Keen Software House is an independent game development studio founded in 2009 by Marek Rosa. After major hiring in 2011, our team now consists of over 10 professional developers, mostly situated in the company HQ in Prague, Czech Republic. The company focuses on the development of Miner Wars™, the VRAGE™ engine, and other projects yet to be announced.

Motto: “We are passionate gamers who love developing games, and we are committed to making the kinds of games that players crave.”

Marek Rosa
Founder & CEO
http://blog.MarekRosa.org/

His first works on game development date back to 2003 with a preliminary alpha tech demo of Miner Wars. Marek has a strong background as a freelance programmer and a team leader for large international telecom companies, so instead of joining any of the existing game development studios, Marek has decided to tread a path of his own fulfilling his Miner Wars dream.

2013

• Full game and engine (VRAGE) source code released for Miner Wars 2081 - http://www.minerwars.com/Programming.aspx
• Second major update to Miner Wars 2081 (DirectX renderer, optimizations, stabilization)
• Started working on the next project codename S*
  

2012

• Miner Wars 2081 released on November 28th, 2012
  

2011

• Gameplay demo is released, sales hit a new record high.
• 10 core staff hired to work in the Prague HQ, others externally in the United States.

2010

• In October the Pre-Alpha is pre-released at a 70% discount to allay production costs.
  
• The response is vastly beyond what is predicted, and thousands of euros pour in each day.
• Several investors are signed.

2009

• Miner Wars is officially in production - Implemented in C# and XNA
• Marek Rosa quits his job as a freelance programmer and begins working on Miner Wars full-time.
• Minerwars.com is established and Marek creates his own company Keen Software House.
• Marek, still a one-man team, makes a trailer for his game and uploads it to Youtube. 
• An online community is formed – forums, participation, social endearing and audience input were put forward in a cunning marketing model.
• Programmers, designers, art specialists, writers, producers and administrators are recruited to work, originally on a voluntary basis.

2002

• Marek Rosa creates a rudimentary engine in C++/OpenGL which allows the user to meander around the inside of an asteroid destroying aspects of the environment.
• The VRAGE™ engine is coined

• Miner Wars 2081 is scheduled to be released on November 28th 2012, available on Steam, IGN’s Direct to Drive, and many other trusted distributors.
• The Miner Wars MMO will be developed after Miner Wars 2081’s release.
• After the retail release, sequels will begin production concurrently with Xbox Live and mobile media versions of the game.

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