| KO_OP | |
| Type: | Corporation |
| Industry: | Video games |
| Predecessors: | --> |
| Successors: | --> |
| Founded: | [1] |
| Founders: | Saleem Dabbous Bronson Zgeb |
| Hq Location City: | Montreal |
| Hq Location Country: | Canada |
| Areas Served: | --> |
| Products: | Gnog Goodbye Volcano High |
| Owners: | --> |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GNOG | PlayStation 4 | |
| iOS | ||
| Microsoft Windows | ||
| macOS | ||
| Winding Worlds | Apple Arcade | |
| Depanneur Nocturne | Microsoft Windows | May 26, 2020 |
| Ridiculous Fishing EX | Apple Arcade | |
| Goodbye Volcano High[8] | PlayStation 5 | |
| PlayStation 4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows |