Techland

Techland

Type	Public
Industry	Video games
Founded	1991
Headquarters	Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland
Key people	Paweł Marchewka
Products	Call of Juarez series Dead Island Series
Employees	231
Website	www.techland.pl

Techland is a Polish video game developer, founded in 1991 by Paweł Marchewka. They are most known for developing Call of Juarez and its prequel Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Western-themed first-person shooters. They also produced Dead Island, a first person survival horror zombie brawler.

History

Techland debuted as a computer software distributor. The first internally developed product, Crime Cities, was published in 2000. The date marks the consolidation of the core development team whose collaborative efforts resulted in the creation of the proprietary Chrome Engine in the year 2003. The first game based on the in-house engine which established Techland as a widely-recognized software developer was a sci-fi first person shooter, Chrome. The critical acclaim and commercial success of the original title were the grounds for the sequel entitled Chrome: Specforce, released in 2005. Alongside the first person shooters, Techland developed rally simulation games Xpand Rally and Xpand Rally Xtreme. In the year 2006 a VW licensed arcade driving game, GTI Racing, was added to Techland's development team portfolio.

Since its first appearance in the year 2003, Chrome Engine, has been under constant development and in 2006 it evolved into ChromeEngine 4, which is also undergoing compatibility for the PlayStation 3. The potential of the SDK is demonstrated in the latest of Techland's titles, Call of Juarez. The game received worldwide recognition and reinforced Techland's position. Call of Juarez is currently the company's most recognized product and the first title to fully support DirectX 10.

Games developed

Below is the list of video games developed by Techland.

Year	Title	Platform(s)
		PS3	PS4	Win	X360	XBOne
1998	Gnome Land Belfegora	No	No	Yes	No	No
1998	Chess 98	No	No	Yes	No	No
1999	Speedway 99	No	No	Yes	No	No
2000	Crime Cities	No	No	Yes	No	No
2001	Chess 2001	No	No	Yes	No	No
2001	Mission: Humanity	No	No	Yes	No	No
2001	Speedway Championships	No	No	Yes	No	No
2001	Survival: The Ultimate Challenge	No	No	Yes	No	No
2001	Bridge 3000	No	No	Yes	No	No
2001	Pet Racer	No	No	Yes	No	No
2002	Pet Soccer	No	No	Yes	No	No
2002	Indiana Jack	No	No	Yes	No	No
2002	FIM Speedway Grand Prix	No	No	Yes	No	No
2003	Chrome	No	No	Yes	No	No
2003	Hen on Fire: Kurminator	No	No	Yes	No	No
2004	Xpand Rally	No	No	Yes	No	No
2005	Chrome: SpecForce	No	No	Yes	No	No
2006	Crazy Soccer Mundial	No	No	Yes	No	No
2006	FIM Speedway Grand Prix 2	No	No	Yes	No	No
2006	GTI Racing	No	No	Yes	No	No
2006	Call of Juarez	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
2006	Xpand Rally Xtreme	No	No	Yes	No	No
2008	FIM Speedway Grand Prix 3	No	No	Yes	No	No
2008	Nikita: The Mystery of the Hidden Treasure	No	No	Yes	No	No
2008	Nikita: Wild Cars	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Speedway League	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
2009	Karaoke for Fun: Radio Gold Hits	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Karaoke for Fun: King of Pop	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Karaoke for Fun: Pop	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Karaoke for Fun: Rock	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Karaoke for Fun: 50 Hits	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Karaoke for Fun: 80 Hits	No	No	Yes	No	No
2010	SingSing	No	No	Yes	No	No
2010	Nail'd	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
2011	FIM Speedway Grand Prix 4	No	No	Yes	No	No
2011	Call of Juarez: The Cartel	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
2011	Dead Island	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
2012	Mad Riders	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Dead Island: Riptide	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Call of Juarez: Gunslinger	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
2013	Hellraid	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
2014	Dying Light	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Cancelled and delayed projects

• Chrome 2 (on hold)
• Day of the Mutants (cancelled)
• Warhound (on hold)

External links

• Official website
• Techland at MobyGames