Chris Avellone - Interview @ PC GamesN
Chris Avellone did a new interview with a site called PC GamesN, and talked about how to write good RPG games. Here s a small sample of the interview below.
Chris Avellone leans into his desk, scribbling furiously. Occasionally he curses under his breath, screws up a draft and casts it into the waste paper bin, to be retrieved by Obsidian lackeys and later developed into a critically-lauded new RPG. At night, an attentive intern sits by his bed recording his unconscious inventions. “Nice Sith... demon thief... morgue resurrection.”
That’s the perception, anyway. That as Obsidian’s creative director, Avellone has been single-handedly responsible for all of his company’s best-written games.
“That’s certainly not true,” he points out as soon as the dictaphone’s turned on.
Decamped to the UK for Nottingham’s GameCity festival and sporting a backpack that has him looking more Dora the Explorer than the bard of an adventuring party, Avellone is keen to demythologise the RPG writing process.