Founded in 1990
The Black Pencil Entertainment AG was a Swiss firm specializing in interactive games on TV and computers. It was countered in 1990 by the Swiss writer Claude Cueni and in 1991, according to his own statement, produced Europe's first interactive television game. Cueni sold the company to phenomedia AG in 2000 to concentrate on his novel The Big Game, part two of his magnum opus Money, Gods and Passion - but he remained on the board of directors of the company. After the sale, which included all of the company's intellectual property, the company continued to operate under the name "Phenomedia AG Switzerland" and from then on concentrated on the development of advertising games for various partners. In 2002, Claude Cueni completed a Management Buy-Out and bought all the shares of the phenomedia AG zurück, after which it was renamed Black Pencil Entertainment AG. All intellectual property from the period between 2000 and 2002 was transferred to Black Pencil Entertainment AG. In February 2011, Black Pencil Entertainment AG became Black Pencil AG. In April 2014, it was finally deleted from the commercial register due to bankruptcy proceedings.
