# Zoonami

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{{Short description|British video game development studio}}
{{Distinguish|Toonami|Tsunami}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Zoonami
| logo = 
| logo_caption = Zoonami Logo
| company_slogan = 
| type = Private company
| foundation = 1998
| defunct = 2010
| location = [Cambridge, United Kingdom](/source/Cambridge%2C_United_Kingdom)
| num_employees = 10
| key_people = [Martin Hollis](/source/Martin_Hollis_(video_game_designer))
| industry = [Software & programming](/source/Software_%26_programming)
| products = ''[Zendoku](/source/Zendoku)'', ''[Go! Puzzle](/source/Go!_Puzzle)''
| revenue = 
| homepage = www.zoonami.com
}}

'''Zoonami''' was a [video game development](/source/video_game_developer) company, founded in 1998 by [Martin Hollis](/source/Martin_Hollis_(video_game_designer)), the director and producer of ''[GoldenEye 007](/source/GoldenEye_007_(1997_video_game))''. He left [Rare](/source/Rare_(company)) shortly before ''[Perfect Dark](/source/Perfect_Dark)'' was released while other members of the ''GoldenEye 007'' team formed [Free Radical Design](/source/Free_Radical_Design). The studio was closed "a couple years" before 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/martinhollis/status/244048493646319617 |title=Damien, just a heads up, I closed Zoonami a couple years back so I can't claim to be the head of it. Nice piece otherwise!}}</ref> Titles released as Zoonami include ''[Zendoku](/source/Zendoku)'', ''[Go! Puzzle](/source/Go!_Puzzle)'', and ''[Bonsai Barber](/source/Bonsai_Barber)''.

==Games developed==
In October 2006, [Eidos](/source/Eidos_Interactive) announced ''[Zendoku](/source/Zendoku)'', a [Sudoku](/source/Sudoku)-based game developed by Zoonami for the [Nintendo DS](/source/Nintendo_DS) and [PlayStation Portable](/source/PlayStation_Portable). ''Zendoku'' was released in the United States on 12 June 2007, and was released in Europe on 20 April 2007.

Zoonami released its second game, ''[Go! Puzzle](/source/Go!_Puzzle)'' for the [PlayStation 3](/source/PlayStation_3)'s downloadable service in February 2009. ''Go! Puzzle'''s mini-games and characters were designed by Zoonami, but the actual development was done by [Cohort Studios](/source/Cohort_Studios).

Zoonami released its third game, and the first game for [WiiWare](/source/WiiWare), ''[Bonsai Barber](/source/Bonsai_Barber)'', in North America on 30 March 2009, and in Europe on 7 August 2009. It was published by [Nintendo](/source/Nintendo).

===Dropped projects===
A [GameCube](/source/GameCube) project originally titled as ''[Game Zero](/source/Game_Zero)'' (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. The game was a radical block-based build-and-mine game for GameCube, similar in concept to ''[Minecraft](/source/Minecraft)'' but predating it by a number of years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://selectstartplay.org/talks/martin-hollis/|title=How to Succeed at Designing GoldenEye. How to Fail at Designing Minecraft|publisher=[Start/Select] PLAY|access-date=30 September 2014|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006095727/http://selectstartplay.org/talks/martin-hollis/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Zoonami also announced a prototype of the one-button music game ''Funkydilla'' but were unable to find a publisher for the game.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-restless-vision-of-martin-hollis-the-man-with-the-i-goldeneye-i-|date=June 8, 2007|title=The Restless Vision of Martin Hollis, The Man with the GoldenEye|author=Jon Jordan|publisher=[Gamasutra](/source/Game_Developer_(website))}}</ref>

==See also==
*[1998 in video gaming](/source/1998_in_video_gaming)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060709215207/http://www.zoonami.com Zoonami]}}

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Category:Video game development companies
Category:Video game companies established in 2000
Category:Video game companies disestablished in 2010
Category:Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Software companies based in Cambridge

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