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[Bacus]

I have a very unusual question regarding how Bioware Montreal works.

 

To keep it simple i'll just shoot the questions:

 

1. Why are there producers? isn't the Mass Effect Franchise financed by EA? If so what roll other than the idea of the universe do producers do?
2. How many people work at Bioware Montreal? I imagine there must be a good big team there.

 

Why I ask these questions?

 

First of I'm sorry if i'm crossing a line, i surfed the web but found no info regarding these stuff, maybe that's why i could not find information!

 

Well, I always wondered why there was a producer needed, because i always understood that a producer was the person that financed the project. And the amount of people? just wanted to know how many awesome people are there living -at least- in Canada.

[Barrett Rodych]

You might be thinking "publisher" instead of "producer". Producers on the team are, at the most basic role definition, along the lines of project/product management.

 

I'm pretty sure BioMontreal's over 100 people now, but I'm not sure of exact numbers. I don't think we're over 125 tho. BioEdmonton I think is in the 3-400 range, been awhile since I've heard headcount numbers for over there though.

[Bacus]

Thanks for the timely answer Mr. Rodych!

 

let me see if i got this right.

 

Casey mainly servers as a roll to distribute tasks, along ALL of the departments sort of a Project Manager for the whole area?

[Barrett Rodych]

Casey's more high level, like setting/guiding project vision direction, as opposed to lower level task distribution. Producers also don't necessarily distribute tasks either, but moreso ensure various parts of the project are progressing. Team/project department leads, and development directors would be the folks who do that kind of task distributing. But every individual dev has input on what should be worked on when too.

Game development is complicated!

[Bacus]

Nice! now i get it

 

Yeah i understand the complicated part myself. I ran a super small company, I myself am the writer/Loremaster/Administrator/RP.

 

Anyhow now you managed to explain the works of a good big company. Ty sir!