Frictional Games ( rus. Friction Games - can be understood as "role-playing games", "interactive games") - an independent company specializing in the development of computer games, located in the Swedish city of Helsingborg . It is led by Thomas Gripp and Jens Nilsson . External collaborators also help in the development: music and plot are composed by Mikko Tarmia and Tom Jubert, respectively. Ports for Linux and Mac OS X are created by Edward Rudd [1] .
| Frictional games | |
|---|---|
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| Type of | Private company |
| Base | 2007 |
| Location |  Sweden : Helsingborg |
| Key figures | Thomas Grip Jens Nilsson |
| Industry | gaming industry |
| Products | computer games |
| Site | frictionalgames.com |
All Frictional Games titles use the internal HPL Engine in their work.
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History
The studio’s first commercial game was Penumbra: Overture in the survival horror genre, released in 2007, followed by Penumbra: Black Plague in 2008 [2] and finally Penumbra: Requiem expansion later in 2008 [3] .
The first Penumbra was originally a technology demo created in 2006 [4] .
On May 4, 2010, Penumbra: Overture was included in the digitally-priced Humble Indie Bundle , a free -to-play collection of indie games . After the success of sales (revenue amounted to more than one million dollars), the developers of the games in the collection completely opened their source code, including the HPL1 Engine [5] [6] .
On September 8, 2010, the company finished working on Amnesia: The Dark Descent ( Russian Amnesia: The Ghost of the Past ), with which the second version of the HPL engine was released.
On April 12, 2011, the company released the Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Amnesia: Justine extension, where events intersect with the first part of the game.
On September 10, 2013, the company released the game - Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs .
On September 22, 2015, the company finished working on its latest project - SOMA , with which the third version of the HPL engine [7] [8] was released .
On November 22, 2016, the company prepared a compilation for PlayStation 4 , which includes all the games of the Amnesia: Amnesia: The Dark Descent series (with the addition of Amnesia: Justine) and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs [9] . The collection is available for download in the digital service PlayStation Network .
Two games are currently under development. Frictional Games said that two projects being simultaneously developed would allow them to be more experimental, because they would not have to put all their efforts into one project for the sake of financial gain [10] .
Games
Frictional Games
| Year | Title | Developer | Platform | Game engine | Publisher | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac | Lin | Win | Ps4 | |||||
| 2007 | Penumbra: Overture | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not | HPL Engine 1 | Paradox Interactive |
| 2008 | Penumbra: black plague | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not | ||
| 2008 | Penumbra: requiem | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not | ||
| 2010 | Amnesia: The Dark Descent | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | HPL Engine 2 | Frictional games |
| 2013 | Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs | Not | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2015 | SOMA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | HPL Engine 3 | |
Notes
- ↑ Frictional Games, Penumbra: Overture for Linux out now!
- ↑ LinuxGames, Penumbra: Black Plague Final (link not available) . Date of treatment April 1, 2010. Archived June 14, 2011.
- ↑ LinuxGames, Penumbra: Requiem Released for Linux (link not available) . Date of treatment April 1, 2010. Archived June 14, 2011.
- ↑ Penumbra Tech Demo 2006 | Frictional Games . frictionalgames.com. Date of treatment November 8, 2016.
- ↑ Humble Indie Bundle games will be open (inaccessible link) . The news . Habrahabr (05-11-2010). Date of treatment June 24, 2010. Archived May 16, 2010.
- ↑ Nilsson, Jens Penumbra: Overture, HPL1 Engine and OALWrapper released as open source . Press release . Frictional Games (05-14-2010). Date of treatment June 24, 2010. Archived March 14, 2012.
- ↑ Nathan Grayson. Amnesia Devs Hint At Next Project, Dismiss Piracy . Rock, Paper, Shotgun (September 11, 2012). Date of treatment November 8, 2016.
- ↑ SOMA - INFO . www.somagame.com. Date of treatment November 8, 2016.
- ↑ Frictional Games announces Amnesia series of games for PS4
- ↑ GameZone. Soma sells 250,000 in six months, Frictional Games now working on two new games . www.gamezone.com. Date of treatment November 8, 2016.