KO_OP

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KO_OP
Company typeCorporation
IndustryVideo games
FoundedJune 1, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-06-01)[1]
FoundersSaleem Dabbous
Bronson Zgeb
Headquarters,
ProductsGnog
Goodbye Volcano High
Websiteko-opmode.com

KO_OP is a Canadian game studio cooperative based in Montreal. It was founded in 2012.

History

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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

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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

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