Nikolay Dybowski, the founder and studio inventive director of Ice-Choose Lodge, has left the studio.
In a assertion, the Russian developer stated Dybowski selected to go away to “give attention to private initiatives and his personal life.” In latest months, Pathologic gamers unearthed allegations accusing Dybowski of kidnapping and abuse, a few of which date again to 2021.
Dybowski based Ice-Choose in 2002, and has been a guiding inventive power on most of its video games since. Together with the 2 Pathologic video games and the upcoming Pathologic 3, he directed 2013’s Knock-Knock.
Aleksey Luchin, a former Ice-Choose developer, later commented on the allegations and claimed Dybowski’s conduct was an “open secret” on the studio. He described Dybowski as a “manipulative sociopath that is superb with phrases.”
“I imagine the perfect path for Nikolay could be to go away Ice-Choose Lodge to not tarnish their popularity along with his personal fuckups,” wrote Luchin months in the past, “and go away the present studio to work as is.”
In response to Ice-Choose, Dybowski’s obligations have been reassigned to completely different group leads “over the previous few months.” It additionally confused studio heads Peter Potapov and Ayrat Zakirov stay, and proceed to be “pillars of Pathologic 3’s improvement.”
