Garry Newman

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Garry Newman
Born (1982-05-20) 20 May 1982 (age 43)
England
Occupation(s) Modder and Game developer
Known forCreating Garry's Mod and founding Facepunch Studios
Notable work Garry's Mod , Rust , S&box
Children2
Website https://garry.net

Garry Newman (born 20 May 1982 [1] ) is a British video game developer and modder. In 2004, Newman founded Facepunch Studios while working on Garry's Mod , a Half-Life 2 modification. [2] As of October 2010, he lives in Walsall, England. [3]

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Early life

Newman started as a web programmer working with PHP on a dating website. He was fired from that job for creating his own dating site outside of work. While living with his family, he created his first project called "Facewound", which was intentionally designed to be a 2D game using 3D acceleration technology. He intended to sell games as shareware. Development on Facewound was halted after problems with the project's code and Garry switched his focus to the creation of Garry's Mod. [4]

Career

Facepunch Studios

Garry started experimenting with Valve's Source for a Half-Life 2 modification called " Garry's Mod ". This was inspired by another modification know as "JB Mod". The first version of Garry's Mod was released in 2004, and it brought together a group of collaborators called "Team Garry," later renamed to "Facepunch" because of the comic nature of the name.

Controversy

Game engine critic

After Unity Technologies warned in 2023 that games developed with the engine would pay an extra publishing license fee, Newman expressed his disappointment with the engine, announcing that he would not use it for his Rust sequel and that he had plans to remake the first game in another engine. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Newman, Garry. "38 today but still cool af". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
  2. ↑ Muriuki, Winnie. "Garry Newman Net Worth 2022: Age, Height, Weight, Girlfriend, Dating, Bio-Wiki | Wealthy Persons". Archived from the original on 2022-01-23. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
  3. ↑ "Meet Garry, The Guy Who Re-Made How We Re-Make PC Games". Kotaku. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
  4. ↑ "Mod is Dead: Garry's Mod Interview". Shacknews. 2007-07-24. Retrieved 2025-11-09.
  5. ↑ published, Joshua Wolens (2024-08-05). "Rust dev is bored of paying Unity '$500k a year' to fix its engine and promises that his Garry's Mod successor won't hoodwink devs with fees". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2025-11-09.
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