Dean Hall (game designer)
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Dean "Rocket" Hall (born 14 May 1981) is a video game designer from New Zealand. He is best known for creating the zombie apocalypse PC game DayZ, which began as a mod and was later developed into its own game under the same title.[2] Hall left the DayZ development team in 2014 to found his own studio, Rocketwerkz.[3]
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Dean Hall | |
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Born | (1981-05-14) 14 May 1981 (age 43)[1] |
Other names | "Rocket" |
Alma mater | University of Otago |
Occupation | Video game designer |
Organisation | Rocketwerkz |
Known for | DayZ |
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Hall was a Commissioned Officer of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals in the New Zealand Army[4] and attended survival training in Brunei where he came up with the basic idea for DayZ.[2][5]