Bohemia Interactive

Bohemia Interactive a.s.

Type	Private
Industry	Computer and video games Interactive entertainment
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Prague, Czech Republic
Key people	Marek Španěl (CEO), Ondřej Španěl
Products	Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis ARMA series DayZ
Number of employees	250+
Subsidiaries	Altar Games Black Element Software Centauri Production
Website	http://www.bistudio.com/

Bohemia Interactive a.s (BI), also known as Bohemia Interactive Studio (BIS), is an independent developer and publisher of video games, based in Prague, Czech Republic. Founded in 1999, the company's CEO is Marek Španěl, who is also the co-owner of the company.

Bohemia Interactive is a member of IDEA Games, which functions as a publisher and consultant for several independent developers.

Bohemia's release of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis in 2001 into the international market won BI several prestigious awards. At London's ECTS show of 2001, BI won the "Best PC Game Developer of the Year" award. In addition, BI was also awarded "Rookie Studio of the Year" at GDC 2002.

The debut game of BI, published by Codemasters, immediately became the top selling game in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Czech Republic and other countries. After this success BI prepared a special US version of the game which launched in September 2001 and it also became one of the best selling games in the USA.

After OFP was released, the official expansion packs came onto the game market, officially titled Red Hammer and Resistance which brought significant engine updates. The development team continued (until 2005) to support the game with regularly released upgrades and patches over the Internet.