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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 2005; 20 years ago (2005) |
| Headquarters | , Serbia |
Key people | |
| Parent | Playrix (2019–present) |
| Website | eipix.com |
Eipix Entertainment is aSerbianvideo game developer based inNovi Sad. The company was founded in 2005 and developscasual games forPC,Mac,iOS andAndroid, as well asvirtual reality games. As of December 2019, Eipix is part ofPlayrix.
Eipix Entertainment entered the game development business as anindie company. Early projects included the sci-fi race and shooterPyroblazer[1] and eco-themed puzzle adventureZiro.[2]
After several independent projects, Eipix began working as an outsourcing company, porting and making games for other developers.
In 2011, Eipix Entertainment went back to developing its own games, having shifted its focus towards casual games, mainlyhidden object puzzle adventure (HOPA) titles, published through Big Fish Games.
Starting withFinal Cut: Death on the Silver Screen Collector's Edition in 2012, Eipix has developed more than 80 HOPA titles.[3] The company is currently developing sequels to hidden-object puzzle game franchisesMystery Case Files,Dark Parables, andHidden Expedition, in addition to its original HOPA series asFinal Cut,Dead Reckoning andVermillion Watch[4]
Eipix has also been entrusted with developing further sequels of the contemporarytext-based gameLifeline, starting withLifeline: Whiteout,[5] also released byBig Fish Games.
Parallel to its work in the HOPA genre, Eipix also develops and publishes a variety of games. Free the Witch, the first Eipix-developedfree-to-play game, was released in 2016 through Big Fish Games.[6] Later in the same year, Eipix also became aself-publishing company, independently releasing its own games for a variety ofmobile platforms. The company's first independent release was the free-to-play gameHoppy Land,[7] published on theiTunes app store on August 31, 2016, followed byNom Nom on October 4, 2016, andSpiny Core on December 16, 2016.
At the same time, Eipix began developing VR games.Althora, a VR puzzle adventure, was released on May 11, 2017,[8] representing the first Eipix-developed VR game.
Path of Discovery: Europa, Eipix's first voice-controlled game intended forAmazon Alexa devices, was released on October 6, 2017.[9]
In June 2018, Eipix announced a new core game calledWalk the Fort developed by one of their divisions.
In December 2019, Eipix was acquired by publisherPlayrix.[10]
TheHidden Expedition series is the first HOPA games that Eipix gained control of. Their games in the series are about a female explorer and spy who works for H.E.L.P., a society dedicated to the preservation of ancient treasures, civilizations and artifacts.
Dark Parables is a franchise of casual hidden object games. The first seven episodes were produced byBlue Tea Games; Eipix Entertainment currently produces the sequels, starting with the eighth instalment. On the fourteenth instalment, Blue Tea Games has retaken control of the series, but Eipix stayed to help them with some programming.
In 2016, Eipix co-foundedImagine Incredible, a project dedicated to in-house production and physical and digital distribution of comic books.[11]
Lightstep Chronicles, the first comic book series from the Imagine Incredible roster, was successfully funded onKickstarter in 2017.[12][13] A video-game based on the comic book was approved for funding by theCreative Europe'sMEDIA Programme[14] and is currently being developed by Eipix Entertainment.
