What’s more likely is a combination of less-than-perfect backup practices, especially in the late 90s and early aughts, the slow loss of old backups (physical failure, periodic supply closet cleanouts, and staff changes can all take their toll), and fallible human memory.Įventually, the once-cutting-edge Pentium II Xeon server or tape drives that handled such mundane tasks are dust-covered fossils living in the corner of a closet, a random filing cabinet, or even shoved under someone’s desk. But that’s not usually how this kind of mistake happens. This kind of situation seems a bit crazy when you think of it as a matter of affirmative deletion - meaning that someone at Black Isle Studios or Blizzard or any company would highlight a master directory named “Source Code” and hit delete without first absolutely positively ensuring that data was preserved in multiple redundant directories.
Blizzard 3D Art Director Brian Sousa confirmed in an interview with Ars Technica late last month that the company had “no code and no art assets,” at least not before one die-hard fan found an actual copy of the Starcraft source code and returned it to the company. Earlier this year, we covered the upcoming launch of Starcraft: Remastered, a new version of the classic game with 4K support and updated art assets.
This kind of situation doesn’t appear to be uncommon. We’ve naturally moved on to other things until there is a change in the situation.” We’re stalled on the project without source and the project won’t move forward until we can find it.
“We’ve reached out to our friends at Obsidian, as many of them were the development staff behind Icewind Dale II, and they do not have any source code. “We’ve searched all the archives we have access to, including all the data handed over to Wizards of the Coast from Atari and there is no source code for Icewind Dale II,” Oster told that site. That’s the report from Kotaku, which spoke to Beamdog’s Trent Oster about the situation late last week. The original game is still available from sources like GOG.
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