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Successfully avoiding real work since 1992 by making games like Fallout, Arcanum, Vampire:Bloodlines, and The Outer Worldd
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May 6, 2021 · Leonard Boyarsky is perhaps most famous as one of the co-creators of the original Fallout, a legendary and foundational RPG. More recently, Mr. Boyarsky was lead designer on the world and lore of Diablo III and was co-director of the 2019 Obsidian Entertainment RPG The Outer Worlds .
After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design, Leonard Boyarsky entered the game world as a freelance artist in 1992. After various links he was hired as a cleanup artist at Interplay, where he quickly worked his way up to lead artist on Stonekeep.
- Troika, Vampire, and Taking A Year Out
- Blizzard, Diablo 3, and The Plan That Didn’T Work
- Obsidian, Going Home, and What’s Next
PCGamesN: Let’s kick it all the way back to Troika in 1998. What was it like starting a company and having to go through all the businessy bits? Leonard Boyarsky: It was different. We kind of knew what to expect but going through it is definitely different than just knowing what you’re going to have to do theoretically. We were relatively young and...
Then you end up at Blizzard, how did that come about? Well Rob Pardo used to work at Interplay, as did a lot of people who worked at Blizzard – Blizzard started out as a developer for Interplay. Sharon Shellman [cutscene animator on Fallout], Jason Anderson’s girlfriend at the time, wife now, worked at Blizzard when it was a very small company. She...
Was it a shame to leave when you did then? It sounds like you weren’t enjoying yourself massively for the middle part of your stint at Blizzard but by the end you had found your groove – and then headed off to Obsidian. Was it a difficult decision? No, it wasn’t a difficult decision at all [laughs]. It had nothing to do with Blizzard. When I starte...
Jul 1, 2019 · Leonard Boyarsky is an American game designer and one of the co-creators of the original Fallout game. Boyarsky started his career in 1992 at Interplay, going on to work on Stonekeep, Fallout and its sequel Fallout 2.
Leonard Boyarsky, the veteran RPG developer who started at Interplay, co-founded Troika Games, spent a decade at Blizzard Entertainment, and is now working at Obsidian on a mystery-shrouded RPG Project Indiana took some time to talk to PCGamesN about his game making career.
