Dragon Age News Thread

Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod
“apparently the balconies in the new building will be locked for now”
“oh no, really? I was planning to use the balcony for time gated meetings in the winter. ‘We’re going to be out here till we reach a decision. Also, it’s -35.’”
#overheardintheoffice #YEGweather ❄️☃️

Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod
"So, do we know about how many [redacted] we'll have in game?"
"One hundred and ninety-six."

*pause*

".... wow, you've REALLY thought about that in detail already."
#overheardintheoffice #gamedev

Jon Renish @jonrenish
Found a cool map hiding behind some bookshelves. Used by the DA:I team during production.



Edit: Better quality map

BSN BioWare forums @bsnforums
Cool map indeed. You don't have one of Tevinter hanging around the office that you wanted to share, do you? 😊

Jon Renish @jonrenish
Sure, there was more map behind a refrigerator.

Senior Mod Commander @daconfessions
Friday's Pet Confession 👍🙂



Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Omg @sylvf1 is going to be so happy.

Sylvf @sylvf1
I am! I named Betyar in the Hissing Wastes after my father's childhood dog, so it's touching to learn the name stuck with someone this way. I'm really happy the poster and this pooch found each other.

From Matt Rhodes' Instagram...



(via reddit)

Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten
To all of y’all who think I’m too organized: this is what it looks like when I work. Granted, I put everything away in the right place when I’m done, but still.

seb hanlon @hanlsp
“you should have seen how bad it was _before_ we got to the iteration that shipped!” is the universal cry of the game developer when someone complains about something that actually made it out the door

Allan Schumacher allanschumacher
Special edition bonus: install of RC0. Or even earlier haha

seb hanlon @hanlsp
You get to play the E3 build

But not the parts that were shown at E3; all the _other_ parts of the game that cracked under the strain of the E3 hax and took 2 months post E3 to get back to where they were, let alone resuming forward progress

🚩Auntie Shepherd 🏴 @neolithicsheep
I always wondered about the Christmas build thing BW does. Like... Are they playable playable? Or are they "gateway to despair that we will ever make this work" playable?

seb hanlon @hanlsp
“Christmas builds”, aka internal developer play test builds, usually come with a list of known issues and caveats, like “only path A through area M is functional; if you choose paths B or C or try to initate quest Q the game will get into a bad state”

🚩Auntie Shepherd 🏴 @neolithicsheep
Aha! It figures, really.

...did you ever do the thing anyway just to see what kind of bad state?

seb hanlon @hanlsp
Nope, I got that for free trying to fix the fucking thing 😂😭

BioWare @bioware
Promise
Surviving
The Breach
In the Sky
#BardSongs

Chris Anderson @postmodernlocke
I have an internal project launching today that has consumed a pretty decent amount of my time and I'm nervous. It looks pretty simple in the end, but the iterating required to get it there was huge.

Wish me luck!

Justin Masse justinmasse



Chris Anderson @postmodernlocke
Pays to have great UI/UX people involved! You and Randal did good work!

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
Soon