KO OP
Canadian game studio cooperative
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KO_OP is a Canadian game studio cooperative based in Montreal. It was founded in 2012.
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| Company type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | June 1, 2012[1] |
| Founders | Saleem Dabbous Bronson Zgeb |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Gnog Goodbye Volcano High |
| Website | ko-opmode |
History
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]
List of games
| Game | Platform(s) | Initial release date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Fishing EX | Apple Arcade | July 14, 2023 |
| Goodbye Volcano High[8] | PlayStation 5 | August 29, 2023 |
| PlayStation 4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows | ||
| Young Suns | Xbox Series X/S | TBA |
| Xbox One | ||
| Microsoft Windows |
