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Gambitious
Good Shepherd Entertainment (formerly Gambitious Digital Entertainment) is a Dutch video game publisher based in Amsterdam. The company was founded in 2011 and opened its equity crowdfunding platform in September 2012. Gambitious' publishing label was opened in 2014, offering publishing services. In August 2017, Gambitious Digital Entertainment was rebranded Good Shepherd Entertainment whereas they ceased their crowdfunding activities and fully transitioned into being a publisher. Having been a consultant to the company prior, Brian Grigsby now became the CEO of the company. History Foundation (2011–2012) Gambitious Digital Entertainment was established in 2011 by chief executive officer Paul Hanraets. Founding partners include Mike Wilson and Harry Miller of Devolver Digital, Sjoerd Geurts, and Andy Payne. Additional funding was provided by business funding platform Symbid. The company and its crowdfunding platform, also called Gambitious, were formally announced in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambitious Digital Entertainment
Good Shepherd Entertainment (formerly Gambitious Digital Entertainment) is a Dutch video game publisher based in Amsterdam. The company was founded in 2011 and opened its equity crowdfunding platform in September 2012. Gambitious' publishing label was opened in 2014, offering publishing services. In August 2017, Gambitious Digital Entertainment was rebranded Good Shepherd Entertainment whereas they ceased their crowdfunding activities and fully transitioned into being a publisher. Having been a consultant to the company prior, Brian Grigsby now became the CEO of the company. History Foundation (2011–2012) Gambitious Digital Entertainment was established in 2011 by chief executive officer Paul Hanraets. Founding partners include Mike Wilson and Harry Miller of Devolver Digital, Sjoerd Geurts, and Andy Payne. Additional funding was provided by business funding platform Symbid. The company and its crowdfunding platform, also called Gambitious, were formally announced in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Games (company)
''Train Fever'' is a business simulation game by Swiss developer Urban Games, funded via the crowdfunding platform Gambitious on 20 March 2012 for a total budget of €300,000 and therefore published digitally by Gambitious Digital Entertainment and to retail by Astragon. Train Fever was made available for pre-order on 22 July 2014 and released on 4 September. On 8 November 2016 the successor, ''Transport Fever'', was released: it is based on the same engine and has new transport types and larger map sizes. The game is heavily inspired from other transport simulation games, such as ''Transport Tycoon'', ''Railroad Tycoon'' and '' OpenTTD''; and, to a lesser extent, '' Cities in Motion''. Funding On 22 June 2012, the ''Train Fever'' team announced that they would need to seek funding in order to be able to develop the final release of their game. It was decided to use a crowd-funding platform, although no name was given at that time. The first activities on ''Train Fevers Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Train Fever
''Train Fever'' is a business simulation game by Swiss developer Urban Games, funded via the crowdfunding platform Gambitious on 20 March 2012 for a total budget of €300,000 and therefore published digitally by Gambitious Digital Entertainment and to retail by Astragon. Train Fever was made available for pre-order on 22 July 2014 and released on 4 September. On 8 November 2016 the successor, '' Transport Fever'', was released: it is based on the same engine and has new transport types and larger map sizes. The game is heavily inspired from other transport simulation games, such as ''Transport Tycoon'', ''Railroad Tycoon'' and '' OpenTTD''; and, to a lesser extent, '' Cities in Motion''. Funding On 22 June 2012, the ''Train Fever'' team announced that they would need to seek funding in order to be able to develop the final release of their game. It was decided to use a crowd-funding platform, although no name was given at that time. The first activities on ''Train Fevers G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symbid
Symbid (also known as The Funding Network) is an online funding platform providing access to traditional and alternative finance for small and medium-sized enterprises. Headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Symbid was founded in April 2011 by Dutch entrepreneurs Robin Slakhorst and Korstiaan Zandvliet as one of the first equity crowdfunding platforms worldwide. Since 2017, Symbid operated under the license of Ilfa Group, that bought Symbid early 2019. History Early years In 2007, Symbid's founders Robin Slakhorst and Korstiaan Zandvliet met while studying Entrepreneurship & New Business Venturing M.Sc. at Rotterdam School of Management. Between 2007 and 2010 Zandvlliet and Slakhorst coordinated a fiscal-legal structure allowing non-accredited investors to invest online in start-ups and small businesses. While a number of crowdfunding platforms began to appear online from 2006 onwards, these were associated with creative projects and rewards or donation-based crowdfundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Wilson (executive)
Michael S. Wilson (born 1970) is an American business executive, video game producer, and film-maker. Beginning his career at DWANGO as Vice President of Development before being hired to lead marketing and publishing at id Software in 1995, Wilson has subsequently co-founded multiple independent video game publishers, including Gathering of Developers, Gamecock Media Group, Devolver Digital, Good Shepherd Entertainment, and DeepWell DTx. Wilson has been a featured speaker at South by Southwest, Reboot Red, Reboot Blue, E3, the International Games Summit on Mental Health Awareness, Game Developers Conference, and many more, and is a vocal advocate for mental health in games, and self-care and unionization in the world of independent game development. In 2019, he called on the industry to start grappling with the reality of video game addiction and begin taking active measures to curb its effects through "being more intentional about the content we create." Wilson has served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mushroom Men
