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FRONT COVER:Among the sleep

KAJA HENCH DYRLIEHead of ProductionCell: +47 951 46 912Mail: [email protected]

MIA LINDRUPSenior Advisor, Promotion and International relationsCell: +47 922 26 978Mail: [email protected]

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An adventure game, perhaps? Or something with trolls or maybe a horror game, seen through the eyes of a small child? Or maybe you have played a Norwegian game, without even knowing its or-igin? One of the most downloaded games at iTunes is called Fun Run produced by Dirtybit based in Bergen that recently released Fun Run 2, which went straight into top three in the American app store upon release in January. Like in most other countries, the Norwegian game market has been dominated by international games, but this is now changing.

The Norwegian game developer industry has had a very high in-crease in the number of production companies and productions, public funding and turnover. Between 2009 and 2013, the funding for game development from the Norwegian Film Institute was in-creased by 110%, while 2014 and 2015 saw a further increase in our funding for development and marketing of Norwegian games. It is important for a small country like Norway to have games that reflect Norwegian language and culture.

The positive side effect to this increase in production, budgets and subsequently higher quality is that Norwegian games are being

noticed and appreciated internationally. Games like the adventure game Dreamfall Chapters (Red Thread Games) and the first-per-son horror adventure Among the sleep (Krillbite Studio) are show-ing the gaming aficionados of the world that Norwegian stories and approaches to the noble art of game development can be en-joyed in all corners of the world.

With the broad range of games being presented in this catalogue, we hope you find something that sparks your curiosity and that you spend hours and hours playing the games. Just like we do.

The Norwegian Film Institute provides support for Norwegian Film, televisions series and video games, and organizes training and talent development in the sector. The Film Institute represents and informs about Norwegian Film and Games on the national as well as on the international level.

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7 ANGEL CRASH8 CAPTAIN SABERTOOTH THE TREASURE OF LAMA RAMA9 CORRODED10 DEGREES OF SEPARATION11 DRAGONBOX NUMBERS12 DRAUGEN13 EARTHLOCK: FESTIVAL OF MAGIC14 KLANG15 LAST NINJA TWINS, THE16 MEGASWORD17 MYRIAD18 NORSE NOIR: LOKI’S EXILE19 OWLBOY20 REDUX ARK21 SPOOKED22 STARGAZER EXPERIENCE23 SUPER SCRAP SQUAD, THE24 THROUGH THE WOODS25 TORN26 TRACKDAY MANAGER27 WORLD TO THE WEST

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29 AD246029 AMONG THE SLEEP30 AMPHORA30 CAPTAIN SABERTHOOTH31 DRAGONBOX ELEMENTS31 DREAMFALL CHAPTERS32 ELLA BELLA BICYCLE THIEF32 FLAG BEARER SAGA - DROPPER OF FLAGS 33 FLAG BEARER, THE33 FULL CYCLE34 FUN RUN 2 - MULTIPLAYER RACE34 LEGO MINIFIGURES ONLINE 35 SHADOW PUPPETEER35 SHIFTLINGS36 SIZE DOES MATTER36 TAINTED KEEP37 TEDDY IS MISSING37 TESLAGRAD38 TROLLS VS. VIKINGS38 UHR WARLORDS

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A children’s game with an original story, a varied and beautiful game world and appealing player characters. The two characters have different abilities - which makes it necessary to cooperate to succeed in the game. The goal of the game is to retrieve the instruments which the two little angels lost when crashing into the angel orchestra cloud. As part of their mission they also have to pick up fallen stars, help kids with various tasks, and to send little devils (scoundrels) back to where they came from. Kids will love this game because it has a solid, intuitive and varied gameplay, with lots of cute characters, nice music and fun quests.

ANGEL CRASH

RELEASE: TBAPLATFORM: : iOS | AndroidGENRE: AdventureTARGET: Children 5 to 10 years

COMPANY: Ravn Studio has developed high quality com-puter games for all platforms since 2006. In additions to our own IPs we have developed and published games based on many well known Norwegian and Nordic brands for kids/youth, like Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Captain Saber-tooth, Blue Mountain, Pippi Longstocking, Twigson, Ella Bella Bingo and City of Friends. Our vision is to create good game experiences for all age groups. Also children and youth deserve digital content and games of high quality. Ravn Studio’s experienced and highly skilled team in Drammen, Norway, develops games for console, PC, smart phones and tablets.

IN PRODUCTION

CONTACT: Ravn Studio June Jenssen, ArtistMAIL: [email protected]: www.ravnstudio.noPHONE: +47 907 00 107


The world’s most fearsome pirate, Captain Sabertooth, sets out to find the secret island of Lama Rama to conquer the treasure of all treasures, The King’s Pearl. The pirate adventures onboard the Dark Lady include sailing and battling enemy ships, exploring, and fencing. Visit spooky harbours to upgrade the ship, or buy treasure maps of places to dive for special treasures, secret fishing places or old ruins and mazes to explore for gold. Look out for messages in bottles, floating loot and enemy ships in this ultimate pirate game.

CAPTAIN SABERTOOTH THE TREASURE OF LAMA RAMA

RELEASE: TBAPLATFORM: TBAGENRE: AdventureTARGET: Children 4 - 9 years

COMPANY: Ravn Studio has developed high quality computer games for all platforms since 2006. In addi-tions to our own IPs we have developed and published games based on many well known Norwegian and Nordic brands for kids/youth, like Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Captain Sabertooth, Blue Mountain, Pippi Longstocking, Twigson, Ella Bella Bingo and City of Friends. Our vision is to create good game experiences for all age groups. Also children and youth deserve digital content and games of high quality. Ravn Studio’s experienced and highly skilled team in Drammen, Norway, develops games for console, PC, smart phones and tablets


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CONTACT: Encircle Games Siw A. Hødnebø Espeland - CEO/ProgrammerMAIL: [email protected]: http://encirclegames.comPHONE: +47 938 48 020

Corroded is an arena brawler with some similarities to the standard MOBA genre in terms of perspective, gameplay and being an online multiplayer. However what differentiates Corroded is that it has two to eight players fighting and pushing each other out of an arena that is shrinking over time. The game is based on rounds and the player that has gathered the most points when the rounds are over is the winner of that round, and after 3-5 rounds the ultimate victor is announced. After each round you can spend earned credits that you get from fighting and destroying opponents, into upgrades.

