Chris Avellone
Moby ID: 13485
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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.
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.
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 MobyGames has provided it below because they are cool.
Credited on 58 games
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| Weird West (2022, Windows) | Additional Design |
| Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (2021, Windows) | Narrative Designers |
| The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020, PlayStation 4) | Additional Story Development |
| Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order (2019, PlayStation 4) | Story and Writing Consultant |
| The Church in the Darkness (2019, Windows) | Guest Writers |
| Degrees of Separation (2019, PlayStation 4) | Writers |
| Underworld Ascendant (2018, Windows) | Writers |
| Overkill's The Walking Dead (2018, Windows) | Game Writer Consultants |
| Pathfinder: Kingmaker (2018, Windows) | Narrative Designer |
| Into the Breach (2018, Nintendo Switch) | Writing |
| Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (Collectors Edition) (2018, Windows) | Written by |
| Omensight (2018, Windows) | Script Doctor |
| DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles (2017, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Pathfinder Adventures (2017, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Prey (2017, Windows) | Writing |
| Expeditions: Viking (2017, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Planescape: Torment - Enhanced Edition (2017, Windows) | Lead Designer |
| Torment: Tides of Numenera (2017, Windows) | Writing |
| Wasteland 2: Director's Cut (Limited Edition) (2017, Linux) | Additional System Design |
| Tyranny (2016, Windows) | Narrative Designers |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 25 games with Feargus Urquhart
- 23 games with Darren L. Monahan
- 23 games with Brian Menze
- 23 games with Joshua Eric Sawyer
- 20 games with Scott Everts
- 19 games with Chris Parker
- 19 games with Aaron Brown
- 18 games with Jeff Husges
- 16 games with Aaron Meyers
- 15 games with John Wunder
Companies
- 34 games with Valve Corporation
- 19 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 15 games with GOG Limited
- 14 games with Interplay Entertainment Corp.
- 12 games with Unity Technologies ApS
- 10 games with Black Isle Studios
- 9 games with Obsidian Entertainment, Inc.
- 9 games with Audiokinetic Inc.
- 8 games with CDP Sp. z o.o.
- 8 games with Avalon Interactive
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