EXCLUSIVE Interview with Stephen Kick CEO System Shock Gamescom 2022
38EXCLUSIVE Interview with Stephen Kick CEO System Shock Gamescom 2022
Nightdive Studios, a game publisher/developer that specializes in licensing classic video games for the purposes of remastering and historical preservation. In February 2013 we re-released our first title, System Shock 2. To date Night Dive Studios has re-released over 100 classic games. In July of 2016 we raised $1.3+ Million to reboot the classic 1994 game System Shock which is currently in development. We are authorized developers for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
System Shock is a 1994 first-person action-adventure video game developed by LookingGlass Technologies and published by Origin Systems. It was directed by Doug Church with Warren Spector serving as producer. The game is set aboard a space station in a cyberpunk vision of the year 2072. Assuming the role of a nameless security hacker, the player attempts to hinder the plans of a malevolent artificial intelligence called SHODAN.
System Shock's 3D engine, physics simulation and complex gameplay have been cited as both innovative and influential. The developers sought to build on the emergent gameplay and immersive environments of their previous games, Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss and Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds, by streamlining their mechanics into a more "integrated whole".
Critics praised System Shock and hailed it as a major breakthrough in its genre. It was later placed on multiple hall of fame lists. The game was a moderate commercial success, with sales exceeding 170,000 copies, but Looking Glass ultimately lost money on the project. A sequel, System Shock 2, was released by Looking Glass Studios and offshoot developer Irrational Games in 1999. The 2000 game Deus Ex (produced and directed by Spector) and the 2007 game BioShock are spiritual successors to the two games.
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