Christopher Taylor (game designer)

{{Short description|American computer, board and card game developer}}

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Christopher "Chris" Taylor is a video game, board game and card game, developer originally from Southern California. Taylor is most famous for acting as lead designer for the original Fallout title for Interplay Entertainment,{{cite web|url=http://www.neoseeker.com/news/8883-chris-taylor-gets-to-work-on-fallout-mmorpg/ |title=Chris Taylor gets to work on Fallout MMORPG |last=Spiess |first=Kevin |date=24 September 2008 |work=Neoseeker |accessdate=1 September 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614141858/http://www.neoseeker.com/news/8883-chris-taylor-gets-to-work-on-fallout-mmorpg/ |archivedate=14 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/fallout/credits|title=Fallout (1997) Windows credits - MobyGames|website=MobyGames|access-date=2018-11-01}} working alongside Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky and Jason Anderson. While at Interplay, Taylor contributed to the design of Star Trek: Starfleet Command,{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/5053937/interplay-brings-back-original-fallout-designer |title=Interplay Brings Back Original Fallout Designer |last=McWhertor |first=Michael |work=Kotaku |accessdate=1 September 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511175326/http://kotaku.com/5053937/interplay-brings-back-original-fallout-designer |archivedate=11 May 2009 |url-status=dead }} Stonekeep{{cite web|url=http://www.factornews.com/news-27606-Stonekeep_revient.html |title=Stonekeep revient |author=Zysberg, Benjamin |date=17 January 2010 |work=factornews |language=French |accessdate=1 September 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809203706/http://www.factornews.com/news-27606-Stonekeep_revient.html |archivedate=9 August 2010 |url-status=dead }} and Fallout 2. He also served as producer for The Lord of the Rings Online.

In 2005, Taylor and two other Fallout designers (Tom Decker and Scott Everts) founded Zero Radius Games, a board game and non-collectible card game development company. On September 22, 2008, it was announced on Interplay's website that Taylor had rejoined the company and would be working on "Project V13", later revealed to be Fallout Online. However Bethesda, through a drawn out legal battle, cancelled this project.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/9/17665046/fallout-online-project-v13-interplay-bethesda-lawsuit-fallout-76|title=The rise and fall of Project V13, the online Fallout game that never was|work=The Verge|access-date=2018-11-01}}

He was the designer of Pillars of Eternity: Lords of the Eastern Reach, a tabletop game based on the video game Pillars of Eternity which was released in 2016.{{cite web | url=http://www.polygon.com/2015/8/6/9112971/playing-the-pillars-of-eternity-tabletop-game-with-chris-taylor | title=Playing the Pillars of Eternity tabletop game with Chris Taylor | work=Polygon | publisher=Vox Media | first=Charlie | last=Hall | date=5 August 2015 | accessdate=2 July 2016}} He is also the designer of Nemo's War, a game published by Victory Point Games.