Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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► You can read more about Sleeping Giants in the book "Video Games You Will Never Play", available on Amazon: unseen64.net/2016/09/19/video-games-you-will-never-play-unseen64-book

► Warren Spector entered the video game business in 1989 when he joined ORIGIN, co-producing Ultima VI and Wing Commander, then producing System Shock and many other classic RPGs. After working a year at Looking Glass Studio on Thief: The Dark Project, in 1997 Spector received a call from John Romero: it was the start of the new Ion Storm Austin team and the conception of another classic title, Deus Ex. In March 2005 Warren Spector officially announced his new company: Junction Point Studios, a team named after a cancelled online RPG he was working on during his last months at Looking Glass. Spector founded Junction Point Studios with the help of another former employee of Looking Glass and Ion Storm: Art Min, who worked on System Shock and later joined Valve Software where he managed the acquisition of the Counter-Strike IP. During the early days of Junction Point, Spector and Min conceived a few original games to pitch to different publishers. One of these pitches was titled “Sleeping Giants”, an ambitious open world RPG in the vein of The Elder Scrolls: SKYRIM, set in a fantasy universe originally proposed for DC Comics by Spector and his wife.

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To create this video, we used some footage cut from these other videos:
+ Warren Spector on Origin offices [1995] youtube.com/watch?v=b0_INOQcYVc
+ Epic Mickey - Behind the Scenes youtube.com/watch?v=n3PRV_7b3q8