Gamebook Studio
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- 2020
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About Gamebook Studio
Gamebook Studio is a Berlin-based developer of narrative games, interactive entertainment and serious simulations. Founded in 2020, the studio combines game development with a proprietary platform for creating and publishing branching content. Its work spans original games, adaptations of established intellectual property and commissioned projects for business, healthcare and education.
The studio describes its episodic approach as “Games as a Season.” Its life simulations and interactive stories use daily, seasonal or episodic formats, combining choose-your-own-adventure decisions with RPG progression and adaptive scenarios. Projects are designed for access across web browsers, PC and mobile platforms, with narrative choices central to the experience.
Original games and adaptations
The studio’s original life simulation RPG, 100 Lives, explores how decisions affect a succession of reincarnation cycles. The supplied research identifies it as in development. Gamebook also works with external rights holders and publishers: its portfolio includes Invincible Presents: Atom Eve, co-developed with Skybound Games and Skybound North, and the romance adventure My Love: Make Your Choice!, produced with Upjers. Its upcoming Clue / Cluedo: Mystery Stories collaboration with Hasbro adapts the board game into interactive narrative cases.
Interactive technology and applied games
Alongside its production work, the studio licenses Gamebook Technology, a browser-based, no-code, AI-assisted authoring engine and content management system. The platform supports branching interactive storytelling and offers a route for publishers and other intellectual property holders to develop playable adaptations. Its commercial services include technology licensing, narrative design, interactive story consulting, full-cycle game development and live operations.
Gamebook’s applied work uses interactive decisions and simulation for learning and awareness. Its collaboration with TH Wildau produced ALARM, a cybersecurity training simulation. Other projects include Cyberflucht, developed with Fachverband Medienabhängigkeit to address media and gaming addiction. This combination of entertainment production, authoring technology and research collaboration connects its narrative design capabilities with practical training and educational applications.
More about Gamebook Studio
Founders and leadership
Ulrike Küchler and Prof. Thomas Langhanki founded the studio and are identified as its managing directors. Langhanki’s earlier game design work includes Pizza Connection and Paraworld.
Production methods and technology history
The authoring platform lets narrative designers and publishers produce, evaluate, localize and release branching content without traditional coding pipelines. Its earlier iterations were developed at Experimental Game GmbH, the software venture Langhanki founded in Potsdam in 2010.
Recognition and development support
- In October 2024, Gamebook Studio won the CONTENTshift accelerator at the Frankfurt Book Fair, receiving a €10,000 jury prize for its approach to turning books into playable episodic media.
- The TH Wildau collaboration ALARM won the medianet AGS-Award for Innovation in November 2023. The research subsequently evolved into the commercial CyberALARM platform.
- 100 Lives received €570,000 in development funding from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
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Where Gamebook Studio is based
- Krausenstraße 9–10, 10117 Berlin, GermanyBerlin, Germany
Berlin office
HeadquartersGlobal headquarters and main development studio.
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