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Company type | Corporation |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | June 1, 2012 [1] |
Founders | Saleem Dabbous Bronson Zgeb |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Gnog Goodbye Volcano High |
Website | ko-opmode |
KO_OP is a Canadian game studio cooperative based in Montreal. It was founded in 2012.
Studio director Saleem Dabbous and programmer Bronson Zgeb founded KO_OP in 2012 to make "visually arresting avant-garde games". [2] The studio is run as a workers cooperative with equal salary and decision-making between co-owners. [3] [4] Dabbous and Zgeb used personal savings to launch the company and relied on work-for-hire to finance its own games. They struggled with inexperience in their over-scoped early projects, as they moved through a dozen prototypes and eventually cancelled two projects in full production. [2]
Gnog was nominated for Excellence in Visual Art at the 2016 Independent Games Festival [5] and released in 2017. [6] KO_OP also built "The Mirror of Spirits", an expansion for Lara Croft Go , in 2016. [7]
Game | Platform(s) | Initial release date |
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GNOG | PlayStation 4 | May 2, 2017 |
iOS | November 28, 2017 | |
Microsoft Windows | July 17, 2018 | |
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Winding Worlds | Apple Arcade | May 15, 2020 |
Depanneur Nocturne | Microsoft Windows | May 26, 2020 |
Ridiculous Fishing EX | Apple Arcade | July 14, 2023 |
Goodbye Volcano High [8] | PlayStation 5 | August 29, 2023 |
PlayStation 4 | ||
Microsoft Windows |