I'm Mark Darrah. Let's Talk Games. I worked at BioWare from 1997 to 2021
Working in the game industry?
Looking to start?
Just curious about how things work?
Listen to someone with over 20 years of experience.
I worked at BioWare for 23 years. All of that directly in game development.
Turns out you can apply a lot of the lessons I learned to your everyday
From 1997 until 2008 I worked as a programmer, focused mostly on gameplay systems
From 2007 until 2021 I was an Executive Producer, leading projects
Games I worked on (That were released):
Baldur's Gate (1998)
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (1999)
Baldur's Gate II (2000)
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (2001)
Neverwinter Nights (2002)
Jade Empire (2005)
Mass Effect (2007)
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (2008)
Dragon Age: Origins (2009)
Dragon Age II (2011)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)
Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017)
Anthem (2019)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)
... And some other things ...
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YouTube rejected my copyright warning appeal.
Again, I was streaming All Quiet on the Western Front
A movie from 1930 in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Given the text of the rejection it seems pretty clear that a human did NOT look at the appeal.
This shouldn’t be a big deal but it is really irritating me..
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Apparently YouTube doesn't like streaming a movie, even a public domain one.
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I've been doing this for 5 years?!?
Next week we will do the year end round up as a live stream (I have a scheduling conflict this week)
In the meantime, revel in my complete lack or artistic, or technical art skills:
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Survive 'til '25 was a bunch of BS but hopefully 2026 will see great things in the gaming industry
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I've decided to not do an end of year video this year.
Viewership dips this toime of year anyways.
Hopefully everyone survived 2025 and we'll see what 2026 brings.
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No video this week (the big channels I follow seem to consistently taken the week off so I'm following suit)
See you in 2026!
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If I can get my act together, I may try briefly upping my shorts content to see what happens.
It won't affect the long form videos and it will probably just be this week.
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Not to be all self promotion-y but here is a list of resources Owlcat Games put out.
I’m on that list in YouTube channels
… if you wanna vote for me…
owlcat.games/learning
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I’ve been finding the background music behind my videos increasingly off putting. Originally it was there to smooth the whole thing out.
How about you?
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