Co-founder and creative director Chris Avellone has announced his departure from Obsidian Entertainment. He’s yet to state the reason for his exit and what he intends to pursue next. Obsidian was founded back in 2003.
The game designer has worked on such franchises as Icewind Dale, Baldur’s Gate, Fallout, FTL, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and most recently Pillars of Eternity. He also worked on ‘Van Buren’.
Brian Fargo’s inXile Entertainment have said they’re ‘sitting on’ the Van Buren project, which would have been Fallout 3. Fargo intends to one day revive the project with his former fellow Interplay developer Chris Avellone. Are there doings afoot?
[center]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have officially left Obsidian Entertainment to accept a sudden opening as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.</p>— Chris Avellone (@ChrisAvellone) June 9, 2015</blockquote>
(The first part is serious, but much love and well wishes to my fellow devs, good folks one and all.)
— Chris Avellone (@ChrisAvellone) June 9, 2015
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Currently Obsidian is working on the RPG Torment: Tides of Numenera, which resulted from another major Kickstarter success, following in the footsteps of RPG Pillars of Eternity.
