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[Hrungr]

BioWare ‏@bioware

#Monday

 

https://pbs.twimg.co...foHUAAA6_BE.mp4

 

[Cheviot]

 

BioWare ‏@bioware

#Monday

 

https://pbs.twimg.co...foHUAAA6_BE.mp4

 

Yup, that's the best treatment for a case of the Mondays there is.

[DragonRacer in Mourning]

Not necessarily, for the first time ME and DA are using the same engine so they could quite easily have shifted people over to work on the project despite it being manly developed by another studio. It’s very common in AAA game dev to have multiple studios working on one project if they share engines, just look at Assassins Creed. One studio will be the head of development but other ubisoft studios will be brought in on the project to meet deadlines or handle different elements of the game like multiplayer. Also the new IP still sounds like it’s in the very early writing/world building stage so they won’t need many dev’s, maybe just a handful to create some early prototypes and I highly doubt they would’ve started on anything to do with DA4 yet given we're still in the post-release DLC stage, even if they had the only dev's that would be being used would be concept artists and writers.

 

Precisely. Cross-studio work seems pretty common for BioWare, actually. Here's some fun trivia: ME3 was largely developed by Edmonton, but the MP portion was created by the Montreal team. Then the team in Edmonton was actually the live team maintaining ME3MP and creating the MP DLCs, while Montreal shifted focus and made the Omega SP DLC (I am unsure if they or Edmonton made Leviathan SP DLC, but I'm pretty sure Edmonton did the Citadel SP DLC).

 

So, really, they cross back and forth a lot.

 

 

 

BioWare ‏@bioware

#Monday

 

https://pbs.twimg.co...foHUAAA6_BE.mp4

 

 

What, exactly, am I looking at here?

 

EDIT: Oh, it's an animated thing that's working now. Okay. Was confused by the static image that was originally there.

[Hrungr]

What, exactly, am I looking at here?

 

EDIT: Oh, it's an animated thing that's working now. Okay. Was confused by the static image that was originally there.

 

Yeah, I wish this board could properly display those Twitter MP4s. I took a screengrab for those who can't see the link properly...

[Heimdall]

Not necessarily, for the first time ME and DA are using the same engine so they could quite easily have shifted people over to work on the project despite it being manly developed by another studio. It’s very common in AAA game dev to have multiple studios working on one project if they share engines, just look at Assassins Creed. One studio will be the head of development but other ubisoft studios will be brought in on the project to meet deadlines or handle different elements of the game like multiplayer. Also the new IP still sounds like it’s in the very early writing/world building stage so they won’t need many dev’s, maybe just a handful to create some early prototypes and I highly doubt they would’ve started on anything to do with DA4 yet given we're still in the post-release DLC stage, even if they had the only dev's that would be being used would be concept artists and writers.

I know, but I doubt they have that many people leaving depending on how extensive the DLC they're working on is.  And I wouldn't be so sure about the new IP's development phase.  Sure, Gaider's transfer wasn't that long ago but the IP has been in the works for quite some time at this point.

 

Yeah, I doubt DA4 is more than ideas on a whiteboard at this point, I just threw that out there.

[FFZero]

I know, but I doubt they have that many people leaving depending on how extensive the DLC they're working on is.  And I wouldn't be so sure about the new IP's development phase.  Sure, Gaider's transfer wasn't that long ago but the IP has been in the works for quite some time at this point.

 

Yeah, I doubt DA4 is more than ideas on a whiteboard at this point, I just threw that out there.

 

 

Well the DAI dev team was originally made up of a few hundred people, probably around 200-300. You don’t need that many people working on DLC. The dev team has probably shrank to maybe 50 – 75 now so maybe skeleton crew was the wrong term to use.

[Heimdall]

Well the DAI dev team was originally made up of a few hundred people, probably around 200-300. You don’t need that many people working on DLC. The dev team has probably shrank to maybe 50 – 75 now so maybe skeleton crew was the wrong term to use.

Well, yeah, I know the dev team usually shrinks after release, i just thought skeleton crew was a bit too far.

[Dark Phoenix XI]

With nearly all EA games running on Frostbite I assume that all the internal studios help each other in one way or another.

