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Jordan Gerblick

Left 4 Dead writer says he ended up leading the project by accident: "No one ever told me I'm running it!"

Left 4 Dead.

Chet Faliszek, the writer behind the original Left 4 Dead, has revealed he was mistakenly appointed by Valve's Gabe Newell to lead the project in its early development and through launch.

Speaking to Game Developer, Faliszek explained how a conversation between Newell and then Valve engineer Aaron Seeler led the former to inadvertently assume Faliszek was in charge.

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