Ex-Halo devs set up Gunslinger Studios and show off two new games

Alex Seropian and Tim Harris used their Industrial Toys studio to launch their Midnight Star and Midnight Star: Renegade mobile shooter games. Now they’re creating a new studio, Gunslinger Studios, to create 60-second multiplayer games, such as their upcoming Exiles of Embermark fantasy mobile game.

Ex-Bungie founder Seropian and Harris are creating hardcore gamer experiences on mobile, and now they’re taking a swing at the same market under the Gunslinger Studios name, which will also try to expand the market for hardcore fans in the $30 billion mobile game industry. I met with the pair at the Game Developers Conference last week and played a hands-on demo of two new games, one from each studio. They were one of the few startups I met with who weren’t swayed by the siren song of virtual reality and were instead targeting the billion users on mobile devices.