Serellan is moving on

[BS PALADIN]

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/3...13/m/8541065285

Serellan has announced that he is leaving RSE and UBi. He will now be working for Bungie. I hope you will all join me in wishing him the best of luck and thanking him for some outstanding Ghost Recon games and his appreciated interaction with the Ghost Recon community on this site and many others. Thanks Serellan and good luck with the new job.

[Colin]

He will be missed but not forgotten.

A sad day for Ubisoft but a good move for him.

Good luck in the future.

[Pave Low]

Not goodbye, but au revoir....

Time for the Rooster to flap his wings

Good luck and best wishes Serellan

and I'm sure you’ll still look in on us from time to time

[Janie42]

Congratulations, Serellan! Best wishes & many thanks.

[Whisper_44]

Apparently Bears like the Rooster too..

Best to you and you family Serellan

[Alderei]

Does this mean 1-shot / 1-kill Halo games?

Best of luck, Serellan.

[Rocky]

Here's the full statement.

Hello all,

Well, it's been a great ride, but everything comes to

an end, and for me, that time has come. I have had a

blast working on the Ghost Recon franchise for the

better part of the past five years, in roles from

Assistant Designer on GR:IT Xbox on up to Creative

Director on GRAW2 360. It's been great both designing

the games and interacting with the community. GR has

a great bunch of fans, ones that won't hesitate to

give their opinions (often, and loudly!).

Working at RSE and Ubisoft has been one of the most

exciting experiences of my life, and I've learned a

ton (often from mistakes ), but for various

reasons, I've decided to move on to something

different. I'll be picking up stakes and moving out

to the Pacific Northwest, where I've accepted a Design

Lead position at Bungie. I'm an Alaskan boy, so the

pine trees of Washington are a bit more appealing to

me than the oaks in North Carolina (and 70 degree heat

index beats 105 in my book ).

I'm still a GR and R6 fan (as I always have been), so

don't be surprised if you see me lurking around on

Live (I still gotta get that Ultimate Defender

achievement!). Meanwhile, keep an eye out for Jeff

"Geridak" Mcgann and Chris "Braybot" Bray, Designers

at Red Storm; they will be scouring the forums now for

your feedback instead of me.

Thanks,

Christian "Serellan" Allen

What a loss to the GR community, the very best of wishes for the future to you Serellan. You can be sure this is one corner of the web where your future games will be getting checked out with great interest!

Thanks, and good luck.

[Forrester]

I wish you all the best, and hope you can do a valued job at your new employment.

[CrowmanUK]

Gratz matey, onward and upward to the next challenge, fingers crossed you'll be as memorable in your next endeavour as you have been in the GR series

[simulacra]

Good luck Christian, and btw, can you make the halo games grown up while you're at bungie

Edited August 15, 2007 by simulacra

[Sup]

Congrat, Serrellan! It must be cool going to some more fantasy/scifi oriented projects after all those years on traditional military games. Doubt you're doing much on halo, with how close to the end of the development cycle 3 is, but Bungie has some cool old IPs, and I'm sure if they're launching something new it'll be an exciting place to work.

[jsonedecker]

Good job!

Say hey to Cotton for me and pass along some contact info when you get a chance.

I love seeing people succeed and continually do well for themselves.

-John

[ARDelta]

Congrats, Serellan! Thanks for all of your support and commitment to GR and its community. I wish you much success at Bungie. I wonder what you'll work on now that Halo 3 is almost done.

[KRP 56]

Good luck on your new adventure.

[WEP_Kabal]

Congrats Serellan, a well deserved role for you.

Thank you for all you have done for our community. You will be missed, but certainly not forgotten.

[Lightspeed]

SERELLEGEND has left the building.

Thanks for al your time and effort, and helping produce the greatest game ever made.

[Giampi]

Serellan is the man who changed my world. I appreciate a lot what you have done mate, I would be happy to follow your next creations.

Good luck!

GWDS / GiWeDa / Giwex

[Deadpreacher]

GL Christian, moven onto bigger and greener pastures. I hope you do well and can bring alittle GR style love more into bungie to make them my next fav company!

[WhiteKnight77]

Good luck Serellan.

[Papa6]

Serellan, thanks for the games over the years. best wishes for your new future.

[DonMiguel]

wow. another huge chapter in the GR history book is closing. Best of wishes to you Serellan, I'm sure we'll be hearing another co*k-a-doodle-doo soon enough

[PSekula]

Here's to more Powerpoint Presentations!!

Good luck man!

[CR6]

Well, I won't get too mushy here, especially after posting our little tribute over at GR Retreat:

http://forums.3dretreat.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6445

It doesn't seem that long ago when Ser generously let me help out on his Forbidden City mod for Urban Ops, and when we announced he was hired by RSE ... man how time flies.

Ser: I'm really happy for for you and your family. Seattle is a great place to live and I've heard Bungie is a great place to work too. Hope to still see your mug showing up in interviews online and in print talking up your future projects.

[+Medic+~SPARTA~]

Ubisoft's loss! Keep up the great work and inspire the guys and gals at Bungie with great new ideas for First Person Tactical Shooters. I look forward to your next release.

(...Mental note: Call my stock broker and have him buy stock for me in Bungie.)

Edited August 16, 2007 by SierraNovember6

[Sup]

Ubisoft's loss! Keep up the great work and inspire the guys and gals at Bungie with great new ideas for First Person Tactical Shooters.

Why do you think he's gonna make a tac shooter? He might, I guess, there's no way for us to know, but I'd assume Serellan, with all these years in game development, probably has a pretty varied skillset.