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Dean rocket hall biography
Dean Hall (game designer)
New Zealand video game designer
Dean "Rocket" Hall (born 14 May 1981) is a video game designer from New Zealand. He is best known for creating the zombie apocalypse PC game DayZ, which began as a mod and was later developed into its own game under the same title.[2] Hall left the DayZ development team in 2014 to found his own studio, RocketWerkz.[3]
Hall was a Commissioned Officer of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals in the New Zealand Army[4] and attended survival training in Brunei where he came up with the basic idea for DayZ.[2][5]
Early life and education
Hall grew up in Oamaru, New Zealand, and attended Waitaki Boys' High School.
He played role-playing games with fellow New Zealander Chris Butcher, who later became the Technical Director at Bungie working on Halo and Destiny.[6] Hall started video game development on an Amiga personal computer that his parents purc