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a lot of people confuse a publisher with a developer.
especially because of bg 1 2 and nwn.
Bioware is a developer. they made a little known game called infinity wars. Interplay is a publisher, when they got the d &d license, they paid bioware to make bg and they used their in house developer black isle to make icewind dale and planescape torment with the infinity engine.
so black isle and bioware are developers, and interplay is the publisher. You associate bioware with dungeons and dragons, but they just happen to be developing a d and d game when the license changed and they dont actually have anything to do with d and d.
interplay also got bioware to develop nwn using their mdk engine, with plans for nwn just like bg to make their own expansions to it. But they lost the d and d license to infogrames( atari) and atari published it, and paid different companies to make expansions for it.
Ok so atari is a publisher, ubisoft and vivendi are also publishers all from france. EA is a publisher, and maxis would be its in house developer
anyhow, I would say
1Black isle studios for fallout and planescape torment
2sir tech just for wizardry 8 thats all they needed to do theyre in the hall of fame
2new world computing for heroes of mm 3, although triumph studios for age of wonder was even better in a way in the same genre.
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