Like for an example the character rigging work Edmonton did for Inquisition could be then used to add more diversity to the species in Mass Effect Andromeda and vice versa, adding to a mass library of resources developers can pool from. At least thats how I recall it working albeit a more simplified way of saying it also (in theory) it means they don't have to make rigging for elves, dwarves and qunari from scratch every game from now on.

[Heimdall]

With nearly all EA games running on Frostbite I assume that all the internal studios help each other in one way or another.

Like for an example the work Edmonton did to make Inquisition could be then used to add more diversity to the species in Mass Effect Andromeda and vice versa, adding to a mass library of resources developers can pool from. At least thats how I recall it working albeit a more simplified way of saying it also (in theory) it means they don't have to make rigging for elves, dwarves and qunari from scratch every game from now on.

I recall reading about that actually, and not just within Bioware.  The Inquisition devs worked with DICE while modifying the engine, so engine features developed by Bioware devs could end up being used by other EA developers entirely (&Vice Versa).

[Dark Phoenix XI]

It will be exciting to see what the next Dragon Age will be like after I assume 3-4 years worth of stuff from other EA studios, Mass Effect Andromeda and maybe whatever new IP the old Mass Effect team is working on with the extra bonus of no 10 year old consoles to hold it back and hopefully the lessons learnt from Inquisition *cough* lack of cutscenes, static maps *cough*.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Strangely quiet, eh? *Jeopardy theme plays in the background*

[Heimdall]

When were those darkspawn/Deep Roads posts made?

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Well tehre's a Legion of the Dead thing in the site news section, now.

 

http://www.dragonage...ion-of-the-dead

 

(On topic cus I'm sure there'll be a tweet about it soon-ish... >_>)

[Dark Phoenix XI]

When were those darkspawn/Deep Roads posts made?

 

The blog stuff and social media things? Last week.

[Heimdall]

The blog stuff and social media things? Last week.

I meant what time of day, I'm trying to gauge when Bioware is likely to post today.

[Dark Phoenix XI]

Well tehre's a Legion of the Dead thing in the site news section, now.

 

http://www.dragonage...ion-of-the-dead

 

(On topic cus I'm sure there'll be a tweet about it soon-ish... >_>)

Legion of the Dead eh? All repeat after me, bring back Sigrun! Bring back Sigrun!

[Rascoth]

Well tehre's a Legion of the Dead thing in the site news section, now.

 

http://www.dragonage...ion-of-the-dead

 

(On topic cus I'm sure there'll be a tweet about it soon-ish... >_>)

[Dark Phoenix XI]

I meant what time of day, I'm trying to gauge when Bioware islikely to post today.

Oh! About nowish.

[Heimdall]

Well tehre's a Legion of the Dead thing in the site news section, now.

 

http://www.dragonage...ion-of-the-dead

 

(On topic cus I'm sure there'll be a tweet about it soon-ish... >_>)

The fact that its another "Know your lore" post makes me think today may not be the day  

[ElitePinecone]

Hunh.

 

This is definitely looking like a DLC focused on the Deep Roads, darkspawn and dwarves.

 

Which looks completely different to the ~leak~ that was being talked about a while ago.

 

I wonder if there might actually be two more DLC packs coming? That would be cool.

[Dark Phoenix XI]

I still don't think it will be announced until next week as its Gamescom.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

From that Legion of the Dead news article: 

 

 

Aren't those the doors activated by Red Lyrium shards in In Hushed Whispers? Which are also the same kind of door activated by sky shards in Solasan? In fact, that might be a pic of the ice door in Solasan, now that I think of it. 

 

With the dwarves' connection to the Imperium, them influencing a lyrium door lock Alexius uses makes sense. The door to Solasan... more evidence the ancient dwarves and ancient elves were buds, I guess?

[Heimdall]

I still don't think it will be announced until next week as its Gamescom.

I thought Bioware confirmed they weren't going to Gamescom?

[Dark Phoenix XI]

There was also another door like that in Jaws of Hakkon. http://dragonage.wik...stery_of_Winter

[Dark Phoenix XI]

I thought Bioware confirmed they weren't going to Gamescom?

Doesn't stop EA announcing it at or around their event, more people are looking at gaming news then so its a perfect time to sell DLC they only need to show a trailer and get BioWare to write up a blog post or just start selling it.