Dragon Age News Thread

List of Developers

Primary Links:
Dragon Age: twitter.com/dragonage
Dragon Age Keep: twitter.com/DragonAgeKeep
BioWare: twitter.com/bioware
BioWare Store: twitter.com/biowaregear

Executives:
Gary McKay (Studio General Manager)
Peter Sung (Director of Studio Operations at EA - BioWare & Respawn): twitter.com/youngwarchief
Chris Bain (Sr. Director of Business Operations): twitter.com/chrisbainevery1
Corrine Busche (Game Director): twitter.com/CorinneBusche | @corinnebusche@mastodon.lol
Mac Walters (Production Director): twitter.com/macwalterslives
Benoit Houle (Director of Product Development): twitter.com/Benoit_Houle
John Epler (Creative Director): twitter.com/eplerjc | @eplerjc@mastodon.gamedev.place

Leads:
Daniel Kading (Design Director): twitter.com/Daniel_Kading
Patrick Weekes (Lead Writer): twitter.com/PatrickWeekes | PaladinBard@wandering.shop
Karin Weekes (Lead Editor): twitter.com/karinweekes
Matt Rhodes (Art Director)
Victor Krengel (Level Design Director): twitter.com/Victor_Krengel
Mike Jungbluth (Animation Director): twitter.com/lightbombmike
Andre Santos (Lead Environment Artist): twitter.com/AndreSandToast
Alain Baxter (Development Director): twitter.com/AlainBaxter
Scylla Costa (Lead Producer): twitter.com/scyllacosta
Jon Renish (Foundation Technical Director): twitter.com/jonrenish
Luke Barrett (Creative Owner for all RPG/Progression systems)
Andre Garcia (Gameplay Director): twitter.com/nintendre
Mario Sanchez (Lead Player Designer): twitter.com/green_spartan
Blair Thorburn (Lead Systems Designer): twitter.com/oiblair
Esther Ko (Lead Creature Animator): twitter.com/esssko
Jen Cheverie (Lead Narrative Producer): twitter.com/jencheverie
Eric Vervaet (Director of Audio): twitter.com/whistlingsweets
Randal Dumoret (UX Director): twitter.com/dumoret
Claudine K. (Development Director): twitter.com/claudine_k
Steve Middleton (Department Director): twitter.com/steveontheweb
Devon Gardner (Consumer Products Licensing Manager): twitter.com/devonkgardner
Lina (Technical Product Manager): twitter.com/PostmodernLina

Writers:
Sheryl Chee (Writer): twitter.com/sherylchee
Brianne Battye (Writer): twitter.com/bbattye
Mary Kirby (Writer): twitter.com/biomarykirby
Sylvia Feketekuty (Writer): twitter.com/Sylvf1
Jay Watamaniuk (Writer): twitter.com/JayWatamaniuk
Lukas Kristjanson (Writer)
John Dombrow (Writer)

Editors:
Ryan Cormier (Editor): twitter.com/el_cormier

Production:
Emily Taylor (Senior Level Designer): twitter.com/pentapod
Crystal McCord (Narrative Producer): twitter.com/mrscmccord | @mrscmccord@mastodon.world
Zachary Beaudoin (Producer): twitter.com/zacbeaudoin
François-Xavier Labescat (Associate Producer): twitter.com/arathaur
Gaby (Lighting Artist): twitter.com/GabsWithTheAbs
Carla Uyong (World Animator): twitter.com/carlyqueue

Composer:

Voice Acting & Performance Capture:
Crystal McCord (Associate Producer of Performance Capture and VO): twitter.com/mrscmccord

Gareth David-Lloyd (VA: Solas): twitter.com/pancheers
Jee Young Han (VA: Bellara): twitter.com/thejeespot
Ike Amadi (VA: Davrin): twitter.com/africanwrdsmith

Community Managers:
Jay Ingram (Community Manager): twitter.com/jaykingingram
Caden House (Community Manager): twitter.com/cadenhouse
Madolin Bee (BioWare Base/Fan Experience Producer): twitter.com/angryspacebee

Former Employees:



John Epler on the hierarchy
Creative Director oversees -everything-. They (and the Executive Producer) are the last word on pretty much every aspect of the game - and they also have a lot of involvement in franchise development as a whole. I have a more limited scope of responsibilities.

For example - there's a Design Director (Daniel Kading) who has final say on game mechanics, gameplay, and design questions in general. There's an Art Director, who has final say on Art. But our Creative Director can, technically, overrule anyone, and is in charge of the game.

Games are massive beasts - breaking out responsibilities into portfolios for each Director allows us to work within our specific disciplines, as well as represent those disciplines in project conversations.

So! I've had some people asking me 'what does a Narrative Director do, anyways?' Good question! I don't know what they do in other studios, but here's what my job is (basically).

- I am the vision holder for the narrative experience. You'll note I didn't say 'story'.
- The narrative experience is everything around narrative. It's how we tell the story, it's how gameplay flows in and out of conversations and cutscenes, it's the interstitial bits and the whole narrative tapestry.
- The story is one part, for sure, but that's in collaboration (and largely driven by) the lead writer. I provide high level vision and feedback, but it's the writing team that comes up with that story and refines it. It's a process I'm involved with, but not one I run.
- I also work with the storyboard artists, the cinematics team, critical path level design, technical designers, programmers. The best analogue I've heard is the Narrative Director is a 'showrunner'. My job is to make sure all the pieces are working towards a cohesive whole.
- It's also a lot of meetings, and sign offs, and generally making sure that everything coming in, even from groups not inside my sphere of influence, supports the narrative and emotional experience we want the player to feel.
- It's a job that, largely, is done by being sociable and conversational. And it's a job about having a reasonable level of knowledge about a whole lot of things - gameplay, narrative, cinematics, tools and tech. I look back fondly on my time in QA as being good prep.

The last made no sense. Unless he's saying Thedas went out of the airlock. 

They did post something similar during the run-up to DAI...



IT HAS TO MEAN... SOMETHING!

Still airlocking. But this time into the sun.
(Probably the only trilogy joke I would love reference to in MEA)


But seriously, I also have no idea what it means. 

It seems like it would be something special...that color, but I have a feeling that orange is just as inconsequential like the "highlighting" of the selected item in the inventory or something. Blue is something tiny as well...something we wouldn't probably make a connection to. Still so much fun guessing though   .




Not my image - just random google. 

Twitter thread yay o/

But that's how you BSN!

So glad to see this thread!

Hope your vacation was restful, Hrungr.

(pssst....come play some MP sometime. And bring your Ham.  P-)  )

*nods in understanding* Well never fear, if you ever feel the need to use rotten ham or a giant exploding laddle to kill some spiders, we still live in the "silly".  
Glad to read your vacation was good!