Wube Software
Studio behind the factory-building simulation Factorio, with an office in Prague and a UK-registered company entity.
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What Wube Software is
Wube Software is the studio that develops Factorio. Its team page states that the studio's office is located in Prague, Czech Republic, and describes how it grew from what it calls a garage company of two programmers and one graphic artist into a team of 31 in-house professionals, alongside contributors around the world. The site describes the group as a team of professionals dedicated to creating games, with most of the team based in the Czech office and several people working remotely.
The team page gives the founders' roles in more detail. Michal Kovařík, known as kovarex, is listed as founder and company director; the page says he started the project and divides his time between programming the game and directing its development. Tomáš Kozelek is listed as co-founder and is described as handling a wide range of work from programming to managing the company, and now involved mainly in larger decisions. Albert Bertolín Soler is listed as art director and is described as the artist responsible for the game's visuals.
How the company is set up
The legal side of the business is split between two entities. Factorio's terms of service are issued by Wube Software Ltd, company number 09201188, with a registered seat at 41 Devonshire Street, Ground Floor, London, W1G 7AJ. The imprint page adds a Czech branch, Wube Software Ltd. odstepny zavod, registered in the Czech company register under number 03594009, with an office at Belgicka 196/38, 120 00 Praha 2-Vinohrady. The imprint page also carries the studio's contact address for the Czech operation.
Factorio
Factorio is the title in our database connected to Wube Software. The game's site states that Factorio was in development from the spring of 2012 to the beginning of 2021, and that over 3,500,000 people have bought the game. Version 1.0 of the game was released on 14 August 2020, a date the studio had brought forward from an earlier target of 25 September 2020, as recorded in its development blog. On Steam the game is listed with Wube Software LTD. as the developer.
Factorio is sold on Steam, on GOG and through the studio's own shop. The terms of service treat both Factorio and its Factorio: Space Age expansion as products covered by the agreement, and the studio states that it retains all right, title and interest in the game, including the source code and art assets. The terms also state that use of the studio's online matching server and mod portal requires an account on factorio.com.
How the studio communicates
Wube Software publishes a development blog known as Friday Facts. The blog records decisions about the game's release schedule, including the change of the 1.0 release date from 25 September 2020 to 14 August 2020, which the team explained in terms of the game's state and the release calendar around it. The team page also lists roles covering programming, 3D and graphic art, sound design, community and support management, mod portal operations and wiki administration, including several people working remotely from outside the Czech Republic, in Romania, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
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Questions people ask
Who develops Factorio?
Wube Software. The game's own site describes Wube Software as the team behind Factorio, and the Steam listing names Wube Software LTD. as the developer.
Where is Wube Software based?
The studio's office is in Prague, Czech Republic, according to its team page. The imprint page also lists a registered seat in London and a Czech branch in Prague.
When was Factorio released?
Version 1.0 was released on 14 August 2020, according to the studio's development blog. The game was in development from the spring of 2012 to the beginning of 2021 and has sold over 3,500,000 copies.