Fernando Melo @ Reboot Red DiscoBabaloo Wow, #DragonAgeOrigins is 10 years old. So many fond memories & thankful to work with many amazing folks on this team, as well as the Doctors, and BW community in general (via toolset, forums, events). DAO specifically will always have a special place for me.
Brianne Battye 🦇 @bbattye Had my work peer reviewed today by a bunch of smart, awesome people. It's so good getting eyes on your work. Now I'm feeling energized and ready to dive into my favourite part of the writing process: Revisions!
Mike Bithell @mikebithell Hey internet, stop blaming anyone below the management / director level for choices you don’t like in games. It makes you look mean and a bit ignorant about how things are made.
(While you’re at it, give credit for things you do like mostly to the folks below that level)
James Berg @jamesbergcanada This. So very much this.
As a researcher, I can convince my dev partners of things, but can’t mandate them. For anything significant, that always goes to a lead, because that’s literally their job.
Often key decisions involve *many* management folks, informed by their teams
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes For me, it's because on a core level, I want to help someone have a better day than they were having before they picked up what I worked on (novel, game, whatever).
I can't fix a lot of stuff. I'm not a doctor or an engineer. But I can maybe help some folks feel better.
Ash @lokiatemybaby Are we going to be able to continue to play in third person like the other games (all these first person games coming out make me super motion sick and I’m scared).
Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah No teasing maybe on this one: Yes
the magnificent presto, abd @bloodredrache i received a digital galley of @bioware/@dragonage’s TEVINTER NIGHTS this morning. because with great power comes great responsibility, i won’t spoil but i will post my reaction to each story in gif form on this thread and an overall review at the end.
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH
THREE TREES TO MIDNIGHT by @patrickweekes:
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN by @sylvf1
THE HORROR OF HORMAK by @eplerjc
John Epler @eplerjc The reaction gif I hoped for.
🌈 🎄Merry "Fuck The Nine Dash Line" Mozzarella 🎄 🌈 @mothermuchy How did you get it OMG!
the magnificent presto, abd @bloodredrache I’m a bookseller! One of the parts of my job is to read and review books for next season so my store & the publishers have an idea what response will be.
the magnificent presto, abd @bloodredrache CALLBACK by the one BioWare writer without a twitter account (as @biomarkdarrah has called him), Lukas Kristjanson
the magnificent presto, abd @bloodredrache i received a digital galley of @bioware/@dragonage’s TEVINTER NIGHTS this morning. because with great power comes great responsibility, i won’t spoil but i will post my reaction to each story in gif form on this thread and an overall review at the end.
rachel roepke @bloodredrache LUCK IN THE GARDENS by @sylvf1 (please know Hunchback is my favorite of all the Disney films)
HUNGER by @bbattye
MURDER BY DEATH MAGES by @akacaitlin
Caitlin Sullivan Kelly @akacaitlin OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST I LOVE IT
danny @dannyodwyer For the first time ever @esrbratings allowed cameras inside to unveil the process of rating games, how they enforce advertising standards and their reaction to everything from decapitations to loot boxes.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes The number of times I have had to sheepishly say, “Okay TECHNICALLY this is a joke about oral sex...”
simon wars: the rise of sheev @simonjadis Surely not. Sera was just talking about eating a peach!
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes In DAI, if you romance Bull and then Sera, they have a banter, and Bull says, "Glad I loosened the lid for you," and the foreign-language localization team asked what Bull meant, and I had the longest, stammering-est email saying, "Um... would you believe... emotions...?"
Jo Berry @joanna_Berry So glad that apparently no one ever caught on to "--Sixty eight. Plus one." 😄
Karin Weekes @karinweekes One of the weirdest and most entertaining parts of my job is having to count instances of each type of swear word in game text. 🤣
Karin Weekes @karinweekes One of the weirdest and most entertaining parts of my job is having to count instances of each type of swear word in game text. 🤣
David Gaider @davidgaider Not to be outdone by the "profanity meeting" we had each project. 😉
Karin Weekes @karinweekes OH YES.
And the "who's doing who" meetings! Remember that last one we had as a lunch meeting at the Italian place that was the reason we decided we needed to keep those discussions behind closed doors for the good of humanity? 🤣😂
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes That's right, Weekes, go back and check Twitter every couple of minutes. That will make the outside-comfort-zone conversation you're trying to write magically finish itself!
Mary Kirby @biomarykirby I hear that playing youtube videos of fluffy dogs being groomed also helps get this done.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Update: Wrote the thing. Despite myself.
the magnificent presto, abd @bloodredrache i received a digital galley of @bioware/@dragonage’s TEVINTER NIGHTS this morning. because with great power comes great responsibility, i won’t spoil but i will post my reaction to each story in gif form on this thread and an overall review at the end.
THE STREETS OF MINRATHOUS by @bbattye
THE WIGMAKER JOB by @courtneywoods
GENITIVI DIES IN THE END by Lukas Kristjanson (i would be a Bad Medievalist if i didn’t cite this as from a c.1400 french verse version of the romance of alexander the great; it’s ms. bodl. 264 fol. 63v)