CORRODED

RELEASE: February 2016PLATFORM: PCGENRE: Arena brawler/MOBATARGET: 12-30

COMPANY: Encircle Games is a Norwegian indie game development studio, with a small team consisting of six developers, four programmers, one animator and one concept artist, all with a bachelor degree from Hedmark University College. Our common devotion for playing and making games brought us together, and on our last se-mester in school we teamed up to work on our final as-signment, which was the start of our current project, Cor-roded. The company was finally founded in September 2014, and today we are working full time making games in our own office in Hamar.

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CONTACT: Moondrop Andreas FuglesangMAIL: [email protected]: moondrop.noPHONE: +47 476 77 602

DEGREES OF SEPARATION

RELEASE: 2016PLATFORM: Sony Playstation 4 | Nintendo WiiU | Microsoft Xbox One | PCGENRE: 2D Puzzle PlatformerTARGET: TBA

COMPANY: Moondrop is a small indie game studio locat-ed in Hamar, Norway, focused on making games that are interesting, beautiful and respectful towards players. Two full-time developers, determination, experimental meth-ods and compulsive behavior are key ingredients when Moondrop makes games. We strive to explore new pos-sibilities in game design and wrap it inside great visual experiences.

Degrees of Separation is a co-op game for two persons, each in their own world, who have to cooperate to solve puzzles based on temperature. The screen is split in two where one part is warm and the other is cold, each following its own player.

The game will be an intimate experience where cooperation is built into every move. It will show the struggles of two contrasting opposites in a relationship through audiovisuals and gameplay. The experience will have an inviting and magical at-mosphere and try to convey emotional states to the players as sublime as possible.

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CONTACT: WeWantToKnow Jean-Baptiste HuynhMAIL: [email protected]: wewanttoknow.comPHONE: +47 916 32 296

DragonBox Numbers is a unique, open world game where kids explore and learn how numbers work. Players meet the universe of the Nooms, that they will help to fight the dragon Osgaard who is destroying their planet. The game allies pedago-gy and engagement in a unique experience that will give kids a strong foundation in math without them realizing it.

DRAGONBOX NUMBERS

RELEASE: 1st of june 2015PLATFORM: iOS | androidGENRE: Educational gamesTARGET: Early primary school kids, 5-8 years old

COMPANY: WeWantToKnow is a startup making power-ful videogames to teach the big ideas of mathematics. Multiple award-winning game company with its Dragon-Box concept series, it is known for its innovative pedago-gy to get kids to enjoy learning difficult subjects such as basic algebra or geometry proof.

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CONTACT: Red Thread Games Ragnar TørnquistMAIL: [email protected]: www.redthreadgames.com

Draugen is a first-person psychological horror adventure, set amongst the deep fjords and towering mountains of Norway’s awe-inspiring west coast.

The game is a dark and disturbing journey into the pitch black heart of Norwegian national romanticism, as seen through the eyes of an American nature photogra-pher, botanist and entomologist.

Inspired by Scandinavian literature, legends and fairytales, along with Norse my-thology and the Icelandic sagas, Draugen is set in the early 1920s and delves into the deepest, darkest secrets of a remote fishing community where every single soul has mysteriously vanished.

DRAUGEN

RELEASE: January 2016PLATFORM: PC | MAC | LINUX | PS4 | IOSGENRE: First-person psychological horrorTARGET: 18+

COMPANY: Red Thread Games is an independent devel-opment studio based in Oslo, Norway. The studio is cur-rently in production on episodic adventure game Dream-fall Chapters, the long-awaited sequel to acclaimed adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, and on first-person survival horror adventure Draugen.

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CONTACT: Snow Castle Bendik Stang, CEOMAIL: [email protected]: www.earthlockgame.comPHONE: +47 992 75 829

EARTHLOCK™ is a turn-based fantasy RPG with an unforgettable team of charac-ters who embark on a bold adventure to unlock the secrets of Umbra, a world that mysteriously stopped spinning ages ago.

CLASSIC STRATEGY REDEFINED• No-nonsense turn-based battles.• Each character offers a unique skill-set.• Pair up characters to combine attributes and unleash combos.• Monsters pair up too, so watch out!• Chain attacks for staggering damage.• Gain SP when taking damage, and use it for special attacks.• Switch up your characters and pairings to change strategy.

EARTHLOCK: FESTIVAL OF MAGIC

RELEASE: Q3 2015PLATFORM: PS4 | Xbox One | Wii U | Steam | PC | Mac | LinuxGENRE: RPGTARGET: 9+

COMPANY: Snow Castle is an indie development studio with a very ambitious plan to release a trilogy of games under the Earthlock series. The company is four years old, and we have done quite a bit of for-hire work before we set out to do our first in-house productions. The first one was a cross between an interactive children’s storybook and a side-scroller called Hogworld: Gnart’s Adventure. It made it onto Apple’s “Best of 2011” list in the App store and placed us firmly on the map.

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CONTACT: Tinimations Freelance Tom-Ivar Arntzen , CEOMAIL: [email protected] PHONE: +47 472 99 316

Klang is at its core an evolution of traditional hythm games. Where previous games in the genre has mostly focused on pressing buttons in correct timing with the mu-sic, Klang expands upon this with adding the flair of exploration and platforming.

Klang is designed around the philosophy of merging dynamic world exploration with the adrenaline rush of becoming one with the music through acting upon audiovisual queues.

KLANG

RELEASE: Autumn 2015PLATFORM: PC | Mac | Linux & possibly current gen consolesGENRE: Rhythm-platformerTARGET: Hardcore gamers between 15-30 years old, rhythm-game fans

COMPANY: Tinimations Freelance is a sole proprietorship run by Tom-Ivar Arntzen since 2013. I work on my own game projects while taking on freelance work in the field of all things digital art related. My goal is to make PC and console games the hardcore crowd embraces. Currently stationed at Hamar Game Collective.

