Ogame Rant
I’ve been playing a text-based online game for several months now called oGame. I enjoyed its minimalistic interface — it was very easy to go in and do a few quick things and then get…
BioWare-Brent Year 2 (2000 – 2001)
This is the second of ten posts, one for each year that I worked for BioWare. A new engine, is like, new, you know After a short vacation and little basking in pleasure over Baldur…
Mass Effect Galaxy
Pretty mixed reviews on this one so far. If you don’t know what it is, Mass Effect Galaxy is an iPod Touch / iPhone game made by BioWare and set in the popular Mass Effect…
Building a Shed
So my wife and I built a shed on the weekend. It was a precut package, so on the surface it seemed relatively simple, just a bit of hammering and whatnot, but we needed it…
BioWare-Brent Year 1 (1999)
This will be the first of ten posts, one for each year that I worked for BioWare. Preamble After graduating the summer of 1999 from the University of Alberta I set out to look for…
Money and Videogames
Occasionally I come across articles like this one from the Motley Fool where you see a rather negative forecast for the gaming industry despite a general and steady growth. Normally I disregard these naysayers and…
Onto New Adventures
“Former Lead Designer of Dragon Age to Leave BioWare” or more appropriately — “Has Brent taken some crazy pills?” The last year and a half has been a busy one for me — a second…
The Casual Gamer?
For those not directly in the gaming industry, you may not have heard the phrase “the casual gamer”. Effectively this is a label embracing all the potential game players who don’t regularly play video games,…
Baldur’s Gate 2 still receiving praise
Over ten years since its release, Baldur’s Gate 2, a fantasy role-playing game with as strong an emphasis on story, character, and relationships as with combat, is still reviewing positively. IGN has just rated it…
Archon Rocks!
Check out Archon on the ipod/iphone. It is a very fun game and it looks like the next update will fix some of the few problems I have found with it. http://www.archonclassic.com/devblog/ I used to…
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