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American video game developer

Obsidian Entertainment, Inc.
Blazon Subsidiary
Industry Video games
Founded June 12, 2003; 18 years ago  (2003-06-12)
Founders
  • Feargus Urquhart
  • Chris Parker
  • Chris Avellone
  • Darren Monahan
  • Chris Jones
Headquarters

Irvine, California

,

U.S.[one]

Number of employees

 200[2] (2019)
Parent Xbox Game Studios (2018–present)
Website obsidian.net

Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game programmer based in Irvine, California. It was founded in June 2003, presently before the closure of Black Isle Studios, by ex-Black Isle employees Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan, and Chris Jones.

Although they have created original intellectual property, many of their games are sequels based on licensed backdrop. Early projects included Star Wars: Knights of the Onetime Commonwealth Ii: The Sith Lords and Neverwinter Nights 2, both sequels to BioWare-adult games. The team and so adult their commencement original game, Alpha Protocol, in 2010. Other notable works from Obsidian include Fallout: New Vegas, Dungeon Siege III, and South Park: The Stick of Truth, all of which are likewise licensed properties.

Throughout the studio's history, many projects—including Futureblight, Dwarfs, Aliens: Crucible, and Stormlands—were cancelled. Due to having so many projects cancelled, the visitor entered a severe fiscal crunch in 2012. As a result, Obsidian decided to crowdfund their next game, Pillars of Eternity, a office-playing game played from an isometric perspective, which ultimately became a success and saved the studio from closure. The team'southward focus then changed from developing licensed titles to creating original games based on the studio's own intellectual property, including a sequel to Pillars of Eternity.

In November 2018, it was appear that the studio had been acquired by Microsoft and go part of Microsoft Studios (now known as Xbox Game Studios). Their latest release is the adventure survival game Grounded.

History [edit]

Chris Avellone

Feargus Urquhart

2003: Founding [edit]

Obsidian Amusement was founded past Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan and Chris Jones on June 12, 2003.[iii] [4] Prior to the establishment of Obsidian, they worked for Interplay Amusement's subsidiary Black Isle Studios. At Black Island they created several role-playing games including Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, and Fallout ii, and collaborated with BioWare on Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, and Baldur's Gate Ii. Most of these games were critically and commercially successful, but Interplay'due south financial situation was poor and the studio lost its license to produce Dungeons & Dragons-based games.[a] [five] This led to the cancellation of Baldur'due south Gate Iii: The Black Hound.[vi] Urquhart and most of the staff members were dissatisfied and frustrated with the cancellation, every bit the game had already been nether evolution for a year and a half. Urquhart became convinced that staying at Black Isle was no longer a "feasible option" for the team, and decided to leave the company. He was in his early on thirties at the fourth dimension, and thought that if he did not offset a new company soon, he may become too onetime to do then.[seven] Urquhart officially left Coaction in 2003 with Avellone, Parker, Monahan, and Jones, and founded Obsidian Amusement with them the same year.[8]

At the time of the visitor'due south establishment there were seven employees, including the visitor's 5 founders. Parker, Urquhart, and Monahan invested $100,000 to $125,000 into their newly founded visitor.[5] When choosing the name of the company, they had prepared a curt list of names for them to choose. The list included "Scorched Earth" and "Three Clown Software". The team eventually chose "Obsidian Entertainment", which they thought was strong, memorable, and felt similar to name of their old studio, Black Isle.[nine]

Upon its institution, the studio needed more than upper-case letter in order to keep its performance running, and thus needed to gain back up from publishers. They approached Electronic Arts, but it did not issue in a project. The studio likewise contacted Ubisoft looking to make a Might & Magic game, but Ubisoft instead concluded up contracting with Arkane Studios on that project, which became Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. Obsidian pitched a game to Take-2 Interactive called Futureblight, which was described as a Fallout-style game powered by the Neverwinter Nights engine. Like to the EA and Ubisoft projects, Futureblight was never made.[7]

Late 2003–2008: Sequels to BioWare games [edit]

