Neverwinter Nights, Bioware -> Beamdog?

MrCharlie

As someone who followed the trials and tribulations of Bioware and it's acquisition by Electronic Arts, I have got to ask how the heck Canadian based Beamdog sucessfully scored the rights to one of my all time favorite games to play ( and mod ).

A bit about me: I made the LUSH v1.0 mod. Was going to make a LUSH 2.0 but Bioware got baught and I wasn't going to turn over my foliage engine to EA for free. Since then, I got a science degree and make robots.

So whats the story of Beamdog and Bioware's errant child?

Tresset

Uhhhh... Are aware that Trent Oster, the project lead for the original NWN and its expansions, is also the CEO of Beamdog? That is likely a very sizable part of it right there...

MrCharlie

I didn't know that, and am glad to hear it. I'm still curious as to how the deal went down.

WarChiefZeke

MrCharlie wrote: »

As someone who followed the trials and tribulations of Bioware and it's acquisition by Electronic Arts, I have got to ask how the heck Canadian based Beamdog sucessfully scored the rights to one of my all time favorite games to play ( and mod ).

Now let's just hope they actually do something with the rights content wise. Looking like a long shot atm.

megamike15

like Tresset said beamdog was formed by people that worked at bioware. alot of them were the ones that left during the ea years.

JuliusBorisov

MrCharlie wrote: »

I didn't know that, and am glad to hear it. I'm still curious as to how the deal went down.

That was a difficult and long process. Catch up with these threads:

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/41456/theres-a-hint-that-the-next-project-for-beamdog-will-be-nwn/p1
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/32362/it-seems-beamdog-has-quitted-on-the-idea-of-nwn-ee-for-now/p1