{"id":14699,"date":"2018-03-09T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315406"},"modified":"2018-03-09T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T23:12:00","slug":"writer-drew-karpyshyn-leaves-bioware-a-second-time-to-pursue-freelancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/writer-drew-karpyshyn-leaves-bioware-a-second-time-to-pursue-freelancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer Drew Karpyshyn leaves Bioware a second time to pursue freelancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Karpyshyn\u00a0announced his departure from Bioware today, leaving the studio for a second time to pursue\u00a0personal projects and provide freelance games work for\u00a0FoxNext\u00a0Games&#8217; new studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315343\/FoxNext_opens_new_studio_to_create_storydriven_titles.php\">Fogbank Entertainment.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karpyshyn, who co-wrote\u00a0<em>Mass Effect 2<\/em>\u00a0and originally took the lead on\u00a0<em>The Old Republic<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/129706\/BioWare_lead_writer_Drew_Karpyshyn_retires_from_games_industry.php\">left the studio back in 2012<\/a>, citing the desire to spend more time writing novels as the reason behind his departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/254213\/Mass_Effect_writer_returns_to_BioWare_after_three_year_break.php\">He returned to Bioware\u00a0in 2015<\/a>\u00a0to work on the MMO <em>Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on <a href=\"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/?p=1068#more-1068\">his website<\/a>\u00a0where he announced\u00a0his departure,\u00a0Karpyshyn\u00a0explains his desire to freelance is what led to the decision to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no dirty laundry I\u2019m just waiting to air,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/drewkarpyshyn.com\/c\/?p=1068#more-1068\">he said.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drew Karpyshyn\u00a0announced his departure from Bioware today, leaving the studio for a second time to pursue\u00a0personal projects and provide freelance games work for\u00a0FoxNext\u00a0Games&#8217; new studio Fogbank Entertainment.\u00a0 Karpyshyn, who co-wrote\u00a0Mass Effect 2\u00a0and originally took the lead on\u00a0The Old Republic\u00a0left the studio back in 2012, citing the desire to spend more time writing novels as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14699","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\/14699","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=14699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}