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Eventually, Scott hired to studio to create a full VR remake of the original Five Nights at Freddy's game. Scott Cawthon later discovered Steel Wool's works, and he was very impressed. Fascinated by how amazing it looks in VR, Steel Wool started making a VR game about exploring Mars, Mars Odyssey, to fulfill Josh's childhood dream. Josh, who is a Martian lover, created a realistic computer model for the Curiosity rover and put it into the VR world. They changed their name to Steel Wool Studios, and successfully convinced HTC to provide them with funding and resources to create an original project for their new device by giving them an early demo for a VR game which later became Quar. They were blown away by the high level of immersion, and immediately pivoted out of the mobile games market, to instead focus on virtual reality. The co-creator of Guitar Hero, Charles Huang discovered their newly formed studio early on and decided to help them.Ĭharles got a special invite to Valve for them, where they were given a behind-the-scene look at the company's work on the HTC Vive. As a studio founded by Pixar creatives, they instantly drew attention from the gaming industry. They named themselves Steel Wool Games, and developed a cute mobile title called Flyhunter Origins. They created the team with three Pixar artists: Sequoia Blankenship, Jonathan Hoffman and Jason Topolski. After helping to create several animated films, Josh and Pixar's technical director Andrew Dayton decided to try making a game. Without any other choice, he started working at Pixar, who needed smart mathematicians who could deal with complex computer algorithms. He studied a degree in astrophysics for it, but the Martian exploration projects at NASA was then defunded. The founder of Steel Wool, Josh Qualtieri, who is a fan of NASA, wanted desperately to be involved in ongoing missions to explore the surface of Mars. We’re so lucky to be able to work together and share a vision of what we want Steel Wool Studios to be. It is a common thread that binds us together and allows us to use our passion to help make others happy.įortified by veterans of Pixar, Midway, HTC, Intel, and Telltale Games who bring decades of experience in collaboration with an insanely talented crew of artists and engineers looking to help define the next decade of gaming. Games are a universal language that has so many applications across the world and across different mediums.
What does that mean? We use our game-making skills to both make games for fun but also to help in different areas such as Virtual Training and Virtual Therapy. We create games for entertainment as well as create games for enterprise projects. Sounds simple but it is a little more complex.
Steel Wool Studios, AKA Steel Wool Games is an independent studio of 20-ish superstars based in Oakland, CA.