El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Pure, unadulterated, conjecture.
Concerning Scott's statement:
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)
Let the conjecture and prognostication begin.
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.
Let the conjecture and prognostication begin.
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