Lion Shield seeks to make games with three core values: players' creative expression, strategic decisions, and beauty.Lion Shield was founded by Peter Angstadt and Michael Peddicord. Together they have worked on popular games including Abzu, Journey, Boom Blox, and Cannon Brawl. They both have a long standing passion for making games and first met senior year in highschool, at a LAN party. They discovered a mutual interest in creating and playing games. Both chose to attend the Oregon Institute of Technology as roommates. In their spare time they focused on making small games for game development contests, both individually and as a team.