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Amanita Design

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Industry
  
Video game industry

Website
  
amanita-design.net

Founder
  
Jakub Dvorský

Number of employees
  
20 (2016)

Key people
  
Jakub Dvorský

Headquarters
  
Brno

Founded
  
2003

Type of business
  
Private

Amanita Design

Products
  
Machinarium, Botanicula, Samorost, Samorost 2, Samorost 3

Video games
  
Machinarium, Samorost, Samorost 3, Botanicula, Samorost 2

Profiles

Amanita Design is a Czech independent video game developing company founded in 2003 by Jakub Dvorský and headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic. The company has created award-winning games including Machinarium, the Samorost series and Botanicula, as well as educational and advertising minigames and animations, all using Adobe Flash. Clients include BBC, Nike and The Polyphonic Spree.

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History

Samorost 2 has won the Webby Award. In 2009, Amanita Design released the award-winning game Machinarium. Botanicula was released in April 2012 as both a standalone purchase as well as the subject of the Humble Botanicula Debut. On March 24, 2016 they released Samorost 3 (the follow-up to Samorost 2).

Games

There are nine games released by Amanita Design and one game being in development.

Side projects

  • Kooky (puppet feature film and book)
  • Plantage (music video for Under Byen)
  • Na tu svatbu (music video for Kamil Jasmín)
  • Shy dwarf (short game by Jaromír Plachý)
  • Nusle (short film)
  • Psyride (psytrance music video)
  • Blanka Šperková (flash website)
  • Podvědomím (flash website)
  • Pantry (web toy)
  • Team members and collaborators

  • Jakub Dvorský
  • Václav Blín (main animator)
  • David Oliva (programmer)
  • Tomáš Dvořák (Floex) (musician)
  • Tomáš Dvořák (Pif) (soundman)
  • Adolf Lachman (painter)
  • Jaromír Plachý (additional animator)
  • Jan Werner (programmer)
  • Awards

    Botanicula
  • IndieCade - Story / World Design Award (2012)
  • Annual Independent Games Festival - Excellence in Audio Award (2012)
  • Machinarium
  • Annual Independent Games Festival - Excellence in Visual Art Award (2009)
  • DICE Awards - Nomination for 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (2009)
  • Gamasutra - Best Indie Game of 2009
  • VGChartz.com - Best Indie Game of 2009
  • PC Gamer - Best Soundtrack of 2009
  • Samorost 2
  • Flashforward Film Festival - winner in Original Sound category (2006)
  • Seoul net festival - Best Web-Work Award (2006)
  • Webby Award - winner in games category (2007)
  • Annual Independent Games Festival - Best Web Browser Game (2007)
  • Samorost
  • Top Talent Award - nominee (2003)
  • Webby Award - nominee (2004)
  • Questionaut
  • British Academy Award (BAFTA) - nominee (2009)
  • Mochis Award - Best Game Art (2009)
  • References

    Amanita Design Wikipedia