Key people Zack Johnson | ||
Industry Video game industry
Interactive entertainment | ||
Asymmetric Publications is a video game developer and publisher. It is responsible for the web-based role-playing game Kingdom of Loathing.
Currently, Asymmetric is run by Zack Johnson (who is known as Jick in the game). Employees of the company are known as the Asymmetric Team. As a result of the popularity of the game, Asymmetric currently supports Johnson and a few other individuals as full-time employees.
In the past, Asymmetric Publications hosted various games and other attractions, including Infinity Plus One, an online fortune teller, Bee On Drugs, a bee who talks about the most random things imaginable, and Krakrox the Barbarian, a game widely noted as the precursor to the popular Kingdom of Loathing.
A running gag was that the Asymmetric Publications' website was not updated for almost six years after the announcement of a "fun new game," Kingdom of Loathing. In late 2008, it began to be updated again.
The employees of Asymmetric Publications produce several weekly podcasts. Two of them are related to Kingdom of Loathing, while the others are general shows about video games, advice, and parenting. These latter podcasts are collected under an umbrella called the Hot Dog Network.
A second game, Word Realms was developed between 2008 and 2012, and was released on May 21, 2013.
In 2016, a third game, West of Loathing, was announced on Steam Greenlight. It is set for release in early 2017.