Defunct Flagship Studios Team becomes Runic Games

PopoWRX · 08-10-2008, 03:12 AM

The Flagship Studios Seattle team reforms as Runic Games. A snippet from the press release:

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The former Flagship Studios Seattle team is proud to announce their reformation as Runic Games (www.runicgames.com). As the team responsible for the highly-anticipated Mythos at Flagship Studios, Runic Games intends to continue to use their expertise in the Action-RPG MMO genre to create the best games in this market.

The studio is headed by Travis Baldree and Max Schaefer. Travis served as Project Director for Mythos at Flagship Seattle, and previously created the bestselling Action-RPG FATE. Max was the Executive Producer for Mythos, and one of the original founders of Blizzard North, the creators of the bestselling Diablo franchise. He was also one of the founding members of Flagship Studios.

Courtesy of http://bluesnews.com/

I wonder what's going on with Flagship Studios, considering both Schaefer brothers had formed Flagship alongside Bill Roper.

Heretic Machine · 08-10-2008, 05:17 AM

Ugh, let it die, just let it die, please.

PathMaster · 08-10-2008, 05:24 AM

Ahh. but what is Roeper going to do now?

Katslover · 08-10-2008, 05:30 AM

Bandai-Namco took on whoever was left at Flagship to continue working on Hellgate: London. I suppose this is what happened to those who weren't so lucky.

Ravenlock · 08-10-2008, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Heretic Machine

Ugh, let it die, just let it die, please.

Mythos was shaping up to be a fansastic experience, I really want them to finish that one.

Klade · 08-10-2008, 06:30 AM

I'm pretty sure they don't own Mythos anymore. So you can probably kiss that one goodbye.

LongStepMantis · 08-10-2008, 08:53 AM

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As the team responsible for the highly-anticipated Mythos at Flagship Studios, Runic Games intends to continue to use their expertise in the Action-RPG MMO genre to create the best games in this market.

Are they talking about Hellgate? Best in it's market? Bwahahaha!

Fubl · 08-10-2008, 09:09 AM

suprised anyone would give them funding to do anything....

Sl1pstream · 08-10-2008, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by LongStepMantis

Are they talking about Hellgate? Best in it's market? Bwahahaha!

It's a small market

They still haven't surpassed PSO though.

Hemalin · 08-10-2008, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by LongStepMantis

Are they talking about Hellgate? Best in it's market? Bwahahaha!

If you had bothered to continue reading, you would have seen that they were talking about Mythos, perhaps the best Diablo-clone there is.

LongStepMantis · 08-10-2008, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Hemalin

If you had bothered to continue reading, you would have seen that they were talking about Mythos, perhaps the best Diablo-clone there is.

Didn't mean to piss in your cereal.

Carry on.

Siraris · 08-10-2008, 09:41 AM

Best games on the market? Last I checked, Hellgate was one of the worst games on the market. What has changed?

Sazime · 08-10-2008, 09:47 AM

Sounds like they needed to change the name since they pretty much lost everything attached to Flagship.

Venture capitalist wooing powers, activate!

Telefrog · 08-10-2008, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Hemalin

If you had bothered to continue reading, you would have seen that they were talking about Mythos, perhaps the best Diablo-clone there is.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. Really. It's good, but it's positioned as a microtransaction-fest when it finally "ships". I can pass.

And, yes, I have played in the beta.

Hemalin · 08-10-2008, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Sazime

Sounds like they needed to change the name since they pretty much lost everything attached to Flagship.

Venture capitalist wooing powers, activate!

This was the Flagship Seattle team. That studio shut down and everyone was fired. Flagship is still around in whatever form it currently is in.

snubber · 08-10-2008, 11:57 AM

Jerks, this is the Mythos team. That game was actually looking to be good, and was run by the Travis Baldree guy, who did the awesome FATE game. I was hoping he'd land on his feet somewhere and continue his rogue-like games, which kickass. I'm happy to see that's happened.

Now hopefully this new company will concentrate on just that, without the burden of a crappy Hellgate weighing them down.

balamoor · 08-10-2008, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by snubber

Jerks, this is the Mythos team. That game was actually looking to be good, and was run by the Travis Baldree guy, who did the awesome FATE game. I was hoping he'd land on his feet somewhere and continue his rogue-like games, which kickass. I'm happy to see that's happened.

Now hopefully this new company will concentrate on just that, without the burden of a crappy Hellgate weighing them down.

Wasn't Fate that Wild Tangent game that had all of th spyware attached to it? That being said I did dig Mythos..I hope they bring it back.

Chaos Machine · 08-10-2008, 01:15 PM

mythos is a good game, much like dungeon runners but more solid mechanics and an overall smoother experience.

MrSatan · 08-10-2008, 01:28 PM

Ha, they should have put all their money into Mythos and not messed around with worthless Hellgate. They would have survived.

Ravenlock · 08-10-2008, 02:33 PM

Mythos is very solid and Travis is brilliant in terms of designing simple, addictive action RPG's. Fate was a LOT of fun to mess around with - unfortunately one of the distribution models for it was through WildTangent, and he didn't have full rights to make sure they kept their paws out of it, but everyone was very happy when he broke free and started working on Mythos with Flagship.

Hopefully he'll still be able to bring it to completion somehow. It's clearly a labor of love for him, and he deserves for people to be able to play it.