Kong Orange
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- Founded
- 2011
- Employees
- 1-10
- Offices
- 2
About Kong Orange
Kong Orange is an independent game development studio and creative production umbrella based in Aarhus, Denmark. Its work combines interactive storytelling, artistic puzzle design and handcrafted visual production, spanning mobile games, console and PC releases, and Roblox experiences. The business began as a sole proprietorship in October 2011 and incorporated as a private limited company in February 2017.
The studio describes its creative focus as making “digital quality time,” bringing together artistic direction and collaboration across games, music, poetry and visual storytelling. Its projects range from intimate audiovisual experiences to comedic puzzle adventures and cooperative games. Its early mobile release, Heartbeats - A Galactic Requiem, established an approach built around poetic audiovisual storytelling.
Games and creative direction
Released in October 2019, Felix The Reaper is a 3D shadow-manipulation puzzle adventure presented as a romantic comedy about the life of Death. Published by Daedalic Entertainment, it reached PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and iOS. Its central mechanics and visual identity connect puzzle solving with a comic interpretation of mortality. Kong Orange subsequently extended the same fictional universe into Skullbeat, a competitive rhythm action game on Roblox.
Out of Words, originally announced as Vokabulantis, is a cooperative stop-motion puzzle-platform adventure developed with WiredFly Animation and Danish poet Morten Søndergaard. The production combines physical clay and cloth puppetry with photogrammetry, 3D scanning and Unreal Engine 5. Epic Games Publishing is publishing the upcoming game for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2.
Beyond these titles, Kong Orange’s work includes the mobile graphic novel puzzle adventure Chadwick House, the voice-controlled mini-game Elf Scare, and the Shanghai 1927 interactive graphic novel and live visual music project. Together, these projects reflect a practice that moves between game development and collaborative digital arts.
More about Kong Orange
Leadership and operating model
- Esben Kjær Ravn is the founder, CEO and managing director.
- The studio works with a small permanent core and scales to 15–25 cross-disciplinary craftspeople and contractors during peak co-productions.
Production collaborations
- On Out of Words, WiredFly fabricates physical clay puppets, sets and stop-motion armatures, while Kong Orange handles game mechanics, level flow and Unreal Engine 5 integration. WiredFly founder Johan Oettinger serves as game director.
- The project received Danish Film Institute funding and completed a successful Kickstarter campaign before Epic Games Publishing joined as publisher.
- Felix The Reaper brought professional dancers, art historians and independent musicians into its development, with thematic inspiration from medieval Danse Macabre paintings.
- The Shanghai 1927 project was created with composer Signe Bisgaard.
Recognition
Heartbeats - A Galactic Requiem earned nominations for Nordic and Danish Game of the Year.
Notable credits
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Where Kong Orange is based
- Søskrænten 93, 8260 Viby J, DenmarkViby J, Denmark
Viby J office
HeadquartersRegistered headquarters, legal address and registered production unit in Aarhus Municipality.
- Jægergårdsgade 156k, 1. th., 8000 Aarhus C, DenmarkAarhus, Denmark
Aarhus office
Primary operational workspace and creative production studio.
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