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CONTACT: Agens Peter MåseideMAIL: [email protected]: http://agens.noPHONE: +47 408 58 675

Guide two running ninja twins through hazardous challenging levels in beautiful sur-roundings. A short moment of inattention may have fun and fatal consequences. You should have listen to your mother’s warnings about not running with swords… In this game you must simultaneously control two jumping and running ninjas, chal-lenging your reaction, multitasking abilities and frustration tolerance to a complete-ly new level! Complete levels to unlock new and even harder ones, or strive for the achievements if you are looking for the ultimate challenge.

THE LAST NINJA TWINS

RELEASE: Spring 2015PLATFORM: iOS | AndroidGENRE: Action / RunnerTARGET: Teens and up

COMPANY: Agens is a digital agency focusing on game and mobile app development, strategic design and con-sulting. Agens has an award-winning team in the field of concept work, design and mobile native + web develop-ment.

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CONTACT: Henchman & Goon Bjarte Sebastian HansenMAIL: [email protected]: henchmangoon.comPHONE: +47 952 68 076

MEGASWORD

RELEASE: TBAPLATFORM: TBAGENRE: 2D Action-platformerTARGET: Core Gamers, 12-40 years

COMPANY: Henchman & Goon develops action-packed games for console and PC. The retro-platformer Flem was released for PSVita in February 2015 and is due to be released on Steam. Find more info at: flemgame.com

Megasword is a 2D action-platformer set in a Mega Man style non-linear world in-spired by Saturday morning cartoons from the ‘80s and early ‘90s. You play as the half-naked hero who must collect the lost powers of the Megasword and use it to save the world from the evil forces of the Zodark Zone. The game features fast-paced combat mixed with exploration and puzzle solving, in a heroic adventure that spoofs the heavy-handed storytelling of classic cartoons.

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CONTACT: Bifrost Entertainment AS Karl Einar Karlsson MAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.bifrostent.com PHONE: +47 400 46 963

Myriad is an explosion of sound and colour where time and space is at your command. Build a world by defeating enemies, then blow up your creation and everything in it in a giant chain reaction. Procedural audio and spectacular abstract visuals ensure Myriad delivers a unique experience every time you play, while the replay system lets you share your best games online on the leaderboards.

MYRIAD

RELEASE: Q2 2015PLATFORM: PC | Mac | Linux | ConsoleGENRE: Twin-stick shoot’em-upTARGET: Teens

COMPANY: Bifrost Entertainment is a new Norwegian studio developing and publishing original IP for all plat-forms. Our two development teams are keeping busy with two projects in development, as well as our open-source, cross-platform game engine Rainbow. Bifrost pulls together talent from all over the world, working re-motely or at our headquarter in Oslo, Norway.

CONTACT: KreativeSpill Jørgen R. Thrane, CEOMAIL: [email protected]: http://norsenoir.com/PHONE: +47 970 20 928

IN PRODUCTION


Loke finds himself exiled from Aasgard, and must find his way home. To do this, he needs all his luck, some magic and more cunning than he probably possesses. This is a hand-drawn adventure game where you get to explore what happens when two distinct worlds collide.

NORSE NOIR: LOKI’S EXILE

RELEASE: Q2 2015 PLATFORM: Windows | OSX | (linux)GENRE: Point and click adventure gameTARGET: Teens, possibly younger

COMPANY: KreativeSpill is a small game development company based in Son, Norway. We were founded by a number of industry veterans who decided to go their own way in the gaming world. Our team combines experience in MMO, free-to-play, social, and mobile development.

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CONTACT: D-Pad Studio Jo-Remi MadsenMAIL: [email protected]: owlboygame.comPHONE: +47 452 30 052

Owlboy is a vertical platform adventure set in the sky, where the islands of the world have been spread apart after a great calamity. You play as Otus, among the last of the Owls, a renowned race that has produced many of the world’s great wonders. When his village comes under attack from pirates, Otus embarks on a dangerous quest to save his village. The threat, however, soon turns out to be different from what he thought - and a graver plot unfolds before his eyes.

OWLBOY

RELEASE: TBAPLATFORM: PC, SteamGENRE: Platform AdventureTARGET: TBA

COMPANY: D-Pad Studio is the developer of Owlboy, Savant – Ascent and Vikings On Trampolines, and are probably most known for their use of highly-detailed pix-el graphics and varying gameplay styles.

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CONTACT: Hyper Games Are SundnesMAIL: [email protected]: http://ww.hypergames.noPHONE: +47 936 23 451

Redux Ark is a survival exploration game for multiple platforms. The game is cur-rently in an early state of development, and is estimated to be released in 2016. In year 2039 the last bee died, starting a fatal chain reaction. 200 years later, all hope seemed lost. Earth was doomed, and only the rich could afford to evacuate. But then we discovered our twin planet: Gemina. In a last desperate mission, we built the «REDUX ARK», and travelled to Gemina to collect animals, plants and other organic matter in an attempt to restore life back on Earth.

REDUX ARK

RELEASE: Q2 2015PLATFORM: iPad | PC | Mac | ConsoleGENRE: Survival exploration adventureTARGET: Mid-core gamers, 12 years+

COMPANY: Hyper Games is an independent studio lo-cated in Oslo, Norway and in Melbourne, Australia. They work on a wide array of games; from kids games, through educational games, to action games for both young and old. Their first title, ”Hocus Pocus Alfie Atkins”, was nomi-nated ”Best Nordic Kids Game 2014” by the Nordic Game Awards.

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CONTACT: Process Dag-Erling JensenMAIL: [email protected]: www.processgames.noPHONE: +47 997 12 92 68

SPOOKED

RELEASE: Q2 2015PLATFORM: PC | Windows | Android | iOSGENRE: 2D platformerTARGET: All ages and genres

COMPANY: Our team consists of professionals who work well together. Each member has a unique expertise and background which allows for a variety of perspectives within the team. Ideas and approaches are discussed both critically and collaboratively, and we believe this process results in high quality games.

You play as a ghost living a peaceful life in cold solitude and darkness. Being intoler-ant to light and warmth, your peaceful afterlife is threatened when the living move in and start making it warm and cozy. You must scare all the people out before you cast back into the underworld.

