Star Filled Studios is a new game company starting in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are long time game industry veterans that will soon be opening a small office. We believe a small talented team can make awesome games, just like when we made Plants vs. Zombies. We work healthy hours and play lots of board games and video games. Our games are made to be playable by everyone and available on iPhone, Steam and many different platforms.

Jeff 'greysphere' Gates

Supreme Intergalactic Co-Commander

When Jeff Gates developed an addiction to Night Mission Pinball on the 8088 at the age of 5, some might have considered his eventual role as a video game programmer inevitable. But in fact, it took further addictions to Rogue, King’s Quest, Pool of Radiance, Starcraft, Diablo, and Quake 3, a delusion of being a physics professor and a stint at an internet start up before a friend finally told him, “You know, you should just apply to a game company.” He did, and never looked back (except for one brief moment where he considered making rocket ships, cause, yeah, that could be awesome...) As far as he knows, games provide the most interesting problems to work on and the most interesting people to work with, i.e. the best job a person could have.

Prior to founding Star Filled Studios, Jeff made the cell stage of Spore for Maxis, worked on Blizzard’s Diablo 3 (including back when it was in space, but after it was a pirate game), and worked at Popcap with the team that made Plants vs. Zombies. And a way long time ago, Jeff helped make a website called Paypal.com. You can catch Jeff online as ‘greysphere’ in League of Legends or any of Blizzard's games.

Tod 'Todnut' Semple

Supreme Intergalactic Co-Commander

Tod started programming when he was 8 and quickly learned he could make video games and hasn't stopped since. After tinkering for many years, he finally landed a job at Blizzard Entertainment and spent 4 years developing the game engine that eventually became Diablo 3. He then moved to Lucas Arts and developed the game engine for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. More recently he worked at PopCap Games and was the programmer on the small team that made Plants vs. Zombies. Now he's starting a new game company in the Bay Area called Star Filled Studios.