KO_OP
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_OPis a Canadian game studiocooperativebased in Montreal. It was founded in 2012.
History
[edit]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 aworkers cooperativewith 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]
Gnogwas nominated for Excellence in Visual Art at the 2016Independent Games Festival[5]and released in 2017.[6]KO_OP also built "The Mirror of Spirits", an expansion forLara Croft Go,in 2016.[7]
List of games
[edit]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 | |
macOS | ||
Winding Worlds | Apple Arcade | May 15, 2020 |
Depanneur Nocturne | Microsoft Windows | May 26, 2020 |
Ridiculous FishingEX | Apple Arcade | July 14, 2023 |
Goodbye Volcano High[8] | PlayStation 5 | August 29, 2023 |
PlayStation 4 | ||
Microsoft Windows |
References
[edit]- ^"KO_OP".presskit.ko-opmode.com.RetrievedMay 23,2024.
- ^abSinclair, Brendan (October 18, 2016)."Inexperience as an advantage".GamesIndustry.biz.RetrievedJanuary 12,2020.
- ^McAloon, Alissa (March 12, 2019)."The 'equal pay and equal say' structure of the game dev studio KO_OP".Gamasutra.RetrievedJanuary 12,2020.
- ^Klepek, Patrick (March 12, 2019)."Giving Workers Equal Power Isn't Radical. This Studio's Done It For Years".Vice.RetrievedJanuary 12,2020.
- ^Cameron, Phill (February 10, 2016)."Road to the IGF: KO_OP's GNOG".Gamasutra.RetrievedJanuary 12,2020.
- ^Couture, Joel (August 9, 2018)."Building the monstrous transforming puzzle heads of GNOG".Gamasutra.RetrievedJanuary 12,2020.
- ^Priestman, Chris (December 21, 2016)."The independent studio behind some of Lara Croft GO's best levels".Kill Screen.RetrievedJanuary 12,2020.
- ^Romano, Sal (May 11, 2023)."Goodbye Volcano High delayed to August 29".Gematsu.RetrievedMay 11,2023.