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[Avalon The Elf]

What's the possibility of another Origins game?

[Graffff]

Why are your fans so adverse to change?

[brushyourteeth]

If you were contractually required to cosplay one DA character, who would you be and why?

If you could choose one other staff member's mandatory cosplay, who would you choose for whom?

[SeismicGravy]

What are the chances of you rebooting the old Destruction Derby franchise?

Please say very high.

[Trolldrool]

Has there at any point in your career been a game that you found so enjoyable and addicting that you had to force yourself to stop playing so it wouldn't interfere with your work projects?

[Allan Schumacher]

Faster Than Light actually had that problem for me when I first played it. SimCity has caused some issue but no overtly obvious lack of sleep days. XCOM did too... haha. Oh man... Basically check Red Bull stock price... if it goes up I probably stayed up too late.

If you were contractually required to cosplay one DA character, who would you be and why?

Alistair. I just relate to him really well IMO.

If you could choose one other staff member's mandatory cosplay, who would you choose for whom?

This will only get me in trouble....

[HolyAvenger]

Allan Schumacher wrote...


Alistair. I just relate to him really well IMO.

 

The cheese or the licking lampposts in winter:bandit:

[Allan Schumacher]

The cheese.

I'm far too smrt to lick lampposts in winter!

[HolyAvenger]

A likely story, but I'll allow it this once...

[brushyourteeth]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

Faster Than Light actually had that problem for me when I first played it. SimCity has caused some issue but no overtly obvious lack of sleep days. XCOM did too... haha. Oh man... Basically check Red Bull stock price... if it goes up I probably stayed up too late.

If you were contractually required to cosplay one DA character, who would you be and why?

Alistair. I just relate to him really well IMO.

If you could choose one other staff member's mandatory cosplay, who would you choose for whom?

This will only get me in trouble....

I don't suppose D-Gaids would object to cosplaying Shale....

[themikefest]

What was your first day like working at Bioware?

[Allan Schumacher]

Surreal. I was given orientation and once that was done, I was walking around on the DA floor and I was seeing the names of so many people I used to interact with years ago on the forums (Derek French, Gaider, Georg, and so forth).

From there they plopped me in a smaller office with a fellow contract tester. After some more orientating, I was told to set up DAO on the PC and start playing through it, and that my first two weeks is to just play and get familiar with the game.

[themikefest]

Thanks for answering.
Just a follow up question.

How many playthroughs did you do in the 2 weeks?

[Dean_the_Young]

Here's something: How's the family-culture at Bioware?

Are most people married, or is the life of a Bioware dev to be geeky and single? Is it common to invite families to come by to show off the cool stuf, or are kids kept away lest they blab?

[Allan Schumacher]

themikefest wrote...

Thanks for answering.
Just a follow up question.

How many playthroughs did you do in the 2 weeks?

Just one, and actually I didn't quite finish it (finished it the following Monday).

Here's something: How's the family-culture at Bioware?

Are most
people married, or is the life of a Bioware dev to be geeky and single?
Is it common to invite families to come by to show off the cool stuf, or
are kids kept away lest they blab?

Hmmmm.  I actually don't really have any stats on "are most people married" or not.  There are a LOT of married people though.  If you were to make me pick, I'd probably wager that >50% are married.

Tours happen somewhat regularly.  I actually had to walk through one today

I believe usually it's just "Want to see the place?  Cool, stop by and we'll fill out some paperwork (NDAs) and I'll take you around."  Although in most cases it's just a fairly standard walk around and go "This is the artists.  These are the designers."

Some guy actually asked me what I did and I showed him (on DA2) and he seemed to think it was pretty cool (I was working on an early prototype for a bot that could playthrough singleplayer DA2 on its own).

[Dean_the_Young]

Cool beans, Allan. Thanks.

[BlueMagitek]

Is every Wednesday LAN Party Baldur's Gate Multiplayer day?

[Willowhugger]

I'm a Catholic as well and while I'd like marriage to happen, I think it's a low priority.

[Avalon The Elf]

Do you own a Grey Warden and or Darkspawn Greatsword replica?

[Allan Schumacher]

I personally do not. Too expensive haha.

[Xiltas]

Are there any Fire Emblem fans among your concept artists? Because I just realized the knight used to show off how different armors look like looks nearly exactly like Duessel from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones:

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[Avalon The Elf]

Allan Schumacher wrote...

I personally do not. Too expensive haha.

The letter openers then? 

[Angrywolves]

Now you're going to have fans show up there and request tours. Heck, your faclity should be as hard for nonemployees to get into as the Body Farm is. rotfl. Did you know Brent Knowles?

[Allan Schumacher]

You can't just stroll around the BioWare offices without access, so I'm not that worried about it.

I did not know Brent Knowles. I joined late in DAO and never really interacted with him at all.

[Danny Boy 7]

This isn't necessarily directed at writers because anyone could want to, but...If you could write a book set in Dragon Age, would you want to? If yes, what would it be about and who would be the main character new or established?