Dragon Age and Mass Effect Veteran Trick Weekes is among a group of biore veterans who have announced that they are now looking for work, after the news that Bioware is reducing size.
Publishing on social networks, Weekes said they were now looking for a new writing post after two decades in Bioware, which culminated in the work in Dragon Age last year: The Veilguard.
Yesterday, Bioware publicly confirmed what former studio veteran Mark Darra had previous that a small “central team” continued building the project.
Later, IGN reported that a smaller group of Bioware employees had been told that their roles had been completed, and that they had been given time to request new positions within EA.
This was reflected in half a dozen publications in the social networks of the personnel affected by the dismissals, who had held high -level positions in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
“Now I am looking for a new writing/narrative position,” Weekes wrote. “It has been a privilege to work with so many incredible developers during my 20 years in Bioware, and I will appreciate the memories of the wonderful people of the community that I have met on the road. Thank you all.”
Weekes served as a writer in Mass Effect 1 and 2, before being promoted to a senior writer in Mass Effect 3. Weekes contributed to the brilliant arc of the history of mangaphages of that game, and also wrote for many of the best DLC of the Series, including the Lady of the Shadow Broker, Leviathan and Citadel.
More recently, Weekes served as a writer in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and then as a main writer in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Another biore staff who have said publicly that they are looking for work include the editor Karin West-Weakes and the narrative designer Ryan Cormier, as well as producer Jen Cheverie and the Michelle Systems designer Michelle Flamm.
According to a publication in the social networks of the former Bioware writer Ann Lemay, who worked in the study between 2011 and 2016, the study no longer uses any writer or editors of that period, after this week’s cuts and several outputs above.
For better or worse, it seems that Mass Effect 5 will be written by a completely separated team of people from those who worked in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
The next great Bioware project is being led by Mass Effect Mike Gamble veteran, along with a staff of personnel who returned in Mass Effect’s original trilogy such as Preston Watamaniuk, Derek Watts and Parrish Ley.
This group is now ready to continue the early work of Bioware in Mass Effect 5, which, despite numerous teasing of what is in the store, is still several years away.