Dumped, Drunk, and Dalish 🐺 ⬆️ @drunkdalish If you read my blog, you know I adore the brilliant MIND-CHESS banter between Solas & Bull. This visualization of that game by @lethallantv is unbelievably beautiful and creative. DON'T MISS! #DragonAge @patrickweekes @dragonage @biomarkdarrah @eplerjc
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I love the staging, and I especially love that they recognized the specific game referenced! I had to disappoint some folks who legitimately thought I was any good at chess. Also, editor @bengelinas deserves props! He was the one who insisted we do the full game.
John Epler @eplerjc Game narrative wisdom gleaned from a decade of doing various bits of it - collaboration is where you get the best work. Isolating narrative from gameplay, or vice versa, is how you get clunky and totally incoherent experiences.
The best experiences I've had are when narrative reinforces design mechanics and vice versa. Yakuza is a great example of this. STALKER is another.
Knowing the strengths and limitations of your genre means you can tell a story that works. You can, of course, tell any story in any genre, but certain mechanics and systems - even as 'simple' as where the camera sits - are going to influence that narrative.
Games are a different medium than film, or theatre, or television, or novels.
It requires different skills and different knowledge. Some of it is transferrable, but there is plenty that isn't.
Anyways. You can still learn from people in those mediums, because a ton of storytelling concepts are universal.
But games offer their own unique opportunities and challenges, and I would look askance at anyone whose advice does not acknowledge that.
Auto @trainerauto I've found myself with an extremely strong love for Solas despite everything. You write characters-esp liars-beautifully. Did you expect people to be as in love w & taken by Solas as they were/are? I assume that was intention but was it more/less effective than u thought itd be?
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I really wanted to make sure that Solas didn’t feel like a stock villain, that even people who disagree with him and want to kill him accept that he has a reason for what he’s doing. Having his romance hit some as hard as it did was unexpected and touching.
Dumped, Drunk, and Dalish 🐺 ⬆️ @drunkdalish @biomarykirby I saw from the blog that you listened to Gershwin while writing "In Hushed Whispers." What pieces did you listen to, and why?
Mary Kirby @biomarykirby "So Am I" seemed to have a wistful sadness that fit Dorian/Alexius/Felix's relationship. "Rhapsody in Blue" because it feels like it's telling a story about a grand plan going wildly awry and the attempts to salvage it.
Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod Also it makes me excessively happy that when I searched for a @patrickweekes quote, twitter gave me a promoted ad to “fight the fade” 🤣💯
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Apparently I’ve got a brand.
Susan Arendt @susanarendt It drives me bonkers when I find all the elements of a quest in an RPG but can’t actually *do* anything until I properly “find” it and it activates. There must be a technical reason for it, as it’s so common in RPG design, but it’s aggravating.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes At least when I’ve done it, it’s because there was enough of a gap between design and implementation that by the time it was in, there was no way to do rewrites or add lines — and we forgot to write the “you stumbled over this” part.
So I write the quest giver, it goes to VO, comes back, then gets implemented, and then we go, “Hey, these lines don’t work if you stumbled over Part 2 early, can we add new lines for doing that? We can’t? Can we make Part 2 not spawn at all until you have Part 1? We can’t? Ugh.”
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Post by thats1evildude on Jan 16, 2019 1:18:58 GMT
Ghast Whisperer thats1evildude Are you still working on an unannounced game, as indicated by your Twitter bio? Does that mean you are not on the next #DragonAge game, which has been announced?
Sylvf @sylvf1 This is going to sound weird but: we haven't ACTUALLY announced anything. We showed a clip at the Game Awards ceremony. They're technically two different things.
Sylvf @sylvf1
So I can't comment on much beyond that. Also I often forget to update my profile info but that's a separate issue.
John Epler @eplerjc I feel like I make this point on a yearly basis, but as you climb the ranks of game dev, your time spent in PowerPoint and Excel increases accordingly.
Anyways. *returns to staring at Excel, hoping to will it into completion*
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“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod #TFW you’re feeling all pleased with your N7 and DA logo doodles, but then you look over to the doodles of the artist beside you 😮
John Epler @eplerjc Proving people wrong is a powerful motivator. I doubt I'd be where I am if, early on in my career, someone hadn't told me I never would be.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Game writing means poring over the cast list for any animated show you watch to jot down the names of people who had good line delivery while voicing a catgirl.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes As I appear to have accidentally caused concern and speculation:
1) Not specific to game I’m on now. 2) I am not writing a catgirl in Dragon Age. 3) Yes, it was Catra, whose actor is great and also does Stevonnie on Steven Universe. 4) I AM NOT WRITING A CATGIRL IN DRAGON AGE.
Sheryl @sherylchee Re: #4. BUT WHY NOT??!!
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes You came off a social media hiatus for this.
Sheryl @sherylchee I have priorities.
Cori Nicole @genevrael Dammit Patrick why not
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I cannot win
Mike Jungbluth @lightbombmike Girlcats though...
Ryan Duffin @animationmerc What are going to do with all this catgirl mocap now!?!
Mike Jungbluth @lightbombmike I guess we can use it for that new cat suit exo...
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes PS: @bbattye is a wonderful person and a great writer, and I am not ACTUALLY going to turn a character she’s working on into a catgirl.
Probably.
John Epler @eplerjc Unpredictable world out there, Patrick. No telling what might happen.
