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Larian Studios is a Belgian game developer which was founded in 1996 by Swen Vincke who derived its name from his dog, Pilar. It currently focuses on developing role-playing video game and educational games, apart from LEDWars which is a hardcore strategy game and a number of casino games.〔(Larian Casino Games ).〕 Larian's first project was called ''The Lady, the Mage and the Knight (LMK)''. However, they were unable to gain the recognition of any publishers as none believed they were capable of creating a game.〔(Paragraph 5, Lines 3-4: Publishing industry skeptical )〕 In order to rectify this and to prove them wrong, LEDWars (a strategy game) was developed within 5 months and published by Ionos in 1997. As a result, LMK soon evolved into a collaborative project between Larian Studios and Attic Entertainment Software. Due to various problems between the two development studios and its publisher, the project was abandoned in 1999.〔(The truth about LMK (by Lar also known as Swen) )〕 In 2002, Larian completed work on ''Divinity: Sword of Lies'' which was then published under the name ''Divine Divinity'' by CDV. In 2004, ''Beyond Divinity'', expansion to ''Divine Divinity'' was published under 2 editions: the standard version by Ubisoft Entertainment GmbH and the deluxe version by MediaMix Benelux which contained ''Divine Divinity'', ''Beyond Divinity'' and a novella by Rhianna Pratchett called "Son of Chaos". In the same year (2004), KetnetKick (an educational and the first PC2TV game ever created) was developed for Ketnet and released by Transposia. In 2006, ''Beyond Divinity'' was re-released under Gold Games 9 by Ubisoft Entertainment SA which was a set of 10 games on 6 DVDs. In March 2008, ''Adventure Rock'', an online virtual world was completed and released. This was later followed by the release of KetnetKick 2 in Oct 2008 by VRT, the national broadcaster in Belgium. In March 2009, ''GulliLand'' was published by Jeunesse TV, a French national broadcasting channel. In January 2010, Larian released ''Divinity II: Ego Draconis'' - the sequel to ''Divine Divinity'' - to the US market on Xbox 360 and Windows〔(ISM signs up Larian Studios )〕 simultaneously, after releases in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Russia and Benelux. Larian has also produced ''Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance'', the highly anticipated expansion pack, and built a Gold Deluxe version that holds all ''Divinity II'' episodes, called ''Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga''. In August 2013 Larian released ''Divinity: Dragon Commander'', a game mixing strategy and role-playing elements in the ''Divinity'' universe, before the events of ''Divine Divinity''. The game has received an overall positive reception and gained attention thanks to its novel approach to strategy. Larian's latest game, ''Divinity: Original Sin'' has been released after several delays in June 2014. The game was funded partly thanks to a Kickstarter campaign〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kickstarter Campaign )〕 raising over 1 million dollars, out of an estimated 4 million budget, upon its release the game has been the fastest selling game of Larian to date. The game is a turn-based RPG, and the events are set between ''Dragon Commander'' and ''Divine Divinity'' in the story. ==Games developed== * ''LED Wars'' (1998) * ''The Lady, the Mage and the Knight'' (cancelled) (a collaborative effort with Attic Entertainment Software) * ''Divine Divinity'' (2002) * ''Beyond Divinity'' (2004) * ''Divinity II: Ego Draconis'' (2009) * ''Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance'' (2010) * ''Divinity: Dragon Commander'' (2013) * ''Divinity: Original Sin'' (2014) * ''Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition'' (2015) ;Planned games * ''Divinity: Original Sin 2'' (Q4 2016) ;Educational games * ''Ketnet Kick'' (2004) * ''Adventure Rock'' (2008) * ''Ketnet Kick 2'' (2008) * ''GulliLand'' (2009) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larian Studios」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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