Drew Karpyshyn was interviewed about Mass Effect by tic games network.
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Thanks Farflame!<h4 style="text-align: center;">Drew Karpyshyn on Mass Effect[/h4] One of the things we asked Drew about was how Mass Effect came to be, including whether parallels to Knights of the Old Republic were intentional and trying to understand the overall process behind creating such a huge new IP. We also asked about what it was like putting together the team for Mass Effect.
He told us that “What we usually try to do with BioWare is we try to build on what we’ve done before. So there was a lot of the same team, some of the writers, some of the artists, a lot of the production people, from KOTOR, came on to Mass Effect. We worked well together, we had done a pretty good job on KOTOR, it was a already a big success so wanted to keep a lot of that team together.”
He also talked about the nature of the conversation wheel and how things changed with having a voice protagonist.
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