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Chris Avellone

Chris Avellone
Avellone in 2009
Born
Known forWriting 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]

  1. ^ "Top 100 Game Creators of All Time: 80. Chris Avellone". IGN. February 26, 2009. Archived from the original on April 20, 2014. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  2. ^ Ruberg, Bonnie (February 20, 2009). "The Gamasutra 20: Top Game Writers". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on August 9, 2010.
  3. ^ "50 Most Influential People in Gaming Today". GamesTM. No. 183. Future Publishing. January 2017. pp. 54–63.

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