{"id":100393,"date":"2019-09-18T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/350841"},"modified":"2019-09-18T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T15:37:00","slug":"dragon-age-origins-lead-writer-david-gaider-has-formed-a-new-studio-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/18\/dragon-age-origins-lead-writer-david-gaider-has-formed-a-new-studio-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Age: Origins lead writer David Gaider has formed a new studio in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bioware scribe David Gaider has co-founded a new&nbsp;Australian game studio called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerfallstudios.com\">Summerfall Studios<\/a> alongside fellow writer and narrative designer Liam Esler.<\/p>\n<p>Gaider is perhaps best known as the lead writer on<em> Dragon Age: Origins<\/em>, but has&nbsp;also worked on a number of other popular games including <em>Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic<\/em>, <em>Neverwinter Nights<\/em>, and <em>Baldur&#8217;s Gate II<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Esler, who&#8217;ll serve as the studio&#8217;s managing director, helped bring queer gaming convention GaymerX to Australia as the group&#8217;s&nbsp;co-director, and has also held down production&nbsp;and design roles at notable game studios&nbsp;including Beamdog and Obsidian Entertainment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pair explained they&nbsp;established Summerfall&nbsp;to develop&nbsp;new character and narrative-driven titles, and are preparing to crowdfund their debut title on Kickstarter next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bioware scribe David Gaider has co-founded a new&nbsp;Australian game studio called Summerfall Studios alongside fellow writer and narrative designer Liam Esler. Gaider is perhaps best known as the lead writer on Dragon Age: Origins, but has&nbsp;also worked on a number of other popular games including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Neverwinter Nights, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}