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[DAYtheELF]

Alistair McNally ‏@Al_McNally
What a day at #BioWare on #DAI If I were tell you what I saw this afternoon my giblets would be roasted on a cheese wheel.

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John Epler ‏@eplerjc
Oh god, I've managed to break everything.

John Epler ‏@eplerjc
IT'S OKAY EVERYONE I FIXED IT. *sweat drop*

[Either.Ardrey]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Oh, from a Polygon article:

"Jennifer Hepler left BioWare this week to begin work on a book about narrative design and do some freelance work. Her most recent job title was senior writer on Dragon Age: Inquisition. "

When I talked to David Gaider briefly at GDC, he told me that it was Jennifer who had written my favorite character in DA2, Sebastian. It's sad to see her go, but it sounds like she's going off to do something like a personal pet project that she wants to do. I'll definitely be checking out that book when she's done with it. 

[DAYtheELF]

P.s. folks - this is the Twitter thread. We all loved Jennifer and wish her the best, but we don't want this thread to get closed for being too off-topic. The thread specifically on her leaving was already closed because it wasn't DA:I relevant.

[MissOuJ]

Azaron Nightblade wrote...

From the sound of it she'll be showing aspiring writers the ropes, so she's still in the game - more or less.

True. Silver lining and all that...

I quess I'll have to keep my eyes out for her book / any articles she might publish. Video game writing in general -- and narrative design in particular -- is a very facinating field.

DAYtheELF wrote...

P.s. folks - this is the Twitter thread. We all loved Jennifer and wish her the best, but we don't want this thread to get closed for being too off-topic. The thread specifically on her leaving was already closed because it wasn't DA:I relevant.

That's easy to fix:

David Gaider @davidgaider:

The Dragon Age writing team will miss Jennifer a lot. She's responsible for some of DA's finest moments, and there's a lot of her in DAI.

Lockdown averted!

Glad to see we'll be able to enjoy her work in DA:I despite her departure!

Modifié par MissOuJ, 16 août 2013 - 05:29 .

[mrpoultry]

Interesting. In the new combat feature, warriors can roll and throw harpoons. Good to know. And also a new companion was shown in the video, and looks to be an elven archer.

[devSin]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

/me looks over panels in Blair's post

"BioWare Talks – Quality Assurance: The Importance of Game Testing"

Hmmm, sounds interesting... 

I look forward to them playing the music to get you off the stage.

The words, where do they keep coming from? It never ends!

cindercatz wrote...

Who is John Dombrow? I don't know who all the team is, read back several pages and I can't find it. 

John was on the other floor. He wrote all the best parts of ME3 (with Patrick, Sylvia, and Cathleen knocking out most of the rest): chiefly, the whole Tuchanka arc (including Wrex, Eve, Padok, and most of Mordin), Garrus, and Javik.

He had the stuff.

Maria Caliban wrote...

He has credits for ME 2 and SW:TOR. I suspect he's in Edmonton.

Apparently I was more right than I knew.

They said in the other thread that Chris was let go a while back as well (he most recently wrote EDI and Thane in ME3).

What the hell is going on here? It's getting close to the time to head up to Canada and barricade the doors with our bodies. Everyone hold hands!

Modifié par devSin, 16 août 2013 - 07:53 .

[Fiddzz]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

/me looks over panels in Blair's post

"BioWare Talks – Quality Assurance: The Importance of Game Testing"

Hmmm, sounds interesting...

"Main Event: The Next Dragon Age: An Introduction to the Inquisition"
"Sneak Peek - Dragon Age: Behind the Scenes"

people can come say hi to me too Allan.. <_<

[LPPrince]

Get back in your corners or I'm calling it a double disqualification.

[Allan Schumacher]

Blair Brown wrote...

Allan Schumacher wrote...

/me looks over panels in Blair's post

"BioWare Talks – Quality Assurance: The Importance of Game Testing"

Hmmm, sounds interesting...

"Main Event: The Next Dragon Age: An Introduction to the Inquisition"
"Sneak Peek - Dragon Age: Behind the Scenes"

people can come say hi to me too Allan.. <_<

Will they?  I thought you'd be too busy doing stupendously awesome stuff!!

[LPPrince]

I wish the Priestliest of the Chris' was here to defend the tons of excitement and happy happy fun times players get when watching live quality assurance before their eyes

[ManchesterUnitedFan1]

Chris said he left, although in certain I've seen a mod with the name 'evil chris' around here recently...

Modifié par ManchesterUnitedFan1, 16 août 2013 - 10:51 .

[Allan Schumacher]

Chris is no longer with BioWare, but like Stan he now has a personal account and I think he's a moderator as well.

[devSin]

Wrong Chris.

