Purple Lamp
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 51-200
- Offices
- 1
About Purple Lamp
Purple Lamp is a video game development studio based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in family-friendly 3D action-adventure games and platformers. Established in early 2018 by veterans of Sproing Interactive Media, the studio develops original games and adaptations of established entertainment properties for PC, consoles and mobile platforms. Its work combines game and level design, programming, character art, animation and quality assurance.
The studio began by taking over development of The Guild 3 in 2018, guiding the medieval economic life simulation through Early Access to its full release in 2022. Its partnership with publisher THQ Nordic also produced SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated, released in June 2020. The remake surpassed one million copies sold and became an important milestone in the company's development.
Following that release, Purple Lamp was acquired in November 2020 and became an operationally independent studio under THQ Nordic. Its subsequent projects include SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake in 2023 and Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed in 2024. The latter reimagines Warren Spector's platforming adventure for contemporary consoles and PC, with mobile editions following in September 2026. In November 2025, Purple Lamp released SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide, extending its platforming portfolio to newer hardware, including Nintendo Switch 2.
Development capabilities
Purple Lamp's production capabilities span full-cycle game development, narrative integration, 3D modeling, texturing, rigging and animation. Its technical specialties include Unreal Engine architecture, systems design and multiplatform optimization. The studio also handles in-house quality assurance, localization testing and console compliance certification, supporting projects across their development and release cycles.
Alongside its lead development projects, Purple Lamp has contributed simulator physics and co-development support to Sea of Thieves in collaboration with Rare and Xbox Game Studios. Its portfolio also includes the multiplayer sandbox action brawler MisBits, developed with Pow Wow Entertainment and 3Bear Games.
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Leadership
- Tanja Goenye and Lukas Kugler are the registered managing directors, appointed on November 14, 2025 and January 27, 2023 respectively.
- Co-founder Harald Riegler was the initial CEO and is identified in the research as a former managing director.
Working model
The studio describes an in-studio collaborative model, bringing its development disciplines together in Vienna rather than operating remote or satellite branches.
Development collaboration
For the 2026 mobile adaptation of Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, Purple Lamp collaborated with Snapshot Games and THQ Nordic Mobile.
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Where Purple Lamp is based
- Vienna, Austria
Vienna offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: Landstraßer Hauptstraße 1/9, 1030 Vienna, Austria Current headquarters and sole studio premises, housing executive management, art, design, programming and QA. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: Schellinggasse 6/4-5, 1010 Vienna, Austria Former studio premises, vacated when the studio relocated to Landstrasser Hauptstrasse 1/9. The relocation year is not supplied.
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