Dean Hall (game designer)

Dean Hall
Born (1981-05-14) 14 May 1981 (age 43)[1]
Oamaru, New Zealand
Other names"Rocket"
Alma materUniversity of Otago
OccupationVideo game designer
OrganisationRocketWerkz
Known forDayZ

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]

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]

  1. ^ Hall, Dean "Rocket". "Rocket – profile overview". dayzmod.com/forum. Retrieved 14 August 2012.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b Benedetti, Winda (8 August 2012). "'DayZ' eats up a million zombie fans, soon to be a full game". MSNBC. Archived from the original on 8 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  3. ^ Mack, Ben (6 December 2016). "Blasting off: RocketWerkz scales up with Tencent investment and big game project". MSNBC. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  4. ^ McNeilly, Hamish (15 August 2012). "Game's success dazes designer". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  5. ^ Campbell, Colin (1 August 2012). "How DayZ Came to Life". IGN. Retrieved 7 July 2012.