One of those studios is an outfit called West Games. A number of successor studios sprang up and all are creating games which to greater or lesser extents are inspired by the STALKER series to date. GSC Game World, a studio in Ukraine founded and owned by one Sergiy Grygorovych, developed three Stalker games and then, for reasons which still aren’t clear, the studio went under in very acrimonious circumstances. One more thing – if you’re not sure what a trademark actually is, read my quick guide to demystifying trademarks and games. More in a moment, but first I want to credit two articles on the legal issues with STALKER which were influential on me: this Polygon feature on the story more generally and this PC Gamer article on the trademark troubles just now. I’m writing about STALKER (as I shall call it, to save my poor ‘.’ key) for cold legal purposes, because it is generating our latest games trademark controversy. Some of my best memories about emergent storytelling in games come from that series.Īnyway, enough of the games nostalgia. If you haven’t played the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series of PC video games, you really should – it’s a glorious first person survival game based in and around a fictional Ukraine where the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded a second time and changed the world around it (it’s based loosely on the excellent Stugatsky brothers’ short science fiction novel, Roadside Picnic).
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