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The Destiny Knight
''The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight'' (or ''The Bard's Tale 2'') is a fantasy role-playing video game created by Interplay Productions in 1986. It is the first sequel to ''The Bard's Tale'', and the last game of the series that was designed and programmed by Michael Cranford. The game features ''Dungeons & Dragons''-style characters and follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, ''The Bard's Tale'', also created by Michael Cranford. ''The Bard's Tale II'' takes place on a larger scale with an explorable wilderness, six cities, and multiple dungeons that give this game its dungeon crawl character. The game has new features such as ''casinos'' and ''banks'', and introduces a new magic user called an Archmage, among other changes from the first game in the series. Although it received mixed reviews upon release, ''The Bard's Tale II'' won the Origins Award for ''Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Computer Game of 1986''. Gamemasters Association 1986. In 2018, Krome Studios pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interplay Entertainment
Interplay Entertainment Corp. is an American video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher based in Los Angeles. The company was founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by developers Brian Fargo, Jay Patel, Troy Worrell, and Rebecca Heineman, as well as investor Chris Wells. As a developer, Interplay is best known as the creator of the ''Fallout (series), Fallout'' series and as a publisher for the ''Baldur's Gate'' and ''Descent (1995 video game), Descent'' series. History Interplay Productions Prior to Interplay, the company's founding developers—Brian Fargo, Troy Worrell, Jay Patel, and Rebecca Heineman—worked for Boone Corporation, a video game developer based in California. When Boone eventually folded, the four got together with investor Chris Wells and, believing they could create a company that was better than Boone, founded Interplay in October 1983. The first projects were non-original and consisted of software conversions and even some military w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |