July: QStudios moves offices into those set up by Monolith, beginning the merger of the two companies Matt Saettler becomes Blood project manager, and Craig Hubbard joins as level designer.June: weekly development updates for Blood appear on the 3D Realms website.May: Duke Nukem 3D, the first proper Build engine game, is released by 3D Realms, which showcases many styles later apparent in Blood.February 17: the date listed on what was later leaked by a computer repair technician as the ' Blood Alpha'.Mike Dussault comes on board to work on the Direct Engine.Craig Hubbard, eventually to become the company's main designer, joins the company in a number of capacities.Eric Kohler joins Monolith to work on what was to become Shogo: Mobile Armour Division.August: impressed by his Doom mapping, Scott Miller hires James Wilson III to map for Blood at Q Studios replacing the previously transferred Richard Gray.John lands them the contract to produce the Windows 95 Game Sampler to demonstrate DirectX. Monolith Productions releases the ' Monolith CD' for a Finnish demoscene contest.Among the founders are Brian Goble and Jason Hall. October: Monolith Productions is founded in Kirkland, Washington, United States of America.Ken Silverman finishes the first full release of Build for 3D Realms (Apogee) premièred in the game Witchhaven by Captsone Software.QStudios restarts production of its initial fantasy design to begin work on ' Horror 3D' Kevin Kilstrom is hired in June.December 10: id Software releases the original Doom shareware, rapidly popularizing the first-person shooter and radically influencing the design of Blood.November: QStudios is founded by former Edmark programmers Nick Newhard and Peter Freese as ' Apogee West'.March: Ken Silverman begins work on what becomes the Build engine, adopting sectors in June 1993 after phoning John Carmack.

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