Radon Labs

Radon Labs
Company typeGmbH
IndustryVideo games
Founded1993 (as "TerraTools")
Defunct2010
HeadquartersBerlin, Germany
Key people
Bernd Beyreuther, Andre Blechschmidt
ProductsUrban Assault
Project Nomads
Drakensang: The Dark Eye
Number of employees
100 (2009)
Websitewww.radonlabs.de (archived, last version 2008)

Radon Labs was a German video game developer based in Berlin. the company was founded in 2000 after TerraTools closed and changed their name to Radon Labs shortly after the development of Urban Assault. Radon Labs has its headquarters in Berlin and a second development studio in Halle-Leipzig. The company filed for bankruptcy in May 2010 and was bought by the browsergames publisher Bigpoint GmbH.[1]

TerraTools

The initial entity of TerraTools GmbH, "TERRATOOLS Computer Graphics Solutions" (Or the alternative German name of "TERRATOOLS Software- und Filmproduktions GmbH & Co. KG"), was founded in 1993 by Ulrich Weinberg, a professor of computeranimation and graphics at the HFF school for film and television in Babelsberg. Ulrich worked with lead game designer Thomas Langhanki to begin game development with the studio's team in 1994.[2]

Products

3D Engine

Radon Labs is the creator of the Nebula Device, an open source 3D game engine. Radon Labs released its engine under MIT license in 2006 and a later version in 2011.[3][4]

Selected games

References

  1. ^ Caoili, Eric (October 25, 2010). "Bigpoint Buys Radon Labs, Opens Berlin Office". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  2. ^ "TERRATOOLS' official website". www.terratools.de. October 1996. Archived from the original on February 17, 1997. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  3. ^ nebula device 2 on sourceforge.net (2006)
  4. ^ nebula device 3 on google code (2011)
  5. ^ "'Drakensang prequel: The River Of Time in production". 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
  6. ^ "GCom 09: Strategiespiel in der Mache". 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2009-08-27.