Sixteen Tons Entertainment
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Founder | Ralph Stock |
| Headquarters | , Germany |
Key people | Jan Richter (CEO) |
Number of employees | 20+ |
| Parent | Phoenix Games (2020–present) |
| Website | sixteen-tons.de |
Sixteen Tons Entertainment is a German computer game developer company based in Tübingen and Berlin, which emerged from the brand label of the Tübingen game developer Promotion Software. The company was founded in 1993 by Ralph Stock.[1] Sixteen Tons Entertainment became known through the Emergency series and Mad TV.
History
[edit]Sixteen Tons Entertainment was originally a brand label of the Tübingen company Promotion Software. In the 1990s, advertising adventures were developed in the studio, as well as indirect successors to the strategy game Mad TV (Caribbean Disaster, Mad News) and Hurra Germany, a game for the 1994 federal election.
In 1998, Emergency was released, the first in a series of real-time strategy games. Further successors to the game series followed until 2017, for the PC and mobile platforms. In 2018, Emergency HQ, the first free-to-play game for the series, was released.
Between 2004 and 2009, board game conversions to games by Reiner Knizia (Keltis, Simply Genial) and educational software for children to the Willi-wills-wissen television series followed.
In 2009, a second studio was founded in Babelsberg near Potsdam. The Potsdam studio moved to Berlin in 2017.[2]
On January 15, 2020, it was announced that Sixteen Tons Entertainment was taken over by Phoenix Games.[3] Stock remained the studio manager until August 2024, when he stepped down and was replaced by the former head of product and design for ZeptoLab, Jan Richter.[4]
Development Studios
[edit]- Sixteen Tons Studio Tübingen, Gründungsstudio
- Sixteen Tons Studio Berlin (formed in 2009)
Games
[edit]- Emergency series:
- Emergency: Fighters for Life
- Emergency 2: The Ultimate Fight for Life
- Emergency 3: Mission Life
- Emergency 4: Global Fighters for Life
- Emergency 5
- Emergency Police
- Emergency 2012: Die Welt am Abgrund
- Emergency 2013
- Emergency 2014
- Emergency 2016
- Emergency 2017
- Emergency 20
- Emergency DS
- Emergency HQ
- Emergency (2023)
- Caribbean Disaster
- Hurra Deutschland
- Mad News
- Mad News – Extrablatt
- Mad TV
- Der Stein der Weisen
- The Show (2007)
- Ben Hur Live – Das legendäre Wagenrennen
- Einfach Genial 2.0
- Keltis: Der Weg der Steine
- Gotcha! Extreme Paintball
- Willi wills wissen series:
- Willi wills wissen: Feuerwehr im Einsatz
- Willi wills wissen: Notruf Retter im Einsatz
- Willi wills wissen: SOS – Rettung auf See
- Willi wills wissen: Bei den Wikingern
- Willi und die Wunder dieser Welt – Expedition 1: Megacity & Dschungel
- Willi und die Wunder dieser Welt – Expedition 2: Arktis & Wüste
References
[edit]- ^ "Sixteen Tons Entertainment – About Us". Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ "Sixteen Tons Entertainment – About Us". Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ "Phoenix Games kauft "Emergency"-Entwickler". Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ Dealessandri, Marie (1 August 2024). "Jan Richter appointed CEO of Sixteen Tons Entertainment". GamesIndustry.biz.