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[Leonia]

Just how much experience are they expecting from a lead writer? 'Cause I'd be down for that.

[Fixers0]

Almost all notabel people who have worked on the first Mass Effect, or even the second game Seem to have left Bioware.

[Lieber]

leonia42 wrote...

Just how much experience are they expecting from a lead writer? 'Cause I'd be down for that.

Don't know if joke or not, but could still be informative.

5 years + of experience in the gaming industry and one AAA title shipped as a Lead Writer, among a lot of other requirements.

[Cainhurst Crow]

>EA puts out job offer for new lead writer for mass effect.
>Everyone excited about who might get the job.
>EA announces they are hiring a movie writer to give the game a cinematic feel.
>Everyone collectively gives up on game.
>EA announces it's found a person for the job, with over 20 years of experience.
>Curiosity sparked with fans, everyone eager to see who it is.
>EA unveils new writer...it's Paul W.S. Anderson.

What do?

[Chala]

Darth Brotarian wrote...

>EA puts out job offer for new lead writer for mass effect.
>Everyone excited about who might get the job.
>EA announces they are hiring a movie writer to give the game a cinematic feel.
>Everyone collectively gives up on game.
>EA announces it's found a person for the job, with over 20 years of experience.
>Curiosity sparked with fans, everyone eager to see who it is.
>EA unveils new writer...it's Paul W.S. Anderson.

What do?

Do not joke with that.

Modifié par El_Chala_Legalizado, 08 août 2013 - 08:51 .

[shingara]

Just a thought but do you think they may break normal ranks and possibly go for a sci fi writer who hasnt worked on games before but is a big name within sci fi, or horror etc

[Lieber]

The Lead Writer position requires the applicant to have 5+ years of experience in the gaming industry, so I don't think so.

[PnXMarcin1PL]

Dubozz wrote...

Lieber wrote...

@Masah_K:
@LieberGaming @jamalalsarraf Yes we're still looking for our next Lead Writer for Mass Effect. Mkalugin@bioware.com

So it looks like we were right about them not having a Lead Writer for Mass Effect Next.

Two words. Drew Karpyshyn.

This. ME1 was totally epic, Two next games are perfect too, but not as thrilling as 1st game.

[shingara]

Lieber wrote...

The Lead Writer position requires the applicant to have 5+ years of experience in the gaming industry, so I don't think so.

 Ye just does make me wonder what they could turn out if they had someone like Stig Larsson R.I.P doing the main story for the game is all.

Modifié par shingara, 08 août 2013 - 09:35 .

[ElitePinecone]

shingara wrote...

Lieber wrote...

The Lead Writer position requires the applicant to have 5+ years of experience in the gaming industry, so I don't think so.

 Ye just does make me wonder what they could turn out if they had someone like Stig Larsson R.I.P doing the main story for the game is all.

I think generally, engaging the services of a famous non-gaming writer to come in and write for a game is done for series in which the story is the weakest or lowest priority aspect. It doesn't mean they'll do a terrible job, but the reason studios outsource the plot to someone mildly well-known is precisely because the story is a tacked-on afterthought in so many expensive games. Heaps of Bioware writers have said their model (where writing happens first) is extremely unusual in an industry that usually makes a game then slaps a plot onto it at the very end of production. 

For Bioware's games that have so much branching and non-cinematic storytelling (and where writing is integrated so deeply into the other teams), it absolutely makes sense that they're requiring the Lead Writer to have lots of games experience. 

Frankly, I think a lot of authors would really struggle with interactive fiction, let alone something as complex as ME.

[shingara]

ElitePinecone wrote...

shingara wrote...

Lieber wrote...

The Lead Writer position requires the applicant to have 5+ years of experience in the gaming industry, so I don't think so.

 Ye just does make me wonder what they could turn out if they had someone like Stig Larsson R.I.P doing the main story for the game is all.

I think generally, engaging the services of a famous non-gaming writer to come in and write for a game is done for series in which the story is the weakest or lowest priority aspect. It doesn't mean they'll do a terrible job, but the reason studios outsource the plot to someone mildly well-known is precisely because the story is a tacked-on afterthought in so many expensive games. Heaps of Bioware writers have said their model (where writing happens first) is extremely unusual in an industry that usually makes a game then slaps a plot onto it at the very end of production. 

For Bioware's games that have so much branching and non-cinematic storytelling (and where writing is integrated so deeply into the other teams), it absolutely makes sense that they're requiring the Lead Writer to have lots of games experience. 

Frankly, I think a lot of authors would really struggle with interactive fiction, let alone something as complex as ME.

 I totally agree with you and dont get me wrong, but i then look at 3 and think hmmm.

[CR121691]

Looking for a new leadwriter? So Mac Walters is out of the office?

[ElitePinecone]

Mac is a writer on the game but he's also working on Casey's new IP, as far as I know.

Presumably the new Lead Writer is going to coordinate things at Montreal.

[aznjoez]

Mac Walters is the Narrative Director now correct? so he prob just oversees all writing but I guess with a more focus on the new IP.

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/macwalters

[Mavqt]

Dubozz wrote...

