 Bungie (formerly Bungie Software Products Corporation) is a game development company started in 1991 by Alex Seropian. Seropian partnered with programmer Jason Jones to market and release Jones'game Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete. Focusing on the Macintosh game market because it was smaller and easier to compete, Bungie became the biggest Mac developer with games including the shooters Pathways into Darkness and Marathon. What became Halo was originally code-named Monkey Nuts and Blam!, and took place on a hollowed-out world called Solipsis. The planet eventually became a ringworld, and an artist suggested the name "Halo", which became the game's title.
