Factsheet

Developer:
Vlambeer
Based in Netherlands

Founding date:
August 31 2010

Website:
vlambeer.com

Press / Business Contact:
info@vlambeer.com

Social:
Twitter
Facebook

Releases:
Nuclear Throne

Address:
Neude 5, Utrecht

Phone:
+31621206363

Description

Vlambeer is a Dutch independent game studio made up of Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman, bringing back arcade games since 1774.

History

Early history

Vlambeer was founded in 2010 by Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman, after they dropped out of game design university. They teamed up to fully develop the 'Crates from Hell' prototype Jan Willem had created. With no resources, space or money, they created Radical Fishing to earn a starting capital to rent an office and food other than noodles. Crates from Hell was renamed Super Crate Box and released subsequently. Super Crate Box was an overwhelming success, eventually earning them recognition in the form of a Independent Games Festival Finalist spot in the Excellence in Design category.

Ridiculous Fishing

After Super Crate Box' success, Vlambeer was approached by Devolver Digital for a Serious Sam game. Initially scared that Devolver might want a Serious Sam themed Super Crate Box, Vlambeer proposed a turnbased RPG. Devolver agreed and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter was born. During development of The Random Encounter, Vlambeer also released Dinosaur Zookeeper, KARATE, Super Puppy Boy and fan-favorite 2D dogfighter game LUFTRAUSER. In secret, Vlambeer had started work on an iOS version of Radical Fishing called Ridiculous Fishing with an all-star team - a project that was promptly derailed when a San Francisco studio released a clone of Radical Fishing on iOS. Against its will, Vlambeer was thrown headfirst into the cloning discussion, becoming somewhat of an icon of independent games being cloned - the term "Vlambeer'd" was introduced by several media outlets.

Recent

After the cloning incident, Vlambeer moved to release GUN GODZ, a hip-hop inspired first person shooter in cooperation with Brandon Boyers' Venus Patrol. Soon after GUN GODZ release, Vlambeer succesfully released an iOS version of Super Crate Box, which narrowly prevented the studio going out of business due to the motivational blow (and the financial ramifications of said demotivation) the cloning incident had induced. Weeks after Ridiculous Fishing was nominated for an Independent Games Festival 'Best Mobile' award they released Yeti Hunter from the GDC showfloor. Weeks later and in typical for the studios large amount of simultaneous projects, Vlambeer moved to announce a yet unnamed space game and a sequel to dogfighting game LUFTRAUSER named LUFTRAUSERS.

Projects

• Nuclear Throne

Team & Repeating Collaborators

Rami Ismail
Business & Development, Vlambeer

Jan Willem Nijman
Game Design, Vlambeer

Paul 'Pietepiet' Veer
Artist, Skullrobot

Jukio 'KOZILEK' Kallio
Music, Freelancer

Eirik 'Phlogiston' Suhrke
Music, Freelancer

Kert Gartner
Trailers, Freelancer

Contact

Inquiries
rami@vlambeer.com

Twitter
twitter.com/vlambeer

Facebook
facebook.com/Vlambeer

Web
vlambeer.com