JABOI Games is a two-person indie studio. Ian builds it, Steve dreams it up, and a twenty-year friendship holds the whole thing together.
After two decades of playing games together — and endlessly arguing about what we'd do differently — we finally took the leap and started our own studio.
Ian builds it. Steve dreams it up. The friendship is the foundation everything else is bolted onto.
Ian and Steve met through BattleTech: Firestorm, the BattleTech simulator pod game. Along with two other friends, they decided to compete in the World Championships. On the way to the event — 5am, driving at mach speed to the venue — everyone kept throwing out team-name acronyms like KOS (Kill On Sight). Steve, running on no sleep, joked that it was all just a bunch of initials. It stuck.
From that day, our little gaming group went by JABOI. Over the years we've lost friends — to moving, to life, to untimely deaths. We've kept the name as an honor to those no longer with us, and a reminder of where the friendship started.
Where it started
A veteran of the games industry with deep expertise in the Gamebryo and Unreal engines. Ian has worked across a range of studios, including Epic Games and Striking Distance Studios, and more. He's the one turning ideas into something you can actually play.
Background in technical consulting, but the "idea guy" at heart. Steve contributes as a designer and runs the business side of the studio — the one asking "but what if it did this instead?"
The studio lives in the community. Drop in, say hello, and watch Core Reset take shape.
