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Mac Walters is a video game developer best known for his work at BioWare as a writer on the Mass Effect series. [1] Career. Mac Walters at the New York Comic Con, October 15, 2011. Walters joined BioWare in 2003 as a writer on Jade Empire. [2] .
Nov 16, 2023 · Updated: Nov 16, 2023 7:05 am. Posted: Nov 16, 2023 6:51 am. Former Mass Effect writer Mac Walters has founded a new studio to develop “AAA action adventure games with an emphasis on...
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- Mac Walters left after 19 years.
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By Ryan Dinsdale
Updated: Dec 19, 2023 6:20 pm
Posted: Dec 19, 2023 6:14 pm
Former Mass Effect writer Mac Walters has explained why he left the BioWare after 19 years, with several factors contributing to his deciding to go.
Speaking to MinnMax, Walters cited his long tenure at BioWare, a feeling of full-circle fulfilment thanks to the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, having the opportunity to work in a small team again, and a desire to work on something new as his reasons for leaving.
"It was really just time for me," Walters said. "After 19 years it just felt like this was the moment. There wasn't a significant triggering event or anything I needed to discuss, so [I said] 'let's just part ways amicably. And you'll continue to do your thing and I'll go do my thing and figure out that.'"
As the lead writer on Mass Effect 2 and 3, working on the Legendary Edition also gave Walters some closure with the series that warded him away from wanting to do more. "It was so successful to me as a project, in the sense of the team was healthy, we really got along, and of course, it was critically and financially successful," Walters said. "It just felt like this is the bow on all the things I've done with Mass Effect, which is all of the things. I don't want to do any more Mass Effect after this. Why tempt fate?"
He therefore wanted to work on something new, but with BioWare firmly locked up in Mass Effect 5 and Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, "it became pretty clear there probably wouldn't be" an opportunity to do so, "at least for the foreseeable future".
Walters has seemingly accomplished that now after founding a new studio to develop "triple-A action adventure games with an emphasis on narrative and worldbuilding". Worlds Untold is backed by Chinese game firm NetEase and based in Vancouver, Canada.
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May 19, 2021 · Mac Walters was a writer and director on all three games — as well as follow-up title Mass Effect: Andromeda. He also served as the director for the Legendary Edition, which required him to...
Jan 23, 2023 · Image: BioWare. Mac Walters has become the latest BioWare veteran to leave the company. Walters — who was the senior writer on Mass Effect, lead writer on its two sequels, the narrative...
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Dec 19, 2023 · Games. Action. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. Former Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters says the success of the Legendary Edition helped convince him to leave BioWare: 'I don't want to do...
Jan 23, 2023 · By Adam Bankhurst. Updated: Jan 23, 2023 5:05 am. Posted: Jan 23, 2023 5:02 am. Mac Walters, the lead writer on Mass Effect 2 and 3 and production director on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf who had...
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