's " Islands of Wakfu ", a game that will be released for the Xbox 360.

Kalmeo

Kalmeo is in Lyon, France, settled and developed applications for mobile phones, such as DOFUS Pocket, discuss in the DOFUS players together in chat mode, determine the characteristics of their character, go to the merchant mode, guilds, and also manage their pets can eat in the game.

Other products

Ankama has a partnership with the company Upper Deck, in which a collectible card game Wakfu TCG was created since 2009. The first set was published in French in October 2009 and consists of 320 cards. Goodies like stuffed animals, T -shirts, mobile phone chains, mouse pads are also produced by Ankama.

From 2009-2013 Ankama edited the video game magazine IG Magazine.