Ralf (C.) A.
Freelance Game Producer
Experience
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
6 years 1 monthWürzburg, Germany
Member of the Advisory Board
Virgin Lands GmbH
May 2014 - Feb 2016
1 year 10 monthsExecutive Producer
flaregames
Sep 2012 - Dec 2014
2 years 4 monthsManaging Director
Virgin Lands GmbH
- Contributed to production of two full-feature animation movies as Managing Director for Virgin Lands, a leading graphics & animation studio in Europe.
Jul 2011 - Sep 2012
1 year 3 monthsMunich, Germany
Head of Game Development
Travian Games
Jun 2011 - Present
14 years 7 monthsRegensburg, Germany
Owner (Freelance Producer, self-employed)
TigerTeam Productions
- Producer of Black Jacket (Mi'pu'mi Games)
- Producer of Lou’s Lagoon (Tiny Roar)
- Game design & producing consultancy for Tavern Talk (Gentle Troll)
- Product owner for Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (AESIR/Astragon) in 2019/2020
- Consulting producer for Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Seven Keys (HeR Interactive)
Jun 2010 - May 2011
1 yearVP Publishing
Gameforge AG
- Responsible for the organisation of all publishing services within Gameforge, including production of external development, QA, graphic department, localisation and acquisition of new titles.
- In charge of 60 internal employees and 75 employees in external studios.
Jan 2009 - Jun 2010
1 year 6 monthsExecutive Producer
Gameforge AG
- Responsible for the organisation of the complete producing structure within Gameforge.
- Management of the producing department; in charge of ten Producers.
- Responsible as Executive Producer for all development in external studios and restructuring of internal development.
- Oversaw more than 10 projects, including: Europe1400 (Ticking Bomb Games), Nox Mortis (Rough Sea Studios), Couchpotatoes (Steroid Interactive), Drivals (KingArt), Hellbreed (Inflammables), Star Trek: Infinite Space (Keen Games).
Jan 2004 - May 2009
5 years 5 monthsOwner
TigerTeam Productions
- Game design consulting for Sunflowers/SEK: ParaWorld
- Game design consulting for Spellbound/Atari: Desperados 2 and addon
- Game design for dtp: Element Girls 1 + 2, Think Kids 1 + 2, Gripskids: Math, German & Science, ??? and the Secret of Skeleton Island, Think Wii, Think Business Coach, Think again
- Production consulting for Buena Vista Games and Take 2 Interactive Germany
- Game design for Ticking Bomb Games: Europe1400, Kick'n'Rush
- Producer for Ascaron: Sacred: Underworld
- Producer for JoWooD: The Guild 2 and addon, Yeti Worldtour
- Project lead for Gameforge: Ikariam
- Production consulting for Ubisoft/Blue Byte: Settlers 6 and addon
- Production consulting for Ascaron: Sacred 2
- Business development and PR for Virgin Lands Animated Pictures
- Consulting and PR for Kritzelkratz 3000
- Final linguistic reviews for all Buena Vista Games Germany titles
- PR and translations for various clients
- Freelance editor and journalist
Jul 2003 - Nov 2003
5 monthsProject Lead
Phenomic Game Development
- Project lead and management, co-game design, design documentation, text lectorship and voice recording, collaboration with publishing producer and PR/marketing
- Project: SpellForce – The Order of Dawn
Apr 2001 - Jun 2003
2 years 3 monthsExecutive Producer
JoWooD Productions Software AG
- Responsible for the organisation of the complete producing structure within JoWooD.
- Management of the producing department; in charge of seven Associate Producers.
- Responsible as Executive Producer for all external development.
- Oversaw more than 20 projects including SpellForce (Phenomic), Arx Fatalis (Arkane Studios), Gothic 2 (Piranha Bytes), Rally Trophy (Bugbear), Hotel Giant (Enlight Software), Die Gilde/The Guild (4Head/Infogrames), Cultures 2 (Funatics), Michael Schumacher Kart (Terratools), Zax – The Alien Hunter (Reflexive), Cold Zero (Drago), Archangel (Metropolis), Gorasul (Silverstyle).
Jun 1999 - Mar 2001
1 year 10 monthsExecutive Producer
Infogrames Entertainment SA
- Responsible for the organisation of the strategy label within Infogrames/I-Motion.
- Evaluation of all strategy titles at Infogrames.
- Responsible as Executive Producer for all external developers working on strategy titles.
- In charge of one Associate Producer, one Product Manager and one Junior PM.
- Projects include Desperados – Wanted Dead or Alive (Spellbound), Die Gilde (4Head) (later JoWooD).
Aug 1998 - May 1999
10 monthsManaging Director
Das Trickwerk
- Co-founder and Managing Director of Trickwerk GmbH.
- Editor-in-chief for videogame magazine Games & More supervised for Computec AG in Nürnberg on a bi-weekly basis.
- Authored solution guides for various games, e.g. Tomb Raider 1-3 including Director's Cuts (Eidos/Core).
- Editor for various marketing materials and press releases for publishers such as Vivendi Universal, Infogrames, Eidos.
- Freelance editor for the German Game Developer Magazine and DVD-Home magazine.
Apr 1997 - Jul 1998
1 year 4 monthsWriter
Freelance
- Worked as freelance editor for PC games magazine Power Play in Munich and the online department of Stern magazine/Gruner & Jahr Verlag Hamburg.
- Authored solution guides for various games, e.g. Deathtrap Dungeon (Eidos), The Feeble Files/Floyd (Adventure Soft/Infogrames).
- Translated manuals, in-game texts, voice scripts for various games including Jagged Alliance 2 (Sir Tech), Raider Wars (I-Magic), Disney’s Hot Shots (Walt Disney).
- Editor for various marketing materials, press releases and website content for Infogrames Germany and Disney Interactive Germany.
Jun 1994 - Mar 1997
2 years 10 monthsProject Lead / Localisation Manager
Sunflowers Entertainment GmbH
- Game design, project management, design documentation, creation of game concepts and dialogue scripts, producing of external development teams, level design, scripting
- Translation work, coordinating external translators, voice recording, video, audio and graphics editing, QA, some localisation related programming tasks
Mar 1993 - Mar 1994
1 year 1 monthJunior Product Manager
Bomico GmbH
- PR and marketing, coordinating localisations, QA and hotline support for publishers such as Maxis, Sierra, Interplay, Adventure Soft
Summary
Ralf C. Adam
- +30 years in the Game Industry
- Background in Producing, Project Management, Game Design, Writing
- Past roles include Executive Producer & Head/VP Production at Gameforge, Travian Games, flaregames, Infogrames, JoWooD & Sunflowers
- Advisor to various Dev-Studios, FFF Munich, Quo Vadis Game Conference et al.
»To protect and to serve your game «
I am a passionate freelance Game Producers with a rich history in the production of Videogames.
My mission is to help my partners to ship high-quality games within the given project parameters.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
AdvancedFrench
AdvancedEducation
Oct 1990 - Jun 1992
Doetsch Buero-Systeme GmbH
Apprenticeship, IT-Business Manager · Hanau, Germany
Oct 1981 - Jun 1990
Otto-Hahn-Schule
Abitur, German Senior Matriculation · Hanau, Germany
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