the singer see gary numan . facepunch studios ltd type ltd industry video game industry founded 2004 incorporated in 2009 1 founder garry newman headquarters walsall england key people garry newman craig gwilt products facewound garry s mod rust before deuce arcade space game revenue us 22 million 2006 dec 2013 2 us 55 million dec 2013 2014 3 4 5 6 7 8 number of employees 25 2013 2014 9 10 website facepunchstudios.com facepunch studios ltd is a british independent video game development company headquartered in walsall england founded in march 2009 1 by garry newman . the company is most known for its sandbox video games garry s mod and rust . 11 contents 1 history 1.1 garry s mod 1.2 rust 1.3 before 2 games 3 references 4 external links history edit facepunch studios was originally developed under the partnership of garry newman matthew schwenk bryn shurman and arthur lee for the video game facewound in 2003 . the group adopted facepunch studios as a company name to avoid looking unprofessional ; and to further the development of their side scroller the facepunch forum was also established . 12 the name facepunch came from the brainstorming of names for the game facewound where something stupidly macho was required . two names were chosen at the end facepunch and facewound . facewound was used for the game but facepunch was deemed too funny sounding to just leave to die and so was used as the name for the company . 13 in 2004 garry newman started the development of garry s mod originally a side project ; which eventually took over the facewound forum as well as most of newman s time . facewound was later postponed and cancelled and facepunch studio disbanded . garry s mod has become the flagship game of facepunch studios and as of november 2013 the game has sold 3.5 million copies 14 regularly being one of the top played steam games having been released near steam s inception . the studio has 20 employees working on rust and five people are working on prototypes like deuce or space game . 10 on 24 september 2014 garry newman acquired before and the developer working on it bill lowe . citation needed garry s mod edit garry newman has not been formally trained in code . garry s mod started out as a sandbox mode for tinkering in valve s source engine . 15 not truly considered a video game and more of a playground the game takes assets from valve s own video games like half life 2 team fortress 2 portal etc. and allows users to pose them with different tools offered by garry s mod . as of september 2014 the game has sold 6 million copies . 16 as of january 2016 the game has sold 10 million copies . 17 rust edit rust is an online multiplayer survival game based on games such as minecraft and dayz . rust s inception stemmed from facepunch s frustration with dayz s gameplay ; inheriting its cruel player versus player model and minecraft s crafting and building aspects . 18 rust s grand concept was to develop a game where the players would be able to mould the environment hunting scavenging gathering and looting for survival ; and players themselves impeding or assisting each other s success . 19 although the game has been criticised for being too brutal facepunch studios has iterated that an artificial scoreboard encouraging player to play nice would be to the detriment of the game there shouldn t be a system hanging around forcing people to be good . it removes a lot of gameplay fun . instead the company opted to implement voice chat ; keeping players from shooting each other on sight out of fear . rust s sold over 150 000 copies in two weeks compared to garry s mod which only sold 34 000 in two weeks . as of 23 may 2014 more than 1.6 million total copies have been sold making more than us 46.5 million in total . 7 as of 24 december 2015 sales have surpassed over 3 million . rust is still in alpha . 20 before edit on 24 september 2014 garry newman announced that facepunch studios would be taking on before to develop . before is being created by bill lowe under the company . 21 games edit title year genre platform facewound 2003 shoot em up microsoft windows garry s mod 2004 sandbox microsoft windows os x linux rust 2013 alpha survival microsoft windows os x linux before 22 in development survival microsoft windows os x linux deuce in development 23 tennis microsoft windows os x linux arcade in development 24 microsoft windows os x linux troubleshooter 25 in development 26 arcade shooter microsoft windows os x linux chunks 27 2016 microsoft windows absorb 28 in development action survival microsoft windows os x linux references edit a b facepunch studios ltd companies house company no. 06848626 newman garry 5 march 2013 . mailbag garry s blofg . garry s blofg . retrieved 18 march 2013 . newman garry 21 february 2014 . garry s mod has just broke 30 000 000 . gamasutra . twitter . retrieved 21 february 2014 . wawro alex 3 january 2014 . garry s mod creator finds unexpected success with new game rust . gamasutra . think services . retrieved 5 january 2014 . petitte omri 11 february 2014 . rust hits 1 million sales after two months . pc gamer uk . future plc. retrieved 11 february 2014 . newman garry 21 february 2014 . and if my calculations are correct . twitter . twitter inc. retrieved 24 february 2014 . a b newman garry 23 may 2014 . now that 1.6 million people have bought the game we feel we need to make things happen a bit faster than that . playrust inc. retrieved 23 may 2014 . newman garry 27 june 2014 . in other news . . garry s mod sold 152 000 copies in one day during the steam sale . . 50 times the normal daily average . twitter inc. retrieved 27 june 2014 . official facepunch studios member website . retrieved 17 june 2014 . a b narcisse evan 28 july 2014 . some fans pissed at rust creators for working on new game update . kotaku . gawker media . retrieved 28 july 2014 . play rust . retrieved 18 march 2013 . web archive facewound . web archive . archived from the original on 6 february 2007 . retrieved 3 april 2014 . newman garry . q & a . retrieved 3 april 2014 . newman garry . sales . twitter . retrieved 3 april 2014 . totilo stephen . kotaku s garry interview . kotaku gaming . retrieved 3 april 2014 . prescott shaun 12 september 2014 . garry s mod has sold 6 million copies . pc gamer . future plc. retrieved 28 november 2014 . gmod sold its ten millionth copy over new years . twitter . retrieved 3 january 2016 . about rust . facepunch studios . retrieved 3 april 2014 . kelly andy . rust and player freedom . pc gamer . retrieved 3 april 2014 . newman garry . garry s mod and rust launch . retrieved 3 april 2014 . newman garry 24 september 2014 . before . facepunch studios . retrieved 31 december 2014 . http www.beforegame.net http www.facepunchstudios.com 2014 07 30 deuce devblog 1 http www.facepunchstudios.com 2014 08 29 arcade devblog 1 https playtroubleshooter.com 2016 01 22 troubleshooter http www.facepunchstudios.com 2014 08 07 formerly known as riftlight devblog 3 https playchunks.com http www.facepunchstudios.com 2016 08 17 absorb 1 external links edit official website garry newman s personal blog retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title facepunch studios & oldid 736603353 categories companies based in the west midlands county companies established in 2004internet forumsvideo game companies of the united kingdomvideo game development companieswalsallhidden categories engvarb from july 2016use dmy dates from july 2016pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2014official website different in wikidata and wikipedia 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 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