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Bethesda veteran Julian LeFay, 'father of The Elder Scrolls', departs game development due to cancer (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the guy Julianos got his name from right? IIRC divines are aliases of the old Bethesda team.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yus indeed, and self-named. Some of the other monikers are fun, too.

Lefay was the lead dev for Arena, Daggerfall, and Battlespire, and laid a lot of the very early conceptual groundwork for Morrowind and Oblivion long before they were concrete projects.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Grim news, I wish him all the best. The Elder Scrolls wouldn't exist without him.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

He's like that Kirkbride guy right