We craft truly frictionless games for the metaverse.
Flying Sheep uses the power of the web to make super accessible video games.
We create virtual worlds that can be enjoyed...
Our Work Culture
We have created a respectful work environment, which values each team member’s work-life-balance and fosters continuous improvement.
Respect
We foster and value diversity in our team. We do not tolerate any toxicity whether within the company, nor in our games. We make sure to regularly play together and do some “non-productive” activities together. We support several initiatives such as the Fem Devs Meetup and team diversity.
Work-life-balance
We offer very flexible working conditions. You can choose whether you work in our Cologne office, or from anywhere else in Germany. You work when you want with super flexible working times and just a small amount of core hours during the day. We have never and will never use crunch to develop our games.
Continuous Improvement
We make sure that each one of us gets to hone and improve their skills, through in depth feedback and by offering workshops and trade conference visits. Furthermore we constantly keep iterating on our own processes to work as efficiently as possible.
Meet Our Team
Thomas
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Project Incantation | 31 |
| Numbers Sorcery | 30 |
| Tea Crafting | >9000 |
Fun Facts
Thomas lived in France for over 20 years, which explains his taste in hats.
Favourite Games
Dungeon Keeper 2 · Warcraft 2 · Worms Armageddon
Founder | Managing Director
Daniel
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Code Wizardry | 31 |
| HTML5 Alchemy | 30 |
| Morning Person | -7 |
Fun Facts
Has seen more trash movies than anybody should.
Favourite Games
Alpha Centauri · Dwarf Fortress · Spec Ops: The Line · Old school point’n click
Founder | Technical Director
Ben
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Game Design Conjuration | 31 |
| Photoshop Magic | 30 |
| Beard Growth | ∞ |
Fun Facts
Uranus is visible to the naked eye in dark skies, and becomes an easy target even in urban conditions with binoculars.
Favourite Games
Kerbal Space Program · Freespace 2 · League of Legends · Bahamut Lagoon · Mass Effect · FTL
Founder | Creative Director
Guido
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Game Idea Summoning | 31 |
| Pixel-Fu | 30 |
| Cycling |
 |
Fun Facts
Spent a summer holiday to learn how to juggle.
Favourite Games
Papo & Yo · Roller Coaster Tycoon · Guild Wars
Design Director
Lena
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Plan crafting | 30 |
| Culture-enthusiast | 31 |
| Suitcase packing | Tetris God |
Fun Facts
Can read anywhere, any time, under any circumstance.
Favourite Games
Marvin’s Mittens · Stardew Valley · The Harry Potter games · Ori and the blind forest · Pokémon Go
Finance Director
Rüdiger
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Project Brewing | 31 |
| Team Diplomacy | 30 |
| Camera Mastery | Extreme |
Fun Facts
Loves cameras. Cameras are the most beautiful of all the tech.
Favourite Games
Kentucky Route Zero · Gothic · Siege of Avalon · Commander Keen · Guild Wars (1!) · Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
Lead Producer
Nici
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Staying angry | -20 |
| Master of confusion | 9000 |
| Cooking ́n baking | delici-NOMNOMNOM |
Fun Facts
Starts baking or cooking when she´s upset.
Favourite Games
Golden Sun · Kingdom hearts · FFX · Portal 2 · Catherine · Zelda · Prof. Layton · HotS
Creative Producer
Christian
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Enjoying Music | super high |
| Being confused by code | 31 |
| Being engaged at work | 31 |
Fun Facts
Christian can rapidly wiggle his pupils (like really fast).
Favourite Games
All Command and Conquer games (especially Generals Zero Hour) · Starcraft 1 & 2 · Tomb Raider games · Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee · Gex 3D · And many more old Playstation games
Development
Meysam
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Nocturnal life | Don’t even go there! |
| Photography | <3 |
| Debugging: | 11! |
Fun Facts
He slept once when he was crossing the street early in the morning and an old cyclist woke him up by hitting him … He was only 12 yo at that time!
Favourite Games
Portal 2 · Super Meat Boy · Grim Fandango
Development
Denise
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Lowpoly modeling | Padawan ☄️ |
| Cake baking | star baker 🌟 |
| Enamel pin collecting | countless 💗 |
Fun Facts
Can turn eyelids inside out.
Favourite Games
Stardew Valley · Breath of the Wild · Kingdom Hearts · Animal Crossing: New Horizons · Overwatch · The Witcher series · Point n’ Click adventures
3D Art
Franzi
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Design Sorcery | 31 |
| Time Management | 30 |
| Math | trying |
Fun Facts
Is an incredibly good swimmer.
Favourite Games
Apex Legends · Valorant · Mario Kart · Assassins Creed (all of them but Black Flag)
Game Designer
Lisa
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| The Art™ | +hopefully much |
| Caffeine Consumption | +much |
| Fangirling about favourite games | +even more |
Fun Facts
Caffeine is a designer’s Hi-Potion.
Favourite Games
Final Fantasy X + XIV · NieR: Automata · TLoZ: OoT · Kingdom Hearts 2
2D/UI Artist
Marta
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Water | near bending️ |
| Organisation gaps | Terminator |
| Monkey | maybe️ |
Fun Facts
Kanji and Egyptian Hieroglyphs follow the same compository system.
