Radon Labs

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The Radon Labs GmbH was a development studio for computer games in Berlin. The company was created in 1995 from one of several teams in the " Terra Tools" in Potsdam- Babelsberg. In 2000, the formation of a GmbH was. Radon Labs was a founding member of the Berlin launched on 6 March 2004 Association of German game developer (GAME ). Radon Labs presented on 12 May 2010 to file for bankruptcy with the District Court of Charlottenburg. Shortly thereafter, Radon Labs was acquired by Hamburg browser game provider Bigpoint and fully integrated into the Berlin development studio.

History

Radon Labs was founded in 2000. After initial successes with the first publications Urban Assault and Project Nomads, the developers a computer game license for the German pen & paper role-playing game in 2001 could secure Das Schwarze Auge. After completing a publishing contract with the Hamburg-based game publisher dtp entertainment began in 2005 into full production for a new DSA computer role-playing game. 2008 with The Dark Eye: Drakensang published Radon Labs ' first title on the basis of this license for the PC. Initially only available in Germany, the 2009 game was also published in other languages ​​around the world. 2010 appeared the successor Drakensang: The River of Time, which is located in time before the action of the first part. In addition, Radon Labs accepts numerous smaller commercial work, such as the companion game to Telenovela Love in Berlin or educational games.

Radon Labs was certified developer for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and Nintendo DS. The company operated a second location in hall. In May 2010, Radon Labs was forced to declare bankruptcy due to problems with investors. The Hamburg-based browser game provider Bigpoint took over shortly thereafter Radon Labs. The studio was then fully integrated into Bigpoint Berlin branch. Bigpoint Berlin is now working on Drakensang Online, but without DSA license.

Awards

  • Project Nomads in 2001 was honored at the Countrys Games ECTS exhibition with the award for Best PC Game of the fair.
  • In 2005, Radon Labs received the coveted Children Software Price TOMMI for the learning game " GENIUS - Task Force biology "
  • 2009 The Dark Eye: Drakensang the inaugural German Computer Game Award of the Federal Government in the categories " Best German game" and "Best Youth Game " award.

Graphics Engine

Radon Labs was the developer of the open source graphics engine The Nebula Device, which in all the major publications of the company came into use (including Drakensang, Treasure Iceland ).

Released Games

  • Urban Assault (1998)
  • Project Nomads (2001)
  • Torres ( 2003)
  • Genius companies Physics ( 2004)
  • Genius Task Force biology (2005)
  • Sport Fishing Professional ( 2005)
  • Horse and Pony: My Riding Stables (2005)
  • My veterinary practice (2005)
  • Dragon Hunters (2005)
  • That's Life (2005)
  • Moorhuhn Action - Approaching (2005)
  • Horse and Pony: Best Friends - My Horse ( 2006)
  • My Animal School (2006)
  • Horses band - Wrong game at the Horse Show (2006)
  • Riding Star 2 (2006)
  • My veterinary practice in Australia ( 2007)
  • Riding Star 3 DS (2007)
  • Treasure Iceland (2008)
  • My veterinary practice in Australia NDS (2008)
  • PowerQuiz Duden (2008)
  • The Dark Eye: Drakensang (Release 1 August 2008)
  • Langenscheidt vocabulary Star English - For beginners (Release April 17, 2009 )
  • PowerQuiz Sport Edition DSF (Release August 6, 2009 )
  • PowerQuiz GEOlino (Release August 6, 2009 )
  • Langenscheidt vocabulary Star English - ( Release September 18, 2009 ) For Advanced
  • Drakensang: The River of Time (Release February 19, 2010 )
  • Future Wars (Release March 25, 2010 )
  • Crazy Quiz (Release May 2010)
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