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Red Faction: Scott Blinn Speaks

Posted by WildWolf:

Scott made a quick visit to the VBB regarding his departure of Volition:

Ok everyone, here it goes: Let’s see if this helps keep rumors to a minimum. It is true that I will be leaving Volition to go work on the massive online RPG “Horizons” over at Artifact. The decision is purely personal and there is no bad blood between myself and Volition in any way. As you are all aware, Volition kicks a$$ and the talent here is phenomenal- and I’ll miss them all. The timing and opportunity were right for me to move on and I went for it.

Red Faction will still be the awesome game it is destined to be- my leaving will have little impact on that. We have just about all the groundwork laid for the project and now it’s just a matter of doing the tasks. Also, the editor is pretty much feature complete now and only tweaking and bug fixing remain.

I had a great time at Volition and am glad to have been here to be a part of the birth of Red Faction. It was not to be missed. I thank you all for your support both now and in the past. It looks like now I’ll be joining your ranks as an RF fan awaiting for it’s release. :-)

Keep the faith,
Scott “Skarz” Blinn

And just for kicks, Adam Pletcher also made a post regarding this issue:

Scott has turned in his two-week notice. It's a completely amicable departure. We wish him the best of luck, and look forward to seeing his work in Horizons.

It's probably the standard thing to say, but we don't expect Scott's departure to have any long-term effect on Red Faction, or the schedule. While I expect we'll be filling his position soon, we still have many very talented designers doing awesome levels for RF.

There it is.

Bribe Luke Schneider if necessary. 'Nuff said.