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Junction Point Studios (JPS) was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas founded by Deus Ex creator, Warren Spector, in 2004. Disney Interactive Studios acquired Junction Point Studios in July 2007 [1] to develop a property based on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit , a character created by Walt Disney but owned by Universal Studios until ...
Jan 29, 2013 · Disney Interactive announced the closure of Junction Point Studios, the Austin-based developer of Epic Mickey games, in January 2013. The studio's co-founder Warren Spector left the company and the franchise's future was uncertain.
Jan 29, 2013 · Disney has confirmed its closure of Epic Mickey developer Junction Point studios. The confirmation comes after Star Citizen developer Roberts Space Industries broke the news last night on...
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Jan 29, 2013 · Junction Point Studios, the developer of Disney Epic Mickey and its sequel, has shut down. Disney released a statement to Kotaku confirming that the Austin, Texas developer led by System...
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Junction Point Studios was a video game developer based in Austin, Texas. It was owned by Disney Interactive Studios.
The studio was established in 2005 by Warren Spector and Art Min. The new studio was based around several former employees of Ion Storm, where Spector and Min previously worked.
In July 2007, Disney Interactive Studios acquired Junction Point Studios.
Junction Point developed Epic Mickey, a Wii game which was released on November 25, 2010 in Europe and on November 30 in North America. The game is about Mickey Mouse's adventure in Wasteland, a world where forgotten characters like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit live. Junction Point indicated that its game would be a "combination of action and roleplaying, traditional narrative and player choice" and would use Emergent Game Technologies' Gamebryo engine. The game was developed exclusively for the Wii console platform.
On March 21, 2012, Warren Spector announced that a sequel to Epic Mickey was in development for the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
There has been speculation regarding the name "Junction Point" — apparently, this name was used by a canceled game at Looking Glass Studios, where Spector once worked. According to available descriptions, this game was a "massively multiplayer fantasy role-playing game, changed in midstream to a single-player science-fiction role-playing game."
In March 2007, Spector explained the name in an interview:
Epic Mickey is a series of action-adventure platforming designed by Warren Spector and developed by the now-defunct Junction Point Studios. The series centers around Mickey Mouse who travels through a world known as the Wasteland, where he interacts with the forgotten and rejected Disney...
Jan 17, 2013 · How did the developer of Epic Mickey give a voice to one of Walt Disney's earliest creations? Read the story of the historic phone call between Junction Point and Disney, and the challenges of bringing Oswald back to life.
