A sun, but at night @fiddlecub I know that people change, quite often for the better. But how many powerful people have we seen ever own up to the horrors they created?
Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw I have repeatedly apologized for Dragon Age II, stop subtweeting me, sheesh.
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A sun, but at night @fiddlecub I know that people change, quite often for the better. But how many powerful people have we seen ever own up to the horrors they created?
Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw I have repeatedly apologized for Dragon Age II, stop subtweeting me, sheesh.
Laidlaw has a lot less to apologize for than what he had to apologize for re DA2.
The ME3 ending was exponentially worse than anything DA2 did wrong.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Whoever you are: You are not your work. You are not your numbers. You are not your productivity. You are the kindness you share and the stories you leave behind. You are valid. You are worthy of love and respect. You are enough.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Thank you, autocorrect, for almost making this “Whoever you ate”.
John Epler @eplerjc Dragon Age Lead Writer endorses cannibalism.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I was going for iZombie-style motivation:
Allan Schumacher allanschumacher Reminds me of BSN discussions about whether or not Anders was a cannibal.
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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.”
Melanie B. Iadonisi @legimel To what type of music would Cullen listen to? I bet he's a classic rock type of guy 🎸🎵🎶 ,,Hotel California'', ,,More than a feeling" and songs like this. What do you think? Maybe @bbattye will tell us?🤗
Charlotta Karotta @schokomilla I think, he would love the 70s and 80s Rock Ballads, like you can hear on the "Kuschel Rock" compilations^^ something like "The very first time" from Robin Beck. Or "Here I Go Again" from Whitesnake
Melanie B. Iadonisi @legimel Yesssssss 😍😍😍
Brianne Battye @bbattye Haha hmmm... I know what *I* listened to while writing him, but what would he like. I could see the classic/80s rock thing you are suggesting! One of the songs on my Cullen writing playlist that was a bit of an outlier but that I thought he would like himself was Curse Me Good by The Heavy:
Charlotta Karotta @schokomilla Oh and what do you think Blackwall would love to hear? I think, Classic Rock, too. Led Zeppelin or Deep Purlple maybe. Oh, "Babe, I"m gonna leave you" would fit perfectly. And "Sail away" from Deep Purple. @sherylchee what do you think?😊🤭
Sheryl @sherylchee Yes! Classic rock 100%. I actually made a classic rock playlist for him when I was writing.
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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.”
Chris @cgiorno926 @patrickweekes is Dragon Age 4 going to be affected by the layoffs by EA?? I'm getting really scared for the franchise because I've been obsessed since origins. I love DA. Would you legally be able to release the rest of the story if EA shuts DA4 down??
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes No, I would not be able to. I do not own Dragon Age. EA does.
Chris @cgiorno926 Are the layoffs gonna affect the game??
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Sorry, I cannot comment on that. Also, to be clear, we have only announced that we are making a game in the Dragon Age universe. We have neither announced nor confirmed a "Dragon Age 4".
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John Epler @eplerjc I feel like biomasika is going to start hiding when he sees me, because 95% of my conversations with him start with 'so, I had an idea, and it's a complicated one.'
Most of my ideas are delivered with a big grin and a caveat of 'please feel free to ignore this if this is a bad idea'.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Just walked into an occupied meeting room half an hour early, like a champ. Hoping everyone thinks it’s because I’m really excited about project milestone planning and not because I can’t read my calendar.
Krista D. Ball @kristadb1 Well, they wouldn't have thought the calendar thing IF YOU DIDN'T TWEET IT WEEKES.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Pfft, like @eplerjc reads my Tweets.
Liss @liss97067441 @bbattye hello! Can you tell me more about the vampires in lore? There's just a brief mention of them in a codex in game, something about demonic possession, but that's all I can find. TIA!
Brianne Battye @bbattye At present, I believe those references are all that's known. It's one of those mysterious things!
