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[ElitePinecone]

Twitter accounts for general news, announcements and updates about:

Dragon Age

Bioware

Developers on DA: Inquisition

(if the job titles are vague, it's usually because I can't work out what they actually do!)

Mark Darrah - DA series Executive Producer

Mike Laidlaw - DA series Creative Director

Aaryn Flynn - Bioware Edmonton and Montreal studios General Manager

John Epler - cinematic design
Allan Schumacher - Bioware QA analyst, BSN fan-wrangler

Mary Kirby - Writer

Sylvia Feketekuty - Writer

Sheryl Chee - Writer

Patrick Weekes - lead writer, drinker of fan-tears

Ben Gelinas - Editor, co-author of The World of Thedas Vols. 1 & 2

Caroline Livingstone - Bioware Director of Voice Acting, producer

Alistair McNally - Senior Director of Creative Development

Fernando Melo - Director of Online Development for DA/ME, DA Keep

Christina McSherry - Associate Producer, produces Dragon Age Keep

Scylla Costa - Producer

Liz Lehtonen - Producer

Cameron Lee - Producer

Alain Baxter - Producer

Colleen Perman - Development Manager

Jason Barlow - Bioware Project Manager

Sebastian Hanlon - gameplay designer

Michael Liaw - gameplay designer

Jos Hendriks - designer

Tyler Lee - user interface lead

Kyle Scott - producer

Nick Sadler - envirommental artist

Nick Thornborrow - concept artist

Barbara Klimek - QA analyst

Josh Stiksma - Senior Gameplay Designer

Ryan Treadwell - Bioware Development Manager

Blair Brown - producer

Mark Wilson - level designer

Jason Hill - level designer

Kaelin Lavallee - level designer

Andre Santos - lighting/environment artist

Dean Roskell - senior designer

Jocelyn Legault - senior programmer

Ash Matheson - senior software engineer

Aidan Scanlan - Assistant Director of Design (?)

Matt Rhodes - Bioware senior concept artist, was responsible for DA2 companion concepts.

Jarrett Lee - Bioware marketing lead

[Cameron Lee]

ev76 wrote...

If the developers are already playing it, testing it out, then show us a snippet! C'mon man! Hope they don't wait until next year to show something. VGA's is a good place to show off DA3.

It’s looking good and we’re proud of the team’s progress but we still have a ways to go before we show you anything. We’re doing this right and spending the time to make sure we deliver the game you all deserve.

[Allan Schumacher]

Lose ALL the respect?

/toolazytoactuallymakethememepicture

[Mark Darrah]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Mark Darrah ‏@BioMarkDarrah
Seriously considering a house shaped like a castle. May be working too hard on #DA3

Subtle!

No but look:
http://www.realtor.c...dKey=-246055332

[Mark Darrah]

I realize I may have in advertently usage bombed a canadian real estate site...
Ooops.

[Sheryl Chee]

It really wouldn't be that interesting. Most of the time it's just a bunch of surly people typing.

Edit: Okay, I've been told to inform you that we're only surly sometimes. 

Modifié par Sheryl Chee, 28 septembre 2012 - 04:06 .

[Fiddzz]

They were really bad chairs.

[Allan Schumacher]

Upsettingshorts wrote...

That is definitely something we have no real idea about yet, and the comment doesn't really address.

We'll see, I suppose.

We're definitely experimenting with what it means to have a more open level.  Finding some interesting things such as "give people a road, and they tend to follow it" and stuff like that.  Taking that and iterating on the level.  How can we encourage someone to maybe not follow the road (or at least make it clear they don't have to follow it).  Sometimes the road makes thematic sense, maybe we could do smaller roads but that doesn't always work.  At the same time we also don't want to take away from those that enjoy going off the beaten path.  If we effectively put arrows on the ground that say "there's something cool over there" they won't enjoy it as much.

[Allan Schumacher]

I see the Tri-Force.... XD

Hopefully Mark doesn't get us in trouble!

[Allan Schumacher]

If it helps, even I don't know what that is. Mark is a horrible photographer, and should feel bad.

[Allan Schumacher]

Instead of Towers of Hanoi, we're doing the "how many triangles" puzzle!

[Allan Schumacher]

Sorry, the answer I was looking for was 4

[Allan Schumacher]

ROFL I fail at typing!!!!!

EDIT: LOL totally failmod...

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 23 octobre 2012 - 06:57 .

[Allan Schumacher]

I totally know what that says now but I won't totally ruin Mark's thunder by totally revealing it here because I'm totally a jerk.

[Allan Schumacher]

Quicksilver26 wrote...

Allan Schumacher wrote...

I totally know what that says now but I won't totally ruin Mark's thunder by totally revealing it here because I'm totally a jerk.

You know I never wanted to gibb slap you untill just now.

I'm okay with this!

[Allan Schumacher]

Curious if it should have been "exploritude" (since that's what Mike mentioned).

