Feargus Urquhart Interview

WarCry has published a developer profile Q&A they did with Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart. In it, Feargus tells us about his hobbies, his inspirations, what a typical work day is like for him, and more.

Q: Where did you come up with the name ‘Obsidian Entertainment’ What’s the background of the name?

A: I wish there was a good story surrounding it, but Chris Parker, Darren Monahan and I got together one night when we were starting the company and wrote a ton of names on a piece of paper. After eliminating all the really lame ones, we ended up with Scorched Earth, Three Clowns and Obsidian. Three Clowns was really just a joke because while we are clowns there are actually five of us including Chris Avellone and Chris Jones. Not to tangent too much on the answer, but we did have a droid for a while in KotOR2 called 3C-DF, which really stood for three Chris’, Darren and Feargus. Anyway, when showing the three choices to our significant others they all let us know that Obsidian was the least lame one of the bunch. So we went with it. Weirdly enough, about three weeks after choosing the name, Chris Jones’ brother-in-law was digging in Chris’ front yard and found a chunk of Obsidian the size of a softball.