įacepunch paired up with video game studio Double Eleven in 2016 to begin work on a console version of Rust. Facepunch stopped selling the Linux version of Rust in July 2018 and had officially dropped support for it by August 2019. The game officially released out of early access in February 2018. Garry's Mod, in comparison, only sold 34,000 in two weeks. Rust sold over 150,000 copies in its first two weeks.

Īlthough the game has been criticised for being too brutal, Facepunch Studios has intimated that an artificial scoreboard, encouraging players to 'play nice', would be to the detriment of the game: 'There shouldn't be a system hanging around forcing people to be good. Rust 's grand concept was to develop a game where the players would be able to mold the environment: hunting, scavenging, gathering, and looting for survival and players themselves impeding or assisting each other's success. Rust 's inception stemmed from Facepunch's frustration with DayZ 's gameplay inheriting its cruel player versus player model and Minecraft 's crafting and building aspects. Rust is an online multiplayer survival game, based on games such as DayZ. As of March 2023, the studio has over 50 employees. Garry's Mod has become the flagship game of Facepunch Studios, regularly being one of the top played Steam games, having been released near Steam's inception. Facewound was later postponed and cancelled, and Facepunch Studio disbanded. In 2004, Garry Newman started the development of Garry's Mod, originally a side project, which eventually took over the Facewound forum as well as most of Newman's time. Facewound was used for the game, but Facepunch was deemed 'too funny sounding to just leave to die' – and so was used as the name for the company.

Two names were chosen at the end: Facepunch and Facewound. The name 'Facepunch' came from the brainstorming of names for the game Facewound – where something 'stupidly macho' was required. Newman and his collaborators intended to use this studio name instead of one of their personal names to appear more professional. History įacepunch Studios was founded by Garry Newman in June 2004 for the forthcoming release of Facewound. Facepunch is currently developing s&box, which is regarded as a spiritual successor to Garry's Mod. The company is most known for its sandbox video game Garry's Mod and survival game Rust. Facepunch Studios Ltd is a British video game developer and publisher headquartered in Birmingham, England, founded in June 2004 and incorporated on 17 March 2009 by Garry Newman.

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