Chris Avellone | |
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Known for | Writing and designing role-playing video games |
Chris Avellone is an American video game designer and comic book writer. He worked for Interplay and Obsidian Entertainment before becoming a freelance designer and writer. He is best known for his work on role-playing video games such as Planescape: Torment, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and the Fallout series.
In 2009, he was chosen by IGN as one of the top 100 game creators of all time[1] and by Gamasutra as one of the top 20 game writers.[2] In 2017, he was named by GamesTM as one of the then 50 most influential people in gaming.[3]