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[CarlSpackler]

  My apologies if this has been addressed.   (I haven't seen any specific comments by the devs on this front.)

  I'm just curious if the same writing team from DAO has written the story/dialogue for the expansion or if it is another team?  I know previously Bioware has stated that there multiple teams focusing on the different projects within the DA brand.

  If its not David, Mary, Sheryl, etc.. who may we ask is the new team?  What have they worked on previously?  Or is this their first major game writing?  

  Just to be clear this is not some paranoid post that "Oh no! IF ITS NOT GAIDER ITS GOING SUCK!."  I'm just genuinely curious.

[Ferret A Baudoin]

The writing team for Awakening is David Gaider, Sheryl Chee, and I. Although I don't count myself as a full writer, I am usually busy being lead-like. But I sneak into the office early to write what I can. I hide behind my monitor so they can't find me.

Modifié par Ferret A Baudoin, 20 janvier 2010 - 03:31 .

[Ferret A Baudoin]

Posting on the forums is writing, isn't it?

[Mary Kirby]

Colenda wrote...

Hmm - so no Mary Kirby? Wonder what she's up to. Something secret and interesting? 

*resists urge to make the "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" joke* 

I'm currently working on Star Wars: The Old Republic.

[Mary Kirby]

Bhatair wrote...


Wait, I'm confused.

So you are or aren't going to kill me now?

Yes.

[Mary Kirby]

Mordaedil wrote...
I can't express my feelings in a non-creepy way. What do I do?

Interpretive dance?  Cake sculpture?  Semaphore code?

Modifié par Mary Kirby, 20 janvier 2010 - 05:11 .

[David Gaider]

Shavon wrote...
I like the way you think!  Reassurance:  David Gaider is behind the writing of DA:A.  Excellent *rubs hands in excitement*

Some of it. Sheryl Chee and Ferret both wrote huge portions, as well.

Glad you're excited.

[David Gaider]

Lakmoots wrote...
David Gaider... write more books?

I might. It really depends on the publisher, and my availability.

Besides, I am sure he is spending his time eating nachos and drinking pepsi

I wish. The diet I'm on restricts me from such delicacies, I'm afraid. These days I cast longing looks at the nearest pizza as I munch on my celery sticks and drink my Diet A&W Root Beer.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure I could drink regular pop anymore. It tastes sort of like malted battery acid.

[David Gaider]

Sloth Of Doom wrote...
I guess my gift of malted battery acid went unappreciated!
 

That would explain the empty tin can with the bottom corroded out of it I got in the mail.

[David Gaider]

Lakmoots wrote...
As a Literary Critic (read: y'know) I want to actually say that it is *very* hard contacting writers to ever get commentary, interviews or even opinion out of them on their own work...

As part of this industry, and a writer, you are part of a group that actually gives its own audience contact with the writer as a living being... including insights into some of the choices (political, moral and otherwise) that you have made in the construction of your work...

So, thank you, again - the internet is not the easiest forum with which to interact with your fanbase, oddly.

It would be nice if more people actually interacted with me as a living being, as opposed to The Writer or (more commonly) BIOWARE MAN... as if I were some personification of everthing Bioware does and personally responsible for its decisions.

Part of being a public face on the forums, I guess.

But you're quite welcome. I enjoy coming here... usually.

Modifié par David Gaider, 25 janvier 2010 - 11:58 .

[David Gaider]

Lakmoots wrote...
How bout...

David: The man who made Lanfear's dream with Coran come true... sort of...

BEST.

IN-JOKE.

EVER.

[David Gaider]

lqutois wrote...
oh wow..I think I have a new life goal now...to become such a beloved poster as to become an npc in a bioware game...

It's not going to happen anymore, I'm afraid. It was sort of a backhanded compliment to begin with, and the source of much ugliness on the forums when it happened... so no go. Not from me, anyhow.

[Mary Kirby]

SleeplessInSigil wrote...

oooh Kirby! Do you really turn into what you eat, and can you do the dance here? ^^

Yes.  Which is why, right now, I am a bowl of cereal.  Incidentally, that's preventing me from dancing.

[Mary Kirby]

GM23 wrote...


How can you type then?

I use the spoon, of course.

[Ferret A Baudoin]

It's not only exciting for the community to have the same writing team from DAO but it's also super nice for us. No ramp up time on learning the lore. Everyone is on the same page and talking the same language. We hit the ground running right away. Awakening, in general, has been that way. Expansions are fun to work on.

[David Gaider]

fluffyamoeba wrote...
So who wrote Lady Shayna's codex entry?

Ha! You know... I think that was actually my doing, if I remember. I could be wrong. But it's not a cameo on quite the same level as we did in BG2 or ToB, is it?

[Ferret A Baudoin]

I'm not a number. I'm a human being!



Funny thing is that even having been in the industry a long time meeting some gaming luminaries and whatnot can make my throat choak up like a nervous school boy. We are definitely just people. Very bizarre and demented people, but people nonetheless. At least, that's what my tricorder tells me.