Zoonami
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Zoonami is a video game development
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...

 company, founded in 2000
2000 in video gaming
-Events:* May 11–13 — 6th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo ; the 3rd annual Game Critics Awards for the Best of E³* June 26 — International Game Developers Association renamed from Computer Game Developers Association...

 by Martin Hollis
Martin Hollis
Martin Hollis is a computer and video game designer and the founder and CEO of Zoonami. He has worked in the computer and video game industry for over 19 years and was Head of Software at Rare...

, the director and producer of GoldenEye 007. He left Rare
Rare (video game company)
Rare Ltd. is a British video game developer located in Twycross, Leicestershire. The organization was founded in 1982 by brothers Tim and Chris Stamper as a company called Ashby Computers and Graphics Ltd. and published games under the name Ultimate Play the Game. They developed games for 8-bit...

 shortly before Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 video game console. It is considered the spiritual successor to Rare's earlier first-person shooter GoldenEye 007, with which it shares many gameplay features...

 was released while other members of the GoldenEye 007 team formed Free Radical Design
Free Radical Design
Crytek UK, formerly known as Free Radical Design, is a video game developer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, probably best known for Second Sight and the TimeSplitters series. After going into financial administration, it was announced on February 4 2009 that the studio had been acquired by...

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Titles released by Zoonami include Zendoku
Zendoku
Zendoku is a video game developed by Zoonami and published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendo DS and the PSP portable video game systems....

, Go! Puzzle
Go! Puzzle
Go! Puzzle is a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store developed by Zoonami/Cohort Studios.-External links:PS3 Version* ,* ,* ,* ,PSP Version* ,...

, and Bonsai Barber
Bonsai Barber
Bonsai Barber is a video game developed by Zoonami for WiiWare. It was released in North America on March 30, 2009, in Europe on August 7, 2009 and in Japan on April 6, 2010.-Overview:...

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Games developed

In October 2006, Eidos
Eidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....

 announced Zendoku
Zendoku
Zendoku is a video game developed by Zoonami and published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendo DS and the PSP portable video game systems....

, a Sudoku
Sudoku
is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9...

-based game developed by Zoonami for the Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS
The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...

 and PlayStation Portable
PlayStation Portable
The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...

. Zendoku was released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 on June 12, 2007, and was released in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 on April 20, 2007.

Zoonami released its second game, Go! Puzzle
Go! Puzzle
Go! Puzzle is a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store developed by Zoonami/Cohort Studios.-External links:PS3 Version* ,* ,* ,* ,PSP Version* ,...

 for the PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

's downloadable service in February 2009. Go! Puzzles mini games and characters were designed by Zoonami, but the actual development was done by Cohort Studios
Cohort Studios
Cohort Studios was a Scottish games development and interactive entertainment studio based in Dundee.Formed in 2006 by Lol Scragg, Darran Thomas and Bruce McNeish, Cohort’s first project involved being contracted by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to assist on MotorStorm for PlayStation 3...

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Zoonami released its third game, and first game for WiiWare
WiiWare
WiiWare is a service that allows Wii users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the Wii video game console made by Nintendo. These games and applications can only be purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel under the WiiWare section...

, Bonsai Barber
Bonsai Barber
Bonsai Barber is a video game developed by Zoonami for WiiWare. It was released in North America on March 30, 2009, in Europe on August 7, 2009 and in Japan on April 6, 2010.-Overview:...

, in North America on March 30, 2009, and in Europe on August 7, 2009. It was published by Nintendo
Nintendo
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....

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Dropped projects

A GameCube project originally titled as GameZero (although the title was dropped when it was discovered that the name conflicted with a pre-existing gaming review magazine) was once in development, though this is considered to no longer be the case. The project was mentioned briefly on the company's website but has not been discussed since its removal from the site and subsequent notice in interviews that the name had been dropped from the project. Zoonami also announced a prototype of the one-button music game Funkydilla but were unable to find a publisher for the game.
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