Bungie Software Products Corporation founded in 1991 by two students at the University of Chicago. They focusedprimarily on games for the Macintosh in there first nine years, creating the Marathon and Myth series as well as Oni, a third person action game with characters and environments heavily influenced by Manga.
Then in 2000 they were taken over by Microsoft and the game Bungie were working on at the time was rebranded and became the flagship game for the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox. That game was Halo – Combat Evolved. The game became the new consoles ‘Killer app’ and the game and its subsequent sequels have sold millions of co
pies world wide. THE AUTHOR IAIN M BANKS & HALO
In 1987 Iain M Banks released his science fiction novel Consider Phlebas. The book is based on his Culture series of books, set millennia in the future at the peek of human scientific and technological evolution. In this novel, as in at least two other books in the series, the Culture has the ability to create entire planets and also what they call Orbital’s. Anyone that has played Halo would recognise the Orbital’s as the Halo that is the basis of the game and since the book was released 14 years before the Xbox, Bungie has defiantly taken some inspiration from the work of Iain M Banks, and why not? The guys a genius!
The Orbital’s are not the only reference Halo has taken from the work of Banks, in his book ‘Against A Dark Background’ there is a passage, albeit a small one, that is undoubtedly relevant to the game.
"The Lazy Guns had not had a happy history; they had turned up during the Interregnum following the Second War, seemingly products of Halo; the vast Thrial-polar Machine Intelligence artifact/habitat destroyed by whatever mysterious weapon had been fired from - and which appeared to have obliterated - the moons of the giant gas planet Phrastesis."
In 1987 Iain M Banks released his science fiction novel Consider Phlebas. The book is based on his Culture series of books, set millennia in the future at the peek of human scientific and technological evolution. In this novel, as in at least two other books in the series, the Culture has the ability to create entire planets and also what they call Orbital’s. Anyone that has played Halo would recognise the Orbital’s as the Halo that is the basis of the game and since the book was released 14 years before the Xbox, Bungie has defiantly taken some inspiration from the work of Iain M Banks, and why not? The guys a genius!
The Orbital’s are not the only reference Halo has taken from the work of Banks, in his book ‘Against A Dark Background’ there is a passage, albeit a small one, that is undoubtedly relevant to the game.
"The Lazy Guns had not had a happy history; they had turned up during the Interregnum following the Second War, seemingly products of Halo; the vast Thrial-polar Machine Intelligence artifact/habitat destroyed by whatever mysterious weapon had been fired from - and which appeared to have obliterated - the moons of the giant gas planet Phrastesis."
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