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CONTACT: Dwarf Cavern AS Vojislav DimitrijevicMAIL: [email protected]: www.dwarfcavern.comPHONE: +47 414 13 248

Stargazer Experience is a unique game that will bring you closer to the starsthan ever before! You are put into the shoes of an amateur night sky explorerwho learns and discovers about the secrets of the night sky through a series ofvarious challenges, levels and trials.

Using proprietary technology, Dwarf Cavern AS brings the magic of the night skyat your fingertips in level of details never before seen in a video game. Coupledwith wonderful artwork, interactive soundtrack, support for support for Oculus Rift and Leap. Motion Stargazer Experience is an experience unlike any other.

THE STARGAZER EXPERIENCE

RELEASE: 12.12.2015PLATFORM: Windows | iOS | AndroidGENRE: SimulationTARGET: Casual gamers, night sky explorers, children, parents, schools, universities

COMPANY: Dwarf Cavern AS is an independent video game development studio that also develops proprietary technologies for game development. Our primary focus isinnovation, originality and quality in our products. Our products are dominantly made as premium products (not Freemium), targeting all available platforms, includ-ing game consoles and Windows store.

Based in Norway with almost 20 years of experience and dozens of international clients, Dwarf Cavern is taking the step to utilize this experience, and using it to create orig-inal and fun products. We develop Unity-based technolo-gy that offers new types of functionalities for other video game developers.

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Super Scrap Squad is a radical homage to the very best of Saturday morning car-toons from the 90s - complete with a strong social message of eco-consciousness made relevant and absurdly fun for contemporary audiences.

Accidentally transported from the future and into our present time, our heroes gain extraordinary elemental abilities by absorbing recyclable materials. With their new-found power and a lot of heart, the Super Scrap Squad have to band together to stop the villainous Nox from raising an army of trash monsters in his quest to take over the world! CONTACT: Plus Point AS

Ruben NergårdMAIL: [email protected]: www.pluspoint.noPHONE: +47 955 25 779

SUPER SCRAP SQUAD

RELEASE: 2015PLATFORM: iOSGENRE: Action, StrategyTARGET: Kids, 7 -12 years

COMPANY: Plus Point is a team of veteran game devel-opers that has worked for companies the likes of Funcom and EA/Playfish. Residing in the Arctic fringes of Tromsø, Norway, they have applied their experience and skillset on a large a variety of interactive work, from commercial clients to international research projects and museums.

Plus Point is sincerely devoted to creating fun, lively dig-ital products, and are particularly motivated in engaging the young and the young at heart. The team has dedi-cated time with developing their very own brand of fresh and original IP’s - ideas which has found support from established funding bodies around in Norway.

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CONTACT: Antagonist AS Anders HillestadMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.antagonist.no PHONE: +47 992 52 260

Through the Woods is a third-person psychological horror game set in a forest on the western shore of Norway, about a mother and her missing son. Through dynam-ic narration, you play the mother’s re-telling of the events surrounding her son’s dis-appearance in a setting heavily influenced by Norse mythology and Norwegian folk tales. With Through the Woods, the Norwegian indie studio is attempts to capture the forest as they saw it as children, with all the frightening and mysterious feelings of roaming the woods alone. This is coupled with a poignant story and high quality sound design that acts as a core mechanic in the darkness of the forest.

THROUGH THE WOODS

RELEASE: Early 2016PLATFORM: PC | PS4 | Xbox OneGENRE: Horror AdventureTARGET: Men & Women, aged 15-35, who enjoy a deep thriller story

COMPANY: Antagonist is a small independent studio based in Oslo, Norway, and was founded in 2014. Current-ly working on ‘Through the Woods’, the team is trying to make their name a household name within narrative-driv-en titles, focusing on delivering story as an integral part of the experience, without sacrificing gameplay.

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CONTACT: Turbo Tape Games Fredrik Sundt BreienMAIL: [email protected]: www.turbotapegames.comPHONE: +47 926 30 083

Torn is a turn based strategy game for iOS and Android in development by Turbo Tape Games. In the game, the player takes the role of a mighty wizard fighting his way through hordes of mythological monsters, wielding magical spells and binding the monsters for temporary control in an eternal quest to control the world’s ener-gies and becoming all powerful. The game will include single- as well as multiplayer game modes with its unique take on advanced tactical- and strategic gameplay refined through years of development.

TORN

RELEASE: Q2 2015 PLATFORM: iOS | AndroidGENRE: StrategyTARGET: Deep strategy fans

COMPANY: Turbo Tape Games has delivered high qual-ity tactical- and strategic games from their home base in Bergen on the western shores of Norway since 2008. To date, four games have seen the light of day, spanning various platforms from PC through web to mobiles. Turbo Tape Games was the first Norwegian developer to reach the number one spot for worldwide sales on Steam (with Naval War: Arctic Circle in 2012), and have received nu-merous accolades, being nominated as Best Norwegian Game Studio in 2011, Nordic Game of the Year in 2012 and Best Norwegian Audio Production in 2014.

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CONTACT: Arctic Hazard Game Studio AS Terje LundbergMAIL: [email protected]: www.trackdaymanager.com www.arctichazard.comPHONE: +47 472 31 652

TRACKDAY MANAGER

RELEASE: 2015PLATFORM: Win PC (Steam) | iOS (Pad)GENRE: Racing, Simulation, ManagerTARGET: 10 to 50

COMPANY: Arctic Hazard Game Studios AS is an inde-pendent game developer focusing on producing top quality international electronic entertainment for all plat-forms. The Studio was founded in 2010 by Terje Lundberg and Mats Tveita, both who have been in the industry for a decade.

The staff of Arctic Hazard are built up of some of the fin-est talent and experienced developers in Norway, where each employee is a “gamer” at heart and with a minimum of 10 years of experience working on international game titles.

Trackday Manager is a 3D simulation game where you are in charge of managing a racingcar team. As the owner and person in charge, you have total control on how you choose to run the team, from economics and development of crew to purchases of upgrades, cars and setup. You control your driver during races by issuing com-mands through several options while monitoring the race carefully, guiding your driver and team to victory. How you control your driver is totally new to games and have taken our testers by storm. Fasten your seatbelt and prepare for the ultimate racing experience.

