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Mad Bee 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🏴 @angryspacebee I have been the Project Manager on the comic series, DA: The Missing, and it's been a delight to see everyones reactions to issue 2' preview so far.
ALIX WILTON REGAN @alixwiltonregan Very sad and sorry to report that due to a family emergency Miranda Raison (who plays Cassandra) is unable to attend tonight’s @streamilylive session for #DragonAge
Pls RT for others if u can
However I will be live and kicking on my Insta page at 8pm - JOIN ME! 🐉💫🐉
BioWare @bioware What adventures are these two getting up to? (Hint: check out Dragon Age: The Missing!) 🎨 TheArtistAllie bit.ly/2yM9O8u #dragonage #dragonagefanart #varric #harding
BioWare @bioware In our latest Community Update, we explore how our team is handling the game design work for @dragonage #Dreadwolf. go.ea.com/bcu-design #DragonAge
David Gaider @davidgaider If we're on a kick re-mastering games from the aughts, what about Dragon Age Origins? Its graphics were behind the curve even at the time of release... can you imagine it with brand new PS5-era bells and whistles? 🥳
seb hanlon 😷 @hanlsp Dude, I don’t know if that game could carry any more bells and whistles. It was already a double wide kitchen bathtub of systems and content.
David Gaider @davidgaider Even Inquisition-level graphics would be great!
Look, all I want is for Morrigan to not have the shoulders of a linebacker and for the sex scenes to not look like someone bashing marionettes together and shouting "now kiss!"
High Lord Meesh, Queen of Beans @meesherbeans ...2023 graphics broodmother...
David Gaider @davidgaider Just think: extra-realistic slimy nipple textures.
Amityville Amber @elementalamber Based on the replies and my twitter friends in general, this would sell like hotcakes.
David Gaider @davidgaider I suspect EA would only do it if they thought it would sell like *gold-plated* hotcakes. They've... never really gotten DA, or understood why it sold better than Mass Effect, was my impression.
David Gaider @davidgaider If we're on a kick re-mastering games from the aughts, what about Dragon Age Origins? Its graphics were behind the curve even at the time of release... can you imagine it with brand new PS5-era bells and whistles? 🥳
seb hanlon 😷 @hanlsp Dude, I don’t know if that game could carry any more bells and whistles. It was already a double wide kitchen bathtub of systems and content.
David Gaider @davidgaider Even Inquisition-level graphics would be great!
Look, all I want is for Morrigan to not have the shoulders of a linebacker and for the sex scenes to not look like someone bashing marionettes together and shouting "now kiss!"
David Gaider @davidgaider Okay, to clarify:
All female models in DAO used the male animation rig. I thought this looked esp odd on Morrigan, whose unique model had a very slender frame and was altered (particularly at the shoulders) to match. I can't unsee the change.
No other implications intended. 😅
Did Morrigan still look great in DAO? Sure. Could there have been more body types throughout DA for both sexes, including even broader shoulders? That would have been great, but the modelers and animators were limited by the variety of rigs available. Simply how it was, folks.
Blair Thorburn @oiblair I'm so happy that people are able to see the real inclusive approach we're taking with the skill trees.
I know it's not the wild reveal people are craving right now, but I hope it's clear that we're designing every part of this game with similar intent and respect.
Trick @paladinbard@wandering.shop (Patrick Weekes) The two ridiculous game-design wells I will always go back to are:
1) Giant awesome treasure with clear hint that taking the treasure is gonna spawn a nasty fight.
2) Logic-exclusion-grid puzzles like "Neither Al nor Bev used the ax. The sword-wielder sits beside Carl." (Which you honestly can't actually solve in the game most of the time.)
I will take any excuse to toss those into a level or mission somewhere.
💀 Christopher Means 🔜 GDC 2023 💀 @christoph_Means The creative director just played a new game and now wants to have a meeting with the design staff.
David Gaider @davidgaider This was basically me every time Mike came into my office, clapped his hands together, and announced "So...!"
Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw Ehehehhehheheh.
Also I’m sorry about the trauma.
David Gaider @davidgaider I suppose it did eventually reach the point where you'd do that and I'd just sit there, staring at you with eyes that said "please stop hurting me, sir".
BioWare @bioware We rode the halla. They leapt with such grace and beauty as to make your horses look like Fereldan dogs by comparison. They were smarter, too. Which often made them willful. -Felassan
(Felassan was Briala's elven ally from Masked Empire, later revealed to be an agent of Fen'Harel. Solas killed him for failing to take control of the eluvian network away from Briala.)
Trick @paladinbard@wandering.shop (Patrick Weekes) Nothing really gets the creative juices flowing like writing six to eight variations of "Enemies coming our way--prepare for combat," plus another bunch for "The player's character is at low health," and "The player's character has defeated an enemy." #GameDev #GameWriting
I mean, it's no "Player, we need to find a way to that lever over across that unjumpable gap, but said in a natural style that doesn't feel handhold-y and works with the character's voice," but you take what you can get. #GameDev #GameWriting
