Introduction

The year 2020 was a tough year for most of us and at the same time -by far- the most successful year for the company since we started. I know we say this since we started the retrospectives, so let me explain why it was our most successful year a bit more.

The obvious measurement of success is revenue and profits, but the more interesting question is why they increased. We built more loyal customer relationships with integrity and trust with more companies than ever before. We now have colleagues who have been with the company for many years. In other words, we grew our own senior and principal level over the years. We also started to distribute more responsibility among our senior people and installed more ways to let them benefit from the profits. We are hoping to continue our growth in projects, people, and profits this way.

One of the reasons for our success is our open-source rendering framework, "The Forge Framework". It now runs in several AAA custom game engines, will run a business application framework on several hundred million mobile devices, and a lot more. Many conversations we have with hardware and software companies start around this framework. It helps to test drivers, define API standards, and -most important-, ships games :-)

We can also see that people use it for teaching computer graphics, to build game engines for their side projects, and some of the users surprise us with their ingenuity and what they are doing with it.

We would like to thank everyone who worked with us and/or recommended us. Thanks for your trust!