Mark Darrah on Games

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

Survive 'til '25 was a bunch of BS but hopefully 2026 will see great things in the gaming industry

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 86

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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.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 144

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Mark Darrah on Games

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!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 59

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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.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 83

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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

2 months ago | [YT] | 137

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Mark Darrah on Games

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?

2 months ago | [YT] | 26

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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

3 months ago | [YT] | 130

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Mark Darrah on Games

EA is going Private?!?
www.reuters.com/business/electronic-arts-nears-rou…
With Saudi Money...

3 months ago | [YT] | 70

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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.

4 months ago | [YT] | 24

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