Conjecture and Prognostication concerning "The Rouse"

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El Mahdi

Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Pure, unadulterated, conjecture.

Concerning Scott's statement:

... I will be staying in the Seattle area to pursue new opportunities in the gaming industry. ...

Where do you think these new opportuities are going to take him?



Here's a list of RPG companies, and other opportunites, in the Seattle area (but not an all inclusive list): (updated 18 Oct)

  • ArenaNet - Guild Wars is basically 4e meets Magic, too, and Jeff Grubb happens to be a lead designer there.
  • Atari
  • Bastion Press (out of business - properties sold to Dragonwing and someone else;))
  • Big Fish
  • Bingo Parlour
  • Black Jack dealer at local Native American gaming concession - advantage: Puffy Shirt
  • Catalyst Games Lab/InMediaRes Productions (Classic Battletech and Shadowrun)
  • Columbia Games (Harnmaster)
  • Co-owner of a baitshop two hours south of Seattle, with Elvis and Buddy Holly - advantage: It's Rock n' Roll, Dude!
  • Deep7
  • Developing a plan for world domination - most likely through use of the Xanatos Gambit.
  • Eos Press
  • Exile Game Studio
  • Electronic Arts (in Vancouver, Canada - but still relatively close - eh?;))
  • Founding new company/partnership to produce Tetherball Insider.
  • The Game Mechanics
  • Green Ronin Publishing
  • Medieval Times - Puffy shirt wearing Minstrel - advantage: Puffy Shirt (again)
  • Microsoft - X-Box Division - working on a 4E D&D port for X-Box 360
  • New Dimension Games
  • New frontman for the FreeCreditReport.com band - advantage: Puffy Shirt (yet again)
  • Nintendo
  • one.seven design (John Harper - Agon)
  • Pagan Publishing (Delta Green, Call of Cthulu)
  • *Paizo (Pathfinder) - please, please, please, please...
  • Penny Arcade
  • Privateer Press (Iron Kingdoms)
  • R. Talsorian Games (Cyberpunk)
  • Replacing Rush Limbaugh as the face of the consortium vying to buy the St. Louis Rams.
  • Replacing the Hoff - cause let's face it, The Rouse is waaayyy cooler than The Hoff.
  • Runic Games - Formerly Flagship Studios (originator of Mythos), recently reformed and intent on creating new action-role playing MMO games.
  • Smith & Tinker - Electronic entertainment company merging online and offline game play, and also owner of Catalyst Games. Recently licensed PC games like MechWarrior (originally developed by S&T’s founder) from Microsoft.
  • Snowblind Studios - Develops fantasy role-playing and combat games like Baldur’s Gate and Champions of Norrath.
  • Sony Online Entertainment Seattle - Opened Seattle-area office in 2004. SOE has produced Matrix, The Agency, and other MMO's for PCs, consoles, and mobile.
  • Surreal Software - Maker of role-playing video games like The Suffering and This Is Vegas.
  • Technomancer Press
  • Valve - Renowned creator of game franchises Half-Life and Counter-Strike, game engines, and development tools for PC and console games.
  • Vivendi - Recently merged with Activision Blizzard, maker of World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero 3, which has Seattle-area offices.
My pie-in-the-sky pick would be Paizo (and they did just post a lot of job openings recently:hmm:).


Let the conjecture and prognostication begin.B-)
 
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Voadam

Legend
Not Bastion, that one folded up years ago with its RPG properties now sold by Dragonwing for most of them and someone else for the Oathbound stuff.
 





Mistwell

Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
Yeah, that'd be my guess although I'm not familiar with the computer game industry at all and don't know who is in Seattle.

Pretty much every one of them.

Game On: The Greater Seattle Gaming Cluster | Xconomy

If you’ve ever played a video game like Halo on an Xbox console, or a multiplayer online game like World of Warcraft, or an online “casual” game like Bejeweled, then you’ve almost certainly got a Seattle company (or connection) to thank. Everyone knows Microsoft and RealNetworks are here; lots of people know about Nintendo of America, Sony Online Entertainment, and PopCap; but there are also dozens of smaller, indie studios cranking out all manner of computer games and development tools...

According to a report by enterpriseSeattle, an economic-development research organization, there are some 150 game-technology and interactive-media companies in Washington state.

The article then lists 45 video game companies in the area, and it reads like a whos who list for the industry.

Here are a few that stood out to me:

Runic Games (Seattle, WA)
Formerly Flagship Studios (originator of Mythos), recently reformed and intent on creating new action-role playing MMO games.

Smith & Tinker (Bellevue, WA)
Electronic entertainment company merging online and offline game play. Recently licensed PC games like MechWarrior (originally developed by S&T’s founder) from Microsoft.

Snowblind Studios (Bothell, WA)
Develops fantasy role-playing and combat games like Baldur’s Gate and Champions of Norrath.

Sony Online Entertainment Seattle (Bellevue, WA)
Opened Seattle-area office in 2004. SOE has produced Matrix, The Agency, and other massively multiplayer online games for PCs, consoles, and mobile.

Surreal Software (Seattle, WA)
Maker of role-playing video games like The Suffering and This Is Vegas.

Valve (Bellevue, WA)
Renowned creator of game franchises Half-Life and Counter-Strike, game engines, and development tools for PC and console games.

Vivendi (Issaquah, WA)
Recently merged with Activision Blizzard, maker of World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero 3, which has Seattle-area offices.
 
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