ALTAR Games
| ISIN | 🆔 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Successor | Bohemia Interactive's Brno studio |
| Founded 📆 | 1997 |
| Founder 👔 | Martin Klíma |
| Defunct | 2010[1] |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Products 📟 | Video games |
| Members | |
Number of employees | Over 20 full-time[2] |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
ALTAR Games, originally known as ALTAR interactive until 2005,[3] was a Czech independent video game developer founded in 1997 in Brno.[2] Altar Interactive was one of the major Czech game developers during the early 2000s,[4] best known for their 2001 breakthrough hit Original War, regarded as a cult title in Czechia and Poland,[5][6][7] as well as for their 2004 X-COM spiritual successor UFO: Aftermath and its sequels. Altar Interactive's successor Altar Games was a member of IDEA Games, a marketing and commerce supporting association founded in 2005 with Bohemia Interactive and Black Element Software.[8]
Legacy[edit]
On 30 September 2010, Altar Games was acquired by fellow IDEA Games (Independent Developers Association) member Bohemia Interactive.[9] Bohemia promised that the acquired companies, including Altar, will continue to operate individually.[10] Former Altar has become Bohemia's Brno studio, working first on ArmA 3.[11][12] In 2017, Bohemia announced a sequel to Altar's cult classic Original War.[13]
Altar Interactive founder Martin Klíma had earlier left to produce Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising for Codemasters in 2008,[14] and then co-founded the independent video game developer Warhorse Studios in 2011.[15] Ex-Altar Interactive lead artist and creative director Tomáš Kučerovský (Original War, UFO: Aftermath) became a successful comic book author.[16] Original War lead designer Vladimír Chvátil, who too had left back in 2005 during the breakup of the original Altar team following the cancellation of their ambitious RPG project Vision,[17] became an acclaimed board game designer who founded his own company Czech Games Edition, developing also mobile game versions.
Games[edit]
Altar Games[edit]
- Legends of Valhalla (canceled 2008)
- Fish Fillets II[18] (2007)
- UFO: Afterlight (2007)
Altar Interactive[edit]
- Vision[19] (canceled 2005)
- UFO: Aftershock (2005)
- UFO: Aftermath (2003)
- Legendy Dračího Doupěte (2003) (SMS-based mobile game[20])
- Original War (2001)
- Fish Fillets (1998)
References[edit]
- ↑ "Český přehled: co chystají domácí herní studia?". Hrej.cz. 13 January 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Younger, Paul (25 October 2002). "UFO Aftermath Interview". IncGamers. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
- ↑ "Altar Games – Databáze-her.cz". Databaze-her.cz. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "České hry byly na vrcholu před deseti lety. Nyní přinejlepším stagnují". iDNES.cz. 28 October 2011.
- ↑ "Na GOG se vrátila Original War, Operation Flashpoint a další české hry | GAMES.CZ". games.tiscali.cz.
- ↑ "Wspominamy Original War – czeską grę, która wychowała całe pokolenie graczy | GRYOnline.pl". GRY-Online.pl.
- ↑ Cholewa, Damian. "Original War to strategia mojego dzieciństwa". Gamereactor PL.
- ↑ "Altar Games". Altar Games. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
- ↑ "Support". Idea Games. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "Bohemia Interactive company profile". Bistudio.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Reportáž: Česká konference herních vývojářů - GAMES.cz". Games.tiscali.cz. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "Speciál: Bohemia Interactive: Studio, které zlepšilo herní průmysl - Kapitola šestá - Arma 2 se rozšiřuje". Zing.cz. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "Zapowiedziano Original War 2 – kontynuację kultowego RTS-a z 2001 roku | GRYOnline.pl". GRY-Online.pl.
- ↑ "VIDEO: Česká středověká hra láká na unikátní bojový systém". iDNES.cz. 6 June 2015.
- ↑ "Martin Klíma: Od Dračího doupěte k Warhorse | GAMES.CZ". games.tiscali.cz.
- ↑ "Chvíli jsem si připadal jako pán Brna, líčí autor komiksu o nočních linkách". iDNES.cz. 22 March 2019.
- ↑ https://visiongame.cz/vision-r-i-p/
- ↑ "The Fish Fillets II | Official Site". www.fish-fillets.com.
- ↑ https://visiongame.cz/hra/vision/
- ↑ "Zahrajte si Dračí doupě jako nikdy předtím!". Doupe.cz.
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