Wild Shadow Studios

Tiny Californian indie of two ex-Google engineers, Alex Carobus and Rob Shillingsburg, who created Realm of the Mad God from a 2009 TIGSource competition entry with design partner Spry Fox. The bullet-hell permadeath MMO launched in 2011; Kabam acquired the studio in June 2012 and both founders moved on, with the game later passing to DECA Games, which still operates it.