Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH was a German company that developed and published computer games

Computer Games

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. Sunflowers was based in Heusenstamm

Heusenstamm

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 and was founded in 1993 by Adi Boiko, president of the company, and Wilhelm Hamrozi, CEO of the company. Games released by Sunflowers include the Anno series (Anno 1602

Anno 1602

Anno 1602: Creation of a New World is a game with both real time strategy and city building elements, developed by Austria-based Max Design company....

, Anno 1503

Anno 1503

Anno 1503: The New World is a game with both real time strategy and city building elements, developed by Austria-based Max Design company. It revolves around building and maintaining a 16th century colony in the New World...

, and Anno 1701

Anno 1701

Anno 1701, also marketed as 1701 A.D., is a video game with both real time strategy and city building elements, developed by Germany-based Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software company. It revolves around building and maintaining an 18th century colony in the "New World"...

), Black Sea Studios

Black Sea Studios

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' Knights of Honor

Knights of Honor (game)

Knights of Honor is a real-time strategy game developed by Bulgarian Black Sea Studios . It was published by Sunflowers GmbH in Europe in 2004 and Paradox Entertainment in North America in 2005. The game takes place in Medieval Europe, spanning the early centuries of the second millennium in...

, Holiday Island (1996) and SEK's ParaWorld

Paraworld

ParaWorld is a real-time strategy PC game released on September 25, 2006. It was developed by the German company SEK , based in Berlin. The game features more than 50 prehistoric animals, especially dinosaurs and Pleistocene mammals...

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On April 11, 2007, Ubisoft

Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

 announced that it had acquired Sunflowers, with the deal to be closed in Ubisoft's first quarter fiscal year 2007.