Sproing Interactive

{{short description|Austrian video game developer (2001–2017)}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Sproing Interactive Media GmbH

| logo =

| type = Private

| industry = Video games

| founded = {{Start date and age|2001}}

| founder =

| hq_location_city = Vienna

| hq_location_country = Austria

| area_served =

| key_people = Harald Riegler, Johanna Schober

| num_employees = 100

| num_employees_year = 2016

}}

Sproing Interactive Media GmbH was an Austrian video game developer. It was founded in 2001 by Harald Riegler and Gerhard Seiler. Riegler and Seiler owned and managed the company until its closure in 2017. The company had its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.[http://www.sproing.at/website/company.html Company]. Sproing's website, Company Information.

Sproing published over 50 titles of varying scope. The company produced games for different platforms such as Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo DS, PlayStation and Game Boy Advance. Panzer Tactics DS (released in 2008) was awarded the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis in the category Best German console-game. For autumn 2012, a third game of the show Schlag den Raab was announced, as both predecessors sold over 250,000 copies between them on various platforms.[http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cbs-News-PC-Schlag-den-Raab-Das-3-Spiel-Neue-Runde-im-Spaetsommer-7653879.html Computerbild]. Schlag den Raab - Das 3. Spiel. In November 2016, Sproing, at the time the largest game studio in Austria (with roughly 100 employees), filed for insolvency.{{Cite web|url=https://www.golem.de/news/sproing-interactive-oesterreichs-groesstes-spieleentwicklerstudio-ist-insolvent-1611-124716.html|title = Golem.de: IT-News für Profis}} It was succeeded by Purple Lamp Studios in 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.purplelamp.com/sproing-publishing |title=Sproing Publishing – Purple Lamp Studios |website=www.purplelamp.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307173353/http://www.purplelamp.com/sproing-publishing/ |archive-date=2018-03-07}} The company was a member of the G.A.M.E. Bundesverband der Computerspielindustrie.