private industry interactive entertainment founded 2008 founder rob jagnow headquarters san francisco united states products cogs bioshock infinite industrial revolution extrasolar services video game development website official site lazy 8 studios is a small independent video game developer . it was founded by rob jagnow in 2008 and is based in san francisco . jagnow founded the company after spending some time in video game development on flight simulators . jagnow soon brought aboard brendan mauro for art development and luke gilbert for sound and music . 1 the company s first title was the 2009 cogs a steampunk like puzzle game that jagnow had envisioned for many years . the game was successful nominated for several indie gaming awards and winning the 2010 professional prize at the indie game challenge . 1 with the game s success the team was invited by valve corporation to participate in the potato sack an alternate reality game arg that preceded the release of valve s portal 2 . the challenge was to modify cogs to meet the spirit of the game . 2 following cogs the company began work on a social game called extrasolar spurred by their participation in the potato sack arg . 3 extrasolar plans to have players working with others to solve puzzles in an arg like environment but without the real time limitations required by most args . lazy 8 studios was invited by irrational games to develop a browser based tie in puzzle game for their pending release of bioshock infinite . it is titled bioshock infinite industrial revolution . 4 irrational had seen the studio s work on cogs and felt the steampunk environment was a good match with the nature of their own game . 4 references edit a b 2010 indie game challenge winners . indie game challenge . retrieved 2012 10 24 . jagnow rob 2011 05 06 . the portal two arg the whole story . gamasutra . retrieved 2011 05 06 . rose mike 2011 09 02 . interview exploring the galaxy with lazy 8 s extrasolar . gamasutra . retrieved 2012 10 24 . a b conditt jessica 2012 10 22 . lazy 8 on the cogs behind bioshock infinite industrial revolution . joystiq . retrieved 2012 10 24 . external links edit official website 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 lazy 8 studios & oldid 736230085 categories companies established in 2008independent video game developersvideo game companies of the united statesvideo game development companiesunited states video game company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 august 2016 at 02 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view