Towards the finish of 2003, the team was contacted by LucasArts president Simon Jeffrey, who requested that Obsidian make an action role-playing game set in the Star Wars universe. The team suggested a game concept which featured get-go-person lightsaber melee gainsay and that included established characters similar R2-D2. Their thought was rejected, and Jeffrey instead asked Obsidian to create a follow-up to the BioWare-developed Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, every bit the team at Obsidian was familiar with the engineering that the original game used.[7] The partnership betwixt the two companies finalized in late 2003, and development of the game, which became Star Wars Knights of the Old Commonwealth II: The Sith Lords, began in October 2003.[10] Obsidian was given 15 months to develop The Sith Lords. Originally set for a holiday 2004 release, LucasArts gave the studio an extension into 2005, before shifting the release date back to holiday 2004 following the Electronic Entertainment Expo.[10] While LucasArts did dispatch members of its own staff to help get the game out on time,[11] a number of features wound up beingness cut due to time constraints. Due to the moved deadline, Obsidian also did non have enough time to polish the game, and The Sith Lords suffered from crashes and other technical problems.[7] [12] Despite its issues, The Sith Lords was released to positive disquisitional reception.[7] The cut features were eventually restored by modders, who began their endeavor in 2009 and finished in 2012.[xiii]

From the get-go, the studio's goal was to be able to develop multiple projects simultaneously, and the conclusion led the company to expand very chop-chop.[5] Soon after the evolution of The Sith Lords began, the squad expanded to xx employees. Every bit of July 2004, it had expanded to 27, with 18 from Black Island, and others from Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Taldren, Totally Games, Treyarch, and Troika.[14]

Prior to the launch of The Sith Lords, Obsidian was approached by Atari. Atari acquired the license to produce Dungeons & Dragons-based games, and wanted Obsidian to create a sequel to Neverwinter Nights, which became Neverwinter Nights 2. Development of the game began in July 2005 with a team of ten people.[13] [15] [16] The development of the game was headed past Monahan and Avellone. Obsidian became the game'due south atomic number 82 developer, while Neverwinter Nights creator BioWare provided technical assistance.[17] While they were developing the game, the squad'due south size grew to about 50 people.[5] The squad were given sufficient fourth dimension for the game's development, and Atari was willing to delay the project's targeted release window from Christmas 2005 to October 31, 2006.[fifteen] Neverwinter Nights 2 received a generally positive disquisitional reception.[xviii] Two expansions, Mask of the Betrayer and Storm of Zehir, were released in 2007 and 2008.[19] [20]

During Neverwinter Nights 2 's evolution, the team approached other publishers to work on boosted projects. Disney Interactive Studios commissioned Obsidian to develop a prequel to Snowfall White and the Seven Dwarves chosen Dwarfs, which was set to exist a third-person action game for the PlayStation three and Xbox 360.[21] Piece of work began in 2005, and the team adult a prototype and was a year into development when Bob Iger replaced Michael Eisner equally CEO of The Walt Disney Visitor. Equally CEO, Iger led Disney to head in a completely different direction, which made the Snow White franchise "untouchable" and resulted in the cancellation of the projection.[22] According to Urquhart, the team loved the game and its cancellation was a "heartbreaking" feel for them.[vii]

2009–2014: Alpha Protocol and licensed properties [edit]

With the evolution of Neverwinter Nights 2 coming to an end, Obsidian was contacted by three different publishers. Electronic Arts wanted Obsidian to develop a role-playing game to compete with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and another publisher was also interested in having Obsidian develop a fantasy RPG.[vii] The third publisher was Sega, who wanted the studio to develop an action role-playing game set within the Alien franchise. The game, titled Aliens: Crucible, was to feature base of operations-building, dialogue choices, and character customization.[21] [23] In February 2009, Obsidian sent a prototype to Sega. Sega decided to abolish the game three weeks later without inspecting the demo.[vii] The cancellation was officially confirmed in June of that twelvemonth.[24] At around the aforementioned time, Atari again approached Obsidian, this time to revive Baldur's Gate III.[25] Obsidian requested a large upkeep, which Atari could non afford, and the bargain between the ii companies savage apart when Atari Europe was sold to Namco Bandai Games.[26]

