Larian Studios  Larian Studios is a Belgian video game developer and publisher founded in 1996 by Swen Vincke. It focuses on developing role-playing video games and has previously worked on educational games and a number of casino games. Swen Vincke founded Larian Studios in 1996. As a lead designer in the company, he contributed to all of Larian's early game projects, including the award-winning role-playing game "Divine Divinity" (2002) and its sequel "Beyond Divinity" (2004). He was later also responsible for the design of , a virtual world for children developed for Flemish children's channel Ketnet. This virtual world has later seen licensed implementations by several other children's channels, such as the British channel CBBC (titled Adventure Rock), French channel Jeunesse TV (titled Gulliland), and Norwegian channel NRK. Larian's first project was called "The Lady, the Mage and the Knight". However, they were unable to gain the recognition of any publishers as none believed they were capable of creating a game. In order to rectify this and to prove them wrong, they developed "LED Wars", a strategy game that was developed within 5 months and published by Ionos in 1997. As a result, "The Lady, the Mage and the Knight" soon evolved into a collaborative project between Larian Studios and Attic Entertainment Software. Due to various problems between the two development studios and its publisher, the project was abandoned in 1999. In 2002, Larian completed work on "Divinity: Sword of Lies" which was published under the name "Divine Divinity" by CDV. In 2004, "Beyond Divinity", the sequel to "Divine Divinity", was published in two editions: the standard version by Ubisoft Entertainment GmbH and the deluxe version by MediaMix Benelux which contained "Divine Divinity", "Beyond Divinity" and a novella by Rhianna Pratchett called "Son of Chaos". Also in 2004, "KetnetKick", an educational game, was developed for Ketnet and released by Transposia. In 2006, "Beyond Divinity" was re-released under Gold Games 9 by Ubisoft Entertainment which was a set of 10 games on 6 DVDs. In March 2008, "Adventure Rock", an online virtual world was completed and released. This was followed by the release of "KetnetKick 2" in October 2008 by VRT, the national broadcaster in Flanders. In March 2009, "GulliLand" was published by Jeunesse TV, a French national broadcasting channel.