Attic Entertainment Software

Attic Entertainment Software GmbH

Former type	GmbH
Industry	Software Programming/Publishing
Founded	September 1990
Defunct	2001
Headquarters	Albstadt, Baden-Württemberg
Key people	Guido Henkel Hans-Jürgen Brändle Jochen Hamma
Products	Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny Realms of Arkania: Star Trail Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva
Owner	Jochen Hamma
Website	www.attic.de (web.archive.org)

The Attic Entertainment Software GmbH was a German video game developer and publisher that was founded in September 1990 by Hans-Jürgen Brändle, Jochen Hamma and Guido Henkel in Albstadt, Baden-Württemberg. Attic has been inactive since 2001. The founder, Hans-Jürgen Brändle, was reported to have died in Las Vegas during the month of August, 2005.^[1]

Attic's breakthrough was the so-called Northlands Trilogy (Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny, Realms of Arkania: Star Trail and Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva), a series of role-playing video games based upon the popular German tabletop role-playing game The Dark Eye.

List of games

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• 1990 - Lords of Doom (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS)
• 1991 - The Oath (Amiga)
• 1991 - Spirit of Adventure (Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS)
• 1991 - Die Drachen von Laas (Amiga, MS-DOS)
• 1993 - Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny (Amiga, MS-DOS)
• 1994 - Realms of Arkania: Star Trail (MS-DOS)
• 1995 - Fears (Amiga) (publisher only)
• 1995 - Druid: Daemons of the Mind (MS-DOS) (German localization: Der Druidenzirkel: Im Netz der Träume)
• 1997 - Herrscher der Meere (MS-DOS)
• 1997 - Realms of Arkania: Shadows over Riva (MS-DOS)
• Cancelled - The Lady, the Mage and the Knight (collaboration with Larian Studios)

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