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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 ...
Mark Darrah on Games
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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This is incredibly frustrating.
I have 300-500 Mb/s upload and download but this stream was a slide show for a bunch of it.
Ity seems to be throttled on the YouTube side but actually getting a response from them has been nearly impossible.
My playback of other YouTube videos is also extremely bad
@youtubecreators
youtube.com/live/gFHeTEdxr_o?feature=share
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EA is going Private?!?
www.reuters.com/business/electronic-arts-nears-rou…
With Saudi Money...
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Stream was a bit of a mess but we PROBABLY have enough to edit part 2 of the Anthem video now.
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I’ve been doing shorts again for a while. Not sure if it’s making a difference.
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I've started getting a lot of comments that are just "Hi"
Is there a scam here that I'm unaware of?
Are these bots?
I get the sub requests but not these. The volume of them has increased by many orders of magnitude
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We may actually cross 20,000 subscribers in the next few weeks.
Time to start collecting questions.
If you have something you want answered, ask in response to this post and I'll try to get to it.
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Neat, I got copyright claimed in Belarus and Russia for some stock footage I used in a VERY old video.
So if you are watching from, one of those territories, you may want to quickly catch up, in case this turns into something.
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I forgot to move this a week so it came out underneath the live stream.
Can we all pretend it just released and you are all really excited?
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