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Max Design was an Austrian game developer located in Schladming who developed various games like the ''Anno'' series. In 2004 the company abandoned its activities while selling all property including all of their game title licence-rights to Sunflowers – one of the companies they co-developed and -published with before on ''Anno 1503'' and ''Anno 1602''. After the closing in 2004 the founders took a leave of absence and are since 2006 again active in the video game sector with the new company "Red Monkeys".〔PCGames.de (German) (http://www.pcgames.de/ ) Article above the new foundation on PC Games〕 == Company history == Max Design was founded in 1991 by the brothers Albert Lasser and Martin Lasser together with Wilfried Reiter. The company became known for its challenging business simulation games. Max Design developed and initiated while later conjointly with Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software released game ''1602'' marked even in two ways an edge. Selling about two million copies, it was by then most successful Austrian video game.〔Spieleflut.de (German) (http://www.spieleflut.de/ ) Anno 1602 - Der Longseller schlechthin〕 It laid the foundation for the ''Anno'' series. Along with the sequel titles there was sold about 4.2 million copies as of April 2006.〔(http://www.gamona.de ) Red Monkeys - Interview mit Martin Lasser (ger)〕 Sunflowers secured itself the first shares of Max Design within the cooperation. Otherwise, the continuing shift of balance of power between those two companies heading at Sunflowers was a lot discussed within the fan community with the appearance of ''Anno 1503''. After twelve years Max Design left the game industry on April 15, 2004. As per press release this is a matter of an adjustment phase〔(http://www.gamestar.de/ ) Max Design - Massenentlassung bei Anno-Programmierern - Mass layoff on Anno developers (ger)〕 which duration is uncertainly. All employees except the founding members were laid off. In the same year the company fully ceased all its activities. The ''Anno''-series was continued – while under its control – by Sunflowers in cooperation with Related Designs. In an interview, one of the company's founder later declared, after twelve years of development the core team was "tired' and needed some time for a re-orientation.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Design」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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