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CONTACT: Rain AS Peter Wingaard MeldahlMAIL: [email protected]: www.rain-games.comPHONE: +47 996 91 588

World to the West is a game set in the world of Teslagrad. The game is lighter in tone than it’s predecessor, with the player switching between four characters from different nations, each with their own personality and set of abilities. One of the characters, Lumina, carries over abilities and gameplay feel directly from Teslagrad, but transplanted into a very different type of game. The world is one of exploration and adventure, and more a explicit style of storytelling than in Teslagrad makes it feel more alive and bustling.

WORLD TO THE WEST

RELEASE: 2016PLATFORM: Win | Linux | Mac | Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | Wii UGENRE: Top-down AdventureTARGET: TBA

COMPANY: Rain AS is a game developer based in Bergen, Norway, established in 2010. Teslagrad is their first com-mercial release. Though their core focus is development of games for console and PC platforms, they’ve delivered smaller projects for local institutions like Bergen Univer-sity College and The University of Bergen. In addition to this, they have been instrumental to the founding and day-to day operation of the Norwegian game developer’s guild (Spillmakerlauget).



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Loke finds himself exiled from Aasgard, and must find his way home. To do this, he needs all his luck, some magic and more cunning than he probably possesses. This is hand drawn adventure game where you get to explore what happens when two distinct worlds collide.

REALEASE: March-April 2015. PLATFORM: Windows, osx, (linux)GENRE: Point and click Adventure game.TARGET: Teens, hopefully younger.

COMPANY: KreativeSpill is a small game development company based in Son, Nor-way. We were founded by a number of industry veterans who decided to go their own way in the gaming world. Our team combines experience in MMO, free-to-play, social, and mobile development.



Loke finds himself exiled from Aasgard, and must find his way home. To do this, he needs all his luck, some magic and more cunning than he probably possesses. This is hand drawn adventure game where you get to explore what happens when two distinct worlds collide.

REALEASE: March-April 2015. PLATFORM: Windows, osx, (linux)GENRE: Point and click Adventure game.TARGET: Teens, hopefully younger.

COMPANY: KreativeSpill is a small game development company based in Son, Nor-way. We were founded by a number of industry veterans who decided to go their own way in the gaming world. Our team combines experience in MMO, free-to-play, social, and mobile development.

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Among the Sleep is a first-person horror adventure game, where you take on the role as a two-year-old child. One particular night, dramatic events occur and you are forced to flee from your home into a surreal world. Only accompanied by Teddy, you must overcome many hardships to find a way back home, and to safety. The child has yet to develop a full sense of reality, and is not fully able to separate fantasy from reality.

COMPANY: Krillbite is a young, small indie developer located in Hamar, Norway. Our passion is video games, and our goal is to influence their direction as much as we can by creating innovative and fresh games in what we feel can be a bit of a repet-itive and stale market at times. We want to prove that even tiny krill can make an impact in the vast ocean.

AMONG THE SLEEP

AD2460 is a science fiction strategy web-game. Set in a distant future, the game revolves around a race for the resources of the universe. You take control of your own homeworld and work to develop its technologies, facilities and military power in order to secure raw materials to improve your might in the universe. Along the way you will need to work together with other players in order to better protect your interests and grow.

COMPANY: Fifth Season is located in Oslo, Norway and has been creating and run-ning online games for over a decade. The first game was Planetarion in 2000, which was played by over 180 000 players at the time. Fifth Season now runs Manager-League, an online football management game, which has been online for over 9 years. It currently provides daily entertainment for over 30.000 active users from all over the globe. The latest game, AD2460, was launched on December 29. It is now in the early stages of attracting a solid player-base, adding content and functionality.

AD2460

CONTACT: Fifth Season AS Per BaumannMAIL: [email protected]: www.ad2460.comPHONE: +47 913 41 564

RELEASE: 29.12.2014PLATFORM: WebGENRE: Science Fiction MMOTARGET: 14-60

CONTACT: Krillbite Studio AS Ole Andreas JordetMAIL: [email protected]: http://krillbite.comPHONE: +47 936 80 982

RELEASE: 29.05.2014PLATFORM: PC | Mac | Linux. Upcoming release on Playstation 4.GENRE: Survival Horror, AdventureTARGET: Young Adults, 13-50

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Heave ahoy! The King of the Sea smells gold! Join Captain Sabertooth and his most trusted men in sea battles and treasure hunts, in storms and hurricanes, with fun and games. Tully serves up rat soup! Are YOU ready for a dangerous voyage on The Dark Lady? Whether you’re a first timer or a real pirate, you will find a fun game experience with exploration, sailing and sea battles. Go on fishing trips, play tic-tac-toe and help feed hungry pirates in Tully’s galley. The main goal is to fill Captain Sabertooth’s treasure room with gold and treasure!

COMPANY: Ravn Studio has developed high quality computer games for all plat-forms since 2006. In additions to our own IPs we have developed and published games based on many well known Norwegian and Nordic brands for kids/youth, like Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Captain Sabertooth, Blue Mountain, Pippi Longstocking, Twigson, Ella Bella Bingo and City of Friends. Our vision is to create good game experiences for all age groups. Also children and youth deserve digital content and games of high quality. Ravn Studio’s experienced and highly skilled team in Dram-men, Norway, develops games for console, PC, smart phones and tablets.

CAPTAIN SABERTHOOTH

Amphora is a peculiar puzzle game that mixes story elements and physics. Am-phora presents you with an unfamiliar world with a striking visual style inspired by all the shadow theatre traditions and colors of the world. Each scene will show you something new and always try to challenge your understanding of what is going on. Manipulate objects and build structures to create solutions to unconventional problems.

COMPANY: Moondrop is a small indie game studio located in Hamar, Norway, fo-cused on making games that are interesting, beautiful and respectful towards play-ers. Two full time developers, determination, experimental methods and compulsive behavior are key ingredients when Moondrop makes games. We strive to explore new possibilities in game design and wrap it inside great visual experiences.

