Remote Control Productions GmbH (RCP; stylized in lowercase) is a Munich-based, independent games production house with a network of 14 development studios in Germany, Austria, Finland and Pakistan. It includes Chimera Entertainment, Stillalive Studios among others, having produced more than 350 projects such as Angry Birds Epic. The teams have shipped over 400 projects, including Premium and F2P games for Windows, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Mobile, VR and Web-based platforms since 2005.
History
In 2005, the production house was founded as ML Enterprises GmbH under the leadership of Hendrik Lesser and Marc Möhring. Remote Control Productions' focus lies on the support of developers, publishers, corporations and institutions for mediation, realisation and production of game projects, as well as financing, consulting, development and coaching of start-ups and studios from the games industry.
In 2006, Lesser founded the developer studio Chimera Entertainment along with Alexander Kehr and Christian Kluckner, which meanwhile became the biggest studio of the Remote Control Productions developer network with more than 40 employees. In September 2008, ML Enterprises was renamed to Remote Control Productions. In the same year, Remote Control Productions and Chimera Entertainment produced their first own game project: the real-time strategy game Windchaser (Windows).
In the meantime, Remote Control Productions co-founded under the aggregation of the RCP developer family further studios such as Brightside Games (2010), Wolpertinger Games (2010), it Matters Games (2012) and expanded the developer merger for the studios TG Nord (2012), Stillalive Studios (2012) and Zeitland (2012).
Remote Control Productions also established with GamesInFlames an own publishing company in 2010. In late 2014, the subsidiary GAMIFY now! was founded, which is specialized in "gamification" and serious games. Austrian developers DoubleSmith and REDOX Game Labs and the Nuremberg-based developer studio NeoBird are part of the Remote Control Productions developer family since 2014 and 2015, respectively. In the beginning of 2016, Remote Control Productions opened an office in Kotka, Finland with Jyri Partanen as managing director.
Produced games
From 2005 till 2007, Remote Control Productions supported Collision Studios' developer team during the development of the first-person shooter game Red Ocean, as well as the production of Legend: Hand of God with publisher dtp entertainment, and Crashday with publisher Atari Europe. In 2008, Remote Control Productions produced the real-time strategy game Windchaser (Windows) with Chimera Entertainment. In association with Bigpointe, Remote Control Productions and Chimera Entertainment developed the strategy game Warstory – Europe in Flames, a Microsoft Silverlight browser MMO that takes place in World War II.
Releases such as Coreplay's Ion Assault and Brightside Games' Zeit², as well as Chimera Entertainment's Happy Hills (iOS) and Demolition Dash followed in 2011. Remote Control Productions participated in the production of the first interactive audiobook, Audigent's Raumzeit Folge 1: Der verbotene Sektor. In 2012, several Chimera Entertainment productions followed – Mission: Genesis, Skylancer and Word Wonders, which has won the GCGA in the category "Best Mobile Game of the Year" in 2013.
Along with Stillalive Studios, Remote Control Productions completed a Kickstarter campaign for their game Son of Nor in May 2013, which released in April 2015. In June 2014, Remote Control Productions released the Angry Birds game Angry Birds Epic in co-production with developer Chimera Entertainment and partner Rovio Entertainment. The hidden object game Mystery of Neuschwanstein, developed by Chimera Entertainment and funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, followed in February 2015
