Chimera Entertainment

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Chimera Entertainment GmbH
Type GmbH
Industry Video games
Founded2006
FounderChristian Kluckner
Hendrik Lesser
Alexander Kehr
Headquarters Munich, Germany
Key people
Christian Kluckner, Managing & Development Director
Hendrik Lesser, Managing Director
Alexander Kehr, Creative Director
Christian Dreher, Art Director
Bernhard Falk, Head of Project Management
Number of employees
70 [1]  (2023)
Website www.chimera-entertainment.de

Chimera Entertainment is a German video game developer based in Munich. The company is part of the developer family of Remote Control Productions. As of April 2021, the company employs 70 people. [2]

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History

Chimera Entertainment was founded by the Mediadesign University of Applied Science (short MDH) graduates Alexander Kehr and Christian Kluckner together with Hendrik Lesser and his production house remote control productions (short RCP) in Munich, Germany in 2006.

Kehr and Kluckner were among first game design graduates of the Munich-based design academy MDH. Kehr, having developed board and card games since he was six years old, and Kluckner already having four years of experience as a programmer, started working together while still attending the university and created the base for a team of young graduates eager to work within the games industry. [3] The team of remote control productions provided the framework while the company's Managing Director Lesser took over a part of the management of Chimera Entertainment.

In May 2007 Chimera Entertainment received the LARA Start Up Award from the Bavarian Secretary of Commerce. The first project of Chimera Entertainment was Windchaser (PC), a real time tactical role-playing game set in Ensai, an original fantasy world created by Kehr himself.

June 2009 saw the release of Train your Brain with Dr. Kawashima, created in cooperation with BBG Entertainment. This brain training application for PC and Mac is based on the studies of Japanese Neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima. In cooperation with Bigpoint Games Chimera Entertainment released Warstory - Europe in Flames, a Microsoft Silverlight Browsergame featuring real time battles set in World War II.

In the following years Chimera released several other games on various platforms with Angry Birds Epic (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) being the latest game made by Chimera Entertainment in cooperation with Rovio.

In 2020, the bavarian FFF Awards Committee announced that it would fund a game by Chimera Entertainment with the working title "Realms at War" with EUR 500,000. [4] During the "Geeked Week" 2022, Netflix announced the mobile game titled "Shadow and Bones: Destinies", which is in development by Chimera Entertainment and is planned to be released in 2023 for Netflix subscribers. [5]

Releases (chronological)

Chimera's debut title called Windchaser (PC) was published in May 2008, [6] followed by several commissioned projects including Train Your Brain With Dr. Kawashima (PC, Mac), memory HD, Demolition Dash and Happy Hills (all iOS). In 2010, Chimera Entertainment launched its first MMO browsergame Warstory – Europe in Flames in cooperation with Bigpoint. [7] In 2012 Chimera Entertainment released in collaboration with different publishing partners the MMO browser games Skylancer: Battle for Horizon and Mission: Genesis and Word Wonders, Sara’s Cooking Class and Towers & Dungeons on mobile platforms. The latest game developed by Chimera in cooperation with Rovio is Angry Birds Epic (iOS, Android, Windows Phone).

YearGamePlatform(s)Genre
2008Wind Chaser Windows Strategy RPG
2009Farm Fever iOS Puzzler
2009Train your Brain with Dr.Kawashima Windows, Mac Puzzler
2009Wiesn Fever iOS Puzzler
2010Memory (HD) iOS Puzzler
2010Warstory - Europe in Flames Browser Strategy MMO
2011Demolition Dash iOS Runner
2011Happy Hills iOS, Android Physics Puzzler
2012Towers & Dungeons iOS Towerbuilder
2012Sara's Cooking Class iOS Cooking App
2012Word Wonders iOS, Windows Word Puzzle
2012Skylancer Browser Strategy MMO
2012Mission: Genesis Browser Strategy MMO
2013Hoppetee! iOS Runner
2013Happy Hills 2 iOS Physics Puzzler
2014 John Woo's Bloodstroke iOS, Android Action
2014 Angry Birds Epic iOS, Windows Phone, Android RPG
2017Angry Birds Evolution iOS, Android RPG

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