Gabe Heiland @norseartemis Why yes, this IS what I wore to my presentation today because I am a very serious adult. All props to @eplerjc for finding this and making it happen.
Crystal McCord @mrscmccord And THIS is why I love you.
Gabe Heiland @norseartemis I would....not thrive in a “normal” job 😉
Jeff Ryan @erimathas I think @phrequencies and I are still waiting on the link for where to buy it
John Epler @eplerjc I put it in the announcement channel, due to its importance.
David Gaider @davidgaider Dammit. Here's the problem with declaring a fave: someone else inevitably comes along and reminds you of Black Sails or Killing Eve or the fact that Shoreh Aghdashloo exists and the idea you only get to have one fave really seems criminal. 😡
Side trivia note: did you know that, originally, we were in talks with Shoreh Aghdashloo to be the voice of Flemeth in DAO? But scheduling issues prevented it? Well, now you do.
Alain Baxter @alainbaxter Ah yes, It's my birthday today. Unwrapping, re-building and searching for my PC took an hour. At least this year my keyboard was not in jello...
Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod “I’ve learned when I’m working remote I have to pace myself. One beer an hour and I have water as well.” “That’s discipline!” “And I have to double check all my code on Monday.” #overheard at the pub 🤣
Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod “Based on that one story from the old BioWare office where [redacted] had no pants on, it’s now mandatory, you have to have pants on!” #overheard at the pub
Ryan Benno @bryanrenno Hey game devs: what's the first task you every got working professionally?
11.5 years ago I was asked to UV a character's clothing as an atlas and make an example texture. It was heavily inspired bg Hulk Hogan Hulkamania outfit and colors.
"Play through the entirety of DAO so you're familiar with the content and the parts of the game."
I had two weeks to do so.
I should follow up that my next task was "Do these regression tests on the consoles. The test levels don't work on them and the only level that currently loads in memory is the Dalish Elf origin.
Lots of creative ways to test systems in that level....
I probably went through the Dalish Elf Origin at least 500 times...
This later included Ostagar. Oh the times I've heard Duncan say he is sorry to Jory.
JosieStilinskiBee @thewahnring @patrickweekes sooo... I have a question : if an elf and a human can have a child, could a dwarf and an elf or human do so too? And more importantly : can it happen with a qunari? Does a qunari/human child have horns? Do they get out of the womb with them?
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I get asked this periodically, and while I have an answer, I’d prefer not to say yet, not because it’s a giant spoiler, but because I don’t want to answer until we’ve definitely locked it into the game. Until that happens, it could still change.
Ann Leckie ☕ @ann_leckie My husband and I never baby talk to our kids. They emerged from their vats fully grown with all human knowledge and skills implanted in their brains because we would be ashamed to have ordinary offspring. They know better than to embarrass us by behaving like any other kid.
🐉Melissa 🏹Janowicz 🐲 deedlite I never baby talk to my kids. They were developed in Frostbite without knowledge of childhood, with a robust locomotion set, advanced AI, huge stats and abilities to handle any combat situation. They know better than to embarrass me by losing in a fight with a kid.
Jos Hendriks @sjosz Me prototyping a thing: "Dang, why/how does @patrickweekes write so much banter for me for this?" Also me: "Hey @patrickweekes can you give me like a dozen more banter lines for this?"
Doc @hiccupinglasses @patrickweekes I'm sorry to bother you but can you help? I have an essay for class&I chose DA for my media. One q we have to answer: is the author effectively conveying the intended message? But I'm not sure what it is, if any. The effects of Corruption? God-Complex? Fanaticism?
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes For DAI specifically, or the DA franchise as a whole?
Doc @hiccupinglasses Mostly as a whole, though if it helps to narrow it down to one game/book, then DAI is fine. And bless you for answering. I appreciate it.
If it helps, the class is Cultural Rhetoric. We're currently going over colonialism & the ensuing cultural erasure, & I had thought about comparing what's in the game to rl history.
However, I wasn't sure if it was an intentional move on the writers' parts or not, or if it was even a major takeaway "message."
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes It's hard for the entire series, because the entire series has dozens of writers and a bunch of products, each of which had its own theme.
As an off-the-cuff answer, Dragon Age as a whole usually believes:
-Big things happen for what are ultimately human reasons -Organizations are large, messy, and corruptible -Power of any kind does not come without a price -Nobody's perfect, but everyone's worth fighting for
But even those are "usuallys".
For your cultural points: In at least DAO and DAI, you can see cultural erasure -- striking Shartan from the Chant of Light, Dalish attempts to retain culture, etc. But I don't know that we do enough of that to be a core theme.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes "If you could just go ahead and let me restore the elven people even if it means the end of the world as you know it, that'd be great."
David Gaider @davidgaider *eyes narrow* That wasn't in iambic pentameter, Patrick.
Jos Hendriks @sjosz I'd forgotten how much fun it is to prototype and to just work with whatever you have to try and sell an idea. I've already had one co-worker tell me I look like I'm having too much fun.
Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod #TFW you want to open up another level in the editor, but then you think "I should save THIS level I'm working on first, JUST in case..." so you hit save and then you open up the other level and the entire editor crashes to desktop. #gamedev
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Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes So @biomarkdarrah is sick and really grumpy about it, so if you follow both of us, you should say something nice to him today. NOT something that requires him to do work or answer questions.
He likes tea, Warhammer 40k, and Scout Harding from DAI. GO. #FeelBetterMark
