THREAKS

The party at THREAKS is over… but Beatbuddy will never stop dancing! In the name of the immortal Beatbuddy and his friends we are happy to announce that you can now enjoy the game on the Nintendo Switch™: https://lnkd.in/ecwUW_wr Play the awarded musical action-adventure at home or on the go. The lush hand painted worlds and the unforgettable soundtrack is all you need to make this SUMMER a happy ending fairy tale. Thank you to all our Beatbuddy fans out there and we hope you will save Symphonia once again!

Beatbuddy out now on Epic Games Store! 🎉 As one of our final acts at Threaks, we’re thrilled to announce 'Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians' is now live on the Epic Games Store starting July 4th, 2024! Already loved on PC and consoles, we’re excited to bring  Beatbuddy to even more players ❤️ Buts stay tuned – this isn’t Beatbuddy's last dance!🕺🕺🕺 https://lnkd.in/e6B8AWMd 🎶 Experience a vibrant, music-infused world where every move shapes the dynamic soundtrack. Dive into lush environments and epic action-adventure gameplay, feeling the beat in every moment 🔊 🎧 🎶 Also, check out our fun, casual spin-off, Beatbuddy: On Tour! With dynamic music mixing action, it's a fantastic addition to the Beatbuddy universe on the Epic Games Store. #Beatbuddy #EpicGamesStore #GameLaunch #IndieGame #ActionAdventure #MusicGame #CasualGame #GamingNews

❤️ Dear friends, partners, and industry network, it is with a heavy heart that we must announced that despite our efforts during the past months, we sadly had to lay-off our entire team at THREAKS. Our first priority has been, and remains, with our amazing #team - and this post is meant to help them find their new opportunity. If you are looking for talented game developers, look no further: https://lnkd.in/e8Pq-_jK As much as it hurts us to let everyone go, it bears a great chance for our team to find their next dream job, and for all you recruiters and hiring managers out their, a chance to find highly skilled and professional #developers! 📢🙌 This document lists those affected and #OpenToWork that are willing to publicly share their data, with direct links to their LinkedIn profiles. Please reach out to them directly, if you think they could be a great fit for a role you are hiring for. We can vouch for every single member of this great and unique team. Every like, comment and repost on this will help incredibly talented game developers land their next role, so even if you are not hiring yourself, please spread the word about this and lets make sure that all of them land on their feet safely 💪 Thank you all for supporting our team, it means a lot to all of us ❤️

We are happy to promote Super Crowd Entertainment GmbH's annnoucement! They just launched a great program for the upcoming Hamburg Games Conference to support fellow industry members that had been part of the recent game industry layoffs. Free Ticket, Meet To Match and a free 1-year IDGA membership! Good luck to everyone and we hope to see plenty of you at the conference to talk about future adventures🤞

Dear Global Game Community, We have a sad announcement to make: After 15 years in this wonderful industry, we’re closing our doors mid 2024. We wanted to use this moment to thank everyone that helped us along the way & give you a couple of statistics…we’re Germans after all :) • We’ve had 18 commercial game releases in 15 stores selling more than 1 Mio copies  • Made games for 12 platforms and 3 console generations, including a launch title for Google Daydream & Beatbuddy WiiU as one of the first European Nintendo Indies • Won more than 25 awards incl. German video game award 2014 - Best Youth Game • Been working with more than 80 people from 11 nations, some of them now running their own studios or working in companies like Riot Games, Guerrilla, InnoGames GmbH & Triband • Visited more than 80 conventions in 15 nations & gave more than 50 talks & lectures + participated in mentoring programs • Co-founded the award winning Indie Arena Booth which helped more than 1k game dev studios to participate at gamescom over the last 10 years • Founded the first Hamburg Co-Working Space Games Kontor & ran it for 4 years with 9 studios and 40 developers • Became an official Unity partner studio - Certified Creator Network • Contributed to more than 20 projects as external development partner • Worked on renowned IP's such as Warhammer 40K, Oddworld, Gang Beasts, DDLC+  • Had Intel Corporation, Google, NVIDIA, Alienware, Warner Music Group & Unity among our clients Since last year we’ve been working with 25 highly skilled employees on multiple awesome projects, generating one of the best years in our company history. However the ongoing industry crisis has led to enormous financial pressure, so we have decided to close our doors in an organized manner and finish our last projects properly by mid of this year. Perhaps we run into another miracle that saves THREAKS like in 2014, 2017 & 2021 but maybe this marks the end of an era. We’ve been lucky enough to experience all of the wonderful ups and terrible downs this great industry has to offer. This journey wouldn’t possible without many great individuals that helped us along the way: Samuli Syvähuoko, Gunther Rehfeld, Steven Augustine, Martijn van Doorn, Michael Schade, Katja Reitemeyer, Jonas Antonsson, Torsten Oppermann, Werner Krassau, Heiko Milde, Robin John Andes Harries, Kim Stahn, Kelly Wallick, Jan Klose, John Graham, Zach Huntley, Dieter Marchsreiter, Prof. Dr. Christian Rauda, Dieter Schoeller, David Helgason, Dave Hobbs, Austin Wintory, Maria Kameko , Peter de Jong, Tom Sadowski, Ole Schaper, Dakota Grabowski, Frank Zahn, Jamaine Arhin, to name but a few + the biggest shoutout to our team members, both old and new! By helping build numerous industry careers and with the games we’ve shipped, we humbly accept immortality in this wonderful industry and are excited for the next “THREAKS-like” teams to come and shake-up this industry for the better. It was one hell of ride - DANKE! Your THREAKS

Battle Planet - Judgement Day - Asia Release + Epic Game Store! Great news before end of the year! We are proud to announce our collaboration with Ripples Asia Venture to bring our rogue-lite shooter Battle Planet - Judgement Day to the players in the Asian regions! The game is now expanded for Asia on Steam, GOG, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch! ...plus it is available on the Epic Game Store as of now! Releases for Xbox and Microsoft Store are following shortly! Wishing everyone happy holidays, a very great start into 2024 and a ton of shmup fun with Battle Planet - Judgement Day! https://lnkd.in/edg73m83

Shoutout to our Tech Lead Extraordinaire, Merve Meszaros! Merve recently rocked the stage at the Game Industry Conference in Poznan, one of the most important and largest game expos in Europe for all things gaming. With over 79,300 gaming enthusiasts in attendance, the conference was THE place to be, featuring games and hardware from more than 220 exhibitors. Merve took centre stage with her talk that was as entertaining as it was enlightening, tackling the ever-persistent Imposter Syndrome - “Debugging Imposter Syndrome” And guess what? The room was bursting at the seams, hanging on to her every word. Merve, you did a fantastic job, and we couldn't be prouder. Here's to levelling up our self-belief. #ImposterSyndromeNoMore #Debugging #GIC23 #GameDev