Trickster Arts is an

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team based in the Czech Republic. It consists of former

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employees.

History

The studio was founded in Fall 2012 when Matouš Ježek left 2K Czech and started to work on his own game. The project was titled ''Hero''. Ježek also contacted some of his friends and former colleagues to join his team. It included Ladislav Týč and Matúš Široký. They also released an

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game ''Date Me If You Can''. Its Czech version ''Interande'' was, unlike the English version, a success. The project ''Hero'' (renamed to ''Hero of Many'') was in development for 10 months and was released in June 2013 to very positive response from critics. The game was also a minor financial success that allowed Trickster Arts to start works on another project. This new project was an unnamed action adventure in which the player controlled Fire. This was a much bigger project than ''

Hero of Many ''Hero of Many'' is an independent video game developed by Trickster Arts. It is an Action-adventure game for Android, iOS, Ouya and Windows. The Windows version was released on Steam on 15 September 2014. The game contains no dialogue and uses b ...

'' but the development was eventually stopped after a year, as the game was too difficult for development and too expensive. Trickster Arts then decided to make a game about Hacking In November 2012, Matouš Ježek, the

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was present at

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, where he talked about the team and its experiences with the development. Trickster Arts announced its new game ''Hackers'' in April 2016 at Game Access Conference in

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. Hackers was released on 19 September 2016. The game was downloaded by more than 1 million players after one Month. Studio announced its next game Action RPG '' Monolisk'' on 31 May 2019. The game was released on 15 October 2019.

Released titles

References

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External links

Official Site
Video game companies of the Czech Republic Video game companies established in 2012 Video game development companies Companies based in Prague 2012 establishments in the Czech Republic