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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder |
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| Defunct | January 8, 2015 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S. [1] |
| Products | Spec Ops series |
Zombie Studios was an American independent video game developer. It was formed in 1994 as Zombie, LLC by Joanna Alexander and Mark Long, formerly of the Sarnoff Research Center. Alexander and Long founded Zombie after they completed the design of a virtual reality headset for Hasbro at Sarnoff in 1993. [1]
In 1994, backed by an investment from Nick Nicholas, the former chairman of Time Warner Inc, Zombie Studios was founded to design computer games. [2] [3] Mark Long and Joanna Alexander, founders of Zombie Studios, met in 1991 while designing virtual reality simulators for the military at the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, N.J. [4]
By 2001, the company employed 24 people. [2]
Zombie Studios shut down in January 2015 with its owners' retirement. Former staffers of the company subsequently founded a new studio, Builder Box Games (now Hardsuit Labs), who acquired some of Zombie Studio's former IPs. [5]
The developer was commissioned by the United States Armed Forces to co-develop a series of training and recruitment games. Some games were developed entirely by the developer, but some were co-developed with the U.S. Army Development Team, and others were made with other game developers.