Madeleine Roux @authoroux I'm gonna do you a fuckin solid right now and say: Do not give any of your main characters a first or last name that ends in "s"
You can thank me later.
Cori Nicole @genevrael We tried I swear
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Definitely not your villain.
“Corypheus’s assassins” is a phrase we used to utter in grim terror in the Writer Pit.
Madeleine Roux @authoroux OOF. Yeah, I mean, I've done it myself, but it's usually after I get too attached to a name I used in the manuscript. When I draft now I pay close attention to the way a name will look on the page. 😓
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Least I don’t have to worry about ever having to do another game with a major character whose name starts or ends with an S!
John Epler @eplerjc Patrick we're gonna do a game about snake people.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Hey, I have a PLAN for Snake People if they ever come up.
I mean, it’s a terrible plan, but we made “dog loses his ball and is sad” into a decent plot, so we can probably clean this up, too.
Madeleine Roux @authoroux Every name ends in S. It's their culture.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I still owe my narrator drinks for the audio version of the novel that included Ululenia saying lines to Irrethelathliann.
Madeleine Roux @authoroux I would LOVE to see the pronunciation guide you whipped up for that 😂😂
That's a step I always forget.
Me: Cool cool cool let's put ancient dead languages in this book ~six months later~ Editor: Your audiobook narrator needs to know how to say this stuff Me: . . . . Fuck.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes When she hit “Ululenia”, @genevrael said, “So I assume there will never be an audio version,” and I laughed and then stopped in slowly dawning horror.
(And it’s EER eth ell LATH lee uh LAN, like a waltz! (This explanation makes sense to me and very few others.))
Cori Nicole @genevrael I feel this was my crowning moment as an editor.
John Epler @eplerjc The most effective threat I can deploy in my job is to saddle someone's character with the most stereotypical Canadian accent I can find.
c.r. scannell @queencaitt "I suspect you have questions, eh?"
John Epler @eplerjc 'Oh, ya bout to get yourself a big ol' donnybrook, eh?'
I mean ultimately that's a threat I am entirely reliant on @cablivingstone to follow through on, but that's why I'm always nice. For the day I need to make good on it.
John Epler @eplerjc The most effective threat I can deploy in my job is to saddle someone's character with the most stereotypical Canadian accent I can find.
Mary Kirby @biomarykirby Are you sure that's a threat? I mean, @bbattye has been trying to get Letterkenny into a game for years now...
John Epler @eplerjc It was -definitely- perceived as a threat by @sylvf1
Crystal McCord @mrscmccord I would love to hear a totally Canadian accent on someone! But are we talking like northern Ontario Canadian accent or southern Alberta Canadian accent?
John Epler @eplerjc Northern Ontario. So strong that even the Letterkenny guys are like 'whoa, that's a bit much.'
John Epler @eplerjc For some reason this studio trusts me, who has now spent 40 minutes trying (and failing) to book a meeting with our new meeting system, to make decisions. It is me, I am the April Fool.
John Epler Retweeted Octafluoride @octafluoride I found a top secrete Sims 4 DA expansion where you manage Skyhold. To access it go to Origin and type ↑↑↓↓←→DA [Enter]. Here are the screenshots and I hope yall enjoy the April Fools and @biomarkdarrah @mike_Laidlaw @davidgaider @sylvf1 @simplyallegra get a laugh outta it.
Sylvf @sylvf1 "Overworked Adviser Rewarded With More Work!"
cursebot, agent of fen'harel @arlathansgrace Someone, ANYONE, DID SOLAS RIP YOUR ARM OFF OR DID HE JUST LEAVE I do NOT know why I keep seeing people say he did it when that did NOT happen in my Tres. ending cutscene hhhhnnngnh
John Epler @eplerjc Solas took your arm. Due to technical limitations with the engine, we couldn't make it as obvious as we wanted to, but yes - the only way to save you from the Mark was for him to take it.
cursebot, agent of fen'harel @arlathansgrace First of all, thank you, I did not expect a Proper Person(TM) to see let alone to respond to my yelling. But, second of all: how DARE you. I just felt my BLOOD run COLD.
