Chet Faliszek spent 12 years working at Valve on a variety of projects, but most recently he served as a figurehead for Valve's VR business and a contact point for indie developers. News broke today that Faliszek has left the company, and VR developers have publicly expressed their gratitude for his contributions to their projects and VR as a whole.
While at Valve, Faliszek wrote the stories for two episodes of the Half-Life series, two Portal games, and two Left4Dead games. In recent years, the writer shifted his focus to VR and became ?the guy? from Valve?s VR team, where he served as an invaluable resource for the earliest members of the VR development community.
Faliszek doesn?t know what he plans to do next, but one thing?s for sure: his absence from the VR business will leave a void that will be hard to fill.
Faliszek?s passion for VR as a medium helped drive the Steam VR platform forward. Upon news of his departure from Valve, several leading VR developers sent tweets expressing their gratitude for what Faliszek did for them. According to them, we can thank Faliszek for his role in shaping some of the top-selling VR games today.
Dirk Van Welden, the founder of I-Illusions and creator of Space Pirate Trainer, said that ?SPT wouldn?t have been the same without Faliszek and his colleagues and Valve.? Alex Schwartz, founder and CEO of Owlchemy Labs, thanked Faliszek ?for believing in [them] early on and respecting [them] enough to say when something [they] built sucked.? Owlchemy Labs? CTO, Devin Reimer, added that Faliszek ?has done more for the VR industry than I think anyone can truly understand.? And Denny Ungar, founder of Cloudhead Games, thanked Faliszek for ?sacrificing so much for VR and helping little guys like us make an impact on VR?s future.?
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