Starfield bethesda license#

While Bethesda had wanted to do a science fiction game for some time and had strong ideas for its gameplay style, it took a while to cement the ideas behind what Starfield would be about as to distinguish the game from other science fiction games already released. Howard stated they had rights to Star Trek in the 2000s and he pitched an idea for a role-playing game in that setting, but this failed to go forward. Their The 10th Planet was a cancelled space combat game to be published in October 1997, from which the atmosphere of Starfield was derived.

Starfield bethesda license#

Starfield represents the first new intellectual property (IP) by Bethesda Game Studios in over twenty-five years, and has been described by director Todd Howard as ' Skyrim in space.' The studio had been delving into space-themed games since as early as 1994, according to Howard: they had gotten the rights to make a game based on the Traveller role-playing system, but shortly lost those their Delta V game in 1994 had been part of this Traveller license but had not been fully realized. The game can be played in either first- or third-person perspectives. The player assumes the role of a customizable character who is a member of Constellation, an organization of space explorers. The game takes place 20 years after the war in which the major factions enjoy an uneasy peace. Around the year 2310, the two largest factions in the game, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective, engaged in a conflict called the Colony War.

Starfield is set in an area that extends outward from the Solar System for approximately 50 light-years called The Settled Systems.