LORE - BioWare Lore in a Minute!

• published: 20 Dec 2013
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Chad tells the tale of BioWare's rise to RPG dominance! http://bit.ly/MoarLore Written by Phil Voiced by Chad Quandt: https://twitter.com/QuandtumTheory Animated by Jeremey: http://www.youtube.com/user/TerminalMontage Transcript: Before they were an RPG powerhouse, Bioware was a tiny video game studio founded by three doctors in Alberta, Canada. Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk , and Augustine Yip enjoyed much success in the medical field which provided them with the capital to make their first game, Shattered Steel, which oddly enough, was a mech simulator. Its modest success encouraged BioWare to plan a sequel, but those plans were scrapped when the studio instead decided to work on an RPG titled Battleground: Infinity. Their publisher, Interplay, found that it was a good fit for the Dungeons & Dragons license they had just acquired and had BioWare implement the D&D; ruleset, resulting in Baldur's Gate. Yip decided to continue with his medical practice but Mew-see-kah and Zes-chuck left all that doctor stuff behind to pursue development on Baldur's Gate full-time, which upon its release in 1998, sold two million copies. Baldur's Gate's success led to Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, and Baldur's Gate 2, all games that used the Infinity engine. After a brief detour with MDK 2, BioWare went to work on resurrecting Neverwinter Nights, but during it's development, Interplay went bankrupt, forcing the studio and the project into the hands of Infogrames. After Neverwinter Nights' release, BioWare went on to make Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, then after merging with EA, the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, and if you can believe it, a Sonic RPG. Finally, after 16 years and nearly as many games, Muzyka and Zeschuk retired in 2012, but the legacy they left behind still lives on in BioWare and all those characters we fall in love with to an unhealthy degree. (I LOVE YOU, TALI) Have fun! --------- The Daily Byte: http://bit.ly/1bsstnb Lore! http://bit.ly/nNfsws Who is Polaris? http://bit.ly/14Z6vUP Subscribe to Dodger on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/PressHeartToContinue Follow Dodger on Twitter: http://www.youtube.com/user/Dexbonus --------- --------- JOIN POLARIS: http://bit.ly/17MTzDW POLARISGO: http://bit.ly/1ec7Hu6 Twitter: http://bit.ly/12ecJOw Facebook: http://on.fb.me/12Ue00n Google+: http://bit.ly/16l2toB Instagram: http://bit.ly/1aiOYgZ Tumblr: http://bit.ly/13HgrW4 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound and Audio Micro --------- Thanks for watching Lore!