Chris Avellone

Developer BIO

After graduating from William and Mary, Chris worked as a freelancer for a number of Pen and Paper Role-Playing game companies before being hired by Interplay as a game designer. This is fortunate, since it is next to impossible to work on pen-and-paper games unless you are willing to sell copious amounts of blood and semen. Chris worked on most if not all of Black Isle’s internally developed projects, including Planescape: Torment (Lead Designer), Fallout 2, the whole Icewind Dale series, and Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, among others. He also assisted Snowblind Studios on Champions of Norrath, and he still needs to hit them up for a copy. Chris was the Lead Designer on Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, and is currently the co-owner and creative director at Obsidian Entertainment, where many from Black Isle Studios found refuge during the great collapse. He’s done a lot of RPGs and other games, occasionally writes comics (Star Wars Tales, Clone Wars Adventures), and has been hit on the head so many times he gets confused on what exactly he's worked on, but fortunately Moby Games has provided it below because they are cool. He is currently working on Neverwinter Nights 2 and other unannounced projects at Obsidian Entertainment.

Websites

• Chris "Cloudsong" Avellone -- on MySpace.com

Games Credited

Neverwinter Nights 2 (Gold) (2008), Atari, Inc.
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (2008), Atari, Inc.
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (2007), Atari Europe S.A.S.U.
Neverwinter Nights 2 (2006), Atari, Inc.
Champions of Norrath (2004), Sony Online Entertainment Inc.
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (2004), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords (2004), LucasArts
Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader (2003), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Icewind Dale II (2002), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (2001), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter (2001), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Icewind Dale (2000), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Planescape: Torment (1999), Interplay Productions Ltd.
Baldur's Gate (1998), Interplay Productions, Inc.
Descent to Undermountain (1998), Interplay Productions, Inc.
Fallout 2 (1998), Interplay Productions, Inc.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (1997), Interplay Productions, Inc.
Conquest of the New World (1996), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Conquest of the New World (Deluxe Edition) (1996), Interplay Productions, Inc.