I was SHOCKED to find out this is a Bulgarian game...

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Как може да не се похвалите че играта се прави изцяло в София...Имате фенове ей!

[Kunovega]

Kalypso (the publisher) is a German company.

The original developer for Tropico 6 contracted by Kalypso was Limbic Entertainment, a German company.

The current developer that took over from Limbic is Realmforge, a German company.

Tropico 7 is under development by Gaming Minds Studio, a German company.

This game has nothing to do with Bulgaria and neither does the next one.
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As a series, the only Tropico games that were made in Bulgaria were Tropico 3, 4 and 5 when it was contracted out to Haemimont; but they didn't create the series. They were just a contractor for Kalypso and they haven't had anything to do with the series in over a decade since 2015.

Prior to Tropico 3 the series was owned by Gathering of Developers in the USA and originally developed by PopTop Software, also a US company for Tropico 1 and Frog City Software for Tropico 2, also a US company.

[ABOUT CASTLE DRACHENFELS]

Wonder how shocked youll be when you learn it isnt.

[Luca00]

Wrong.

[Rappeldrache]

As a german I have to say: I don't quite understand why someone should be shocked if a game is from Bulgaria... I mean, it doesn't matter whether it's a German or a Bulgarian developer. ( Aside from that, Bulgaria is not only a great country with truly hospitable, creative, and many very decent people, but it is also highly developed and progressive. )

For example, Haemimont Games (Bulgarian developer) is a really great developer that has made (to my knowledge) brilliant games like "Surviving Mars" & "Stranded: Alien Dawn". I had the pleasure recently of working & writing with one of their developers, for a new mod (I was testing it only, with a few others).
He continues to deliver unofficial updates for one of their games to this day... at a very high level. Not only was it personally a pleasure, but it's also really impressive to still be updating a game so long after release and even responding to individual player requests. Very sad that is was sold ...

By the way:
"Kalypso Media" owns "Gaming Minds": https://blog.kalypsomedia.com/de/kalypso-ubernimmt-die-komplette-mehrheit-an-gaming-minds-studios-in-gutersloh/
"Gaming Minds" is working on Tropico 7: https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/wirtschaft/tropico-7-gaming-minds-studios-kalypso-media/

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Rappeldrache:

By the way:
"Kalypso Media" owns "Gaming Minds": https://blog.kalypsomedia.com/de/kalypso-ubernimmt-die-komplette-mehrheit-an-gaming-minds-studios-in-gutersloh/
"Gaming Minds" is working on Tropico 7: https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/wirtschaft/tropico-7-gaming-minds-studios-kalypso-media/

Kalypso also own RealmForge which has been putting out DLC for Tropico 6 after taking over from Limbic post release.

[hardy_conrad]

You're all wrong, this game is actually made by lizards, wake up sheeple!