ACE Team is an independent entertainment software developer based in Santiago, Chile

Santiago, Chile

Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

. ACE Team has licensed the Source Engine

Source engine

Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. It debuted in June 2004 with Counter-Strike: Source and shortly thereafter Half-Life 2, and has been in active development ever since...

 to develop and distribute its debut game Zeno Clash

Zeno Clash

Zeno Clash is a 3D fighting game or brawler, with some elements of a first-person shooter. It is the debut game of Chilean developer ACE Team and uses Valve Corporation's Source engine. It was first released for download through Valve's content delivery service, Steam, on April 21,...

. Most of the members of the team have experience working on PC games, the Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade

Xbox Live Arcade is a type of video game download distribution available primarily in a section of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360, that focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers...

 platform and game modifications for several titles.

History / Events

ACE Team was created as a game modification (or mod) development group and its name comes from the initial of the first 3 founders; Andres Bordeu, Carlos Bordeu and Edmundo Bordeu (who are brothers).

• In 1999 ACE Team released its first official mod Batman DOOM for Doom II.

• Slightly after Edmundo Bordeu created the mod ZanZan for Doom II.

• In early 2002 ACE Team released the only single player mod created for Quake III
  Quake III Arena
  Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly...
  
  named The Dark Conjunction.

• During 2002 ACE Team was created as a legal company and entity. During this year and 2003, ACE Team worked on a never released demo of a game named Zenozoik using the Jupiter System formerly based on Lithtech
  Lithtech
  Lithtech is a game engine which was initially developed by Monolith Productions in collaboration with Microsoft. Monolith later formed a separate company, LithTech Inc., to deal with further advancements of the engine technology and currently, after a change of its corporate identity, LithTech Inc...
  
  . This demo was the predecessor and starting point for the creation of ACE Team's game Zeno Clash
  Zeno Clash
  Zeno Clash is a 3D fighting game or brawler, with some elements of a first-person shooter. It is the debut game of Chilean developer ACE Team and uses Valve Corporation's Source engine. It was first released for download through Valve's content delivery service, Steam, on April 21,...
  
  .

• In 2004 key members of ACE Team, Andres Bordeu and Carlos Bordeu were hired by Wanako Games and helped develop the company until Vivendi Universal acquired Wanako in early 2007.

• In mid-2007, Andres Bordeu, Carlos Bordeu, Edmundo Bordeu and David Caloguerea independently reinstated the company. These four members were the founders of ACE Team as it began operating as a functional independent game studio.

• On 21st April 2009, ACE Team released its Source engine powered game: Zeno Clash

• On 19th May 2009, ACE Team announced Zeno Clash 2, a sequel to their popular game Zeno Clash

Games

• Zeno Clash
  Zeno Clash
  Zeno Clash is a 3D fighting game or brawler, with some elements of a first-person shooter. It is the debut game of Chilean developer ACE Team and uses Valve Corporation's Source engine. It was first released for download through Valve's content delivery service, Steam, on April 21,...
  
  (2009)
• Rock of Ages
  Rock of Ages (video game)
  Rock of Ages is an action-strategy video game, developed by ACE Team. Unlike Ace Team's first and previous game, Zeno Clash, Rock of Ages is powered by Unreal Engine 3. It is for Windows, and Xbox Live Arcade and was released by Atlus on August 31, 2011....
  
  (2011)
• Zeno Clash 2 (TBA)
• Zenozoik (Suspended project - 2003)

Mods

• The Dark Conjunction (2002)
• ZanZan (2000)
• Batman Doom (1999)