entertainment founded 1999 1999 founder brendon chung headquarters culver city california united states products gravity bone flotilla atom zombie smasher website blendogames.com blendo games is an american independent video game development company founded by brendon chung . blendo games has produced a number of mods for various games since the late 1990s . it gained more widespread exposure with the short form stand alone title gravity bone ; his following games flotilla and atom zombie smasher were met with positive critical praise and named as top indie games for those years . contents 1 background 2 barista 3 games 4 references 5 external links background edit chung has been programming his own projects and created the blendo games brand for these . in 2004 chung was hired as a designer at pandemic studios but continued to work on his personal projects releasing gravity bone during that time . 1 2 when electronic arts closed down the studio in november 2009 chung immediately set to work to create flotilla a game based on a prior project he has earlier ceased worked on . 1 after flotilla s release in 2010 chung went on to create atom zombie smasher released in 2011 . atom zombie smasher received high critical praise and was featured at the 2011 penny arcade expo and part of the 3rd humble indie bundle charity drive . 3 4 5 6 a sequel to gravity bone thirty flights of loving was developed to support a kickstarter project for the idle thumbs podcast and released in 2012 . 7 8 9 blendo games remains a one man studio though chung gains gameplay ideas playtesting help and music from his friends and family . 10 barista edit barista is a series of games for microsoft windows by brendon chung . the first third and fourth of the games are modifications of pre existing games while the second is its own application based on the quake ii engine . 11 the series features chung s trademark style of surrealism and not telling the player the whole story . a recurring motif throughout the series is the player character waking up at the start of each game . in an interview chung claimed that he named the original game barista due to the fact that the player character never drank coffee letting himself go back to sleep just before the events of the first game . 12 the first game is a modification for doom ii hell on earth . it features a more advanced hud than the original doom ii . the second game runs on a modified id tech 2 engine . it is the most surreal of the series featuring a disjointed storyline with characters such as the nameless protagonist a pilot as well as a talking skull the player meets . a recurring character is an unknown girl . she is suspected to be hannah a woman mentioned by the skull though chung stated this is not the case . 13 the third game is a modification for doom 3 while the fourth is for half life 2 . 14 the barista series was among the first games published by chung s studio blendo games . games edit barista 2008 pc gravity bone 2009 pc flotilla 2010 pc and xbox live air forte 2010 pc and xbox live atom zombie smasher 2011 pc thirty flights of loving 2012 pc quadrilateral cowboy 2016 pc references edit a b the making of flotilla . edge . 2011 12 02 . retrieved 2012 01 11 . 1 curtis tom 2011 12 19 . gamasutra best of 2011 top 5 pc games . gamasutra . retrieved 2011 12 19 . 2012 independent games festival announces main competition finalists . independent games festival . 2012 01 10 . retrieved 2012 01 10 . schrier jason 2011 07 13 . 10 clever indie games ready to shine at pax . wired . retrieved 2011 08 05 . de matos xav 2011 08 05 . humble indie bundle 3 adds atom zombie smasher . shacknews . retrieved 2011 08 05 . caoili eric 2012 02 28 . kickstarter drive offers exclusive game from atom zombie smasher dev . gamasutra . retrieved 2012 02 28 . blendo games . retrieved march 7 2012 . meer alec february 28 2012 . gravity bone s sequel thirty flights of loving . rock paper shotgun . retrieved march 7 2012 . harris phil 2010 12 07 . brendon chung blendo games interview . square go . retrieved 2012 01 12 . blendo older projects . blendogames.com . retrieved 2013 10 08 . video interview with brendan chung of blendo games . playwrite . 2010 02 18 . retrieved 2013 10 08 . level with me brendon chung . . rock paper shotgun . retrieved 2013 10 08 . blendo older projects . blendogames.com . retrieved 2013 10 08 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to blendo games . official website interview with brendon chung v t e blendo games games gravity bone flotilla atom zombie smasher thirty flights of loving quadrilateral cowboy related idle thumbs this united states video game corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title blendo games & oldid 743511851 categories companies based in los angelesprivately held companies based in californiavideo game companies of the united statesvideo 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