Looking Glass Studios, Inc.
Overview
Looking Glass Studios, Inc. was a famous development studio based in Cambridge, MA (USA). It was formed in 1992 through the merger of
Blue Sky Productions and
Lerner Research. The most prominent developer at the studio was
Warren Spector. Some of the most important franchises the team worked on are
Flight Unlimited, the
Thief series, and the
System Shock games.
The company was shut down three months after releasing
Thief II: The Metal Age and about 60 employees were let go when their publisher
Eidos was hit with a financial crisis.
Employees trickled down to studios such as
Ion Storm Inc. and
2K Boston where their influences are still visible in the
Deux Ex franchise, and
BioShock, the spiritual successor to
System Shock 2.
Contributed by
robotriot 
(6380) on Nov 01, 1999. [
revised by :
Sciere (118901)].
