Frozenbyte
Frozenbyte Inc. is a Finnish video game developer founded in 2001 and based in Helsinki, Finland. The company has now grown to a professional team of almost 100 people, with its first commercial game being Shadowgrounds for Microsoft Windows. Both Shadowgrounds and its follow-up Shadowgrounds: Survivor were released for Linux in 2009, ported by IGIOS and published by Linux Game Publishing.
Industry | Video games |
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Founded | 22 August 2001[1] |
Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
Products | Shadowgrounds series Trine series |
Number of employees | ~100 (2019)[2] |
Website | frozenbyte |
Forzenbyte's next commercial game, Trine was released in 2009 for Microsoft Windows in 2009, and has since been ported to Linux, OS X, and the PlayStation Network. The game spawned 2 sequels, Trine 2 which was released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in December 2011[3] and later Linux in March 2012 and Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power which was released via Steam Early access in August 2015.[4] A fourth installment, Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince was released in October 2019.[5]
A Humble Indie Bundle sale started on 12 April 2011, and featured five games from Frozenbyte, including Trine, Shadowgrounds, and Shadowgrounds: Survivor, for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It also contained an executable version along with source code for an unfinished game, Jack Claw, and a pre-order for their upcoming game, Splot.[6]
On 4 December 2015, the company announced Shadwen, a stealth game where time moves only when the player moves.[7]
On 28 May 2019, the company announced a new upcoming game Starbase, a Sci-FI MMO that was allegedly in development in secret for 5 years prior.[8]
Games developed
- Shadowgrounds — (2005)
- Shadowgrounds: Survivor — (2007)
- Trine — (2009)
- Trine 2 — (2011)
- Splot — (2014)[9]
- Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power — (2015)
- Shadwen — (2016)
- Has-Been Heroes — (2017)[10]
- Nine Parchments — (2017)[11]
- Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince — (2019)[5]
- Starbase (2020)
References
- "FrozenByte.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
- "About | Frozenbyte". www.frozenbyte.com. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- "Frozenbyte Official Twitter".
- Savage, Phil (April 26, 2015). "Trine 3 is out in Early Access next week". PC Gamer. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- KaiFB (October 24, 2018). "Trine 4 Confirmed! | Frozenbyte". www.frozenbyte.com. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
- Plunkett, Luke (2011-04-11). "This Might Be The Best Indie Bargain Of 2011". Kotaku. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
- Matulef, Jeffery (4 December 2015). "Trine developer Frozenbyte reveals time-manipulating stealth game Shadwen". Eurogamer. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- "Starbase – A New Sci-Fi MMO Game By Frozenbyte Revealed! | Frozenbyte". www.frozenbyte.com. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
- Haveri, Mikael (2012-11-02). "Official website saying game is set for 'early 2014 release'". Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- "Has-Been Heroes | Frozenbyte". www.frozenbyte.com. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- Matulef, Jeffery (August 15, 2016). "Frozenbyte announces co-op twin-stick wizardry game Nine Parchments". Eurogamer. Retrieved August 17, 2016.