Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I feel like game writers in general could be more respectful of their lead writer when the lead suggests Grimfang as a side character's name.
Karin Weekes @karinweekes 20 years of partnership and sacrifice have culminated in this glorious moment: The team Roll-The-Upright-Oreos-Across-The-Table/Catch-Them-Without-Using-Hands event at the @bioware Valentine's Day celebration. 💞 (Video credit: @ccorfe) @patrickweekes #powercouple
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes You roll 'em up, I knock 'em down, Damsel. ❤️
Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue Twitter is a garbage fire populated by people I love beyond all reasonable measure. It is full of unexpected delights, but also a lot of re-used content.
What I’m essentially saying is that Twitter is Kirkwall.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes W o w
GipsyDangeresque @gipsdangeresque I mean, Varric *is* essentially a professional social media influencer.
Ryan Benno @bryanrenno Video games are great because somewhere right now there are artists in a meeting room debating whether to have a character with nipples, what possible options to explore varying nipple looks, and how out of scope/tone are nipples.
David Gaider @davidgaider "Bug report: the Brood Mother's nipples are too confronting."
Jeff Hamilton @jeffahamilton Alright #gamedev - what's your best bug story?
Tell me about the one that was found late, or that almost shipped, or that nobody could figure out until you took 3 red bulls and were staring at it til 4 am the night before cert. Every game has bugs - let's hear the best ones!
seb hanlon @hanlsp I liked the one where the Mabari that Cullen is petting in the courtyard at the Winter Palace (in Trespasser) somehow got stuck animating in flat circles on the ground around Cullen
Casey Hudson @caseydhudson Just watched a milestone review here @bioware. So inspired and impressed with what our teams are doing, and I can’t wait for you to see it all. No, I didn’t cry at some parts - you cried.
Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue I have no idea why this is on my mind right now, but goddamn If I do not love the handoff throw in FF7: Advent Children so much that it still makes me tear up a little and set my aspirations for gaming a little higher. #theyreourfriends
This has set me to thinking about video games that have made me cry, and taken as a whole I must say, from the very depths of my heart, “Fuck you, BioWare.”
It’s not all them, of course. But it’s a lot.
#someoneelsemighthavedoneitwrong
There is a choice in Dragon Age: Inquisition which I made (and would make again, for reasons) and was Ok with, until I saw Varric’s face. I genuinely do not think I could face that again.
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes What I'm hearing here is that we succeeded in delivering emotional engagement.
Mary Kirby @biomarykirby I want to hear if he did the follow-up conversation with Varric back at Skyhold!
David Gaider @davidgaider "I'll just kill Hawke. No biggie." *goes back to Skyhold*
"OH NO I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE"
Mary Kirby @biomarykirby I PUT A LOT OF EFFORT INTO MAKING THAT MISTAKE AS PAINFUL AS POSSIBLE, OKAY? I HAVE STANDARDS!
Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue I should add, they have been responsible for other emotions like, pride, joy, and "I wish i was still punching Solas in the face".
Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod "If dragons are intelligent, riding a dragon would be weird! That would be like me riding you!" "Hey, it's only weird if you make it weird, bro" #overheardintheoffice
Casey Hudson @caseydhudson Just watched a milestone review here @bioware. So inspired and impressed with what our teams are doing, and I can’t wait for you to see it all. No, I didn’t cry at some parts - you cried.
Ramiro Cibrián @dramido Can't wait to see what you guys are doing!
🐉Melissa 🏹Janowicz 🐲 deedlite I can't wait for people to see either. I honestly am so humbled every day seeing the amazing work that everyone is doing.
Jani M. I. Turunen @janisku7 I am impressed what EA is doing for @frostbiteengine to push it better workflow with @visualstudio teams so LLVM things get better what help your teams to make more impressed work
Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten I'm totally nerding out in the wonderful world of Thedas right now. I'm feeling a bit under the weather, so I'm playing DA: Awakening (and honestly it's to analyse the broodmother a bit) but I ended up making an excel for calculating rune crafting and I'm such a nerd...
Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten When you play Golems of Amgarrak and have a distinct feeling you know that voice actor only to realize it’s Varric aka Brian Bloom. It’s like coming home. Also chewing through the Dragon Age Origins DLCs makes me feel accomplished when I’m really just coughing in my chair.
Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten I'm totally nerding out in the wonderful world of Thedas right now. I'm feeling a bit under the weather, so I'm playing DA: Awakening (and honestly it's to analyse the broodmother a bit) but I ended up making an excel for calculating rune crafting and I'm such a nerd...
Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten I’m happy to say that my hour long setup of excel sheet and subsequent “finding loot and selling it” went very well, especially since the end battle was pretty much a cakewalk with all the paragon armor runes. But spending about two hours to calculate/ grind was definitely not worth the time. Although now I have an excel sheet for next time I play Awakening and I can even calculate how much gold I need to up all my runes to maximum. Honestly it feels something between a waste of time and me making jewelry.
It’s relaxing but completely pointless. I don’t wear jewelry so there’s no reason for me to make it. Anyway. Next time someone tells y’all women aren’t interested in the nitty gritty of game desig and don’t care about min maxing or whatever, point them in my direction and I’ll share the excels I’ve made during the years to keep track of upgrades, crafting recipes and various other bits and bobs that women supposedly don’t care about.
I dislike that we’re not seen as caring for systems design in games. We do! We’re just discouraged from sharing.
🌈 🎄Merry 'Christmas is Forever' Mozzarella 🎄 🌈 @mothermuchy Important worldbuilding question,, @patrickweekes
Is Aqun-Athlok for any member of the Qun who is trans or is it only transmen? Or is it only anyone who is a warrior, like Krem? Are there different terms for someone who becomes a Tamassran, for example?
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I'd intended it to apply to any follower of the Qun who identifies as a different gender from what they were judged to be at birth. (Which under the Qun is more widespread, given how Qunari would determine that by job.)
It's not a perfect fit for trans identity, to be clear. It's more like a metaphor. Bull was using what he knew to reach out to Krem. In Bull's Qunari mind, it's comforting to know that there's a word for what you are, and that you're accepted.
(If you take Cole and Bull in your party, you also hear that Bull first thought of Krem as "woman disguised as man" when he met Krem, because he didn't know better at the time. As he learned who Krem was, his views evolved to fit him into Bull's understanding of the world.)
🌈 🎄Merry 'Christmas is Forever' Mozzarella 🎄 🌈 @mothermuchy I heard that comment 10 times before I realised it was about Krem because I didn't think of him as anything other than a man, but it made sense when I realised it was when he lost his eye 😅
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes Yeah, I was worried that it makes Bull look like a jerk, but Cole was reading thoughts, and people's thoughts are often messy. The first thing Bull says to Krem is something like, "You're safe now. What would you like me to call you?", and that's what matters.
(Or more accurately, Cole was reading the pain tied to a memory, and what Bull was thinking at the time back then, which is a bit weird and convoluted, but apparently weird and convoluted is how I roll.)
Karin Weekes @karinweekes @sherylchee to @biomarykirby: "But you don't HAVE to romance the mushroom!" #overheardintheoffice
Michael Sawyer @gaymerforever This was oddly specific
Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes I’m concerned as well.
With the resources we’re spending on it, romancing the mushroom should be REQUIRED.
Sheryl is already sick of winter @sherylchee Putting the "us" in fungus. Everymage is Canceling Winter @everymage_jo The... mushroom? I simultaneously want to know and don’t want to know. Sheryl is already sick of winter @sherylchee You don't have to romance the mushroom if you don't like mushrooms, is all I'm saying.
Clreit @clreit Whew. Cause it's hard enough having to Romance an Egg
Karin Weekes @karinweekes OMELETS FOR EVERYONE 🍳 🍄
Jason Barlow @jasontbarlow Ever have those days where you feel happy and proud to get to be part of making something special? I’m really feeling that today. It’s a very good life