John Epler @eplerjc Solas is a firm believer that the end justifies the means. You needed to survive, and he only had one real way to ensure that you did.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I mean, he didn’t necessarily rip it off physically. I assumed that given what the mark was doing by then, you might not have had a lot of “arm” left to lose. (As much as I love the idea of Solas walking around with the Inquisitor’s hand.)
John Epler @eplerjc Yeah. While we never got into the specifics of it, in my mind he just collapsed the Fade energy that had started to poison your arm - and that meant taking that part of your arm away.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Yeah. I mean, it’s green. Green is the international gaming symbol for poison. Deep narrative talks courtesy of Epler and Weekes, errybody.
Allisondraste @allisondraste Didn’t I read somewhere that initially for low approval Solas (the one that now yanks you around a bit) he was going to drag the inquisitor’s arm through the eluvian and then turn the mirror off? So awesome.
John Epler @eplerjc Not anything we'd planned! We -may- have bounced that one around as a joke (there were certainly a few of those, including a Scooby-Doo'esque chase with the Vidasala and her Qunari through Eluvians), but nothing that ever went to actual storyboards.
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
John Epler @eplerjc Things I will comment on/tweet about:
-Yakuza -STALKER -CheezIts -How bad the Oilers are -Dragon Age lore and questions -Dragon's Dogma
Austin King @ahouseingotham If the Warden goes through the Eluvian in Witch Hunt do you think their Mabari spends the rest of their life waiting for them to come back through?
TheRealAndeus Hello u/jasonschreier . In your article you mention sharing more about the new Dragon Age in the near future. Is there a more specific time-frame on when that article is going to get released, that you could share with us? Thanks!
alegria. @heartlacing hey sorry to bug, but this question's been nagging me for four years lol. (rot13 translate) was hissrad briefed on the ariqun's intent to maybe eventually kill civil officials/inquisition leadership when he got nudged towards the inquisition? i know there's a letter scrap codex in trespasser that implies this, but given gatt's dialogue about how the ben-hassrath haven't trusted him in a while by the time he meets up with bull, it seems like he didn't?
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes No. (Rationale on why I can give a firm answer with respect to knowledge at time of recruitment: if he had been, he would’ve brought that up after going Tal-Vashoth.)
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
Joshua Stiksma @joshstiksma This part speaks to me: my exact feelings after I finished up Inquisition. Proud of how people were receiving the game Yet extremely exhausted and humiliated by how many people were burnt to get there. Plus, that permanent damage to mental health and personal relationships
After my third negative employee health survey (in a row), I decided it was time to move on. Obviously I want it to be better for everyone that is still there -- but I couldn't take it any longer for myself.
FYI: I'm in a much better place right now, and loving it. And that makes it harder and harder to accept that studios are doing this to friends and ex-coworkers that I care about. I rarely post stuff like this, but this article makes me SO MAD. We can do so much better.
Jess Hara Campbell @jharacampbell I think this was the overwhelming sentiment for most of us. This article is a kick in the ol' PTSD. I'm glad you're in a better place. You and your lady deserve the work-life balance, especially with your little one!
Joshua Stiksma @joshstiksma Thanks Jess. I truly hope that you and @ccampbellart are in a better place now too (with a little one of your own too.) I can't even imagine doing a project like now that I have a family. There were people that did it, and I had no idea how much extra pain it must have caused.
John Epler @eplerjc Things I will comment on/tweet about:
-Yakuza -STALKER -CheezIts -How bad the Oilers are -Dragon Age lore and questions -Dragon's Dogma
Mouse @spinning_mouse Can a half dwarf be a mage? I've always wondered. I never can get a clear answer to this...
John Epler @eplerjc Good question! I don't think we've ever established it. I don't think there's any reason they couldn't be, but I'm not going to commit myself to any specific answer
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
