Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[Beastro]

That said, if he didn’t sign an NDA because he hates these guys and wants to be able to stick the knife in, when is he going to finally spill the details? Today’s tweets are the most explicit we’ve gotten right? It must have been really bad if he’s still this pissed off.

Guy has a passive-agressive angle to him like you said.

I wouldnt be surprised if these Tweets come from him having things rough lately and resulting in a little blow up.

 

[2house2fly]

It's a shame that he apparently didn't have any work lined up when he left Obsidian (shows how keen he was to get out of there I guess), I was hoping he'd have headed up and released a whole game by now. but hey, it's not like he was putting his name to a lot of stuff in the two and a half years before he left Obsidian either.

 

[Fairfax]

It's a shame that he apparently didn't have any work lined up when he left Obsidian (shows how keen he was to get out of there I guess), I was hoping he'd have headed up and released a whole game by now. but hey, it's not like he was putting his name to a lot of stuff in the two and a half years before he left Obsidian either.

He's had several offers to lead his own project since he left Obsidian, but didn't take them for personal reasons.

 

[Sentinel]

He also had offers to lead projects inside Obsidian.

 

[Fairfax]

He also had offers to lead projects inside Obsidian.

The only known offer post-FNV DLCs was a PS:T spiritual sequel for Kickstarter. According to Feargus, MCA turned it down because he "didn't want to go on another death march".

PoE was Sawyer's all along, and Tyranny was conceived while MCA was already working on PoE.

 

[ga♥]

Wasn't there an interview/book/whatever that said something along the line of "Avellone spearheaded Tyranny"?

 

[2house2fly]

I think there was an interview where he hinted they pretended he was behind Tyranny in some way when they were pitching it to Paradox, because they knew his name on a game gets people interested but for some reason they didn't want him to actually work on a game.

 

[Fairfax]

Wasn't there an interview/book/whatever that said something along the line of "Avellone spearheaded Tyranny"?

It was either Paradox marketing or one (some?) of the devs hyping up his contribution, but he didn't do much:

I think there was an interview where he hinted they pretended he was behind Tyranny in some way when they were pitching it to Paradox, because they knew his name on a game gets people interested but for some reason they didn't want him to actually work on a game.

No, he revealed that the contract between Paradox and Obsidian included exaggerating his role:

Speaking from experience, there are times where I have been misquoted or my response ignored/not transcribed in previous interviews (including the Codex at PAX East), and I mostly have to shrug and let it go.

Uh, do tell. (mindx2 What have you done)

Well that's a question I'd like answered from Chris himself....

I still have the entire recording and transcribed everything that was said (except for the ums, huhs, repeated words, ect.). Perhaps I misheard something or didn't catch it with multiple people talking at once...?

My apologies, should have clarified - it was at the point where I believe the question was "so this [Tyranny] is your baby?/yours?" and while I replied, "no" (because it wasn't, and with good reason - in general, baby projects are dangerous to everyone, including the father), there may have been a gaggle of talking at that point, but I recall speaking even more after that about Brian Heins leading the project as director along with other elements, but I think that all got lost.

Unfortunately, I got lectured for the "no" part, largely because of its simplicity, and there was no record of anything else being said. Ironically, attempts to explain this weren't listened to either, but I doubt it would have mattered, so I wouldn't sweat it. It all worked out in the end.

I learned later on after my departure that part of the reason for the lecture was because of how the Tyranny contract was structured with Paradox, which no one ever informed me of, despite my name being used specifically and despite my actual role on the project, both of which were kind of weird (and arguably insulting to the developers on the title). Whatever.

Obsidian later tried to remove his name from the credits, but the contract prevented it.

 

[Quillon]

Obsidian later tried to remove his name from the credits, but the contract prevented it.

How would something like this come to light before credits rolling/released game which has his name in its credits?

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Sounds like MCA may have some regrets about his NDA.

Roguey was right about Tina Parker.

Shorter Chris Avellone: #metoo

 

[HoboForEternity]

feargus diddled chris avellone while they were alone in their office confirmed

 

[LESS T_T]

Chris Avellone is best known for his work on a number of role-playing games, including Planescape: Torment, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Fallout (2 and New Vegas), and Prey. He is currently working on Divinity: Original Sin II with Larian Studios, Into the Breach with Subset Games (the makers of FTL), and was part of the successful Kickstarter reboot of System Shock with Night Dive Studios and lead designer on Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition with Beamdog. Twitter: @ChrisAvellone

This is a special talk for Crafting Intangibles, an international online and local event on interactive narrative design held on 10th-11th June, 2017.

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There's also a talk by Brian Upton, co-founder of Red Storm.

 

[ga♥]

They already removed Numenera from the "Already known for" list.

 

[J_C]

 

[Darth Roxor]

rip

 

[Infinitron]

Congrats Chris Avellone

 

[Endemic]

I guess he'll write angry Twitter rants about his wife now, instead of Obsidian.

 

[Chateaubryan]

Congratulations, Chris!

 

[Trashos]

Inb4 he starts writing about women's rights and what a wonderful thing feminism is.

 

[Jedi Exile]

Maybe instead of high school RPG he'll make marriage RPG now.

 

[Neanderthal]

Maybe instead of high school RPG he'll make marriage RPG now.

MCAs written some pretty tragic an depressing stories but I don't think he'd go that far.

 

[2house2fly]

Estelle had BETTER be a character in a game he is writing, a reanimated rotting corpse who is obsessed with the player character and keeps trying to kill him so they can be together in death.

 

[Drax]

Congratz Chris Avellone
Too late, Chris Avelltwo

 

[Sentinel]

do you think he invited sawyer?
congrats MCA

 

[Roguey]

Once again Avellone manages to upstage Mitsoda and not even intentionally.