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- Sawyer grew up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, and is the son of Linda Sawyer and sculptor Gerald P. Sawyer. He is of German ancestry.
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Sawyer grew up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, and is the son of Linda Sawyer and sculptor Gerald P. Sawyer. [2] He is of German ancestry. [3] Sawyer majored in history at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, after initially starting out as a voice student.
- Origin Story
- Black Isle Studios
- Interlude at Midway
- Obsidian: The Next Chapter
- The Canceled Games
Josh Sawyer grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. An introverted, artistic kid, he mainly gravitated toward games as his outlet. Dungeons& Dragons were where he found friends, and also an understanding of how games really worked. You grew up in Wisconsin in kind of a small town. Is that fair to say? Josh Sawyer:: Yeah. It's Fort Atkinson which, whe...
Josh Sawyer applied to Black Isle Studios as a web designer and was ultimately hired after the first choice moved to Seattle. Soon, Sawyer was a junior designer working on Ice Wind Dale. Can you paint a picture of what Black Isle was like back in those days? JS:Coming to Black Isle, it was lots of dudes, lots of young dudes mostly. There were some ...
After the collapse of Black Isle, Sawyer moved on to Midway, where he spent the next year and a half. You weren't at Midway very long. Were you just seeing it as a transition point? What was it like there? JS:It was interesting. I came over to work on Gauntlet and Midway was sort of trying to refocus itself as a leader in mature titles because of M...
JS:Yeah, relatively new. It was 2005, so it was almost two years into their development. They had already shipped Knights of the Old Republic II and they were working on Neverwinter Nights 2. They were at full speed on Neverwinter Nights 2. I was really burned out from Midway, really disappointed, and I said, "You know what? Can I just be a senior ...
If the 2000s taught you anything, I'm guessing it's that AAA is a brutal business. Is that fair? JS:I don't know. I guess it depends on what you define as AAA. I do think that dealing with publishers is really hard. One of the most difficult things that I think Obsidian had to deal with that Black Isle did not have to deal with, Brian Fargo underst...
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Oct 18, 2023 · I started in the video game industry in 1999 at Black Isle Studios. I originally started as a website designer. The first game I worked on was Planescape Torment, designing the website for...
Mar 4, 2024 · I grew up in rural Wisconsin and so I knew a lot of Protestants, but I also knew a fair number of Catholics. It wasn’t an extreme minority, so I knew many religious people around me.
Nov 17, 2022 · When Josh Sawyer created his video game about 16th-century Bavaria, he set out to capture the feeling of that world, right down to the food on the table.
Dec 7, 2022 · I spoke with Sawyer about his inspirations for the game, the bibliographic resources he and his team used for research, and the art of balancing historical accuracy with artistic license to create a compelling story.
Jun 27, 2022 · Sawyer wanted to know more about how people hunted in 16th Century Bavaria: how they dressed, how they did it, the weapons they used. He asked Edmund Kern for advice and was sent a 19th Century German text.