Year Game Platform(s) Genre Studio Publisher 2006 Red Ocean PC First-person shooter Collision Studios Anaconda 2008 Windchaser PC Strategy RPG Chimera Entertainment dtp interactive 2009 Wiesn Fever iOS Puzzle - Farm Fever iOS Puzzle Ion Assault XBLA Shooter RTL Interactive Gehirntraining mit Dr. Kawashima PC, Mac Puzzle - 2010 Memory (HD) iOS Puzzle Ravensburger Digital Warstory – Europe in Flames Browser Strategy MMO Bigpoint Greed: Black Border PC Hack 'n' slash ClockStone Headup Games 2011 Zeit² PC, XBLA Shooter Brightside Game Ubisoft Demolition Dash Android, iOS Jump 'n' run Chimera Entertainment Dreamfab Happy Hills iOS Physical puzzle 2012 Skylancer – Battle for Horizon Browser Strategy MMO Pro7Games2011 Bridge Constructor Android, iOS, PC Physical puzzle ClockStone Headup Games 2012 Word Wonders – The Tower of Babel iOS Word puzzle Chimera Entertainment Dreamfab Sara's Cooking Class Android, iOS Cooking app Spil Games Towers & Dungeons iOS Towerbuilder Ravensburger Digital Mission: Genesis Browser Strategy MMO dtp interactive Happy Hills Android Physical puzzle The9 2013 Rally the World Android, Browser, iOS Racer Brightside Games Aperto/VW Warstory Europe Browser Strategy MMO Chimera Entertainment RNTS My Dolphin Show Android, iOS Arcade itMatters Games Spil Games Sheep Shack iOS Action-puzzle Brightside Games Just a Game Hoppetee! iOS, Android Jump 'n' run Chimera Entertainment Brigit Stock Verlag Sidekick Cycle iOS, Android Downhill racer itMatters Games GGI Little Islands iOS Puzzle Chimera Entertainment GamesInFlames Happy Hills 2 iOS Physical puzzle Chimera Entertainment Dreamfab / Thumbstar MS COPAKTIV iOS, Android App Chimera Entertainment / Zeitland TEVA GmbH 2014 John Woo's Bloodstroke iOS, Android Action Chimera Entertainment / Wolpertinger Games Moonshark / Chillingo Aloha Paradise Hotel Browser Business simulation TG Nord GamesInFlames netwars – The Butterfly Attack – Episode 1 iOS, Android Interactive graphic novelChimera EntertainmentFilmtank / Bastei Luebbe Crash! UFO iOS, Android Endless runnerDeNA Angry Birds Epic iOS, Windows Phone, Android RPG Rovio Entertainment GTS Driver Browser Racer it Matters Games Porsche ONE TEVA (internal) iOS, AndroidAppChimera Entertainment / ZeitlandTEVA GmbH ratiopharm Gute Reise iOS, AndroidHealth app TG Nord Bernd das Brot und die Unmöglichen PC Adventure Chimera Entertainment deepsilver / Bumm Game Aktiv mit MS iOS, AndroidHealth app Zeitland / Wolpertinger Games TEVA GmbH Firewater iOS, Android Endless runner Doublesmith B! 2015 DogHotel iOS, Android Simulation it Matters Games Tivola Mystery of Neuschwanstein Android, iOS, PC Hidden object adventure Chimera Entertainment Astragon Son of Nor PC, Mac, Linux RPG Stillalive Studios Viva Media Impossible Super Ninja iOS, Android Action / arcade Doublesmith ThumbspireLemming DynastyiOS, AndroidEndless runnerRockodile GamesRockodile GamesStardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar ClimaxPCAction shooterDreamloop GamesDreamloop Games2016 CatHotel iOS, Android Simulation it Matters Games TivolaBus Simulator 2016Mac, PCSimulationStillalive StudiosAstragon2017Angry Birds EvolutioniOS, AndroidRPGChimera EntertainmentRovioSafe Way ForwardiOS, AndroidCasualRockodile GamesNeste Oyj2018Bus Simulator 2018PC, PS4, Xbox oneSimulationStillalive StudiosAstragon2019Rescue HQ – The TycoonPCSimulationAerosoft GmbHHorse ClubiOS, AndroidKids gamezeitland media & gamesSchleich2020Drone SwarmPCSpace sci-fi strategyStillalive StudiosAstragon EntertainmentPet Clinic: Cats & DogsPC, Nintendo Switch, PS4SimulationIt Matters GamesMicroids2021Grand Casino TycoonPCSimulationStillalive StudiosAerosoft GmbHBayala Einhorn AbenteueriOS, AndroidKids gameZeitland Blue Ocean EntertainmentCobra Kai BrowserCasualFrag GamesNetflix Doctors & NursesPC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Kids gameIt Matters GamesMicroidsBus Simulator 2021PC, PS4, Xbox OneSimulationStillalive StudiosAstragon Entertainment2022Bus Simulator City RideNintendo Switch, iOS, AndroidSimulationStillalive Studios, Wolpertinger GamesAstragon EntertainmentLife in WillowdalePC, Nintendo SwitchAdventureFrag GamesMindscapeMy Universe: My Baby DragonSteam, Mac OS, PS5, PS4, Nintendo SwitchKids GameIt Matters GamesMicroids2023Survivor MercsSteamAction RPGWolperting GamesWandering WizardsDeath from abovePCPolitical WargameRockodile GamesLesser Evil InescapablePlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X and Series SSocial ThrillerDreamloop GamesAksysSongs of SilencePC, Xbox Series, PlayStation 5StrategyChimera EntertainmentTBCDeath From AbovePCSimulationRockodile GamesLesser EvilGarden LifePCSimulationStillalive StudiosStillalive Studios
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