No, they are two distinct individuals but with the same vision for gaming.
The brilliant ascent of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds influences it to feel like an overnight achievement. Yet, as a general rule, it's a venture that began as a mod in Brazil, was produced encourage in Ireland, framed the premise of H1Z1.
No one knows how much function has gone into this game more than Playerunknown himself, Brendan Greene.
A year or so before Garry Newman began chip away at Garry's Mod his primary spotlight was on a 2D platformer known as Facewound. Built up a little group aggregately calling themselves Facepunch Studios the game would in the end be abandoned as the group floated separated before dissolving in 2005.
At some point in 2009 Facepunch Studios was given a moment life, however with just Garry coming back from the first lineup, and wound up home to his next enormous task; the open-world survival game Rust.