An Encounter With BioWare

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(Originally posted by Mollusken)

Jonric, editor in chief of the Vault networks, was at the GDC conference this week and was lucky enough to spend a few mintues together with BioWare's Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk. This is what he wrote about the event.

Again this year, Joint CEOs Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk were visible participants in the Conference, with three and two sessions on their respective presentation schedules. A few other team members were also in attendance, but seemingly fewer than in past years, probably because many people are busy working on Neverwinter Nights. With respect to that title, I was fortunate enough to sit in on an impromptu demo of the editor that Ray and Greg gave to Rob Fermier (Thief, System Shock 2, now with Ensemble) during a lunch break - the kind of thing that sometimes happens at GDC if you're in the right place at the right time. Since they had it on a laptop, the screen was a bit small, but it was certainly large enough to see that the game has acquired a great deal of polish since I last saw it 10 months ago at E3, at which time it was already very well received. A couple of days earlier, they both mentioned that they had been testing the DM client, and their enthusiasm for it was readily apparent, so it would appear that the entire project is coming together. While the official target for release is still summer, Ray mentioned June as a possibility. As for Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic, Greg reported that it's moving forward pretty well, but my guess is that we won't see much more information until E3.