Auction clearing out failed game co.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) -- The brick building in downtown Providence once held a health insurer. Then, a video game company.

Tuesday, the state is at One Empire Plaza auctioning off nearly all of the physical assets of Curt Schilling's failed videogame maker 38 Studios -- in an effort to make the state's money back from the loan guarantee it gave the company.

Photographers and reporters got a preview of the sale Monday afternoon.

• Photos: 38 Studios Items Up for Auction
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• Related: Partial Listing of Items For Sale (52 pages)

According to the preliminary list of lots at the auctioneer's website, there are more than 1,800 items that the video gaming creator owned to use in the process of creating its first game -- and, it was hoped, others to follow.

They include hundreds of computer workstations, including Mac, PC and Linux boxes, computer monitors new in their boxes, laser printers, drawing tablets, professional audio recording equipment, overhead projectors, a video conferencing system, various video and audio production gear, a telephone system, and various other office supplies.

Video game creating takes long hours at work to keep the creative juices flowing. Thus, also up for bid are no less than twenty-one (21) refrigerators, an under-counter ice maker, some microwaves, and six dishwashers -- plus a ping-pong table, custom gaming tables, a video game library, dance platforms, exercise equipment, a massage table, "and so much more," the auction listing says.

Various art prints, signed by Schilling and others, some exotic "hammer" video game props, a game-related figurine, a number of countdown clocks, and "a Buzz Lightyear" are also among the lots.

The auction is Tuesday morning, starting at 10:30 a.m. Items sold have to be hauled away by Friday.

• Related: $180k raised in 38 Studios Maryland auction

Besides the items sold at the company's subsidiary in Maryland last week -- that auction garnered $180,000 -- there's still one more big-ticket item set to be sold later that the garden-variety shopper might pass by: the intellectual property, or all the work done to create 38's "Kingdoms of Amalur" video game and potential others. The IP sale will be in about three months, receiver Richard Land told Eyewitness News last week.

38 Studios had to lay off its workforce in May and filed for bankruptcy in June.