Brian Fargo has been manufacturing games since childhood. His first works were simple text quests with a straightforward plot. Upon reaching adulthood, he managed to open his own gaming studio. During the first year of work, he was able to realize his first successful project. Due to lack of funding, computer game developer Brian Fargo was forced to distribute it on his own.
early years
Brian was born in 1962 in the United States. He spent all his childhood in the gaming halls and at the computer. Interested in programming and design. After graduation, he opened the Interplay Enternainment company and by 1982 released his first game - The Demon Forge. To date, the project is a cult and is referred to as one of the first games released on a personal initiative. After the project was released, the term “indie” appeared in the industry.
In 1983, he signed a contract with Activision Corporation. Together with his studio, he developed and published Mindshadow - a text quest focused on the Apple II and Comador 64 platforms. Unlike the first project, the game passed by the bulk of gamers, but this did not stop the young and ambitious igrodelo. In the same year, Brian released the extremely popular at that time game The Bard's Tale.
Popularity
After the first success, the developer began the project in a fundamentally new genre. Brian became the creator of the first post-apocalypse game. Wastelend was the ideological progenitor of the future Fallout project.
By the mid-90s, the project came to the very peak of its fame. The number of studio employees reached 600 people. Studio Brian Fargo Interplay Enternainment lasted until 2002. Having become a successful igrodelo, he founded a new company - inXile Enternainment. The studio took the first steps to success after starting from scratch thanks to the development of flash applications for the Apple platform.
Fargo Brian today
Fargo never forgot about projects that brought him popularity, and in 2012 released a sequel to the legendary Wasteland. In his own words, when the third part comes out, he will retire to a well-deserved rest. The release date of the long-awaited project is kept secret, but, according to fans, the game is expected to be released closer to 2020.
Wasteland
Extremely popular in the late 80s - early 90s game for Apple II. This is a game in the good old tradition of text quests, with all the attendant details. The collection is accompanied by a large paper text created in order to save memory on the computer.
The development of the game continued for five years, starting in 1983 and ending in 1988. The plot of the game begins in 2087, after the end of the largest war in the history of mankind between the United States and the USSR. Millions of kilometers of fertile soil, huge cities, civilization - all this was destroyed by a series of successive nuclear explosions. Now our Earth is called simply "wasteland."
The protagonist of the saga becomes a member of the organization, engaged in cleaning up among the surviving people. His squad consists of "sand rangers" patrolling the surroundings of contaminated nuclear lands. Together they oppose marauders, save civilians and restore peace. The main threat to the player becomes out of control Artificial Intelligence, which wants to destroy the remnants of humanity.
The project has a sequel released thanks to the support of fans. Initially, the creation of the game required 900 thousand dollars, but the players liked this idea so much that the studio received more than three million dollars.
Remake of The Bard`s Tale
Due to the huge popularity of the project, released in 1984, Fargo decided to reissue the game 20 years later, in 2004. The reissue surpassed the original so much that it was this game that began to be nominated for all kinds of prizes, including the project was included in the list of "Best Games of All Time".
She fell in love with millions of gamers for a non-standard storyline and an unusual protagonist, releasing tons of jokes, witticisms and references. All this, combined with the popular fantasy setting, provided the game with unprecedented popularity. The gameplay in The Bard`s Tale is made in the classic RPG genre. The game does not require the user to deepen into all the nuances of pumping, leaving the opportunity to concentrate on the plot itself.
Fallout
Today it is the most famous project dedicated to the topic of post-apocalyptic. The first part of the game appeared back in 1997 and immediately won the hearts of millions of fans. The RPG genre that has become familiar to the studio has been improved to an unprecedented quality. The game became the ideological successor to the equally popular Wasteland and gained cult status.