Zoonami was a
video game development company, founded in 1998 by
Martin Hollis, the director and producer of ''
GoldenEye 007''. He left
Rare shortly before ''
Perfect Dark'' was released while other members of the ''GoldenEye 007'' team formed
Free Radical Design
Free Radical Design Ltd. is a British video game developer based in Nottingham. Founded by David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate in Stoke-on-Trent in April 1999, they are best known for their '' TimeSplitters'' series of ga ...
. The studio was closed "a couple years" before 2012. Titles released as Zoonami include ''
Zendoku
''Zendoku'' is a 2007 puzzle video game developed by Zoonami and published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable handheld consoles.
Gameplay
''Zendoku'' is a variation of Sudoku, offering a slightly more combative ...
'', ''
Go! Puzzle
''Go! Puzzle'' is a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store developed by Zoonami/Cohort Studios
Cohort Studios was a games development and interactive entertainment studio.
It was based in Dundee but closed its office there in May 2011.
...
'', and ''
Bonsai Barber
''Bonsai Barber'' is a barber-simulation video game developed by Zoonami and released for the Wii console in 2009 in North America, Japan, and the PAL Regions. This video game was a featured WiiWare title for 1,000 Wii Points on the Wii Shop Chan ...
''.
Games developed
In October 2006,
Eidos announced ''
Zendoku
''Zendoku'' is a 2007 puzzle video game developed by Zoonami and published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable handheld consoles.
Gameplay
''Zendoku'' is a variation of Sudoku, offering a slightly more combative ...
'', a
Sudoku-based game developed by Zoonami for the
Nintendo DS
The is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens working in tan ...
and
PlayStation Portable
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in PAL regions on September 1, 2005, ...
. ''Zendoku'' was released in the United States on 12 June 2007, and was released in Europe on 20 April 2007.
Zoonami released its second game, ''
Go! Puzzle
''Go! Puzzle'' is a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store developed by Zoonami/Cohort Studios
Cohort Studios was a games development and interactive entertainment studio.
It was based in Dundee but closed its office there in May 2011.
...
'' for the
PlayStation 3's downloadable service in February 2009. ''Go! Puzzles mini-games and characters were designed by Zoonami, but the actual development was done by
Cohort Studios
Cohort Studios was a games development and interactive entertainment studio.
It was based in Dundee but closed its office there in May 2011.
Formed in 2006, by Lol Scragg, Darran Thomas and Bruce McNeish, Cohort's first project involved being ...
.
Zoonami released its third game, and the first game for
WiiWare, ''
Bonsai Barber
''Bonsai Barber'' is a barber-simulation video game developed by Zoonami and released for the Wii console in 2009 in North America, Japan, and the PAL Regions. This video game was a featured WiiWare title for 1,000 Wii Points on the Wii Shop Chan ...
'', in North America on 30 March 2009, and in Europe on 7 August 2009. It was published by
Nintendo
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Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...
.
Dropped projects
A
GameCube
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project originally titled as ''
Game Zero
Zoonami was a video game development company, founded in 1998 by Martin Hollis, the director and producer of '' GoldenEye 007''. He left Rare shortly before ''Perfect Dark'' was released while other members of the ''GoldenEye 007'' team formed ...
'' (although the title was dropped when it was discovered that the name conflicted with a pre-existing gaming review magazine) was once in development, though this is considered to no longer be the case. The project was mentioned briefly on the company's website but has not been discussed since its removal from the site and subsequent notice in interviews that the name had been dropped from the project. The game was a radical block-based build-and-mine game for GameCube, similar in concept to ''
Minecraft'' but predating it by a number of years.
Zoonami also announced a prototype of the one-button music game ''Funkydilla'' but were unable to find a publisher for the game.
See also
*
1998 in video gaming
1998 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as ''F-Zero X'', ''Marvel vs. Capcom'', '' The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'', ''Metal Gear Solid'', '' Pocket Monsters: Pikachu'', ''Resident Evil 2'', ''Sonic Adventure'', ''Street Fi ...
References
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