Germany has long been one of Europe s major hubs for game development, but the national industry has thrived despite an incomplete ecosystem.
At the end of the 2000s, for example, it had several of the leading companies in the browser game market, some of which would become leaders in the emerging mobile space. If you wanted to find a path into one of these companies through education, however, options were severely limited.
The origin of Mimimi Games, the studio behind the widely praised Desperados 3, can be traced back to exactly that period, at one of the only game design courses in Germany. According to Johannes Roth, the company s managing director, its six co-founders first met on that course in Munich, having traveled from around the country to be there.