Favourite Games
Red Dead Redemption 2 · Dark Cloud · Final Fantasy X · SSX · Tetris PvP · World of Goo
HR | Admin
Chris
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Assassin’s Creed knowledge | Sea shanty lyrics |
| League of Legends | Gold hard |
| destination | stuck Riven main️ |
Fun Facts
Is getting addicted to competitive games since he was playing Magic the Gathering at tournaments as a child.
Favourite Games
League of Legends · Magic the Gathering · Pokemon(Blue/Red) · Guild Wars 1 · Terranigma
Development
Nils
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Cooking | always |
| Rabbithole Pathfollowing | one Step ahead |
| Hoarding | -1 physical / +100 digital |
Fun Facts
Has extensive horseshoe-knowledge.
Favourite Games
Wildstar · Smite · Links Awakening · Secret of Mana
Game Designer
Thiago
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Code crafting | 31 |
| Coffee brewing | 30 |
| Despair management | 7×1 |
Fun Facts
Looks forward to household chores when there are new podcast episodes.
Favourite Games
Super Metroid · Celeste · Life is Strange · Fighting games (especially from Arc System)
Development
Markus
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Sketching | 31 |
| Photoshop | 30 |
| Blender | Ultimate |
Fun Facts
Keeps a sketchbook with him at all times.
Favourite Games
Overwatch · Warcraft 3 · Age of Empires 2 · GTA Series · Unreal Tournament 2004
Concept/3D Artist
Renke
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Sailing | Beaufort 7 |
| Soccer | only with my d12 |
| Archery | can hit target when throwing bow |
Fun Facts
Alternative facts can only exist in alternative universes.
Favourite Games
Path of Exile · Journey · Eve Online · Bloodborne · Elite Dangerous
Senior Game Designer
Daniel
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Codewarrior | over 9000 |
| Network(ing) | Digital and Analog |
| Coffee Creation | -100 |
Fun Facts
Can’t look serious on Photos. Really it’s hard to take a serious picture!
Favourite Games
Portal (Any) · Half-Life (Any) · Risk of Rain 1
Head of Backend Development
Frank
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Using AI | ftw |
| Graphics Coding | single handedly (matrix style) |
| 3D-GPU-Shader Development | over 9000 |
Fun Facts
One can never have enough Lego
Favourite Games
Skate or die · God of war · The last of us · All Paw Patrol & Lego releases (according to my kids…) · Skate Rock
Senior Engine Developer
Nina
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Task organising | > 9000 |
| Thought organising | – 9000 |
| Star Trek trivia | ∞ |
Fun Facts
Basically grew up on flea markets. So of course, about 90% of their household is second-hand stuff.
Favourite Games
Zelda: Link’s Awakening · The Stanley Parable · Undertale · Dark Souls · Coming Out on Top [NSFW]
Head of Diversity
Juniper
| Skills | Lvl |
|---|---|
| Sword fighting | TTRPG & real life |
| Amount of meals a day | 6 |
| Number of interconnected spreadsheets | =SUM(B4:OFFSET(B4,0,E2-1)) |
Fun Facts
They taught their dog how to talk with word buttons and regretted it forever.
Favourite Games
Oxenfree · Night in the Woods · What remains of Edith Finch · Tell me why · (guilty) Overwatch · League of Legends
Game Designer
Join Our Team
You?
Frontend Web Game Developer, Full-time, m/f/d, Cologne or remote within Germany
Tasks:
• Develop the client for a massively multiplayer 3D web game using JavaScript
• Build a performant and secure frontend that delivers amazing gameplay on all browser, be it a 5 year old mobile phone or a cutting edge desktop PC
• Bring a massive open world to life in 3D using three.js
• Communicate with the backend using Websockets and REST & RPC APIs
• Write reusable code and libraries
• Development of cutting edge WebGL games for desktop and mobile devices
For full job offer click here:
Frontend Web Game Developer
You?
Backend Web Game Developer, Full-time, m/f/d, Cologne or remote within Germany
Tasks:
• Develop the backend for a massively multiplayer 3D WebGL game using JavaScript
• Build the architecture of the system while minding scalability, security, speed, and stability of the application
• Analyze requirements & goals, handle bugs & errors, come up with efficient solutions
• Manage and develop APIs for communication between different services and with the client
• Write reusable code and libraries
• Scaling the application to handle load changes & large amount of data traffic
• Interact with the database to store and retrieve huge amounts of data in realtime
For full job offer click here:
Backend Web Game Developer
What happened so far
2022
New Partners
In 2022 Flying Sheep Studios joined the iCandy Interactive group, to unite our forces and use our know-how to create frictionless experiences for the metaverse, accessible on all devices.
2020
New working models
With the pandemic forcing us to work from home for a while, we learned to embrace and enjoy that working style and so decided to make “office optional” our new policy, and provide the most flexible workplace possible.
2016
Active in the ecosystem
Beside making games, our team is also very involved in the local ecosystem, organising multiple networking events, having cofounded a coworking space, being founding members of the federal as well local game association, and supporting other initiatives such as the fem dev meetup.
2015
In-house HTML5 Engine
To ensure the best possible quality, we built our own in-house dev tools. That enabled our team of 20 Sheeps to deliver over 200 of the best crossplatform webgames on the market.
2014
Hello World
Flying Sheep Studios was founded in 2014 by Thomas Rössig, Daniel Nienhaus and Benjamin Cid Pérez in the beautiful city of Cologne. From the start, our goal was to build the best cross-platform HTML5 games possible. We soon started making games for some of the coolest brands out there, such as Lego, Barbie and DreamWorks.