[Allan Schumacher]

I'm not sure how you concluded that the options are "I love the Chantry" or "Deal with it" based on what Mary said.  Or even what role the Inquisition will be playing...

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 02 novembre 2012 - 06:30 .

[Allan Schumacher]

Palipride47 wrote...

Allan Schumacher wrote...

I'm not sure how you concluded that the options are "I love the Chantry" or "Deal with it" based on what Mary said.  Or even what role the Inquisition will be playing...

No, I was saying I figured that those wouldn't be your only options. I'm sure you'll have a "reason," "purpose," "something" besides :

Opening credits then "hey, you're the Inquisitor, go inquire!"

Ah.  When I see "figured" I see past tense, meaning I read it as a perspective you once had, but now no longer hold.  In other words, it looked like your post was saying that you once held the opinion that the topic would have more variety, but you now no longer feel that way.

[Allan Schumacher]

Meh, they're having fun.

Part of why we opened this is also for people to stop filling up DA2 forums with DA3 threads. It was not exactly the best kept secret in the entire world and all.

[David Gaider]

BrotherWarth wrote...
I really hate these stupid tweets that don't say anything about anything. They're basically just nonsensical wastes of time that we get nothing out of. And this whole "We won't actually show anything from the game until Spring 2013, but please discuss everything(see: nothing) about the game except for the leak" is ridiculous. Priestly confirmed they only announced the game because of the Doctors' departure, but what was the point? They have nothing to show us to garner excitement and pre-orders haven't started so what exactly did they get out of it? The only news coverage it's gotten is "Dragon Age 3 has a title and that's it."

Ha. You would have done poorly in the three year span between DAO's announce and its reveal. If you expect the forums to be a place where information is provided, coming here during that time is definitely an exercise in frustration.

[David Gaider]

Foopydoopydoo wrote...
Why IS it called SPRINTreviewday anyway? Is there sprinting involved? It seems an odd way to hold a meeting in that case. xp

It's part of Agile Development, where a game development cycle is split up into milestones-- which are further split up into three-week sprints. So a sprint review is where everyone gets together and reviews the progress which has been made over the last three weeks, and tracking how close we are to meeting our goals for the milestone.

[Allan Schumacher]

Digital Acting knocks it out of the park! Crazy busy sprint but awesome to see it all come together. \\m/

/flex

[Fiddzz]

BrotherWarth wrote...

I really hate these stupid tweets that don't say anything about anything. They're basically just nonsensical wastes of time that we get nothing out of. And this whole "We won't actually show anything from the game until Spring 2013, but please discuss everything(see: nothing) about the game except for the leak" is ridiculous. Priestly confirmed they only announced the game because of the Doctors' departure, but what was the point? They have nothing to show us to garner excitement and pre-orders haven't started so what exactly did they get out of it? The only news coverage it's gotten is "Dragon Age 3 has a title and that's it."

It's called having fun.  The point is to try and say things without saying anything. 

Some people like to follow them and analyze and it seems fun for them too. :happy:

People that don't follow the tweets or don't care, don't have to.

[Fiddzz]

BrotherWarth wrote...

David Gaider wrote...

Ha. You would have done poorly in the three year span between DAO's announce and its reveal.

Origins wasn't announced with just a name and nothing to show. But I did follow news on Origins closely from it's announcement to its release so my problem is not waiting. You could say my problem is...

Blair Brown wrote...

The point is to try and say things without saying anything.

And...

Blair Brown wrote...
Some people like to follow them and analyze and it seems fun for them too.

There's nothing to analyze. Its literally nonsense. Unless the DA3 team is using some elaborate code and thinks we're all like the autistic kid from Mercury Rising I don't see the point of it. It seems like a waste of you guy's time and it's definitely a waste of ours to try and glean anything from it. We got more info out of a single tweet from a voice actor than the hundreds of tweets from actual developers.

I'm confused as to how, while sitting in a room watching great presentations, tweeting a sentence about them is a "waste of time".

But thats besides the point.

It's fun for us, and for the people that do like to follow along. 

[Allan Schumacher]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Is this the first time Bioware has used Agile?

I don't remember hearing about it during ME3's development, or DA2 - although admittedly I didn't follow DA2 that closely. 

Just interested in its benefits compared to other methods, or why it seems to be something a lot of teams are raving about all of a sudden.

Agile has been used on each of the projects from what I know.


The counterpoint to agile is more predictive development, which attempts to plan everything out from the get go.  In reality we use a hybrid, because we do have larger scale goals of the project, but the thing about agile is shorter development "sprints" so that you can achieve deliverables to the customer so that the customer can provide feedback.  From there, iteration can occur to make sure the feature is as expected and delivers the appropriate end result.

I'm confused as to how, while sitting in a room watching great
presentations, tweeting a sentence about them is a "waste of time".

Obviously there is more productive stuff you can do while one team leaves the theater and another comes in

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 24 novembre 2012 - 06:14 .