Gamelab

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Gamelab

Company type	Private
Industry	Video games
Founded	2000
Founder	Eric Zimmerman Peter Seung-Taek Lee
Defunct	2009 (assets acquired by Arkadium)
Key people	Eric Zimmerman (co-founder, chief executive) Peter Seung-Taek Lee (co-founder, president) Frank Lantz (director of game design) Nicholas Fortugno (director of game design) Katie Salen
Number of employees	40[1]

Gamelab was an independent game studio in New York City, New York founded by game designer Eric Zimmerman and Peter Seung-Taek Lee in 2000. It is best known for creating Diner Dash, one of the most downloaded games of all time (over half a billion times across multiple platforms in its first six years),^[2] as well as its two spin-off companies, the non-profit Institute of Play and the online game and community site Gamestar Mechanic.