'The story and dialogue in any BioWare game is the result of an entire team of writers working together, and I often felt I received an excessive amount of the credit for the games we created.' Drew Karpyshyn, former star BioWare writer 'As of last week, I have officially retired from BioWare,' announced Karpyshyn. He's also written three Star Wars novels about Darth Bane, and a standalone fantasy tale called Temple Hill. On top of that, Karpyshyn wrote the three not-rubbish Mass Effect novels - Revelation, Ascension and Retribution he wrote a book about KOTOR character Revan and KOTOR 2 character the Exile he wrote a Throne of Bhaal book and he's writing a Star Wars: The Old Republic book. He also helped write Jade Empire Neverwinter Nights and expansion Hordes of the Underdark and Baldur's Gate 2 and expansion Throne of Bhaal - his first 'significant contribution' to a BioWare project. He co-lead wrote Mass Effect 2 and, for the last three years, has been instrumental in writing Star Wars: The Old Republic.

He wants to finish the first book in his own original fantasy series, Children of Fire.ĭarth Revan and Darth Malak - Karpyshyn's handywork. He retired to focus on writing books, 'screenplays and other projects'. (His website post didn't mention his retirement from video games as a whole, but his post on Twitter did.) The parting was 'completely amicable and 100 per cent my decision', wrote Karpyshyn on his website. Drew Karpyshyn, the lead writer of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect 1, has retired from BioWare and video games.

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