# Shoot Your Shot: Art Grayson of NVZN Studios on Ball & Gun

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Published: 2026-05-26T12:00:00+00:00
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Send me a text! Be part of the show! Jermaine sits down with Art Grayson of NVZN Studios — a nuclear engineer turned indie game dev — to unpack the origin of Ball & Gun, the genre-bending sports FPS roguelike that racked up 2.7 million views overnight. Art shares how he and co-founder Aaron Cooper built the entire game engine from scratch in under a year, stumbled into going viral, got Dwight Howard to play a demo on the DreamHack floor, and reveal their biggest milestone yet: an officia...

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