Bongfish

Bongfish GmbH, credited as Bongfish, is a video game developer and publisher in Graz, Austria. Originally founded as a start-up[1] in the science incubator of Graz University of Technology[2], the company was established in its current form in 2007.[3][4]

Bongfish Logo

History

Bongfish published its first video game, Stoked for Xbox 360, in 2009. A year later, 2010, Harms Way was the first title by Bongfish developed for Microsoft Studios. This was followed up in 2012 with the title Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect on the Xbox 360 console for Red Bull Media House[5] and Microsoft Studios. With Motocross Madness, a third title was published for the Xbox 360 in 2013.

In 2015, Bongfish started a co-development partnership with Wargaming to create game-play features and content for their MMO World of Tanks and their Frontline game mode.[6] Together with Flashman Games LLC,[7] Bongfish acquired the rights to produce Smurfs' Village a social mobile game based on the Smurfs franchise in 2016.

In 2019, Bongfish founded Blackshark.ai, a sub-division of the company focusing on geospatial analytics and spatial computing.[8]

Titles published
gollark: You know, actual JS bundlers do exist?
gollark: That sounds kind of spaghetti-codey.
gollark: You made a bash script generate JS? WHY?!
gollark: If so, just swap the `and` for `or`.
gollark: <@178235642327728128> Do you want to do whatever is after the `if` if *any* is None?

References
  1. "TU Graz - Startupmap". lampz.tugraz.at. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  2. "Bong Fish". Science Park Graz. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  3. Austrian Economic Chambers. "Game Development Studie 2019. Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der österreichischen Spieleentwicklungsbranche. (in German)" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  4. red, steiermark ORF at (2019-12-13). "Graz als „Hotspot" der Spieleentwickler". steiermark.ORF.at (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  5. "Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  6. "World of Tanks Team Up with Bongfish to Create New Game Mode | Press Releases | News | Wargaming". wargaming.com. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  7. "Games". Flashman Games. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  8. "blackshark.ai". Retrieved 2019-12-17.

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