video games that
make a difference
We turn complex topics into play.
Society, education, culture, sustainability: we develop games and interactive experiences that convey content in a way people don’t just understand, but truly experience.
Serious Games
Digital and analog games, interactive applications, and gamification solutions designed to achieve a specific impact. From the initial idea to the finished product: for education, culture, science, and businesses.
Original Games
For us, games are the ultimate creative medium. We simply can’t help ourselves: we create our own games that make a difference through strong storytelling and innovative design.
Consulting
Hitting the right note with games requires experience and expertise. We’re happy to share our knowledge and support organizations in harnessing the potential of games and gamification to achieve their goals.
How we work
Simply coding a concept is something AI can do today – that’s not who we are. We bring our full expertise to every project and follow clear, validated processes to create work that truly achieves its intended impact.
Understand
Every project begins with listening. We get to know the target audience, understand the context, and define together — through established workshop formats—what the game is meant to achieve.
Design & Validate
We develop prototypes and test them directly with the target audience. Co-design, playtesting, adapting, repeating — until we have a concept that will achieve the project’s goals.
Develop
Once the concept and mechanics are validated, we move into production. With clear milestones, realistic planning, and extensive playtesting and involvement of the target audience.
Support
We consider longevity, maintenance, updates, and ongoing development from the very beginning—so the project continues to succeed long after launch.
Recent projects
Overhaul
In Overhaul, three players team up to repair quirky objects as quickly as possible in a fast-paced, cooperative arcade game.…
Prototype: Codename “Kappeln”
We’re very fortunate and happy to receive funding for the concept development of our next game through the “Landesprogramm Wirtschaft”…
GamesTalente
In collaboration with Bildung & Begabung and the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur, we designed and developed the GamesTalente portal—an interactive online…
What our partners say
OTBT is an outstanding company specializing in the development and design of video games. We wholeheartedly recommend OTBT as a reliable partner for the development and design of video games and look forward to further collaborative projects with them.
– Dr. Katharina Pittrich, Hogrefe Innovation Lab
In the first year after release, the number of registrations doubled. The fact that OTBT placed the preferences and feedback of the teenage target group at the center of the design process is paying off.
– Florian Bender & Benjamin Hillmann, Bildung & Begabung und Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur
Our collaboration with OTBT was professional and uncomplicated. The team implemented our wishes very competently, creatively and reliably. Overall: A great collaboration and very professional implementation of the game. Thanks a lot for this!
– Team of musiculum Kiel
Working with Jens and his team is a lot of fun. Their uncomplicated, helpful and flexible style made it easy for us to let more commissions follow the first one – expecially since the result is always great!
– Hendrik Peeters, Tivola Games
Highlight: The CEO who thinks ahead and not just along.
– Meike Christiansen, TRUSTease
Learning: OTBT finds a solution even when I don’t know what to do!
Specialty: The team at OTBT combines a wide range of disciplines and thereby shows the way into the future.
Awards
🏆 Kultur- und Kreativpilot:innen of the German Federal Government
🏆 Schleswig-Holstein Digitalization Award · 🏆 1st Place Startup GründerCup KielRegion
🏆 2× TOMMI Children’s Software Award Nominee: Best App and Best Education
🏆 Best of Show, Hamburg Games Conference · 🏆 Innovation & Excellence Award
Thoughts from our blog
Indie Game Studio Risks Bingo Game
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Prognosis for the future of Serious Games
Serious games—games designed for educational, training, or health purposes—have become a vital part of digital learning and development. But how…
More Than Just Fun: How games move us
Have you ever been completely gripped by a video game? Has a game put you in a difficult situation and…
We are Off The Beaten Track
Since 2018, we have been developing games from Kiel that make an impact. Games that achieve their purpose. Games that take a different path – off the beaten track.
Jens
(he/him)
Lead & Design
Luisa
(she/her)
Art
Nora
(she/her)
Production
Marc
(he/him)
Programming
