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Storm Rider:
The cast list on IMDB for Alpha Protocol definitely doesn't have any 'names' on it, although there are definitely a few I recognize from being a huge nerd who plays too many video games.

Also, Josh Sawyer seems like a cool dude from what I've seen of him posting on forums and in interviews, although I've never interacted with him directly. I was really weirded out listening to that interview though because his voice sounds a lot like Avellone's. Maybe I'm just imagining that.

KvP:
They do have similar cadences, now that you mention it. Now that Matthew Rorie's gone (back to Giant Bomb, most likely, though it's not entirely apparent at present) Sawyer's the only designer with an active role in the community, regularly interacting with people who try really hard not to appreciate him and his work. I relied upon him pretty extensively to fill in gaps in the Van Buren documentation a few years ago, but it's a lot harder to get direct messages to him these days - all the NMA types have filled his PM inbox and he's left it full, so PMs sent to him don't go anywhere. Very smart, very systems-oriented, as you can see from the quotes. Before this he was lead on the Aliens game that got canceled, he did what amounted to custodial duties on Neverwinter Nights 2 (the original lead left for Bioware and he came in at the tail end of the project's development) and he was the lead on the Icewind Dale games for Black Isle.

Storm Rider:
Rorie left Obsidian? That's news to me, I was still reading previews and interviews with him as recently as a couple weeks ago. I wonder what happened. I can't imagine Obsidian going through layoffs, and you don't usually see people who jump from game journalism to actual development hop the fence in the other direction.

KvP:
Well I'm only guessing it's Giant Bomb. It's something around San Fran way. And yeah, it wasn't that he got canned or anything, he was doing a good job (and the PR campaign for AP is kicking off pretty well now) but he got an offer and he took it. It's too bad, he was very accommodating, a good community liaison.

Storm Rider:
Well there are roughly a billion publishers and developers located in the Bay Area, so it could be he got offered a full-on producer job rather than community management, which is a pretty thankless job in the grand scheme of things. It would be nice to hear him back with the old crew at Giant Bomb, though.

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