Baldur’s Gate bigwig moves on to new projects
Game designer James Ohlen, responsible for some of developer BioWare’s most memorable titles, has announced he has left the Canadian developer in order to pursue personal projects.
Ohlen has been a BioWare employee for 22 years, and over those two decades has had a huge hand in creating some of their biggest fantasy titles, includingBaldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Dragon’s Age: Originsand the amazingStar Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
A huge fan of fantasy fiction andDungeons & Dragons, Ohlenis leaving in order to pen a book,The Player’s Guide to Odyssey of the Dragonlords,working alongside another former BioWare employee, creative director Jesse Sky. The team make up new publishing ventureArcanum Worlds, which hopes to create further tabletop role-playing game tomes.
Ohlen is the third big name to leave BioWare in recent times, following the departure ofDragon Agedirector Mike Laidlaw during the Fall of 2017, andMass Effectlead writer Drew Karpyshyn in March of this year.James Ohlen leaves BioWare to work on tabletop gaming projects[Twitter]
