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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | October 10, 2012[1] |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Products | Flyhunter Origins Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach |
Number of employees | 96 (2025)[2] |
| Website | www |
Steel Wool Studios (formally Steel Wool Games) is an American video game development and publishing company located in Oakland, California. It was founded in 2012 by Sequoia Blankenship, Andrew Dayton, Jonathan Hoffman, Joshua Qualtieri and Jason Topolski.[3]
Steel Wool develops and publishes games for computers, consoles, mobile, and virtual reality. The company also develops games for other publishers, like ScottGames and tinyBuild.
History
[edit]With wishes to work at NASA on their Martian Exploration Projects, Joshua Qualtieri worked tirelessly to make this dream a reality. However, the U.S. government stopped funding the projects, making Qualtieri's dream unattainable. Thankfully, he would find himself working at animation studio Pixar in August 1996 as a modeling artist. Through Pixar, Qualtieri would make several friends with various artists and programmers, a small group of whom, Sequoia Blankenship (Pixar animator),[4] Andrew Dayton (former Pixar senior technical director),[5] Jonathan Hoffman (Pixar shading TD),[6] and Jason Topolski (former Pixar manager, feature coordinator, and video technician),[7] would form a game development team in October of 2012 and called themselves Steel Wool Games.[8]
The team would begin their first project in March 2013, with Flyhunter Origin, which would release by publisher Ripstone on Android, iOS, and PlayStation Vita after 20 months of development, playtesting, and tweaking.[9] Charles Huang, co-founder of RedOctane, noticed the team early on and wanted to help them. In which, the team got a special invite, through Huang, to Valve, where they got a behind-the-scenes look at the then-upcoming HTC Vive. The team was amazed at the device and pivoted their direction into virtual reality video games. They would change their name to Steel Wool Studios and make a small demo for a VR game to pitch to HTC, which succeeded. With the newly gained funding, Steel Wool would turn their demo into Quar: Battle for Gate 18, a turn-based strategic VR game, that would be released by HTC alongside the HTC Vive in April 2016.[8]
In August 2016, HTC would invest $5 million into the studio for future projects.[10]
The studio's next major title would be revealed by Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon in a Steam Community forum post for upcoming projects;[11] the title would later be revealed to be Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, a VR (and later standard[12]) survival horror game, which would release by publisher ScottGames in May 2019.
In 2021, they would develop the next major title in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, which was published by ScottGames in December.[13]
In 2022, the studio would be revealed to be the developers behind Hello Neighbor creator tinyBuild's next entry in the franchise, Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue, in a PlayStation Blog,[14] which would release by publisher tinyBuild in May 2023.[15]
Games
[edit]| Year | Title | Platform(s) | Developer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Flyhunter Origins | Microsoft Windows, Mac, PlayStation Vita, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, MacOS | Steel Wool Studios |
| 2016 | Quar: Battle for Gate 18 | Microsoft Windows, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive | Steel Wool Studios |
| Mars Odyssey | Microsoft Windows, Oculus Rift, HTX Vive, PlayStation VR | Steel Wool Studios | |
| Bounce | Microsoft Windows, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive | Steel Wool Studios | |
| 2019 | Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted | Microsoft Windows, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Nintendo Switch, Oculus Quest, Meta Quest 2, iOS, Android, Xbox One, PICO Neo 3, PICO 4, PICO 4 Pro, PICO 4 Ultra | Steel Wool Studios |
| Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted - Curse of Dreadbear | Microsoft Windows, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Nintendo Switch, Oculus Quest, Meta Quest 2, iOS, Android, Xbox One, PICO Neo 3, PICO 4, PICO 4 Pro, PICO 4 Ultra | Steel Wool Studios | |
| 2020 | The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth | Microsoft Windows, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR | Steel Wool Studios |
| 2021 | Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Google Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch | Steel Wool Studios |
| 2023 | Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue | Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, Oculus Rift S, SteamVR, PlayStation VR2 | Steel Wool Studios |
| Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach - RUIN | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch | Steel Wool Studios | |
| Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR2, Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest Pro, SteamVR, PICO 4, PICO 4 Pro, PICO 4 Ultra | Steel Wool Studios | |
| 2025 | Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR2 | Steel Wool Studios |
References
[edit]- ^ https://x.com/SteelWoolStudio/status/1844414529440039150
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/company/steel-wool-studios/people/
- ^ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/pixar-vets-form-steel-wool-games
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sequoia-blankenship-6804485/
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/adayton/
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-hoffman-2a614633/
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtopolski/
- ^ a b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtyEiTxElXk
- ^ https://www.gamegrin.com/articles/interview-with-andrew-dayton-co-founder-of-steel-wool-games/
- ^ https://www.uploadvr.com/htc-5-million-investment-steel-wool/
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20181114095349/https://steamcommunity.com/app/871720/discussions/0/1733210552660120120/
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhw_oM-jfwA
- ^ https://store.steampowered.com/app/747660/Five_Nights_at_Freddys_Security_Breach/
- ^ https://blog.playstation.com/2022/11/02/11-new-ps-vr2-games-announced-the-dark-pictures-switchback-vr-cities-vr-enhanced-edition-crossfire-sierra-squad-and-more/
- ^ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2206320/Hello_Neighbor_VR_Search_and_Rescue/
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