publisher black isle's torn
LithTech is a game engine which was initially developed by ___MASK35___ in collaboration with Microsoft . Monolith later formed a separate company , LithTech Inc ., to deal with further advancements of the engine technology and currently , after a change of its corporate identity , LithTech Inc . is known as Touchdown Entertainment . ___MASK35___ ( or simply Monolith ) is a Kirkland , Washington - based Video game developer founded in October 1994 by Brian Goble , Garrett Price , Paul Renault , Toby Gladwell , Brian Waite and Jace Hall . The Company is known for their games " Blood ", the " No One Lives Forever " series , " F . E . A . R " and more recently , "". Monolith is also known for the development of the graphical game engine LithTech , which has been used for most of their games and premièred with "" in September 1998 ; they also used Brian Goble ' s Windows Animation Package 32 engine for their 2D games . Between 1997 and 1999 , Monolith also published games , some developed by the studio , some by third parties . A role - playing video game ( commonly referred to as role - playing game or RPG , and in the past was also known as computer role - playing game or CRPG ) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character ( and / or several party members ) immersed in some well - defined world . Many role - playing video games have origins in pen - and - paper role - playing games ( Including " Dungeons & Dragons ") and use much of the same , settings and game mechanics . Other major similarities with pen - and - paper games include developed story - telling and narrative elements , player character development , complexity , as well as replayability and immersion . The electronic medium removes the necessity for a gamemaster and increases combat resolution speed . RPGs have evolved from simple text - based console - window games into visually rich 3D experiences . Since the 1980s , Role - playing is the most commercially viable video game genre in ___MASK32___ , and has more market share of any other genre in the japanese gaming industry , although in the 2010s first - person shooters and western iOS and Android games were becoming rapidly and increasingly popular in that country . ___MASK65___ Corporation ( commonly referred to as ___MASK65___ or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells computer software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the ___MASK65___ Windows line of operating systems , ___MASK65___ Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the ___MASK65___ Surface tablet lineup . As of 2016 , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . ___MASK89___ Corp . is an American video game developer and publisher , founded in 1982 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo , Troy Worrell , Jay Patel and Bill Heineman . As a developer , Interplay is best known as the creator of the original " Fallout " series and as a publisher for the " Baldur ' s Gate " and " Descent " series . ___MASK32___ (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of ___MASK32___ ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . A video game genre is a classification assigned to a video game based on its gameplay interaction rather than visual or narrative differences . A video game genre is defined by a set of gameplay challenges and are classified independent of their setting or game - world content , unlike other works of fiction such as films ___MASK38___ . For example , a shooter game is still a shooter game , regardless of whether it takes place in a fantasy world or in outer space . ___MASK77___ was a division of the computer and video game developer and publisher ___MASK89___ that developed role - playing video games . It also published several games from other developers . Black Isle ' s Torn was a role - playing video game developed for Windows by ___MASK77___ , announced on March 22 , 2001 and cancelled in July of that year . The game was to use a modified version of the SPECIAL role - playing system , which had been implemented in the Fallout series . Developed on various editions of the Lithtech engine , Torn possessed features unseen in previous ___MASK77___ games , such as 3D graphics and real - time camera movement . In Torn , the player assumed the role of a wanderer , who was cursed to bring misfortune to people and places around it . Under a king ' s orders , the player undertook quests to clarify a series of conflicting prophecies . Unlike several other ___MASK77___ games , the game was to take place in an original world titled `` Torn '' instead of a traditional Dungeons & Dragons location .