Swedish game development company
Fanchinima AB starts Daughter Company in Tartu, Estonia.
October
13th 2011 Tartu, Estonia
Swedish
game development company Fanchinima AB, a start-up funded by Innovationsbron
and foundert Christopher Kingdon, open the offices of Fanchinima OÜ on October
14th. Tartu businessman Teet Jagomägi is appointed Director of the
board for both Fanchinima OÜ and Fanchinima AB.
Fanchinima
develops a completely new type of game with which consumers can create and
share their own movies. The game is partly based on research performed by
Associate Professor Jonas Beskow (Chief Scientist, Fanchinima AB) at the Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
The first
staff consists of back end programmer Toomas Laasik, game design &
marketing consultant Edvin Aedma and financial manager Merle Laks. Fanchinima
are initially hiring three additional employees. A front-end programmer strong
in user interfaces, a competent 2D/3D artist and an additional back end programmer.
“Ambitions
are high. Not only are we hoping to have great success with Fanchinima but we
are also hoping to be a driving force in establishing Estonia as a strong game
development country” – says Örjan Frid, Chairman of Fanchinima AB
“My
experience, since 10 years, of working with Tartu based IT companies, and the
fact that the Tartu University, Department of Information Sciences, Viljandi
Culture Adademy, have started a Master of Arts program for Design and
Development of Virtual Environments and run a course on Videogame Design &
Development, made it an easy decision for me to start a Tartu based daughter
company” – says Christopher Kingdon, investor in, and CEO of Fanchinima AB.
Fanchinima is a company, a game and the name of a new
concept, the concept of turning fan fiction manuscripts into machine made
cinema, so called Machinima. The Fanchinima game allows consumers to produce
their own animated movies. Typical customers are writers of fan fiction and
fans of Machinima. Fanchinima is headquartered in Stockholm.
For more
information see www.facebook.com/fanchinima.
Press Contacts:
Christopher Kingdon, CEO Fanchinima AB
chris@fanchinima.com
+46 73 051 1414
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