The Origin Story

We are a small Vermont based video game company started by the four, now recent graduates (Yay!) from Champlain College. So it all began a long time ago, during our junior year, when Marguerite reached out to Mike and I about potentially starting a company.

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I had never met Mike before and was currently studying abroad in Montreal, but had worked with Marguerite previously on a small

game the semester prior. So we talked and stewed and thought about it, but didn’t really commit to anything.

And whoa did we bite off more than we could chew, at least on the programming front. So we asked Matt, who we had worked with during the spring semester of our junior year, if he was willing to join us. And thank goodness he said yes. That summer we were off and running with Loc.

The name Birnam Wood is actually the name of a forest in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In the story an army disguises itself as part of the wood and takes a castle by surprise, ending the rule of a usurper. We felt that video games as a medium was this encroaching force that has over the past decade leapt into the world of today and taken over as an entertainment juggernaut.

Our name represents our vision of creating powerful player driven, artistically made, and innovative games.