AMPHORA

CONTACT: Moondrop Andreas FuglesangMAIL: [email protected]: http://moondrop.noPHONE: +47 476 77 602

RELEASE: November 12th 2014PLATFORM: PC (MAC)GENRE: 2D Puzzle AdventureTARGET: Teens, possibly younger

CONTACT: Ravn Studio June JenssenMAIL: [email protected]: www.ravnstudio.noPHONE: +47 907 00 107

RELEASE: July 4th 2014PLATFORM: iOS, AndroidGENRE: AdventureTARGET: Children 4 to 8 years

RELEASED 2014/2015


DragonBox Elements is a unique game where kids explore and learn how to rea-son with shapes and their properties, ie. to make geometry proofs. Players raise an army of warriors to fight the dragon Osgaard. The only way to raise the army is to solve geometric puzzles that reveal hidden warriors. The game allies pedagogy and engagement in a unique experience that will give kids a strong foundation in math without them realizing it.

COMPANY: WeWantToKnow is a startup making powerful videogames to teach the big ideas of mathematics. Multiple award-winning game company with its Drag-onBox concept series, it is known for its innovative pedagogy to get kids to enjoy learning difficult subjects such as basic algebra or geometry proofs.

DRAGONBOX ELEMENTS

Dreamfall Chapters is an episodic, story-driven adventure about choices and con-sequences, dreams and reality, magic and science, chaos and order, and the broken heroes whose actions will shape the course of history in all worlds. Set in parallel worlds — one in a dark cyberpunk vision of the future, the other a magical fantasy realm — the game follows two broken heroes on their journey across worlds to save the very nature of dreams from the Undreaming. Dreamfall Chapters is a mature, emotional, dark, magical and heartbreaking adventure that will take you by surprise.

COMPANY: Red Thread Games is an independent development studio based in Oslo, Norway. The studio is currently in production with episodic adventure game Dream-fall Chapters, the long-awaited sequel to acclaimed adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, and on first-person survival horror adventure Draugen.

DREAMFALL CHAPTERS

CONTACT: WeWantToKnow Jean-Baptiste HuynhMAIL: [email protected]: wewanttoknow.comPHONE: +47 916 32 296

RELEASE: 1st of june 2014 PLATFORM: iOS | androidGENRE: Educational gamesTARGET: Early primary school kids

CONTACT: Red Thread Games Ragnar TørnquistMAIL: [email protected]: www.redthreadgames.com

RELEASE: 21.10.2014 (first episode)PLATFORM: PC | Mac | Linux | PS4 | iOSGENRE: AdventureTARGET: Teens and adults, 12+

RELEASED 2014/2015


The Flag Bearer Saga consists of the two games: The Flag Bearer and Dropper of Flags. The Flag Bearer introduces a brand new gameplay experience on the iOS platform. With fun and challenging puzzles that fit perfectly for a 5 minute escape on the bus, at home or at work! Experience four unique areas on your path to saving princess Sunniva. Trick enemies, escape traps and capture all the empty tiles.

COMPANY: The Arctic As is an independent video game studio located above the Arctic Circle. Founded by the experienced Game Producer Jorg Hauan, the studio aims to create exciting and innovative games for the mobile and PC market. The studio released its first two games in the Flag Bearer Saga in 2014 and are currently working on a few new and exciting titles for the mobile and PC market.

THE FLAG BEARER

Popular Ella Bella Bingo from the acclaimed children’s TV series is ready for a new adventure. Ella Bella’s best friend Henry gets a brand new bicycle for his birthday, but as soon as it gets dark the bike mystically disappears. Ella Bella wants to help her friend. She starts a detective agency to find the missing bicycle. Join Ella Bella and her friends as they try to solve the mystery! Ella Bella: Bicycle Thief is not your regu-lar book app, but a magical story experience. Play your way through the interactive story. Enjoy fun, classic activity games.

COMPANY: Ravn Studio has developed high quality computer games for all plat-forms since 2006. In additions to our own IPs we have developed and published games based on many well known Norwegian and Nordic brands for kids/youth, like Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Captain Sabertooth, Blue Mountain, Pippi Longstocking, Twigson, Ella Bella Bingo and City of Friends. Our vision is to create good game experiences for all age groups. Also children and youth deserve digital content and games of high quality. Ravn Studio’s experienced and highly skilled team in Dram-men, Norway, develops games for console, PC, smart phones and tablets.

ELLA BELLA BICYCLE THIEF


RELEASE: October 17th 2014PLATFORM: iOS | AndroidGENRE: Interactive storybookTARGET: Children 3 to 5 years

CONTACT: The Arctic As Jorg HauanMAIL: [email protected]: www.the-arctic.comPHONE: +47 450 56 393

RELEASE: 07.01.2014 PLATFORM: iOSGENRE: ArcadeTARGET: Women 30+

RELEASED 2014/2015


FULL CYCLE

Full Cycle is a cycling action racer for the whole family! Set in a colorful world of real life cycling locations, the game pitches the player in the role as a rider on a profes-sional cycling team, with goals on behalf of the team as well as himself. The game plays out on a fantastic set of cycling stages where the player not only needs to navigate treacherous paths to reach the finish line, but also take heed to the energy realities of the cycling sport, each cyclist’s strengths and abilities – a perfect match between tactical dispositions and adrenaline racing.

COMPANY: Turbo Tape Games has delivered high quality tactical- and strategic games from their home base in Bergen on the western shores of Norway since 2008. To date, four games have seen the light of day, spanning various platforms from PC through web to mobiles. Turbo Tape Games was the first Norwegian developer to reach the number one spot for worldwide sales on Steam (with Naval War: Arctic Circle in 2012), and have received numerous accolades, being nominated as Best Norwegian Game Studio in 2011, Nordic Game of the Year in 2012 and Best Norwe-gian Audio Production in 2014.

Dropper of Flags is the second leg in the Flag Bearer Saga. Dropper of Flags is all about flying and planting flags, avoiding birds and rings of fire. Collect coins and upgrade Thor with new gliders and hats! This is the most fun you will get in an endless flying viking game.

COMPANY: The Arctic As is an independent video game studio located above the Arctic Circle. Founded by the experienced Game Producer Jorg Hauan, the studio aims to create exciting and innovative games for the mobile and PC market. The studio released its first two games in the Flag Bearer Saga in 2014 and are currently working on a few new and exciting titles for the mobile and PC market.

