video game developer industry video games founded 2010 headquarters prague czech republic key people marek rosa products miner wars 2081 miner wars arena space engineers medieval engineers number of employees 50 1 website keenswh.com keen software house is an independent video game developing company based in prague czech republic . the company was founded by marek rosa in 2010 as a team of volunteers and in 2011 it was transformed to company . keen software house s technological know how and proprietary vrage game engine has allowed the company to create games that leverage elements of science into the gameplay . the studio s first game miner wars 2081 focused on an open world with destructible terrain while the second game space engineers presents volumetric physics as gameplay in a space based environment focused on engineering construction and maintenance of space ships and stations . the company s proprietary vrage game engine powers both the titles and is currently in iteration 2.0 . contents 1 games 1.1 miner wars 2081 1.1.1 open sourcing 1.2 space engineers 1.3 medieval engineers 2 vrage 3 external links 4 references games edit all games by keen software house title year platform s genre description miner wars arena 2012 windows os x arcade game arcade action game inspired by the game tunnelers . 2 miner wars 2081 2012 windows xbox 360 3 space simulator 6dof action game . space engineers 2013 early access windows xbox one sandbox game a game about engineering construction and maintenance of space works 4 medieval engineers 2015 early access windows sandbox game a game about engineering construction and maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology 5 miner wars 2081 edit the first big project for keen software house was miner wars 2081 which was presented at game developers conference in 2012 . 6 the game received mixed reviews by critics . 7 8 minerwars 2081 is an action survival space shooter set in the year 2081 10 years after the destruction of all planetary objects in the solar system . the story introduces the player to many types of missions rescue exploration revenge base defense theft transportation stealth search and destroy pure harvesting or racing . open sourcing edit the source code for miner wars 2081 was released in march 2013 under a commercial non copyleft restricted use license . 9 the code may only be redistributed to allow for mods of the original game and the code must continue to perform a license ownership check . space engineers edit the studio s second project space engineers is a voxel based sandbox game that launched on steam early access in october 23 2013 10 and presents the player with an open world asteroid field wherein they can mine resources build ships and stations play with physics and much more . space engineers is a sandbox game about engineering construction and maintenance of space works . 11 the game is a top seller on the steam distribution platform officially moving more than 500 000 copies by may 6 2014 . 12 space engineers was well received by both critics and players . space engineers is updated on a weekly basis based on stated development goals and community feedback . since launch has received major updates that include survival mode multiplayer dedicated server support and more . space engineers is open to community creation and modding and as a result the game continues to grow in unusual and exciting ways . fans have recreated ships from favorite movies tv shows and games such as mass effect battlestar galactica star trek and star wars as well as unique mods such as car racing tracks soda machines recycling ships and more . on october 20 2014 keen software house announced that space engineers has sold over 1 000 000 copies . 13 on may 14 2015 keen software house announced they are providing open access but not making the game free to the source code to accelerate mod development . 14 medieval engineers edit on january 13 2015 keen software house announced their third title and second engineering game named medieval engineers . 5 it was also announced that the game will be available on steam early access . medieval engineers is a sandbox game about engineering construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology . players build cities castles and fortifications ; construct mechanical devices and engines ; perform landscaping and underground mining . medieval engineers is inspired by real medieval technology and the way people built architectural and mechanical works in medieval times . medieval engineers strives to follow the laws of physics and real history and doesn t use technologies that were not available in 5th to 15th century . vrage edit keen software house developed and utilizes a video game engine called vrage . vrage stands for volumetric rage and or voxel rage . 15 the first iteration of vrage vrage 1.0 was built and tailored specifically for miner wars 2081 and the game s need for destructible voxel terrain and an open world . with the open source release in 2013 of miner wars 2081 the vrage 1.0 engine was also open sourced under a restrictive commercial license . 9 the second iteration of the engine vrage 2.0 is currently in development and powers the studio s latest games space engineers and medieval engineers . vrage 2.0 s core feature is volumetricity within the environment . volumetric objects are structures composed from block like modules interlocked in a grid . volumetric objects behave like real physical objects with mass inertia and velocity . individual modules have real volume and storage capacity and can be assembled disassembled deformed and destroyed . due to medieval engineers development vrage received a fresh upgrade structural integrity and directx 11 rendering . external links edit official website marek rosa s blog company site on mobygames indian tv report from studio in czech space engineers press release medieval engineers press release vrage engine references edit http blog.marekrosa.org 2015 06 keen software house is moving and 24.html miner wars arena . arena.minerwars.com . retrieved 2014 01 11 . miner wars 2081 for xbox 360 reviews . metacritic . retrieved 2014 01 11 . announcement press release space engineers press release . spaceengineersgame.com . 2013 09 09 . retrieved 2014 01 11 . a b http www.gamasutra.com view pressreleases 234063 keen software house announces medieval engineers thestudiorsquos second engineering title.php keen software house press release meet the miner wars team at gdc in san francisco 960250 press release . gamershell.com . retrieved 2014 01 11 . miner wars 2081 for pc reviews . metacritic . retrieved 2014 01 11 . czech . hodnoceniher.cz . retrieved 2014 01 11 . a b miner wars 2081 on github . retrieved 15 december 2014 . http www.spaceengineersgame.com space engineers ndash released on steam early access.html http www.spaceengineersgame.com about1.html http www.gamershell.com companies keen software house 1311887.html http www.gamasutra.com view pressreleases 228152 space engineers reaches one million copies sold.php marek rosa blog . marek rosa http blog.marekrosa.org 2015 05 space engineers full source code access 40.html . missing or empty title help http www.keenswh.com vrage.html retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title keen software house & oldid 726044557 categories video game companies of the czech republicsoftware companies of the czech republicvideo game companies established in 2010hidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages e tinaportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 19 june 2016 at 17 05 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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