Tomb Raider co-creator leaves Eidos . . . again

Posted Sep 15th 2009 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, Action

One of the co-creators of Eidos' Tomb Raider franchise, Toby Gard, has left the company's development team at Crystal Dynamics. According to Develop, Gard would not comment on why he has left the company, saying only that " I've started up my own consultancy business."

Gard was one of the main designers behind the original Tomb Raider at developer Core Design in 1995. He left Core after Tomb Raider's release to form Cofounding Factor, a development team that spent seven years creating a game, Galleon, that was finally released for the original Xbox in 2004 to poor reviews and sales. Eidos later brought Gard in as a consultant on Tomb Raider Legend and Gard ended up as the co-writer of the game's storyline along with other duties on the game. He also co-wrote and performed other duties on the next game in the series Tomb Raider Underworld. He was supposedly leading a group at Crystal Dynamics on a new project which most people believed would be the next Tomb Raider game.

Tags: core-design, crystal-dynamics, eidos, tomb-raider, tomb-raider-anniversary, tomb-raider-legend, tomb-raider-underworld

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i love the game tomp raider .Posted at 2:29PM on Oct 1st 2009 by moosa

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