Frozenbyte Blog

1. A Piece of the Company Story

   February 27th, 2012 by Susie | Category: Frozenbyte

   
   Hi everyone!

   Last year, I told you something about Frozenbyte’s company story we’re working on.

   A lot has been going on since then: Trine 2 came out, and last week we finally moved into a new office!

   The company story is still a work in progress as well but I’d like to share another piece of it.

   This is one of my favourite parts – it’s almost absurd that 13 years after the ordinary school day depicted in the text below, Frozenbyte has made four games and is employing over 40 professionals.

   So here comes…

   The very beginning

   It was a recess in Käpylä high school, Helsinki, in the springtime of 1999.

   The sun was shining into the hallway along which the classrooms located. A 17-year-old young man named Juha was sitting on the floor, typing his Texas Instruments 85 calculator. His schoolmate Lauri, who was also 17 years old, walked through the hallway and casually asked:

   ”Would you be interested in making games?”

   A little confused, Juha looked at Lauri.

   ”Yes,” he answered.

   To be continued…

   -Susie

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2. New Frozenbyte HQ

   February 24th, 2012 by Mikael | Category: Frozenbyte

   

   We are opening up our vault and letting you guys have a little peek at the new Frozenbyte headquarters.

   Yes there is a vault here, not quite sure why but it’s good to have one just in case.

   Anyways, it’s taken a while, but now we are starting to settle a little bit.

   Of course it will take a while to get this place to feel like we have completely settled, but at least we have all our stuff here and work is regular.

   Again below or this link for some pics.

   Have to point out some of the other special features that we didn’t have before, for example the pool… well mainly the POOL!

   Yea, we got one of those too, but you know that it will be the first thing covered up if we happen to need some more workspace.

   -Mikael

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3. Out with the Old, In with the New

   February 21st, 2012 by Mikael | Category: Frozenbyte

   

   All good things come to an end and that is now also the case with the infamous Frozenbyte headquarters.

   We have been a bit quiet lately with a lot of things on our hands.
   Mainly moving and that whole thing with Trine 2 not being out on all consoles like it should be.

   Well good news, Trine 2 PSN EU is finally in Sony and Atlus QA! (again)
   And we have started operations at a new, more awesome location.

   What does this mean to all of you?

   Well first of all we will post a ton of pics of what the old place looked like (just in case anyone is interested).

   Plus later we will hype the heck out of the new place, just cause we’re still some what enthusiastic about it.

   So for starters here are the pics in large size and below in lower resolution.

   -Mikael

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4. Winning!

   February 17th, 2012 by Mikael | Category: Frozenbyte, Trine 2

   Yesterday we received the “Best Finnish Game Award” called Kyöpeli. It was voted by the readers of the magazine “Pelit” here in Finland.

   This is a huge honor for us and we would like to thank all our fans from the bottom of our heart.

   We have had awesome conversations with you guys on our forums, blogs and e-mails and we hope to keep it a big part of work in the future also.

   On our old office wall we had a huge amount of letters and comments printed out to make us smile and this week we moved to a new office so we will start another such wall of course.

   Thanks again, have a wonderful weekend and more about our new office next week!

   

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5. There there now, everything’s okay!

   February 6th, 2012 by Mikael | Category: Splot

   There’s not been many Splot updates here recently and I’m sure quite many of you are interested to know how that small blue creature is doing! I can honestly say the guys are working like crazy to get the story started, but sadly the exact release date is still waiting.

   At first Splot will be released on iOS (iPad, iPhone) and in Facebook, and after that the second wave will cover releases on other platforms.

   So, we wish you to be patient and trust that when Splot is finally released he will be something great.

   Here’s a small pat on the head for all of you (and for all of us) while we’re waiting.

   - Mikael

   

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