I'm not going to tell you how old I was when I first played a BioWare game, because then you'd be able to work out how old I am now. It's a good chunk of my life, leave it at that. They cast a tremendous shadow in the field of narrative in games and a lot of our work shows that influence... or shows a reaction against it. :-). We even have a narrative pattern named after them. Possibly I shouldn't say which one. And our next big project certainly wouldn't exist if I hadn't had way too much fun with Neverwinter Nights.

So, when we were invited to come out to BioWare HQ and give a talk on our techniques and methodology for handling plot and story... you could have heard my whoop of excitement in Tasmania. If you live in Tasmania, sorry about the noise.

It's quite a validation of our work to date, and the whole team is deeply chuffed. If anyone else out there wants a similar talk, the contact details are here. :-)