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'It's a funny story, when Flagship closed down we sold all of the equipment-desks and chairs and everything-into liquidation just as part of shutting down the business,' Schaefer recalled. And so with Baldree at the helm, the team went back and formed Runic Games, literally with the same furniture and computers that had been Flagship Seattle.

That game (tentatively titled Mythos), was what would eventually become Torchlight.ДЄfter Flagship Studios entered bankruptcy, Schaefer said that the 14 people based in Seattle still had what seemed like a functional prototype that could be worth building a game out of. In order to test the networking tech that was meant to keep Hellgate afloat, Baldree made a small action RPG that could be used to test the networking tech before it was implemented in Hellgate. While Hellgate's struggles would doom Flagship Studios, Baldree's team noodled on a particular project that would change the shape of the post-Flagship landscape. Uelmen described it as ' Destiny, 5 years too early.' In the process of trying to get an enormous Diablo competitor off the ground, Schaefer described how a spinoff studio named Flagship Seattle had been spun up with Travis Baldree (the creator of Fate), in a bid to build the networking pipeline that would fuel Hellgate: London.

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You have Destiny, Borderlands, even Square Enix's Avengers game couldn't come out the gate without a series of mechanics pioneered by Schaefer and his colleagues when they worked at the now-defunct Blizzard North.Д«ut before those games released, Schaefer, Uelmen, and other Blizzard alumni took a big swing at the genre with Hellgate London, a game from Flagship Studios that launched and then collapsed in a short window between 20. In 2020, you can throw a rock and hit any number of games that have built on the looter/action loop that drove Torchlight and before that, Diablo's initial popularity.

It's the long arc of a series that emerged from the ruins of a much larger Diablo competitor that managed to stand toe-to-toe with Blizzard's other major medieval fantasy franchise. With the third game's release, lead developer Max Schaefer and game composer Matt Uelmen (both veterans of Diablo II) face an unusual prospect: they've been at the helm of their own Diablo competitor so long, their franchise now has its own storied history that intersects with the rise and fall of other studios around the Seattle area. That's a very short, very compressed version of what has been a long journey for the lead developers of Torchlight III,В which officially launched in October this year.

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