James Ohlen, the Bioware veteran who led growth on upcoming sci-fi RPG Exodus, has stepped down from his place as the top of Archetype Leisure. Ohlen’s exit comes simply after the studio debuted a flashy new trailer at The Game Awards, as he says he feels his work on the sport is completed.
Ohlen has headed up the Wizards of the Coast-owned studio since its founding in 2019, engaged on the studio’s debut title Exodus. “At this stage, James felt his work on the sport was full and that the sharpening and tuning had been in nice arms with the staff,” Hasbro mentioned in a press release given to Bloomberg.
Exodus continues to be pretty removed from launch, which is at present scheduled for early 2027. That is an unusually lengthy window if the sport is already as much as the sharpening and tuning stage. Just final week, Exodus acquired an epic new trailer at The Game Awards, targeted on the journey of protagonist Jun Aslan.
Whereas stepping down from his place at Archetype, Ohlen is staying on with Wizards of the Coast as a inventive marketing consultant within the realm of tabletop RPGs, with the Hasbro saying he had “requested to shift his inventive focus.” Ohlen meant to retire from the video video games business altogether in 2018 when he left Bioware, and even fashioned his personal tabletop firm. After refusing a number of provides of labor from numerous video video games firms, he accepted a compelling supply from Wizards to guide Archetype in 2019, promised the next stage of inventive freedom.
With Ohlen gone, Archetype nonetheless boasts quite a few ex-Bioware workers on its staff, together with VP and basic supervisor Chad Robertson, and lead author Drew Karpyshyn. Exodus seems to share plenty of DNA with beloved sci-fi RPG Mass Impact, and each studio and followers are hoping the sport could have the same attraction to the Bioware traditional.