Despite the cancellation of Aliens: Crucible, Sega was however interested in working with Obsidian to develop another project. Instead of developing a sequel, they were asked to develop a role-playing game based on a new intellectual property. The team came upwardly with an idea of a "spy RPG".[27] Sega approved the idea and decided to help with the game's funding and serve as its publisher. The game would keep to get Blastoff Protocol. The game'due south evolution was troubled; the team did not accept a precise vision for Alpha Protocol and struggled to settle on what gameplay elements to include and what the target audience should be. As a result, it suffered from an identity crisis and featured elements from multiple genres.[28] Sega, for its part, was likewise unable to brand decisions quickly and the publisher cutting features from the game after their completion. This resulted in numerous delays and excessively long production time; Blastoff Protocol took four years to develop. It was finally released in June 2010.[seven]

Their first original game, Alpha Protocol received more often than not mixed reviews from critics. It was as well a commercial failure for Sega, which led to their decision to put any plans for a sequel on hold.[29] Afterward the game's launch, Urquhart admitted that there was nevertheless room for improvements.[30] Even though the game was a commercial failure, it was well received by the community, which has oft demanded that Obsidian brand a sequel. Urquhart responded by saying that the team hoped that they can develop Alpha Protocol two, and "exercise better" with it.[31] Avellone afterwards added that they were unable to develop a sequel because the rights to the game were owned by Sega and crowdfunding would not exist a suitable option.[32]

On February xi, 2010, Red Eagle Games and Obsidian announced that they would co-develop i or more games based on The Wheel of Time fantasy novel series past Robert Hashemite kingdom of jordan.[33] On Apr 25, 2014, nevertheless, Urquhart told Computer & Video Games that the understanding between the companies had dissolved later Red Hawkeye had failed to secure the necessary funding.[34]

At the same time that Alpha Protocol was in development, Obsidian was likewise working on Fallout: New Vegas. Prior to working on New Vegas, they were contacted by Bethesda Softworks about developing a Star Trek game, but the idea never gained traction. Subsequently Bethesda released Fallout 3 and began to shift its own focus back towards its Elder Scrolls serial, it approached Obsidian with the idea of having the latter studio develop some other game in the Fallout series, as several of Obsidian'due south founders had worked on the franchise while at Blackness Isle. In developing New Vegas, Obsidian looked at fan requests, which led to New Vegas giving a more prominent part to the in-game factions. When the concept was pitched to Bethesda, it was immediately approved. The evolution of New Vegas began soon after the cancellation of Aliens: Crucible, and information technology was released in Oct 2010.[7] It received more often than not positive reviews, with some critics saying that the game's quality exceeded that of the critically acclaimed Fallout 3.[vii]

As was the instance with The Sith Lords, the development team did non thoroughly assess New Vegas for bugs and glitches before it was released. Some players were unable to play the game due to constant crashes.[35] These problems were later patched and fixed. Obsidian considered New Vegas to exist a learning experience; it was the studio's outset AAA game, and information technology taught the studio how to manage quality assurance.[seven] Between The Sith Lords and New Vegas, Obsidian had built a reputation for creating games with technical issues.[7] [12] The team was determined to alter this with hereafter titles, and made improvements to their bug-tracking system,[seven] These improvements were applied to the studio'due south next projection, Dungeon Siege III, a sequel to the Gas Powered Games-developed Dungeon Siege,[36] published by Square Enix.[37] The game received mixed reviews upon release in 2011, only it enjoyed a stable launch.[vii] Dungeon Siege III was the get-go game to use Obsidian's own in-house Onyx engine.[38]

In 2011, the visitor began working on a third-person open world game named "Stormlands". It was rumored that the game was being produced for the then-unannounced successor to the Xbox 360. The championship was ultimately cancelled in 2012 by its publisher, Microsoft Studios, causing Obsidian to lay off between xx and 30 people.[7] [39] [40] Obsidian so transformed Stormlands into another game title called Fallen and and so pitched it to other publishers including 2K Games and Ubisoft. Despite hearing no response from them, Fallen became the foundation for one of Obsidian'south future games, Tyranny.[41]

