Kamibox

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Kamibox
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FounderPhillip Stollenmayer
Headquarters
Germany
Website kamibox.de

Kamibox is an independent German video game developer founded by Philipp Stollenmayer. Stollenmayer is the sole employee of the company, which creates almost exclusively mobile games. Some of Kamibox's games have received awards for their design, including an Apple Design Award. Kamibox games often have a philosophical element to them, such as see/saw and Sometimes You Die, which explore the concept of death in video games.

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Stollenmayer also designs papercraft models under the Kamibox branding and had done for some time before he started producing games. Stollenmayer's background in paper modelling often lends a more experimental lean to Kamibox's games.

Origin

Kamibox was originally founded by Philipp Stollenmayer as a papercraft company but developed into a video game designer after Stollenmayer learned to code. The name Kamibox comes from the Japanese word for paper, kami ( or かみ). [1]

The studio is run solely by Stollenmayer. Born in 1991, he now lives in Riedstadt, Germany. [2] Before creating games, Stollenmayer took a bachelor's degree in communication design at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences from 2011 and a master's degree in information design in Würzburg. [3] It was during the third semester [4] of his communication design course that he first started coding games using Lua, [5] [1] at the age of 21. [6] [7]

Games and applications

Solar 2D's logo Solar2D logo.png
Solar 2D's logo

Stollenmayer codes all the games released by Kamibox in Solar2D (formerly CoronaSDK) [5] although he has experimented with Unity, [8] Xcode and Swift. [6] Kamibox games are two-dimensional and diverse in their genres, with an emphasis on original and eccentric graphic designs inspired by his background in papercraft. As of 2022, Kamibox has produced or contributed to 25 games that are (or have been) available to download: [9] [10]

Papercraft models

A papercraft trebuchet made by Stollenmayer (designed by Sheila Mertens) Papercraft trebuchet.jpg
A papercraft trebuchet made by Stollenmayer (designed by Sheila Mertens)

Stollenmayer has designed papercraft models under the Kamibox name since at least 2007. [76] His first model was a Nintendo Wii; it was drawn by hand rather than using 3D modelling software (as all his future models were). [77] The papercraft models are released on both the Kamibox website and Instructables for free. [77] On Instructables, Stollenmayer has won or placed highly in papercraft competitions, including the grand prize of the 2013 Craft Contest. [78]

Awards and nominations

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