Chris Hepler (Jennifer's husband, and a writer on the old ME team) apparently left (or was let go) a while back as well, according to another source.

I hope at least Cathleen is still there. Though I guess it wouldn't suprise me anymore if she weren't.

Modifié par devSin, 17 août 2013 - 12:13 .

[ElitePinecone]

mrpoultry wrote...

Interesting. In the new combat feature, warriors can roll and throw harpoons. Good to know. And also a new companion was shown in the video, and looks to be an elven archer.

Sera?

[mrpoultry]

ElitePinecone wrote...

mrpoultry wrote...

Interesting. In the new combat feature, warriors can roll and throw harpoons. Good to know. And also a new companion was shown in the video, and looks to be an elven archer.

Sera?

Seems that way, but originally I overlooked the Grey Warden beardy guy thingy, who was also in the video at the end. So 5 confirmed companions so far. Varric, Cass, Vivienne, Grey Warden beardy guy thingy and Elven archer girl thingy(who may be Sera from the survey).

[Chanda]

David Gaider @davidgaider:

The Dragon Age writing team will miss Jennifer a lot. She's responsible for some of DA's finest moments, and there's a lot of her in DAI.

So, if Jennifer Hepler is leaving, and she "Wrote 3 large (15,000-word +) critical path plots and one major follower and romance character" (for Inquisition), who will be taking over writing for her for Inquisition? Or is all of her writing complete?

Modifié par Chanda, 17 août 2013 - 07:04 .

[ladyofpayne]

About Warden Companion.
First letter in his name is "C" and the last is "t"
Casimir
Carmel
Chrétien
Clarent - it looks like this on images.

[ladyofpayne]

"one major follower and romance character. " Cullen I suppose. She wrote him already.

Modifié par ladyofpayne, 17 août 2013 - 07:11 .

[Beck 85]

That looks like "Adamant" to me.

[Chanda]

I thought it looked like "Clavel". Edit: After I was done thinking it said Cullen, lol.

Modifié par Chanda, 17 août 2013 - 07:26 .

[Chanda]

ladyofpayne wrote...

"one major follower and romance character. " Cullen I suppose. She wrote him already.

That's what I'm hoping for.

[ElitePinecone]

Chanda wrote...

David Gaider @davidgaider:

The Dragon Age writing team will miss Jennifer a lot. She's responsible for some of DA's finest moments, and there's a lot of her in DAI.

So, if Jennifer Hepler is leaving, and she "Wrote 3 large (15,000-word +) critical path plots and one major follower and romance character" (for Inquisition), who will be taking over writing for her for Inquisition? Or is all of her writing complete?

Oh cool, interesting tidbits of info.

Writing has generally been one of the earliest parts of the game to be finished, especially things like the main plots. I imagine that if she's written three critpath plots and a character, they won't change too much between now and next year. If the original plan was to launch DAI at the end of this year, the writing would've had to have been fairly advanced until that decision was made. 

(I mean, it seems like characters were recording *dialogue* over a year ago, so chunks of their writing would've been done more than a year ago, too.)

Edit: and something else, DAO's total word-count was "only" 900,000 words all up, so three-crit path plots totalling 75,000 words+ is a fairly hefty chunk of writing. 

Modifié par ElitePinecone, 17 août 2013 - 07:46 .

[ElitePinecone]

Hm, so that *was* Adamant that the Inquisition was attacking. The Wardens moved in there after Asunder?

[Chanda]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Chanda wrote...

David Gaider @davidgaider:

The Dragon Age writing team will miss Jennifer a lot. She's responsible for some of DA's finest moments, and there's a lot of her in DAI.

So, if Jennifer Hepler is leaving, and she "Wrote 3 large (15,000-word +) critical path plots and one major follower and romance character" (for Inquisition), who will be taking over writing for her for Inquisition? Or is all of her writing complete?

Oh cool, interesting tidbits of info.

Writing has generally been one of the earliest parts of the game to be finished, especially things like the main plots. I imagine that if she's written three critpath plots and a character, they won't change too much between now and next year. If the original plan was to launch DAI at the end of this year, the writing would've had to have been fairly advanced until that decision was made. 

(I mean, it seems like characters were recording *dialogue* over a year ago, so chunks of their writing would've been done more than a year ago, too.)

That makes sense, I was just wondering if there might be changes or additional writing due to new races for the Inquisitor and also mounts.

[Argahawk]

Wonder who is that Warden Commander as in 2:45 You can read "Pursue Warden Commander Clam/Clem(can't see last 3 letters)"

Ps. As someone mention before why we fight "Inquisition Soldier" ?? Aren't we suppose to be head of it ?

Modifié par Argahawk, 17 août 2013 - 09:10 .