Neat Folks

We don’t get out much, but when we do, we like to meet neat developers who do cool stuff with games. Hopefully we never stop meeting them. Meet us and we will make electronic friendship with you.

8Monkey Labs

8monkey Labs is an independent game developer located in Cedar Falls, IA. Our team has over a decade of experience in game engine development and graphics programming and we work with an extremely talented group of 3d artists that stay on the leading edge of modeling and shader techniques for games. Founded in late 2005, our team immediately began development on our proprietary AAA game engine, the Marmoset Engine.In the summer of 2006, 8monkey partnered with publisher Phantom EFX to develop and launch a new IP utilizing the Marmoset Engine™. That IP is our historically-based, time-traveling action shooter, Darkest of Days which will be released Late Summer 2009!

1. Location: Cedar Falls, IA
2. Games: Darkest of Days
3. Website: 8monkeylabs.com

Tyler Streeter - Artificial Intelligencist

As a kid Tyler says “I want to be a scientist - the kind that makes robots. I like the kind of robots that bring a person food. The world will be different because we will be older and we will look different but we’ll probably be the same inside.”

1. Location: Ames, IA
2. Games: iBonsai
3. Website: brainpowerlabs.com
4. Blog: The Verve Project

Lightning Toads

Lightning Toads is a multi-disciplinary software engineering company. We develop the Toadlet Engine, a versatile software toolkit ideal for building powerful but efficient applications across a wide range of operating systems and mobile devices.

1. Location: IA & MN
2. Games: Archive
3. Website: lightningtoads.com
4. Blog: lightningtoads.com/blog
5. Twitter: lightningtoad