{"id":104283,"date":"2019-11-22T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354654"},"modified":"2019-11-22T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T20:15:00","slug":"obituary-stuido-studios-co-founder-jose-zambrano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/obituary-stuido-studios-co-founder-jose-zambrano\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Stuido Studios co-founder Jose Zambrano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VR developer and Stuido Studios co-founder Jose Zambrano has passed away at the age of 26.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow co-founder Rob Canciello shared word of his passing in an emotional&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobCanciello\/status\/1197927983916433408\">series of Tweets<\/a>&nbsp;today, news met with condolences and memories from others that had come to know him throughout the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Zambrano founded Stuido Studios alongside Canciello in 2015 as a hobby, and moved the studio toward a full-time venture years later through the releases of VR games like the horror title<em>&nbsp;Don\u2019t Look Away.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The studio&#8217;s most recent game, the competitive VR party game&nbsp;<em>The Take<\/em>, was selected as one of fifteen games featured at The Smithsonian American Art Museum&#8217;s 2018 SAAM Arcade, an event highlighting innovative use of spaces and level design in indie games. Zambrano was a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chulatastic\/status\/1197949281178542080\">member<\/a>&nbsp;of Latinx in Gaming, an online community dedicated to fostering Latinx representation in the game industry. He also&nbsp;co-founded&nbsp;the NYC Gaming Discord server, a community that has now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-memory-of-jose-zambrano\">set up a fundraiser<\/a> to help cover costs for his loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VR developer and Stuido Studios co-founder Jose Zambrano has passed away at the age of 26. Fellow co-founder Rob Canciello shared word of his passing in an emotional&nbsp;series of Tweets&nbsp;today, news met with condolences and memories from others that had come to know him throughout the industry. Zambrano founded Stuido Studios alongside Canciello in 2015 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}