DROPPER OF FLAGS (THE FLAG BEARER SAGA)

CONTACT: The Arctic As Jorg HauanMAIL: [email protected]: www.the-arctic.comPHONE: +47 450 56 393

RELEASE: 21.05.2014PLATFORM: iOSGENRE: ArcadeTARGET: Women 30+


RELEASE: 11. December 2014PLATFORM: PCGENRE: RacingTARGET: Racing players and cycling sport fans of all ages

RELEASED 2014/2015


Get ready to meet the Minifigures! Collect them all and bring them with you on grand adventures in LEGO Minifigures Online - an epic online adventure where you get to explore colorful locations such as Pirate World, Space World and Medieval World! Play together with thousands of other players and battle your way through monstrous riff-raff as you develop your Minifigures’ unique and powerful abilities. Smash, build and collect - thousands of exciting adventures are just a brick away in LEGO Minifigures Online!

COMPANY: Funcom was founded in 1993 and has since then developed and pub-lished over 25 game titles across several genres and gaming platforms. Most notable of these are the MMOs ‘The Secret World’, ‘Age of Conan’ and ‘Anarchy Online’, as well as the adventure game ‘The Longest Journey’. One of the key reasons for Fun-com’s success in the MMO segment is the development of a proprietary MMO en-gine called ‘DreamWorld’. This engine gives the developers the flexibility and power needed to create some of the most advanced virtual worlds on the market. Funcom today has 100 employees in offices in Norway, the US and Canada.

LEGO MINIFIGURES ONLINE

In Fun Run 2, all the cutest, furriest creatures of the forest are out running. For you to remain a cool critter, it is essential that you finish the race before your furry friends. Fun Run 2 is the sequel to the successful synchronous multiplayer racing game Fun Run (launched 2012) with 50 M downloads. Fun Run 2 was launched December 2014 and quickly ranked #2 in on the US iOS downloads charts, and has reached more than 10 M downloads.

COMPANY: Dirtybit’s mission is to create memorable moments through mobile games that friends can play together - anywhere and anytime! They were the first company to have success with a real-time multiplayer mobile game: Fun Run. Dirt-ybit has established itself as one of Norway’s most promising mobile gaming start-ups with their games (more than 60 M downloads). Dirtybit consists of nine gaming enthusiasts located in Bergen, Norway.

FUN RUN 2 - MULTIPLAYER RACE

CONTACT: Dirtybit Aurora Klæboe BergMAIL: [email protected]: www.dirtybit.comPHONE: +47 900 55 042

RELEASE: 04.12.2014PLATFORM: iOS, Android, (soon Amazon and maybe Windows Store)GENRE: Real-time Multiplayer Racing GameTARGET: 18-24

CONTACT: Funcom Erling EllingsenMAIL: [email protected]: www.funcom.comPHONE: +47 488 67 107

RELEASE: October, 2014PLATFORM: PC | Mac | Upcomming release on tabletsGENRE: Online Action-RPGTARGET: 7+

RELEASED 2014/2015


Control two adorably dim-witted alien space janitors in this quirky and colorful platform puzzler. Conjoined by an air hose, you must shift size and weight between the two cosmic custodians to avoid dangerous traps and fix problems before disas-ter strikes. Play on your own, challenge a friend locally or across the galaxy (online) through the most zany and exotic locations in the known (and unknown) universe!

COMPANY: Rock Pocket Games is a small independent studio in Tønsberg, Norway. Founded in 2008, the Rock Pocketeers strongly believe that games are for everyone and there can never be enough color and quirkiness. Social and fun living room ex-periences for friends and family are the heart of their games, as well as lighthearted and bright worlds for everyone to enjoy.

SHIFTLINGS

Manipulate light and darkness in this co-op puzzle platformer. Shadow Puppeteer combines platforming with puzzle-solving in a play of light and shadow. Having a truly Nordic yet original art style, the game tells the story of a boy and his shadow. Move objects and their shadow in a cohesive play between you and your friend, in order to solve puzzles and get past all the challenges that lay ahead on your great journey. Shadow Puppeteer is a co-op experience that focuses on teamwork and seeing the world through different perspectives. The combination of the characters’ skills unite and complete them.

COMPANY: Sarepta studio was founded in 2010 in Hamar, Norway. Sarepta special-izes in multimedia production through visualizations and interactive experiences. As part of Hamar Game Collective the company works towards promoting games as regionally as cultural and industrial exports. Sarepta was nominated in 2013 by Den Norske Dataforening (The Norwegian Computer Association) for their annual Creativity award for their use of game technology in visualizations.

SHADOW PUPPETEER

CONTACT: Sarepta studio Catharina Due BøhlerMAIL: [email protected]: www.shadowpuppeteer.comPHONE: +47 400 53 835

RELEASE: September 29th, 2014PLATFORM: PCGENRE: Puzzle, plattformerTARGET: 11 - 35 years

CONTACT: Rock Pocket Games Natascha RöösliMAIL: [email protected]: http://www.shiftlings.comPHONE: +47 916 84 738

RELEASE: March 3rd 2015PLATFORM: PC | Xbox One | Playstation 4 | WiiUGENRE: Puzzle PlatformerTARGET: 8 to 99

RELEASED 2014/2015


The once idyllic village of Greenhaven is now a near lifeless husk, the souls of its inhab-itants having been drained by the powerful wizard Morg, who has used them to cre-ate the abominations that now occupy the mighty keep that was once the source of protection for the village. With the village’s crops withering untended in the fields and its people heading mindlessly toward oblivion, the one person unaffected by Morg’s influence, a young woman named Xobia, enters the keep to find the source of Morg’s power and put an end to the misery that has been unleashed on the hapless village.

COMPANY: Ravn Studio has developed high quality computer games for all plat-forms since 2006. In additions to our own IPs we have developed and published games based on many well known Norwegian and Nordic brands for kids/youth, like Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, Captain Sabertooth, Blue Mountain, Pippi Longstocking, Twigson, Ella Bella Bingo and City of Friends. Our vision is to create good game experiences for all age groups. Also children and youth deserve digital content and games of high quality. Ravn Studio’s experienced and highly skilled team in Dram-men, Norway, develops games for console, PC, smart phones and tablets

TAINTED KEEP

Size DOES Matter is an award-winning rhythm action game with a simple premise; manoeuvre through gates in time to music, using simple touch-screen controls of one thumb controlling size, and the other thumb controlling position. Winner of the BAFTA ”Ones to Watch” award, and brought to you by 4Music, the ultimate in music TV. Play through numerous action-filled levels featuring delicious electronic music by artists like Savant, Chipzel and Rymdreglage.

