Size Five Games is a British

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 independent

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 video game developer

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 founded by Dan Marshall in 2008

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. Dan Marshall's previous games were retroactively brought under the Zombie Cow banner upon its founding.

Their first new release was a donationware

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 adventure game

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 called Ben There, Dan That!, released in 2008. It was widely praised by the adventure game community and downloaded 50,000 times but brought in only "a couple of hundred quid

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" due to its donation model.

The sequel, Time Gentlemen, Please!

Time Gentlemen, Please! (video game)

Time Gentlemen, Please! is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Zombie Cow Studios. It is the sequel to the freeware game Ben There, Dan That! and was commercially released on June 22, 2009. As with the first game, Time Gentlemen, Please! was created using the Adventure Game Studio...

, was released in 2009 to positive reviews. PC Gamer

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 called it "point-and-click adventuring done right for a change." It holds a Metacritic

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 score of 84%.

In 2010, Zombie Cow Studios and Channel 4 announce ‘Privates’.

In May 2011 Zombie Cow Studios changed their name to Size Five Games.