1 september 2010 ; 6 years ago 2010 09 01 founders rami ismail jan willem nijman headquarters utrecht netherlands area served worldwide key people rami ismail jan willem nijman products super crate box ridiculous fishing luftrausers nuclear throne members 2 2016 website vlambeer.com vlambeer is a dutch independent game development studio made up of rami ismail and jan willem nijman . the studio founded in 2010 is known for its games nuclear throne ridiculous fishing super crate box serious sam the random encounter and luftrausers 1 and for its stand on video game cloning . 2 contents 1 history 2 games 3 references 4 external links history edit this section needs to be updated . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . october 2016 vlambeer was founded in 2010 by rami ismail and jan willem nijman after both dropped out from a game design course at the utrecht school of the arts . ismail and nijman began by working together to develop a prototype initially created by nijman called crates from hell . it was released on 11 may 2010 as super crate box and earned the studio recognition in the form of an independent games festival finalist position in the excellence in design category . 3 during the development of super crate box vlambeer developed radical fishing . it was released in november 2010 . radical fishing was the first of many games released by the studio under a not vlambeer label which encompasses the studio s games that are developed for money or as an experiment . vlambeer was then approached by publisher devolver digital to develop a game in the serious sam franchise . the studio and devolver digital agreed to develop and publish a turn based role playing game . the resulting game serious sam the random encounter was released on 24 october 2011 . during the development of serious sam the random encounter vlambeer released many small games most notably luftrauser . vlambeer then started development on an ios version of radical fishing called ridiculous fishing . development was halted after a san francisco based studio released a clone of radical fishing on ios . this generated discussion about the cloning of video games and led vlambeer to be somewhat of an icon on the topic . 4 the term vlambeer d was introduced by several media outlets . 5 in november 2013 the browser game vlambeer clone tycoon was launched to provide a satirical comment on the issue of vlambeer s cloning ordeals . 6 in february 2012 vlambeer released gun godz a first person shooter inspired by hip hop in collaboration with brandon boyer s venus patrol . 7 ridiculous fishing was nominated for the 2012 independent games festival best mobile award . 8 at the conference where the award ceremony was held vlambeer released yeti hunter . 9 on 2 december 2012 vlambeer announced a sequel to luftrauser called luftrausers . on 19 december 2012 vlambeer released the ios version of super crate box . its success prevented the studio from going out of business due to the financial ramifications of the decreased motivation caused by the cloning incident . 10 on 14 march 2013 vlambeer released ridiculous fishing on ios after resuming its development . in 2015 they have experimented with live streaming their development process and have over 12 000 paid subscriptions to their twitch channel . 11 12 games edit super crate box 2010 karate 2011 serious sam the random encounter 2011 gun godz 2012 yeti hunter 2012 ridiculous fishing 2013 luftrausers 2014 nuclear throne 2015 references edit the happy medium . thehappymedium.tumblr.com 1 september 2011 . retrieved on 2012 08 13 . frushtick russ . 22 february 2012 cloning case files vlambeer . the verge . retrieved on 2012 08 13 . the 14th annual independent games festival finalists . igf.com . retrieved on 13 august 2012 . someone else s solutions . pocketnext . retrieved on 13 august 2012 . sf molyjam a tale of three parkour romances . rock paper shotgun . retrieved on 13 august 2012 . vlambeer clone tycoon . indiestatik . retrieved on 13 december 2013 . venus patrol charting a new course for videogame culture by brandon boyer kickstarter . kickstarter.com 7 september 2011 . retrieved on 2012 08 13 . the 14th annual independent games festival finalists . igf.com . retrieved on 13 august 2012 . vlambeer to release yeti hunter from gdc show floor . the verge . retrieved on 13 august 2012 . pitts russ 24 april 2013 . cloned at birth the story of ridiculous fishing . polygon . vox media . archived from the original on 12 june 2013 . retrieved 12 june 2013 . choudhary amita . how gaming will change for the better in 2016 . endgadget.com . retrieved 2 march 2016 . vlambeer twitch profile . twitch . external links edit official website v t e vlambeer super crate box 2010 serious sam the random encounter 2011 ridiculous fishing 2013 luftrausers 2014 nuclear throne 2015 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vlambeer & oldid 744338535 categories 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