Martin Ganteföhr

Developer BIO

Martin Ganteföhr (Writer/Game Director), is the Co-Founder of House of Tales. A specialist in literature studies and linguistics, he started working in the computer sector as a writer of technical documentation and image copywriter for corporate communications. He has been working in the interactive sector as a writer since 1996.

Martin was the lead writer and designer of six edutainment/adventure titles for ZDF Multimedia (Terra X) and dozens of consumer applications.

Martin co-created the story and was the dialog/screenplay writer and voice director for the adventure game The Mystery of the Druids (CDV/House of Tales, released 2001) that was marketed worldwide. In The Moment of Silence, he created the story, directed as well as wrote the screenplay and dialog.

He also has written three cell phone adventure games for Elkware Mobile Entertainment.

Websites

• Interview with Martin Ganteföhr - Feb. 2008 -- Adventure Gamers interviews Ganteföhr about his upcoming game, Overclocked: A History of Violence.
• Interview with Martin Ganteföhr (Feb. 2005) -- Gamezone interviews Martin about the game Moment of Silence
• Interview with Martin Ganteföhr - April 2008 -- Adventure Classic Gaming interviews Ganteföhr about his general game design philosophies and about the creation process of Overclocked: A History of Violence

Games Credited

Overclocked: A History of Violence (2007), ANACONDA
Mr. Smoozles Goes Nutso (2006), Merscom LLC
Verliebt in Berlin (2005), dtp entertainment AG
The Moment of Silence (2004), dtp entertainment AG
The Black Hole (2003), elkware GmbH
The Paper Menace (2003), elkware GmbH
The Mystery of the Druids (2001), CDV Software Entertainment AG