Zombie Studios
| Zombie Studios | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Inc. |
| founding | 1994 |
| resolution | January 2015 |
| Reason for dissolution | Business abandonment |
| Seat | Seattle |
| management | Joanna Alexander |
| Branch | Game development |
| Website | http://www.zombie.com (inactive) |
The Zombie Studios was an American development studio for computer games based in Seattle .
history
The company was founded in 1994 by Joanna Alexander and Mark Long. The first work was carried out on the 1995 titles Ice & Fire , Locus and the 32X porting of Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure , before the first major in-house development appeared in 1996 with Zork Nemesis . The first-person shooter series Spec Ops was one of the best-known works . In February 2000, Zombie was acquired by Advanced Interactive Systems (AIS), a maker of law enforcement simulations. The computer game Shrapnel , announced in 2000 and to be developed in parallel to a comic book, was never implemented. Mark Long continued the comic idea with Nick Sagan , who had previously worked on Zork Nemesis, among others . In 2009/2010 two books under the title Shrapnel: Aristeia Rising and Shrapnel: Hubris were published by Radical Comics.
Between 2005 and 2006, the studio released four titles under the Direct Action Games label. As of 2010, the shooter Blacklight: Tango Down , its free-to-play successor Blacklight: Retribution and the horror adventure Daylight were among the best-known publications. In 2009, Zombie announced that Fox Atomic would be working on a film related to Blacklight . However, these were not implemented until the company was dissolved.
Mark Long left the company in 2011 and moved to Meteor Entertainment ( Hawken ). In January 2015, the company announced the liquidation on its website, as the owners wanted to withdraw from the game industry. The work and license on Blacklight: Retribution was handed over to Studio Builder Box Games (later renamed Hardsuit Labs), which was founded by former employees.
Publications
Computer games
- Ice & Fire (1995)
- Locus (1995)
- Zork Nemesis (1996)
- ZPC (1996)
- Spearhead (1998)
- Spec Ops: Rangers Lead the Way (1998)
- Spec Ops: Ranger Team Bravo (1998) (extension to Rangers Lead the Way )
- Body Glove's Bluewater Hunter (1999)
- Spec Ops 2: Green Berets (1999)
- Spec Ops 2: Operation Bravo (2000) (Extension to Green Berets )
- Rainbow Six: Covert Operations Essentials (2000) (Expansion for Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear )
- Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol (2000)
- Spec Ops 2: Omega Squad (2000)
- Spec Ops: Ranger Elite (2001)
- Spec Ops: Covert Assault (2001)
- Alcatraz: Prison Escape (2001)
- Atlantis The Lost Empire: Search for the Journal (2001)
- Atlantis The Lost Empire: Trial by Fire (2001)
- Delta Force: Task Force Dagger (2002)
- Super Bubble Pop (2002)
- Shadow Ops: Red Mercury (2004)
- Saw (2009)
- Blacklight: Tango Down (2010)
- Saw 2: Flesh & Blood (2010)
- Blackwater (2011)
- Blacklight: Retribution (2012)
- Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition (2012)
- Special Forces: Team X (2013)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Way of the Warrior ( Plug and play CMOS camera video game)
- Daylight (2014)
- Phantom Army (2014)
Direct action games
- Combat: Task Force 121 (2005)
- World War II Combat: Road to Berlin (2006)
- World War II Combat: Iwo Jima (2006)
- CQC - Close Quarters Conflict (2006)
Serious games
- America's Army: Special Forces (2003)
- Future Force Company Commander (2006)
- Virtual Army Experience
- AH-64D Apache Simulator
- Future Soldier Trainer
- Convoy trainer
- JROTC First Aid Trainer
Web links
- Official website (archived version)
- Zombie Studios at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quang Hong: AIS Buys Zombie. In: Gamasutra . Retrieved May 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Amer Ajami: First Details: Zombie's Shrapnel. In: GameSpot. April 26, 2000. Retrieved May 18, 2018 (American English).
- ^ Sagan & Long on Radical's 'Shrapnel: Aristeia Rising' . In: Newsarama . ( newsarama.com [accessed May 18, 2018]).
- ↑ Zombie Studios - Daylight developers closed - GameStar . ( gamestar.de [accessed on May 18, 2018]).
- ↑ Tatiana Siegel: Fox turns on 'Blacklight' . In: Variety . March 17, 2009 ( variety.com [accessed May 18, 2018]).
- ↑ Blacklight and Spec Ops developer Zombie Studios shuts down . In: polygon . ( polygon.com [accessed May 18, 2018]).