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Tim says Chris Avellone started as the game director of Tyranny. A story that Chris didn't tell during the May of Rage about why he quit?
One of Avellone's mandates was that Tyranny was a world without religion (tips fedora). Tim told him that religions exist in every culture, but was fine with him going with this idea. One of his ideas that didn't make it into the game was that god existed in a cave but didn't want to be worshiped, so he used an edict to remove religion from the world and lock himself in the cave for eternity which distributed the edict powers elsewhere.
Anthony Davis convinced Tim to go to Obsidian's New IP meetings. Tim pitched one that started as fantasy but becomes science fiction. He gave up on these meetings because every single one got shot down by the owners, who privately revealed to Tim that they were expecting someone to pitch an idea that aligned with something they already had in mind. Just wasting everyone's time.
Tim did a bit of work on coding a few of Deadfire's spells (but not enough to get credited).
One of Avellone's mandates was that Tyranny was a world without religion (tips fedora). Tim told him that religions exist in every culture, but was fine with him going with this idea. One of his ideas that didn't make it into the game was that god existed in a cave but didn't want to be worshiped, so he used an edict to remove religion from the world and lock himself in the cave for eternity which distributed the edict powers elsewhere.
Anthony Davis convinced Tim to go to Obsidian's New IP meetings. Tim pitched one that started as fantasy but becomes science fiction. He gave up on these meetings because every single one got shot down by the owners, who privately revealed to Tim that they were expecting someone to pitch an idea that aligned with something they already had in mind. Just wasting everyone's time.
Tim did a bit of work on coding a few of Deadfire's spells (but not enough to get credited).