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Chris Avellone
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other namesChris Avellone, MCA
date of birth27 September 1971
Involvement in Fallout series
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Christopher Frederic Avellone (born 27 September 1971) is a video game designer who has worked on , (the canceled Fallout 3 by ), and . He has also compiled the . According to Chris Avellone, along with , helped to develop .

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[] Career

[] Before Interplay

Avellone is a descendant of Sicilian immigrants. After receiving his high school diploma at the renowned Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, he attended the College of William & Mary in Virginia (with ) and completed with a Bachelors in English. During that time, he wrote short stories and scripts for role-playing games, some of which were published in the Dungeons & Dragons magazine Dragon.

Through Bruce Harlick, then editor with Hero Games, he received the chance to write a book for the role-playing game Dark Champions. After several publications with Hero Games, he decided that game design was a career option.

[] Black Isle Studios

Steve Peterson, one of the founders of Hero Games, provided Avellone an interview with , a large game publisher at the time. His knowledge of role-playing games and his ideas impressed Interplay, and he was offered a position as a game designer. Around 1997 or 1998, Avellone moved to Orange County, where Interplay was located.

Avellone got involved with the series when production was started at on . While many feel that his "feel" for the Fallout canon was lacking, the design of has been praised by just as many. Later, he became the lead designer of a project codenamed , which was canceled in 2003 and revealed to have been Black Isle's attempt at developing Fallout 3. He wrote the .

Aside from Fallout games, Avellone was also the lead designer of Planescape: Torment.

[] Obsidian Entertainment

After leaving , Avellone, together with , founded . At Obsidian, Avellone has worked on such titles as, Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, and was lead designer on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II and Alpha Protocol. He also wrote , a prequel to Fallout: New Vegas, and has also written a few Star Wars comics such as for the series of comics and a few issues of comic series, such as and , all of which have been published by . He was a writer on and was the lead designer on New Vegas add-ons. He also co-wrote the lyrics for the song "" featured in add-on.

[] Employment history

FromToCompanyRole
January 1995May 2003/Designer, Lead Designer
June 2003presentCreative Director, Chief Creative Officer, Co-Owner

[] Credits

[] Fallout series

YearTitleCredited as/for
1998Designer
-Lead Designer
2002Writer
2010Writer
2010Senior Designer
2011Project Director, Writer
2011Project Director
2011Project Director

According to J.E. Sawyer, Avellone was directly responsible for , , and some minor characters at , as well as possibly . In addition, his work on was split with .

[] Other work (excerpt)

YearTitleCredited as/for
1999?

[] Notes

  • When you fight along side the sheriff he will yell out "Chris Avellone loves you!!" before attacking.

[] Videos

  • Chris Avellone's early days
  • Planescape Torment with Chris Avellone

[] External links

[] References

  1. , p. 140
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