After the code for a classic D&D RPG was lost, its lead designer has a message for obsessive fans: "Check this out - I have never had the Icewind Dale 2 source code"

"It was literally never on my computer"

Icewind Dale 2
(Image credit: Black Isle Studios)

After the source code for one classic D&D RPG was confirmed to be lost, fans went about creating their own improved remaster with Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition. In the wake of that release, lead designer Josh Sawyer has con♐firmed that he's not to blame for the missing code.

"I thought it was very funny, there was some fucking obsessive dude on Twitter who was lik🔥e 'fucking imbecile Josh Sawyer lost the Icewind Dale 2 source code, because he's a stupid fucking piece of shit,'" Sawyer said in a recent stream clip, which he shared to . "Check this out: I have never had the Icewind Dale 2 source code, because I'm not a programmer. It was literally never on my computer, and I don't know why that guy would think that I was entrusted with the eternal safeguarding of the Icewind Dale 2 source code."

there wasn't a formal project lead on the game, and notes elsewhere in the clip that it's pretty unusual - though not completely unheard of - for individua♋l developers to keep back-ups of source code on their own computers.

Icewind Dale 2 is part of a line of D&D RPGs built on BioWare's Infinity Engine. Starting in 2012. developer Beamdog created improved ports of every Infinity Engine game under the Enhanced Edition line, save one: Icewind Dale 2. Beamdog CEO Trent Oster confirmed in a 2😼017 interview that this was because the source code for the game was 𓄧lost.

This story now has a happy ending, however, since fans recently releꦐased their own Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition, playable on modern PCs with loads of quality-of-life tweaks and general gamepl🧸ay improvements.

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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you🅺 can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.