Lodestone Games

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Lodestone Games

Type	Limited liability company
Industry	Video games
Founded	2001
Defunct	2003
Headquarters	Charlottesville, Virginia
Key people	, President and Technical Director Matt Shaw, Principal Engineer Jeff Hanna, Art Director
Website	www.lodestonegames.com

Lodestone Games was a game development studio based in Charlottesville, Virginia. The majority of its employees came from EA/Kesmai after Electronic Arts closed that studio in the fall of 2001. Lodestone Games specialised in the development of both online PC games and client/server technology for online PC games.

History[]

The company's first project was a futuristic car combat game titled, . Before the game could be finished Sony Online Entertainment halted the production and re-tasked Lodestone to develop network hosting technology as well as a real-time weather system for the massively multiplayer online game PlanetSide. After PlanetSide shipped Sony Online Entertainment contracted with Lodestone to create a third person fantasy role playing game, named .

Due to a budgetary shortfall Sony canceled the production of Soul Forge. Unlike the cancellation of Driving Force Sony Online Entertainment had no other work to give to Lodestone. As a result of this Lodestone Games was forced to lay off all employees and cease operations at the end of October, 2003. The majority of Lodestone's employees went on to work at Mythic Entertainment. Others ended up at Sony Online Entertainment, Volition, and Obsidian Entertainment.

Games developed by Lodestone Games[]

• (Unreleased)
• PlanetSide
• (Unreleased)

Staff[]

• , President and Technical Director, now at Sony Online
• Matt Shaw, Lead Engineer, now Chief Technical Officer of Amazon Lumberyard
• Jeff Hanna, Art Director, now at Volition
• , Production Manager
• , Engineer, now at EA Mythic
• , Engineer, now at ZeniMax Online Studios
• , Engineer, now at Sony Online
• , Engineer, now at
• , Engineer
• , Lead Artist, now at EA Mythic
• , Artist, now at Volition
• , Artist
• , Artist, now at EA Mythic
• , Designer, now at
• , Designer
• , Designer