Games, Magazines, Books, and Apps
2025-03-23 16:04 Author: Ralph RoeskeWe've been in the games industry since 1975. We started with board games. Small space games on cardboard, for cutting out and making the pieces yourself by folding and gluing.
In 1978, we developed our first "computer games" and applications. Back then, on a TI-59 calculator.
For example, Spacetravel: With the help of an in-computer simulation, you had to travel through the universe with as few warp jumps as possible. One of the first star databases, and all on a calculator. 😉
In 1978, the world's first flash table for the German Bundesliga was created, which made it possible to always have the current standings during the radio broadcasts, which were mandatory at the time due to the lack of Sky TV. The reporters, who still calculated the table by hand back then, usually only reported it 10 minutes after the end of the game!
1983 We launched the first German-language home computer magazines in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (Homecomputer, CPU, Computerposter, Compute mit...) and were market leaders in the home computer scene.
1986 The RP System was released. This was the first functioning gaming operating system with a compiler.
Since then, we have published more than 100 games for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Apple, Atari, ZX Spectrum, Dragon, Oric, and other home computers, and later also for desktop PCs.
2007 Work began on the Billion Dollar Game / Games4You. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by external influences and government intervention between 2008 and 2018.
2020 We are currently in the process of establishing a community for panorama and drone enthusiasts. Funding has not yet been secured. The project itself is something special for drone and 360° camera enthusiasts, hikers, and panorama enthusiasts; advertising filmmakers also have incredible opportunities.
2025 A new project is created using AI. Outpost Ares
A photo novel, created with artificial intelligence, is being created as the basis for a huge science fiction project:
a book, AI photo novel, comic, Mars exploration in an RTS game with incredible surprises, aliens, inhabitants in deep Martian caves, a step into near space (months before Elon Musk's SpaceX mission, his colonization of Mars by humans). There are thousands of sci-fi stories; ours consistently utilizes the latest AI offerings, both in image and landscape generation and in the story! With this intelligent support, further fictions set in the depths of the galaxies will be visualized and realized.
I still have a lot planned...