Lieber wrote...

@Masah_K:
@LieberGaming @jamalalsarraf Yes we're still looking for our next Lead Writer for Mass Effect. Mkalugin@bioware.com

So it looks like we were right about them not having a Lead Writer for Mass Effect Next.

Two words. Drew Karpyshyn.

ME1 felt so much more epic then 2 and 3.

[Nitrocuban]

BW should really have a decent SciFi author do the main plot for the whole new whateverology they plan to do.
Someone like Peter F. Hamilton for example.
And please do not even think about someone like George - I kill everything you love - R. R. Martin.

[dorktainian]

someone with a sci-fi background would be nice.

[dreamgazer]

mavqt wrote...

Dubozz wrote...

Lieber wrote...

@Masah_K:
@LieberGaming @jamalalsarraf Yes we're still looking for our next Lead Writer for Mass Effect. Mkalugin@bioware.com

So it looks like we were right about them not having a Lead Writer for Mass Effect Next.

Two words. Drew Karpyshyn.

ME1 felt so much more epic then 2 and 3.

Up until the very end, Karpyshyn was also the lead writer on ME2.

[Iakus]

dreamgazer wrote...

Up until the very end, Karpyshyn was also the lead writer on ME2.

I thought it got handed off about halfway through?

[dreamgazer]

iakus wrote...

dreamgazer wrote...

Up until the very end, Karpyshyn was also the lead writer on ME2.

I thought it got handed off about halfway through?

"Karpyshyn left BioWare shortly before the conclusion of Mass Effect 2, with Mac Walters taking over as lead writer for Mass Effect 3."

http://www.pcgamer.c...l-ending-ideas/

[Iakus]

dreamgazer wrote...

iakus wrote...

dreamgazer wrote...

Up until the very end, Karpyshyn was also the lead writer on ME2.

I thought it got handed off about halfway through?

"Karpyshyn left BioWare shortly before the conclusion of Mass Effect 2, with Mac Walters taking over as lead writer for Mass Effect 3."

http://www.pcgamer.c...l-ending-ideas/

Ah.  Here's where i got it:

http://www.newsarama...game-comic.html


Nrama: You and Drew Karpyshyn worked really closely together on the first couple of games, but then you took a sole role for this last one? 
Walters: Yeah, so the way it worked was Mass Effect 1 I was the Senior Writer, he was the Lead Writer. We had about 4 or 5 writers maybe. Mass Effect 2 we knew early on he was wanting to try something different, go somewhere else, so I was kind of being "groomed" as it were to take over as lead. Then about halfway through the project he went down to Austin to start work there, and I took over as Lead there. Then on on Mass Effect 3 I am the Lead on it. So we did the halfway through handshake and that was it.

Fortunately I've been on it since the beginning as well, so it's not like I was coming in blind and didn't know anything about the IP. I was there when we were creating the war and the characters, so it was a pretty easy transition.

Anyway, not really the thread for this so I'll shut up now.

[dreamgazer]

iakus wrote...

dreamgazer wrote...

iakus wrote...

dreamgazer wrote...

Up until the very end, Karpyshyn was also the lead writer on ME2.

I thought it got handed off about halfway through?

"Karpyshyn left BioWare shortly before the conclusion of Mass Effect 2, with Mac Walters taking over as lead writer for Mass Effect 3."

http://www.pcgamer.c...l-ending-ideas/

Ah.  Here's where i got it:

http://www.newsarama...game-comic.html


Nrama: You and Drew Karpyshyn worked really closely together on the first couple of games, but then you took a sole role for this last one? 
Walters: Yeah, so the way it worked was Mass Effect 1 I was the Senior Writer, he was the Lead Writer. We had about 4 or 5 writers maybe. Mass Effect 2 we knew early on he was wanting to try something different, go somewhere else, so I was kind of being "groomed" as it were to take over as lead. Then about halfway through the project he went down to Austin to start work there, and I took over as Lead there. Then on on Mass Effect 3 I am the Lead on it. So we did the halfway through handshake and that was it.

Fortunately I've been on it since the beginning as well, so it's not like I was coming in blind and didn't know anything about the IP. I was there when we were creating the war and the characters, so it was a pretty easy transition.

Anyway, not really the thread for this so I'll shut up now.

Agreed, but at least I've got a reference point now for Walters' side of the story. Thanks. 

[Xamufam]

Dubozz wrote...

Lieber wrote...

@Masah_K:
@LieberGaming @jamalalsarraf Yes we're still looking for our next Lead Writer for Mass Effect. Mkalugin@bioware.com

So it looks like we were right about them not having a Lead Writer for Mass Effect Next.

Two words. Drew Karpyshyn.

rather have Chris L'Etoile
www.holdtheline.com/threads/me2-writer-chris-letoile-on-the-ai-characters-and-the-reapers.4229/

[P. Domi]

Troxa wrote...

rather have Chris L'Etoile
www.holdtheline.com/threads/me2-writer-chris-letoile-on-the-ai-characters-and-the-reapers.4229/

+1

[CannotCompute]

^ seems to be a very talented guy

+1