Overview
Looking Glass Studios, Inc. was a 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
Mad Doc Software,
Ion Storm Inc. and
Irrational Games where their influences are still visible in the
Deus Ex franchise, and
BioShock, the spiritual successor to
System Shock 2.
Also Known As
- Looking Glass Technologies, Inc. (from 1992 to 1996)
Games
Trivia
Location and contact info, Redmond studio, as of March 2000:Looking Glass Studios
8353 154th Ave NE
Redmond, WA 98052
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