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Size Five Games
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded2008 (2008)
FounderDan Marshall
ProductsGibbage
Time Gentlemen, Please!
Websitesizefivegames.com

Size Five Games (formerly Zombie Cow Studios) is a British independent video game developer founded by Dan Marshall in 2008. Dan Marshall's previous games were retroactively brought under the Zombie Cow banner upon its founding.

Their first new release was a donationware adventure game called Ben There, Dan That!, released in 2008. It was widely praised by the adventure game community and downloaded 50,000 times but brought in only "a couple of hundred quid" due to its donation model.[1][2] Marshall self-funded the games development, telling the BBC in 2010 "What I do keeps me fed and warm. I'm not sure I get to lead the most extravagant lifestyle, or how my earnings compare to people working in the mainstream games industry."[3] Marshall later said of the game "I didn’t think people would really pay money for it ... I think that was a bit naive, in retrospect. It’s well worth a couple of quid, and I do regret not charging for it initially. You can always move the price down, you can’t really move it up."[4] A 2011 updated edition of the game, which added a soundtrack and other features, was sold on a "pay what you want" model, with a minimum price.[5]

The sequel, Time Gentlemen, Please!, was released in 2009 to positive reviews. PC Gamer called it "point-and-click adventuring done right for a change."[6] It holds a Metacritic score of 84%.

In 2010, Zombie Cow Studios released Privates, a sex education game funded by Channel 4 and intended to match the "personal, social, and health education" guidelines of the National Curriculum[7] The Xbox 360 version was cancelled when Microsoft confirmed that the game contravened the Xbox Live guidelines on sexual content of games,[7] but the company released the Microsoft Windows version for free download from Channel 4's website.[8] The game won a BAFTA award in the "Learning - Secondary" category.[9][10]

In May 2011 Zombie Cow Studios changed their name to Size Five Games.[11]

References

  1. ^ Tom Cheshire (9 Dec 2011). "Hotter than Hollywood". Evening Standard. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ "Ben There, Dan That!". Zombie Cow Studios. Retrieved 2009-10-17.[dead link‍]
  3. ^ David Jenkins (25 February 2010). "Return of the British bedroom game designers". BBC News.
  4. ^ Marty Mulrooney (8 July 2011). "INTERVIEW – In Conversation With Dan Marshall (Size Five Games)".
  5. ^ Richard Mitchell (Sep 27th 2011). "Ben There, Dan That! gets a special edition". Joystiq. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Time Gentlemen, Please! reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 13 December 2009.
  7. ^ a b Wesley Yin-Poole (17 September, 2010). "Privates too sexual for Xbox 360". Eurogamer. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Privates". Channel 4.
  9. ^ "2011 British Academy Children's Awards Winners". BAFTA website. 24 October 11. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Nathan Brown (November 28, 2011). "Privates, Just Dance 2 win BAFTA Children's Awards". Edge magazine. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ http://www.sizefivegames.com/2011/05/20/formerly-zombie-cow-studios


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