Nikolay Dybowski, the founder and studio inventive director of Ice-Decide Lodge, has left the studio.
In a assertion, the Russian developer mentioned Dybowski selected to depart to “give attention to private initiatives and his non-public life.” In current months, Pathologic gamers unearthed allegations accusing Dybowski of kidnapping and abuse, a few of which date again to 2021.
Dybowski based Ice-Decide 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-Decide developer, later commented on the allegations and claimed Dybowski’s habits was an “open secret” on the studio. He described Dybowski as a “manipulative sociopath that is excellent with phrases.”
“I consider the very best path for Nikolay could be to depart Ice-Decide Lodge to not tarnish their fame together with his personal fuckups,” wrote Luchin months in the past, “and go away the present studio to work as is.”
In line with Ice-Decide, Dybowski’s obligations have been reassigned to totally different group leads “over the previous few months.” It additionally careworn studio heads Peter Potapov and Ayrat Zakirov stay, and proceed to be “pillars of Pathologic 3’s growth.”
