James Ohlen was lead designer on Baldur’s Gate 2 and worked at role-playing game powerhouse BioWare for over 22 years. He left in 2018 to cofound his own studio, Archetype Entertainment, and work on a new sci-fi RPG Exodus that people can’t help but keep comparing to Mass Effect. But he left his new studio before the game shipped under mysterious circumstances last year. He now says the experience “nearly killed me.”
“As a creative you care about everything so much, and then as the head of the studio, you have to be cutting the baby in half all the
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