Welcome to Pithead Studio
Welcome at Pithead Studio!
Pithead Studio is an independent developer creating unique and immersive games and realizing music projects.
Thank you for coming by and thank you for your interest in our projects.
Games
Cralon is an authentic 3d dungeon crawler with RPG and adventure elements, inspired by the ultimate underground classics. Hunting a demon, you fell into the abyss of an old mine, stuck in the darkness. Finding your way out, you meet strange creatures and new friends, solve quests and riddles, fight the dark and evil monsters, face your fears and uncover the dungeon’s secret.
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Music
… X-Mysteries is an extraordinary music album and a heartfelt project on which the criminal biologist Dr Mark Benecke, composer Raphael Sommer, Björn Pankratz and singer Bianca Stücker worked for 1.5 years. The album has been released on all major music platforms.
More about the project:
https://www.x-mysteries.com
About us
… Pithead Studio was founded by Björn and Jenny Pankratz in Bochum, Germany. Both have many years of experience in the development of huge role-playing games and are regular speakers at conferences and events where they give lectures on topics relating to the development of computer games.
… became 1999 part of the computer gaming industry and joined the development studio Piranha Bytes. He was a founding member and partner of the Pluto 13 GmbH, founded in 2002, and all subsequent companies from Piranha Bytes until its sale to THQ Nordic in 2019. For more than 24 years he worked as a creative director, vision keeper, gamedesigner, storywriter and composer on the Gothic-, Risen- and ELEX roleplaying-series.
… worked as a gamedesigner and storywriter on the Risen- and ELEX roleplaying-series at Piranha Bytes and took care of PR and marketing for over 15 years. Their games received multiple awards from computer game magazines and industry events.
In the future, Pithead Studio will focus on creating dense and dark Adventures with a deep storyline and Horror and RPG Elements as well as realising music projects.
Jobs
There are currently no vacancies or internships. Please do not send us unsolicited applications, we will not be able to respond to them.
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