Oklahoma City is not a place where you’re most likely to find a video game studio. The majority of the industry is based in cities like Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin or Montreal, but that hasn’t stopped James Simpson, the CEO of GoldFire Studios, from setting up shop here in the Metro.
Simpson has been making games both apart from and under the GoldFire Studios name since he was in middle school. Things took off for the company when he graduated from OU in 2011.
Now, after a decade and five cross- platform massively multiplayer online games under his studio’s belt, Simpson and his international team have their sights set on their first major game: Arctic Awakening, a “single-player, episodic narrative game” due out on PC, Xbox and PlayStation consoles in 2022.