Sign in

Private company

Shin'en Multimedia

German video game developer

Shin'en Multimedia is a German independent video game developer. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1999 by former members of the demoscene group Abyss. They develop games primarily for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch, some non-Nintendo platforms such as the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5, and previously for the Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1999Founded1
  • Industryvideo game industry1
  • HeadquartersMunich1
  • Websitewww.shinen.com
  • Legal formGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung1

See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards

Shin'en Multimedia is a German independent video game developer. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1999 by former members of the demoscene group Abyss. They develop games primarily for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch, some non-Nintendo platforms such as the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5, and previously for the Wii U, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color. Their most notable games include the Fast series, which beginning with Fast RMX have been released as launch titles for Nintendo consoles.2

Products and brands

  • video game

Listed on Wikidata.1

Games

In addition, Shin'en has developed the audio of hundreds of games on Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, WiiWare and Nokia N-Gage as an outsourced audio developer, using their proprietary audio engines.

Technology

SHIN'ENGINE

SHIN'ENGINE, formally named C-Engine, is a proprietary Game engine developed by Shin'en and has been used in all of their games since Nanostray 2. Development began in 2006 and has since received revisions for newer console generations. SHIN'ENGINE is designed for targeting 60 Frames per second across hardware constrained platforms such as the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo Switch.

From Wikipedia’s article on Shin'en Multimedia, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. 1999Founded Founded1

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3