A cross-media factory in France: Ankama

Founded in 2001 by Anthony Roux, Camille Chafer and Emmanuel Darras, ANKAMA is a French independent creation group with offices in Roubaix, Paris, Lyon or Tokyo and employing 450 people. Drawing on its success with the MMORPG DOFUS launched in 2003, which gathered near to 30 million players, ANKAMA positions itself across various markets: online gaming, publishing, animation, website design and creation, press, console games and services for mobile phones.

 As Jerome Chatelain, Sales Manager of Ankama told me, all these assets are managed inhouse at Ankama, and this is the real “force” of the company where 150 person works in games productions, 120 in animated series productions and 40 in books publishing, just to mention the principle assets.

ANKAMA is currently developing Wakfu, a cartoon/video game/trading card game/graphic novel cross-media project, and next september will launch on the market Dofus Pet, again an online game (and soon an animated series) for a 4/10 target.

[Max Giovagnoli]