Company Profile

Mach-Parat is a young, innovative German company that specializes in Flash-based games. They started in August 2002, and had already won the games category at the Online Flash Film Festival OFFF03 in Barcelona less than a year later. Mach-Parat's team consists of Volker Neumann, Jan-Philipp Behrens and Sebastian Deimann.

I first encountered Mach-Parat through their very different looking ' In the Woods' game and have had opportunity to enjoy their clever ideas in games and viral marketing ever since, including their rather wonderful Easter idea for self promotion, The Pixel Egg, which is as a very elegant piece of viral marketing.

Interview

This interview is with Jan-Philipp Behrens, one of the three permanent members of the company.

Can you describe the background to your company, its aims, ambitions, client base?

Volker Neumann and I met while we worked for a small design company and started some projects. We never had any ambition to work for a larger company and so we started our own business.

We always try to be innovative and look out for new challenges. We want to produce applications that are as attractive as possible. It is nice if a client is satisfied, but what satisfies us are e-mails from users saying that they like what we do. And last but not least we want to have fun while working.

Typically how many people would work on a project?

Most of the time all three of us are involved, although...