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rondomedia (according to Google Translate Rondom is German and translates as "roundabout" in English) is a large German game development company now known under the name astragon Entertainment. Although they used to publish smaller budget games working with companies like Big Fish Games, cerasus.media and MumboJumbo when using their old name; they now are more well known for publishing Farming Simulator, Bus Simulator and other such games in the Simulator series as well as many Simulator series spin off games with the Astragon name. They just recently joined Team17 in 2022 in a deal worth £83 million.

Official Company Description[]

"astragon Entertainment (founded in 1998) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Team17 Group PLC, and one of the leading German games publishers. Our main focus is on developing and publishing sophisticated working simulation games that feature non-violent cooperative gameplay in highly detailed, technical and realistic game environments. Since 2019 we are based in Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous federal state. In addition to our modern, open-plan office with numerous flexible workspaces as well as small and large meeting rooms that can be used for group work and discussions, or concentrated, creative solo work, our employees enjoy a flexible home office solution that will be available to them in an employee and family-friendly manner even beyond the current COVID-19 pandemic. We regularly welcome students for internships in various departments, and have also been offering vocational training for clerk for audiovisual media since 2020. astragon Entertainment is a member of “game – The German Games Industry Association e.V.” and “games.nrw e.V.”. " - quoted and sourced from the Official Astragon Website About us page

Important Company Members[]

André Franzmann - Founder of rondomedia in 1998 and passed on ownership in 2017

Dirk Walner - second member of the company who came into it in 2000 and also passed on ownership in 2017

Julia Pfiffer and Tim Schmitz - the people at the top since 2017 till today

Jingyi Guo - joined with the Team17 merger and has recently been promoted to Head of Controlling in 2023

Ben Wolf - formerly the Senior Lead Producer has recently been promoted to Head of Producing in 2023

Tim Plöger - formerly Head of Producing but has recently been delegated as Head of Project Management in 2023

Toby Fälschle - formerly Project Manager now working with Tim Ploger as co-Head of Project Management in 2023

Company History[]

The company was founded as rondomedia Marketing & Vertriebs GmbH by André Franzmann in 1998 and starts operations in Moenchengladbach/Germany. A couple years later in 2000 a second person comes to the company a Dirk Walner and they found the Astragon Software GmbH subsidiary in Hagen later moving it to Moenchengladbach in 2004.

Farming Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator were released in 2008 to great acclaim and started the very successful Simulation game series which is still going strong now in 2023. rondomedia launches Real Heroes: Firefighter on the Nintendo Wii in 2009 as their first game in the Simulator series on a console.

The rondomedia and Astragon won the German LARA Special Award in 2010 along with Farming Simulator 2011 winning a German Developer Award in the category "Best Simulation Game". Farming Simulator 2013 was the first game in the Simulator series to appear simultaneously on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2012; solidifying the Simulation series in the console and PC market.

Astragon moved on from being a distributor to an international publisher in 2012 and a year later in 2013 Construction Simulator 2014 became a hit worldwide as the first in the Simulation series on mobile devices. 2015 marked the year rondomedia and Astragon formed the Astragon group consisting of Astragon Sales & Services and astragon Entertainment. The rondomedia name was not used from then on.

Julia Pfiffer and Tim Schmitz took over management in 2017 of astragon Entertainment and they started pushing forward the development of own IPs and expanding international publishing to grow the Simulation series even further. Farming Simulator 19 wins the Gamescom Award for "Best Simulation" in 2018 marking their second big award in the category. Astragon finally became big enough to get their first booth at PAX East in 2019 and Astragon HQ gets moved to Duesseldorf in the same year.

2020 marked a time for celebration for the company as it celebrated its 20 years Anniversary of the astragon Entertainment subsidiary with a huge 80% off sale. Astragon finally merged the last subsidiary Astragon Sales & Services into astragon Entertainment in 2021 becoming solely a gaming company.

And finally Astragon recently became part of Team17 Group PLC in the year 2022 for £83 million. It seems big things are coming for the company and they just keep getting bigger and bigger. Who knows what's next?

Company Connections List[]

  • Big Fish Games Inc
  • MumboJumbo LLC
  • cerasus.media GmbH
  • eGames Inc AKA RomTech Inc
  • RAD Game Tools Inc
  • Macrovision Corporation AKA TiVo Corporation / Rovi Corporation
  • Valve Corporation
  • ak tronic Software & Services GmbH
  • Ubisoft

Published Games List[]

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Company Contacts[]

General Contact Information (NO SUPPORT)[]

Fon: +49 (0) 211 540515-0

Fax: +49 (0) 211 540515-18

E-Mail: info@astragon.de

Support:[]

You can contact our technical support team via mail at helpdesk@astragon.de

CEO: Tim Schmitz, Julia Pfiffer

Commercial register / District court Düsseldorf HRB 87902

VAT number: DE 813 022 772

Responsible for content according to § 5 TMG (German Act for Telemedia Services):[]

Tim Schmitz & Julia Pfiffer

Am Wehrhahn 33

40211 Düsseldorf

Germany

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