Maschinen-Mensch is an independent game studio from Berlin founded in 2014 by Johannes Kristmann and Riad Djemili. We love creating games using a mix of carefully hand-crafted elements and procedural gameplay to create unique experiences for players. Our games include the Curious Expedition series and our latest release, Mother Machine, which have collectively reached hundreds of thousands of players worldwide.
As a studio we aim to offer opportunities to local artists and creators and strive to be a part of the vivid, wonderful Berlin indie scene through collaborations, events and our shared office space and collective, Saftladen.
Meet the many talented people who have been part of Maschinen-Mensch over the years on our team page.
Curious Corner
- Our company name Maschinen-Mensch means “machine-human”. The first name that we landed on was “HIC SVNT LEONES”. We prepared all the company foundation papers with that name and then got second thoughts at the last moment and had to come up with a new name within half an hour. If you’ve ever started a company or project then you know that coming up with a name is probably the hardest part of it all.
- Before Curious Expedition was released, back in 2014 Riad and Jo created a small game for the Ludum Dare 29 game jam titled Planet Corp. — you can play it here (but don't tell anyone).
Website Credits
This website was designed by our former Executive Producer Lorenzo Pilia. Daniel Berndt coded it. Dennis Kogel wrote the first draft of the texts and helped collect curious facts for the various Curious Corners.
Special Thanks
The creation of this website was supported by Kreativ-Transfer with funds by the representatives of culture and media of the German government. Let us say that again in German: Gefördert durch Kreativ-Transfer, aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