In October 2009, Obsidian was contacted by Due south Park Digital Studios to develop a game set within the Southward Park universe.[42] The team originally thought the phone telephone call from Due south Park Digital Studios was a prank carried out by another company located in the same building.[43] Obsidian met with South Park 's creators, Matt Rock and Trey Parker, with the ii parties agreeing that information technology was critical that the game share the television bear witness'due south structure paper-similar visual aesthetic. Funding was originally provided by Viacom, the parent company of the tv channel that Due south Park is broadcast on. In 2011, Viacom decided to allow the video game publisher THQ take over as the game'south publisher.[7] Shortly after THQ took over, they entered into a financial crisis, eventually going bankrupt in late 2011. With THQ unable to keep its publishing and funding roles, an auction was held for other publishers to larn their titles. Obsidian was worried that if the project was cancelled, they also would face up severe fiscal difficulties. Eventually Ubisoft acquired the game,[44] which was released equally South Park: The Stick of Truth in March 2014.[45] In mid 2014, the studio announced Armored Warfare, a tank game developed for My.com. It launched in open beta during 2015.[46]

Obsidian has too maintained a friendly relationship with inXile Entertainment. Similar Obsidian, inXile was founded by onetime employees of Coaction Entertainment. The two companies signed an agreement to share their applied science with each other.[47] Obsidian assisted in the evolution of inXile's Wasteland 2 after its Kickstarter campaign raised $ii.1 1000000,[48] Wasteland 2 was released in late 2022 and received generally positive reviews upon release.[49]

2014–2018: Fiscal troubles and Pillars of Eternity [edit]

We said look, somebody is gonna try to Kickstart a game similar this. Somebody is going to try to Kickstart an 'isometric 2D background with 3D characters, existent-time with pause, fantasy role-playing game.' There's no fashion that this is going to get untapped for that long. There are enough other ex-Black Isle and Bioware developers out there, that if we don't do it, we're just gonna miss a perfect opportunity.

—Josh Sawyer on crowdfunding Project Eternity

While the studio managed to consummate S Park: The Stick of Truth, the company faced a precarious financial position. The studio received simply a small "kill fee" for their work on North Carolina.[vii] They also lost their bonus for Fallout: New Vegas, as the game failed to meet Bethesda's standard—an aggregate review score of 85 at Metacritic—by 1 signal.[50] The team lacked sufficient resources to keep the visitor'south operation running. According to Adam Brennecke, an executive producer at Obsidian, if they failed to pitch a projection to a publisher in time they would accept exhausted their coin and gone bankrupt.[51] At that time, the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter was growing popular and Josh Sawyer, artistic director of New Vegas, proposed that the studio put their cancelled game on Kickstarter and endeavour to secure funding for information technology in that location. Some team members were skeptical about the idea and feared that they may not even exist able to raise $100,000 through the platform. The question of whether to pursue a Kickstarter entrada led to numerous debates between key members of the company. The debates ended when Double Fine Risk 's entrada launched and saw huge success.[52]

Secure in the conventionalities that Kickstarter was a viable funding option, the team decided to use it to fund the development of a game they wanted to brand for a very long time: a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate. The Kickstarter campaign for Pillars of Eternity was launched in September 2012 nether the working name "Project Eternity", with Obsidian requesting $1.1 1000000.[53] The studio approached Kickstarter with the mindset that if their entrada was successful the game could eventually be turned into a franchise, while if they were unsuccessful, they would attempt to refine their ideas and try once again with another entrada.[54]

Obsidian's campaign was hugely successful, raising $4 one thousand thousand and breaking the record gear up by Double Fine Run a risk.[55] Pillars of Eternity was released in March 2022 to a positive critical reception.[56] Paradox Interactive served as the game'south publisher.[57] Obsidian planned an expansion pack, called The White March.[58] It was divided into ii unlike parts, one of which was released on Baronial 25, 2015,[59] and the other on February 16, 2016.[60] A board game for Pillars of Eternity titled Pillars of Eternity: Lords of the Eastern Reach was announced on May 19, 2015. It was developed by Zero Radius Games with input provided past Obsidian. Like the main game, it was funded through a Kickstarter campaign, and it reached its funding goal within a day.[61]

In June 2015, studio co-founder Chris Avellone announced his divergence from Obsidian.[62] In Baronial 2015, Obsidian partnered with inXile and Double Fine to launch a new funding website named Fig, with Urquhart serving as a member of the company's advising board.[63] The new platform's aim is to offer "disinterestedness crowdfunding", and information technology will only focus exclusively on video game-related projects.[64] Obsidian is set to use Fig equally its futurity crowdfunding platform.[65]

