Breaking: DayZ creator Dean 'Rocket' Hall has over 2,000 hours in Kerbal Space Program and played the original XCOM at Mount Everest base camp: 'I think when I die, I will still be playing that title'

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Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never uninstall?"Dean 'Rocket' Hall, founder of New Zealand-based studio RocketWerkz, first encountered games via a Commodore 64 belonging to his cousins.

"I think I played it constantly for about five hours.

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Then, at dinner, I looked basically green from the refresh rate of the monitor, and I ended up being very sick and throwing up everywhere.

I think that's when everyone figured out I that I was really into computers."Dean HallLearning to make games on the Amiga, Hall joined the games industry in the late 2010s, after spending almost a decade serving in New Zealand's military.

While working at Czech developer Bohemia Interactive, Hall created the pioneering zombie survival mod DayZ ## Editor's Note The gaming community will surely have mixed reactions to this news. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/dayz-creator-dean-rocket-hall-has-over-2-000-hours-in-kerbal-space-program-and-played-the-original-xcom-at-mount-everest-base-camp-i-think-when-i-die-i-will-still-be-playing-that-game/)