Mimimi Games: "Self-publishing was a dream -- we never expected it to happen this quickly"
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 Germa...