Christian Allen is an American video

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

. He is most noted for his contributions to the ''

Ghost Recon ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon'' is a series of military tactical shooter video games published by Ubisoft. In the series, the player is in charge of a fictional, newly conceived squad of U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers from Company (military unit ...

'' franchise and '' Halo: Reach''. Allen became Lead Designer on ''

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2'' is a tactical shooter video game developed by Red Storm Entertainment and published by Ubisoft for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. A Microsoft Windows version was planned but cancelled in April 2005 in favor of ' ...

'' and continued in that role through ''

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter'' (''GRAW'') is a tactical shooter video game released for the Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows in 2006. As in previous '' Ghost Recon'' games, players command their team while neut ...

'', becoming Creative Director on '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2''. Since 2017, Allen has served as a

technology evangelist A technology evangelist is a person who builds a critical mass of support for a given technology, and then establishes it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects. The word ''evangelism'' is borrowed from the context ...

for

Epic Games Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, M ...

. Allen started his career as a modder in the late 1990s. He started making mods for Rainbow Six for fun and for his friends. Allen left

Red Storm Entertainment Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and studio of Ubisoft based in Cary, North Carolina. Founded in November 1996 between author Tom Clancy, manager Doug Littlejohns, and software development company Virtus Corpo ...

in summer of 2007 and moved to

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, where he took the role of Lead Designer on '' Halo: Reach''. Allen left Bungie during development of ''Halo: Reach'', joining WB Games to work on Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor as Design Director. Allen announced in March 2012 that he had started a company called Serellan LLC in order to produce a

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, successfully raising over $220,000 on

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. The shooter, named Takedown: Red Sabre, was released on September 20, 2013 on PC and February 21, 2014 on Xbox 360 Live Arcade. In August 2015, Allen announced that Serellan LLC would be releasing a new title, named ''Epsilon''. It was released on Steam Early Access on October 1, 2015. In March 2016, Allen built and released ''Hotel Blind'' with Bella Ryse on Steam, which he describes as a "about a blind man in a hotel room." In September 2016, Allen announced he had ported ''Hotel Blind'' to virtual reality platforms. In October 2017, Allen announced that he had joined

as a tech evangelist.

Notable game credits

* '' Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Athena Sword'' (2003) * '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder'' (2003) * '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm'' (2004) * ''

'' (2004) * '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike'' (2005) * ''

'' (2006) * '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2'' (2007) * '' F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn'' (2009) * ''

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator ''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator'' is a 2010 tactical shooter video game developed by Virtuos, published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation Portable. Gameplay In ''Predator'', players control a squad of three Ghost special forces soldiers (from a ...

'' (2010) * '' Halo: Reach'' (2010) * '' Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier'' (2012) * '' TAKEDOWN: Red Sabre'' (2013) * '' Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor'' (2014) * ''

Mad Max (2015 video game) ''Mad Max'' is an Action-adventure game, action-adventure video game based on the ''Mad Max'' franchise. Developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, it was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation ...

'' (2015) * ''Epsilon'' (2015) * ''Hotel Blind'' (2016) * ''

Fortnite ''Fortnite'' is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', a free-to-p ...

'' (2017)

References

External links

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Christian Allen at Linkedin

Christian Allen at Halopedia, the Halo wiki
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Gamasutra Blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Christian Living people American video game designers Bungie Artists from Anchorage, Alaska People from Anchorage, Alaska Tom Clancy Year of birth missing (living people)