COMPANY: DOS Studios is an independent game developer consisting of five peo-ple, two programmers and three game designers who’ve worked together for over a year. Our goal is to develop interesting and highly polished experiences that players will engage in. With our latest game release and BAFTA-award winning mobile mu-sic game, Size DOES Matter, we hope to show players the quality they can expect from us in the future.

SIZE DOES MATTER

CONTACT: DOS Studios Mattis DelerudMAIL: [email protected]: http://dosstudios.noPHONE: +47 970 13 754

RELEASE: August 2014PLATFORM: iOS, Android, AmazonGENRE: Mobile Rhythm ActionTARGET: Rhythm Game Enthusiasts, Puzzle Game Lovers


RELEASE: July 31st 2014PLATFORM: Android, iOs, GENRE: Dungeon crawlerTARGET: 15 - 25 years

RELEASED 2014/2015


Teslagrad is an evocative game about exploration, danger and challenging puzzles, featuring magnetism and electricity as its central theme and mechanics. It draws inspiration from classic platform adventure games like Metroid and Castlevania, adding elements that were not possible in the heyday of the genre, such as high resolution art and accurate physics. The story in Teslagrad is told completely with-out the use of text or dialogue, instead being communicated through visual cues and the player’s actions and experiences. With bright artwork inspred by classic European animation contrasting sombre and fantastical surroundings, Teslagrad is a visually unique game.

COMPANY: Rain AS is a game developer based in Bergen, Norway, established in 2010. Teslagrad is their first commercial release. Though their core focus is develop-ment of games for console and PC platforms, they’ve delivered smaller projects for local institutions, Bergen University College and The University of Bergen. In addi-tion to this, they have been instrumental to the founding and day-to day operation of the Norwegian game developer’s guild (Spillmakerlauget).

TESLAGRAD

Join our hero, Theo, on his quest to rescue his best friend, Teddy, from a naughty witch in a magical land of living toys! Teddy is Missing is a fully animated interactive storybook with branching story paths, fun mini-games and a climactic showdown that changes according to the decisions you make! Written together with renowned Norwegian children’s book author, Endre Lund Eriksen, and featuring the hilarious voice acting talents of Roger L. Jackson, it’s a spell-binding adventure that is set to entertain both kids and parents alike!

COMPANY: Plus Point is a team of veteran game developers that have worked for companies the likes of Funcom and EA/Playfish. Residing in the Arctic fringes of Tromsø, Norway, they have applied their experience and skillset on a large a variety of interactive work, from commercial clients to international research projects and museums. Plus Point is sincerely devoted to creating fun, lively digital products, and are particularly motivated in engaging the young and the young at heart. The team has dedicated time with developing their very own brand of fresh and original IP’s - ideas which has found support from established funding bodies around in Norway.

TEDDY IS MISSING

CONTACT: Plus Point AS Ruben NergårdMAIL: [email protected]: www.pluspoint.noPHONE: +47 955 25 779

RELEASE: 5th of February 2015PLATFORM: iOSGENRE: Interactive BookTARGET: Kids, 3-8 years

CONTACT: Rain AS Peter Wingaard MeldahlMAIL: [email protected]: www.rain-games.comPHONE: +47 996 91 588

RELEASE: Q4 2013 (PC), 2014 (Console)PLATFORM: Win | Linux | Mac| PS3 | PS4 | WiiU | Upcomming release on PS VitaGENRE: Puzzle PlatformerTARGET: 12-34

RELEASED 2014/2015


UHR-Warlords is a turn based tactical board game for tablets. In UHR-Warlords the player takes control of one of four warlords in the eternal struggle for dominance of the frostbitten UHR throne of Ismount. The world of UHR is originally described in the Black Metal mythology of musician Demonaz through his 25 year long career as lyrics writer and composer for the band Immortal. In the game, the warlords summon mythical monsters and creatures, and pitch them in battle across the lands of Noord using unique pattern based movement and attack orders.

COMPANY: Turbo Tape Games has delivered high quality tactical- and strategic games from their home base in Bergen on the western shores of Norway since 2008. To date, four games have seen the light of day, spanning various platforms from PC through web to mobiles. Turbo Tape Games was the first Norwegian developer to reach the number one spot for worldwide sales on Steam (with Naval War: Arctic Circle in 2012), and have received numerous accolades, being nominated as Best Norwegian Game Studio in 2011, Nordic Game of the Year in 2012 and Best Norwe-gian Audio Production in 2014.

UHR WARLORDS

It’s time to Troll! Get ready for a mega fun strategy game where Trolls, Vikings, Norse gods and mythical creatures clash in an epic strategy battle. The game has been featured multiple times by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, and has received thousands of raving customer reviews!

COMPANY: Megapop is a game developer based out of Oslo, Norway. The company was founded by some of the most experienced online game developers in Europe. Trolls vs Vikings is the first released game, and has been on the top 10 strategy charts in more than 80 countries!

TROLLS VS. VIKINGS

CONTACT: Megapop Jørgen Tharaldsen, CEOMAIL: [email protected]: www.megapopgames.comPHONE: +47 413 34 147

RELEASE: March 2014PLATFORM: Apple iOS |Google Play | Windows Store | Windows MobileGENRE: Strategy, action,tower defense TARGET: 12+


RELEASE: 18. February 2014PLATFORM: iPad | Android TabletsGENRE: StrategyTARGET: Deep strategy fans

RELEASED 2014/2015


PUBLISHER Norwegian Film InstituteEDITOR Kaja Hench DyrlieDESIGN Lise Kihle Designstudio

PUBLISHED BY Norwegian Film InstituteDepartment of Promotionand International RelationsP.O.Box 482 SentrumN-0105 OsloTel: +47 22 47 45 00/79www.nfi.no

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