The ''Mushroom Men'' video games were developed for Nintendo DS and Wii systems. Both games were developed by American company Red Fly Studio and published by Gamecock Media Group. The story revolves around a civil war between Mushroom Men in a human world. According to the game's designer ''Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi'' for the Nintendo DS is a side-scrolling platformer as well as a prequel to ''Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars'', the Wii version, which is a full 3D platforming game. Red Fly Studio used Gambitious to try to crowdfund a sequel, known as Pax's Truffle Trouble for PC, which eventually came out on Steam a Mushroom Men: Truffle Troubleon March 10, 2015. Story The story begins when a comet crashes to the Earth, raining down a strange green dust in its wake. The space dust is harmless to humans and goes unnoticed, but they failed to notice that flora, fauna and fungi including mushrooms, cacti, and kudzu gained sentience. Also, this strange green dust mutated some of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devolver Digital
Devolver Digital, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Austin, Texas, specializing in the publishing of indie games. The company was founded in June 2009 by Nigel Lowrie, Harry Miller, Graeme Struthers, Rick Stults, and Mike Wilson, five executives who had been involved with Gathering of Developers and Gamecock Media Group, which published games on developer-friendly terms, but due to the high cost associated with releasing retail games saw themselves acquired and dissolved by larger companies. To avoid this, Devolver Digital instead turned to digital distribution channels. Devolver Digital started by publishing high-definition remakes of games in the ''Serious Sam'' series. After success with these remakes and spin-off games based on the series, Devolver Digital began publishing games from other, smaller independent studios, one of the first being their breakout title, ''Hotline Miami''. The company also operated Devolver Digital Films for film distribution, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacOS
macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and laptop computers it is the second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows and ahead of ChromeOS. macOS succeeded the classic Mac OS, a Mac operating system with nine releases from 1984 to 1999. During this time, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs had left Apple and started another company, NeXT, developing the NeXTSTEP platform that would later be acquired by Apple to form the basis of macOS. The first desktop version, Mac OS X 10.0, was released in March 2001, with its first update, 10.1, arriving later that year. All releases from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and after are UNIX 03 certified, with an exception for OS X 10.7 Lion. Apple's other operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, audioOS) are derivatives of macOS. A promi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which includes the kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name "GNU/Linux" to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy. Popular Linux distributions include Debian, Fedora Linux, and Ubuntu, the latter of which itself consists of many different distributions and modifications, including Lubuntu and Xubuntu. Commercial distributions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Desktop Linux distributions include a windowing system such as X11 or Wayland, and a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE Plasma. Distributions intended for ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polygon (website)
''Polygon'' is an American entertainment website that publishes blogs, reviews, guides, videos, and news primarily covering video games, as well as movies, comics, television and books. At its October 2012 launch as Vox Media's third property, ''Polygon'' sought to distinguish itself from competitors by focusing on the stories of the people behind the games instead of the games themselves. It also produced long-form magazine-style feature articles, invested in video content, and chose to let their review scores be updated as the game changed. The site was built over the course of ten months, and its 16-person founding staff included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites ''Joystiq'', '' Kotaku'' and '' The Escapist''. Its design was built to HTML5 responsive standards with a pink color scheme, and its advertisements focused on direct sponsorship of specific kinds of content. Vox Media produced a documentary series on the founding of the site. History The gaming blog ''Poly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MCV (magazine)
''MCV/Develop'' (formerly ''MCV'' and ''Market for Computer & Video Games'') is a UK trade magazine that focuses on the business aspects of the video game industry. It is published monthly by Biz Media, a subsidiary of Datateam Media Group and is available in print and digitally. Originally named ''MCV'', it absorbed the assets of sister magazines (including ''Develop'') in 2018, and changed its name to ''MCV/Develop'' in 2019. History ''MCV'' was started in September 1998 by former ''Computer Trade Weekly'' (''CTW'') employees Stuart Dinsey, editor, Lisa Carter (then Foster), deputy editor, Alex Moreham (then Jarvis), sales manager and Dave Roberts. ''CTW'' was published weekly from September 1984 and by 1998 was the official newspaper for ELSPA (The European Leisure Software Publishers Association) and the creator and sponsor of ECTS (European Computer Trade Show). Stuart Dinsey left ''MCV'' in 2013 after selling it a year earlier. Stuart is currently chairman of Curve Dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone. The first version of Windows was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in the world, with 75% market share , according to StatCounter. However, Windows is not the most used operating system when including both mobile and desktop OSes, due to Android's massive growth. , the most recent version of Windows is Windows 11 for consumer PCs and tablets, Windows 11 Enterprise for corporations, and Windows Server 2022 for servers. Genealogy By marketing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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