Madeleine

I’ve finally finished my lil retrospective video on my time in BioWare fandom; it’s a bit Video Editing Is My Passion but like. i got tired of tweaking it to get everything cropped right so WHATEVER the jank is ENDEARING okay (content warning - lots of photos of me) ❤️‍🩹

We're absolutely floored by the response to our official Knightmare game trailer. We totally underestimated how big the reaction would be! We are so excited about the game and to be working with Hugo Myatt. Thanks so much for all the kind words and shares. More to come soon! #indiegame #treguard

truth; you have basically The Warehouse, The Mine and The Cave. with the crates rearranged. (this isn’t *inherently* bad fwiw; clearly it hasn’t impacted peoples’ fondness for the game. and asset reuse is incredibly useful and necessary. but when DA2 did it it got torn to shreds for it)

Current mood

i’m tired boss 🫩 how about we stop cancelling things i love for five fucking minutes. how about we try that. i dunno how many more billboards i have in me

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

As someone whose first shipped game as a writer was Mass Effect and is now using Yarn Spinner, knowing that the team was inspired by a game I was a tinny part of is pretty cool. Here's to more stories, wherever they come from.

The closest I’ll ever get to being up in lights in Times Square That phrase isn’t Keelah Se’Lai It’s the Quarian phrase I created for #MassEffect Annihilation. The name of my ship Not “by the homeworld I hope to see one day” but “by the homeworld I hope to find one day” I have a lot of feelings…

I know it's the People of Bioware who had the Special Sauce, but I also think it's okay to mourn the loss of New Voices who never had a chance to touch the IP/work with people who were deeply passionate about a thing

"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer." As well as

#emmrichvolkarin emojis bc Moods & Reasons TM

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I was a senior designer on Anthem and a lead designer on Veilguard, and I’m now working on a delightful cozy multiplayer life sim that’s about to launch - free Steam demo is open now, players and wishlist adds are very helpful! www.playspiritcrossing.com

TENCHO TURIAN!! youtu.be/kz37A6xmXX8

this is so random i know but i always think of solivitus (the formari herbalist guy who asks you to bring him spider fangs and dragon glands and shit) in DA2. there’s just something about how he speaks, i just always like talking to him 😂

Re: save bioware

‘you can’t be pretty in veilguard’ why do i keep seeing this. who is saying this. and why are they trying so hard to expose both their lack of skill and terrible taste 😬

"the dialogue in dragon age the veilguard is so bad! bioware dialogue didn't used to be this cheesy!" it did actually, but you were 12 and you hadn't yet been radicalised into a hateful dipshit

i got a Top Contributor badge in the i fucking hate summer group earlier this year, that’s how much i fucking hate summer 😂 i look forward to returning to reclaim my title in 2027, for now it’s the Aussies’ turn 🫡

seeing so many posts that are like ‘all you people who hate summer I hope you’re happy 😤’ as if we’re gonna say anything other than YES ACTUALLY!! DELIGHTED!! i feel like i’ve been reborn after that brutal never-ending fucking summer. my beloved cosy evenings have returned to me at last 🕯️

KNIGHTMARE IS BACK! An official point-and click adventure game based on the classic TV series - with actors from the original show. Coming 2027. www.knightmaregame.co.uk And just remember - it's only a game...isn't it? #indiedev #adventuregame

😭 Gideon Emery posted a lovely video about BioWare. www.instagram.com/reel/De4r9dU...

With BW closed, please enjoy this mockup I made for the "Going Gold" post for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. If you recall, my pitch clearly lost to the Manfred pic, which was also great.

But it has to be noted just how counterfactual this is; if that had actually released on N7 or TGA, there's no world in which there wouldn't have been an instant hate campaign because the only reason people seem to have ever cared about the developers has been to make them miserable (evidently)

Sweeney tries to make out he's saying this in defence of the beleaguered indie devs who want to use AI, but remember that his company laid off 1000 people earlier this year before pivoting to AI. He's taking this stance for one reason: he loves money

whoa!! this was at 80-something thousand when I signed it 24 hours ago 😮 c.org/mCjM4KDNvw

Games are expensive. Games that dare to tell complex stories featuring queer characters are risky. Private equity is allergic to both of those. They want a guaranteed profit, a repeatable success with as little spent on labour as possible. That is antithetical to what BioWare was.

I’m deeply saddened by the closing of #BioWare - thank you to all the creatives who gave us so much magic. Your worlds live on in us all.

thanks for everything 🐉

longest of long shots but if anyone wanted a last hurrah on DAI multiplayer (on Xbox) sometime in the next few weeks/months then let me know. who knows how long it’ll still be alive for and I’d love to give it one last go! #dragonage (still able to find ME3MP matches 14.5 years later bless 🥲)