The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is a first-person action and stealth video game developed by Starbreeze Studios and Tigon Studios and was published by Vivendi Universal Games. Released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows in 2004 the game's story is a prequel to the futuristic science fiction film Pitch Black. Actor Vin Diesel—who was involved in the game's development—reprises his role as that film's protagonist Richard B. Riddick. The game follows Riddick the anti-hero of the two films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick as he attempts to escape from a maximum-security prison called Butcher Bay. Escape from Butcher Bay's designers focused on exploring Riddick's character in a prison break setting to differentiate the game from the film. The game's influences include the film Escape from Alcatraz and video games such as Half-Life and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.