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SSI Interview with Don Daglow at GameBanshee

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    GameBanshee has interviewed Don Daglow, the CEO of SSI. They talk about D&D games back in the eighties and nineties, the original Neverwinter Nights on AOL and a couple of other subjects. Here's a snip:

    GB: To start off, can you give us a little background information about Stormfront Studios? When was the company founded, and what games have you been involved with over the years?

    Don: Stormfront was founded in 1988, back when our first games included versions for the Amiga and the Commodore 64!

    We’ve done a variety of titles over the years. The D&D license has been a recurring theme, starting with the SSI Gold Box titles “Gateway to the Savage Frontier” and “Treasures of the Savage Frontier.” We did the first graphical MMORPG, the original “Neverwinter Nights,” which ran on AOL from 1991-97, years before Ultima debuted in 1998 and Everquest in 1999. We also did an early D&D 3D-perspective RTS, “Stronghold,” which I still get compliments about in the halls at GDC.

    If you fast-forward to modern times, our most recent title is the D&D action-adventure “Demon Stone,” which we developed for Atari with author R.A. Salvatore. It was great fun working with Salvatore – he’s both a deep gamer and someone who brings out the creativity in a team – and bringing Drizzt to life was a great challenge.

    We’ve always done a wide variety of titles, with D&D just one part of that mix. Our other best-known titles include the Tony La Russa Baseball games, early versions of John Madden Football, and we created the NASCAR racing franchise for EA Sports. Our biggest title in the last couple of years was The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers from EA, based on the film by Peter Jackson.

    Read the whole thing at GameBanshee.
     
    chevalier, Apr 18, 2005
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