#mark darrah

[scribbleymark]

Image 1: A screencap from Mark Darrah’s YouTube short titled “Why Dragon Age Changes Its Protagonists.” The comment is posted by user orderofthejedi1826 and reads:

“You say the Wardens, while cool, were not intended to be the anchor point. What was the original intended one? The Blight? Elves? Mages and Templars? Even if things never developed in the way that it was wanted to. I'm curious what the original goal was, if there was one at all. Thanks!”

Image 2: A direct reply from Mark Darrah to the above comment. It reads:

“It was always politics.”

[leliwardens]

“There is definitely some stuff in DA I think was interesting, stuff to do with what happened to a Warden that killed an Archdemon, there was some interesting space that we wanted to explore there that didn’t make it in.” [per Mark Darrah]

[fenharel]

have you guys seen mark darrahs latest video about the toxicity around veilguard? his whole point is that as much as you are entitled to be upset and tell higher ups about it, you shouldnt be cruel to devs because you dont know what happened during development and he made an example which was... interesting lmao 💀

[carolinaspring]

This just makes me so sad. To think of what could have been... 😩

[dragonageconfessions]

CONFESSION:

My confession. I recently discovered Mark Darrah's youtube channel and Its really made me understand game development better. I especially appreciate his sharing of his Dragon Age Memories. I've come to see things differently and I've come to understand why some things/elements/aspects I would like to see can't be done yet because the technology is not there to include it. Its also made me filter out a lot of people in the fandom who post conspiracy theories and really bad takes on Dreadwolf, etc. Its made me realize how many in the fandom come out of the woodwork thinking they know everything about game development when they really don't

Mark Darrah on Games

I'm Mark Darrah. I worked at BioWare from 1997 to 2021. Working in the game industry? Looking to start? Just curious about how things work?

[anneapocalypse]

"So there was a controversy that caught me a bit by surprise. When the leak occurred that we were doing qunari as a playable race, there was an immediate backlash because the assumption was that we would only have male qunari. This was never the intention, but because the news was coming out through a leak, it was missing necessary context about the fact that we were doing male and female qunari. So we actually had to get ahead of this, or try to regain control of this narrative at PAX, because the narrative out there was that we were going to put out a game with male-only qunari, which was never the case. So one thing I would say is if you're getting news through leaks, chances are that you're going to be missing a piece of context. Sometimes that's going to mean that you're misinterpreting the news that you're hearing."

--Mark Darrah, Dragon Age: Inquisition - PAX 2013 (Mark Darrah Reacts)

[mrs-gauche]

An important announcement from Mark Darrah

[thebookworm0001]