Reactor Zero was founded in 2005 as a division of Quantum Signal LLC. Led by industry veteran Matt Toschlog, our staff has developed commercially and critically successful products on platforms ranging from Game Boy Advance to PC to PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
At Reactor Zero we’ve worked on traditional games (for PS3 and PC) as well as so-called serious games, including several simulations for the US Army.
Management
Matt Toschlog, President
Jeff Slutter, CTO
Mitch Rohde, CEO
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Matt is a well-known veteran in the game industry, with twenty years experience and substantial commercial success. His professional career began in 1986 programming flight simulation games at Sublogic Corporation. In the 1990’s he founded Parallax Software and Outrage Entertainment, creators of the ground-breaking Descent series of space flight action games. After building the company to over 40 people, Matt sold Outrage Entertainment to THQ, Inc. in 2002. Matt co-founded Reactor Zero in 2005.
Jeff is a game programming expert who began his game development career at Outage Entertainment in 1997. Jeff has personally written almost every subsystem that makes up a modern video game engine, from graphics to audio to networking and more. While at Outrage, Jeff worked on multiplayer games, gameplay systems and graphical effects for Descent 3. Jeff also wrote low-level PS2 and Xbox code and the graphics engine used in THQ’s Alter Echo, praised by GamePro.com for its “awesome special effects.” Jeff is also one of the co-founders of Reactor Zero. 
Mitch is an engineer, entrepreneur, and a co-founder of Reactor Zero. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering Systems and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering, all from the University of Michigan. Mitch’s dissertation research involved the research and development of a neurological/cortical implant-based communicative interface for “locked in” individuals, and he is well-known for developing and patenting a hand-held electrocardiogram built around a Nintendo Game Boy. He is also the founder and COO of Quantum Signal, LLC, a firm committed to bringing advanced signal processing technologies from the academic research lab into real-world applications. Mitch also researches and restores antique commercial coin operated games and has approximately 100 machines in his unique collection.