Ea Mythic
and Interworld Productions) is a computer game developer in Fairfax, Virginia which is most widely recognized for developing the 2001 massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot. Mythic has been a prolific creator of multiplayer online games since its formation in the mid 1990s.
Electronic Arts purchased Mythic Entertainment and renamed the company EA Mythic on June 20, 2006.
History
Mythic Entertainment (August 2006 - July 2008, EA Mythic) is best known for its 2001 MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot, although it has developed many other smaller titles as well. Mythic Entertainment is currently working on the MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, which is slated for release on September 18th, 2008.
Mythic originally evolved from two early Washington, DC (USA) area online game development companies.
(AUSI), was founded in 1984 By Mark Jacobs when it launched Aradath, a commercial online RPG which charged US$40 per month. AUSI later developed games for GEnie, creating an online version of Diplomacy with Eric Raymond in 1990, and Dragon's Gate in 1985, originally inspired by Aradath.
The other half of Mythic Entertanment was Interesting Systems, Inc., founded by Rob Denton, Matt Firor, Don Cambpell, and Roger Shropshire in Fairfax, VA, in 1990. Prior to the founding of Mythic Entertainment, ISI had developed one multi-user BBS text-based roleplaying game called "Tempest", which was later renamed Darkness Falls.
Darkness Falls would later provide the codebase for Dark Age of Camelot.
Mythic Entertainment was officially formed in 1995 when AUSI (Mark Jacobs) and ISI (Rob Denton) joined together. Its original name was Interworld Productions, and in November 1997 the name was changed to Mythic Entertainment.
Mythic made numerous online games in the mid and late 1990s, ranging from online action first-person shooters to online RPGs.
Some titles include Silent Death Online, Magestorm Millennium, Darkness Falls: The Crusade, ID4 Online, Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict, and Splatterball.
Imperator Online
In 2002, Mythic announced it was working on a new title, a science-fiction themed MMO called Imperator Online. This MMORPG based on an alternate history where the Roman Republic never fell, and advanced to be a space-travelling multi-planet Empire.
This project was cancelled in 2005.
Dark Age of Camelot
Mythic started Dark Age of Camelot development in late 1999. The company invested $3.2 million developing the game, an amount more than double the sum used for all its previous games. Dark Age of Camelot was also the company's first massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Dark Age of Camelot development was led by Rob Denton, as lead programmer, and by Matt Firor as Producer.
Dark Age of Camelot support and development continues, in parallel with other EA Mythic projects, such as the 2005-announced Warhammer Online.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
During the E3 trade show, on May 18, 2005, Mythic announced that it had licensed the Warhammer IP and was starting to work on a new MMO, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
Mark Jacobs continues as General Manager of Mythic Entertainment, which is now an Electronic Arts studio.
Mythic / Microsoft Lawsuit
Mythic sued Microsoft in December 2003 for trademark infringement and unfair competition regarding the name of Microsoft's Mythica MMORPG, which was in development at that time.