21 Facts About Bohemia Interactive

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Bohemia Interactive focuses on creating military simulation games such as Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and the ARMA series.

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Bohemia Interactive is working on several new projects, including making a survival game named Vigor, releasing content patches for DayZ, and developing Ylands, a sandbox game which was part of Bohemia Incubator, a platform for Bohemia Interactive to release small, experimental projects.

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Original publisher Bohemia Interactive Magic was sold in 1999 and another publisher which signed the project later wanted to abandon it.

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4.

Bohemia Interactive won Best Debut at the Game Developers Choice Awards, defeating strong opponents including Remedy Entertainment .

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Bohemia Interactive went on to acquire Black Element Software, Altar Games, and Centauri Production in September 2010.

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Additionally, in late 2020 30 people from Bohemia Interactive Brno were acquired by THQ Nordic and they joined newly created Ashborne Games studio.

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Bohemia Interactive disagreed with the search for outside assistance, and the two studios decided to part way with each other.

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In financial distress, Bohemia Interactive capitalized on its use and made a small sum of money, saving the company from falling into immediate bankruptcy.

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Bohemia set up a new division called Bohemia Interactive Simulations, specializing in creating military simulation games with its Virtual Battle Space titles for armies around the world to use.

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Bohemia Interactive decided to self-publish the game, and launched in an early access form.

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11.

Bohemia Interactive made efforts by motivating its ARMA communities to petition to pressure Greece for the pair's release.

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12.

In 2012, Dean Hall, an employee at Bohemia Interactive working on ARMA 3, released a massively popular mod for ARMA 2 named DayZ, which includes zombies as the game's main enemies.

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Bohemia Interactive is working on Vigor, a survival game powered by Unreal Engine for the Xbox One.

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Bohemia Interactive laid out road maps in an effort to offer details on some of their post-release content, such as in the case of ARMA 3 and DayZ.

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Bohemia Interactive sometimes let players to help out with game design process.

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Many of Bohemia Interactive games are moddable, a focus since the release of the ARMA: Armed Assault.

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Bohemia Interactive awarded players who create user-generated content with their games in 2009 during the BIS Community Awards and announced a modding competition called "Make ARMA Not War", in which modders must create mods that shift ARMA focus from war into anything else.

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18.

Bohemia Interactive took a stance against pirating with their DEGRADE technology, which would automatically create technical issues to pirated copies.

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Bohemia Interactive had a close relationship with International Committee of the Red Cross, in which they partnered together for a special award named Health Care in Danger Special Award at the Make Arma Not War competition, and Bohemia promised to follow some of Red Cross' suggestions on how video games should handle war crimes.

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20.

Bohemia Interactive specializes in making simulation games with a focus on realism.

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21.

Meanwhile, Bohemia Interactive followed up their first game, Cold War Crisis with a spiritual successor called ARMA: Armed Assault, which was followed up by two sequels, ARMA 2 and ARMA 3, both of which have been critically acclaimed.

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