Chimera Entertainment is a German video game developer based in Munich. The company is part of the developer family of Remote Control Productions. As of April 2021, the company employs 70 people.
History Chimera Entertainment was founded by the Mediadesign University of Applied Science (short MDH) graduates Alexander Kehr and Christian Kluckner together with Hendrik Lesser and his production house remote control productions (short RCP) in Munich, Germany in 2006.
Kehr and Kluckner were among first game design graduates of the Munich-based design academy MDH. Kehr, having developed board and card games since he was six years old, and Kluckner already having four years of experience as a programmer, started working together while still attending the university and created the base for a team of young graduates eager to work within the games industry. The team of remote control productions provided the framework while the company's Managing Director Lesser took over a part of the management of Chimera Entertainment.
In May 2007, Chimera Entertainment received the LARA Start Up Award from the Bavarian Secretary of Commerce. The first project of Chimera Entertainment was Windchaser (PC), a real time tactical role-playing game set in Ensai, an original fantasy world created by Kehr himself.
June 2009 saw the release of Train your Brain with Dr. Kawashima, created in cooperation with BBG Entertainment. This brain training application for PC and Mac is based on the studies of Japanese Neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima. In cooperation with Bigpoint Games Chimera Entertainment released Warstory - Europe in Flames, a Microsoft Silverlight Browsergame featuring real time battles set in World War II.
In the following years Chimera released several other games on various platforms with Angry Birds Epic (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) being the latest game made by Chimera Entertainment in cooperation with Rovio.
In 2020, the Bavarian FFF Awards Committee announced that it would fund a game by Chimera Entertainment with the working title "Realms at War" with EUR 500,000. During the "Geeked Week" 2022, Netflix announced the mobile game titled "Shadow and Bones: Destinies", which is in development by Chimera Entertainment and is planned to be released in 2023 for Netflix subscribers.
Releases (chronological) Chimera's debut title called Windchaser (PC) was published in May 2008, followed by several commissioned projects including Train Your Brain With Dr. Kawashima (PC, Mac), memory HD, Demolition Dash and Happy Hills (all iOS). In 2010, Chimera Entertainment launched its first MMO browsergame Warstory – Europe in Flames in cooperation with Bigpoint. In 2012 Chimera Entertainment released in collaboration with different publishing partners the MMO browser games Skylancer: Battle for Horizon and Mission: Genesis and Word Wonders, Sara’s Cooking Class and Towers & Dungeons on mobile platforms. The latest game developed by Chimera in cooperation with Rovio is Angry Birds Epic (iOS, Android, Windows Phone).
Year Game Platform(s) Genre 2008 Wind Chaser Windows Strategy RPG 2009 Farm Fever iOS Puzzler 2009 Train your Brain with Dr.Kawashima Windows, Mac Puzzler 2009 Wiesn Fever iOS Puzzler 2010 Memory (HD) iOS Puzzler 2010 Warstory - Europe in Flames Browser Strategy MMO 2011 Demolition Dash iOS Runner 2011 Happy Hills iOS, Android Physics Puzzler 2012 Towers & Dungeons iOS Towerbuilder 2012 Sara's Cooking Class iOS Cooking App 2012 Word Wonders iOS, Windows Word Puzzle 2012 Skylancer Browser Strategy MMO 2012 Mission: Genesis Browser Strategy MMO 2013 Hoppetee! iOS Runner 2013 Happy Hills 2 iOS Physics Puzzler 2014 John Woo's Bloodstroke iOS, Android Action 2014 Angry Birds Epic iOS, Windows Phone, Android RPG2017Angry Birds EvolutioniOS, AndroidRPG2023Shadow and Bone: Enter the FoldiOS, AndroidRPG2024Songs of SilenceWindows, Playstation 5, XBox Series X/SStrategy
Awards LARA Startup Award 2007 from the Bavarian Ministry of Economics German Game Developer Awards 2008, Winner Sponsorship Prize German Game Developer Awards 2011, Winner Best Mobile Game of the Year (Game: Demolition Dash) German Computergames Award 2013, Winner Best Mobile Game (Game: Word Wonders) German Computergames Award 2017, Winner Best Mobile Game (Game: Angry Birds Evolution)
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