Matthias Schindler – Rough Sea Games
Posted in Company on September 7th, 2008 by Matthias
Rough Sea Games is a newly founded browser games company located in Darmstadt (Germany) that is currently trying to raise VC money to develop its fantastic upcoming super secret hit title! Yihaaa!
I just want to introduce myself a little bit. My name is Matthias Schindler. I’ve been a professional game developer for about 15 years now and worked on more than 25 different published game titles on multiple platforms. I co-founded two games companies (producing mainly classic handheld and casual games), both of which still exist and which will hopefully continue to prosper in years to come.
In late 2006 I joined 10tacle, a company which has had a lot of bad press lately. I was the studio manager and technical director of the Darmstadt branch of 10tacle Mobile, the division responsible for handheld games production. I will write another blog post on that really bad issue later on…
Anyway, 4 months ago, in May 2008, I decided to found a new company with some of the guys I worked with at 10tacle. These very nice and extremely skilled folk will introduce themselves on this blog very soon.
I was sure I did not want to make the same mistake as in my former companies: missing focus! Back then, we did games for any platform and any genre we could get. We refused to restrict ourselves to, say, bloody horse games or nice casual puzzle games only. How could we? We thought our employees would run away and we would go nuts developing those games for a lifetime. Later on I realized that this was a big mistake.
Keeping this in mind, we thought about new possibilites, checked out the current state of the market, and, after a few weeks of research, realized that the browser games business is the way we wanted to go.
We could focus on only one title and make it nice, really nice. Improve it over a long period so people will constantly get a better and more convenient gaming experience. And hopefully people would give some of their money for that really nice experience. Out of this idea Rough Sea Games was born.
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