http://ydnar.vox.com/library/posts/tags/bioware/page/1/ is living in your future en Vox Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:13:04 -0700 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss bioware http://ydnar.vox.com/library/post/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-my-game-design-career.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(ydnar) http://ydnar.vox.com/library/post/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-my-game-design-career.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://ydnar.vox.com/library/post/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-my-game-design-career.html?_c=feed-rss-full Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:13:04 -0700 <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00b8ea0674f2dece00e398b859e90004" at:format="medium" at:align="right" class="enclosure enclosure-right enclosure-medium photo-enclosure" style="text-align: center; float: right;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item photo-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://ydnar.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0674f2dece00e398b859e90004.html"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00b8ea0674f2dece00e398b859e90004-200pi" alt="Majestic 2001" title="Majestic 2001" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://ydnar.vox.com/library/photo/6a00b8ea0674f2dece00e398b859e90004.html" title="Majestic 2001">Majestic 2001</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> <p> This <a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/1734213">news post</a> today regarding <a href="http://www.bioware.com">BioWare</a> and <a href="http://www.lucasarts.com/">LucasArts</a> made me recall a phone conversation I had on the lawn outside AltaVista back in 2001. A producer from BioWare called me and said they were using a set of textures I’d made to prototype <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic">KOTOR</a>. They wanted to know if I was interested in moving to Canada.</p><p>It was then that I realized that the game industry, as attractive and fun as it could be, was not going to, well, pay well enough to have the life I wanted to have. Especially in 2001. In Canada.</p><p>I ended up taking a 50% pay cut to go work on a PS2 game in Seattle later that year. Silly me, not learning.<br /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://ydnar.vox.com/library/post/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-my-game-design-career.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00b8ea0674f2dece00e398b85ffc0005?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> 2001 design textures games art star wars videogames bioware lucasarts majestic