It was announced in July 2022 that the visitor was working on the localization for Skyforge.[66] On August thirteen, 2014, Obsidian announced that they had licensed the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game to make electronic games, starting with a tablet adaptation of it, which was released for iOS and Android devices in April 2016, with releases for other platforms to be announced.[67] Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens also confirmed plans for an Obsidian-adult computer part-playing game.[68] Urquhart had stated a desire to interact with BioWare again on a new Star Wars game. After the release of New Vegas, at that place is too a desire to work on another Fallout game.[69] [70] [71]

On March 15, 2016, Obsidian announced their new project called Tyranny, an isometric RPG set in a world where evil has already won. The game was announced for release in 2022 on Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux, and was published by Paradox Interactive.[72] The game was originally called Fury, whose concept was created in 2006, and is set in "a earth that had been laid waste matter by a magical apocalypse". The concept later became Defiance, whose concept is similar to that of Tyranny. Defiance, forth with ideas of Obsidian's other projects later became Stormlands. Equally Stormlands was cancelled, the company reconsidered the original thought of Defiance to make Tyranny.[73] In April 2016, Leonard Boyarsky joined Obsidian, becoming the second Troika Games co-founder to work for the company.[74]

On Jan 27, 2017, Obsidian announced Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire and launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fig to raise additional development funds. The project achieved its funding goal in less than a twenty-four hours, and was released in May 2018.[75] In February 2017, it was announced that Obsidian were leaving the development of Armored Warfare in the easily of the game's publisher to finish the project.[76] [77]

2018–nowadays: Microsoft conquering [edit]

On Nov x, 2018, information technology was appear that the studio had been acquired by Microsoft and become part of its Microsoft Studios sectionalisation.[78] Following the declaration of the acquisition, during The Game Awards anniversary in December 2018, Obsidian announced a new intellectual holding named The Outer Worlds, an activity part-playing game set in an alternate future in which megacorporations began colonizing and terraforming alien planets. The game was released on Oct 25, 2019, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and a version for Nintendo Switch released on June five, 2020. In November 2019, Obsidian announced its next game, titled Grounded, describing it as a "survival adventure where you lot're the size of an ant".[79] On July 23, 2020, at the Xbox Games Showcase, Obsidian Entertainment revealed a brand new RPG game called Avowed was currently in evolution for Microsoft Windows and Xbox Serial X.[eighty] In 2021, another unannounced open-world project for PC and console was also found to be in development through a technical artist chore posting on the visitor's website,[81] which was later revealed to be The Outer Worlds 2 during the Xbox + Bethesda E3 2022 showcase.[82]

Philosophy [edit]

We have to respond to players, no matter what. When you lot piece of work for a publisher, you accept to reply to both, and the two of them may not see eye-to-eye. I'd rather the player pay me directly for something they want, and I'd rather talk with them throughout the process to make sure I'm delivering something they desire as well.

—Chris Avellone, founder of Obsidian Entertainment on Kickstarter

Obsidian built its reputation making sequels in well-established franchises including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout, and Dungeon Siege. Urquhart has stated that the company is fine with developing sequels, as they are often fun to brand since the studio tin can "get to go play in someone else'southward world" and further explore and aggrandize upon the original games' ideas.[83] The studio also believes that such licensed projects are easier to develop.[84] Obsidian considered the making of these sequels equally stepping stones towards eventually making original games based on their own intellectual property.[83] The studio's focus did later shift towards developing their own games, which allowed Obsidian to maximize their creative freedom and escape the constraints imposed past publishers.[85] The studio has used the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter as an indicator to see whether a game or genre is popular or not.[21]

Equally an contained visitor prior to their 2022 acquisition by Microsoft, Obsidian believed that they must human action and react chop-chop to market changes and non stagnate on any sure point. While the core focus of Obsidian was yet developing character-driven role-playing games, the team were willing to try out projects that are smaller and are in different genres. The determination to develop Armored Warfare was i result of this strategy.[86]

A dungeon crawler game based on the story of the visitor'due south five founders was fabricated. The game was housed in an arcade cabinet within Obsidian.[87]

Games [edit]

Released [edit]

Cancelled [edit]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, and Baldur'due south Gate Ii were Dungeons and Dragons-based games.

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