{"id":72211,"date":"2018-12-28T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/333605"},"modified":"2018-12-28T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:51:00","slug":"bioware-co-founders-inducted-into-the-order-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/bioware-co-founders-inducted-into-the-order-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"BioWare co-founders inducted into the Order of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, two of the original co-founders of BioWare, have been named members of the Order of Canada, an honor reserved for those deemed to have enriched the lives of others and made a difference to Canada through their actions and achievements.<\/p>\n<p>The duo is among 103 Canadians receiving the honor this year, alongside an author, playwright, Olympian, and broadcaster, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zeschuk and\u00a0Muzyka, alongside several others, founded BioWare in Edmonton, Alberta in 1995 following their graduation from medical school. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/order-of-canada-bioware-blind-enthusiasm-1.4959430\">interview with CBC<\/a>, the pair say that BioWare\u2019s early roots in Alberta helped the current industry establish its roots in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did it here in Edmonton,&#8221; Zeschuk told CBC. \u00a0&#8220;We didn&#8217;t start it and go off somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair left BioWare and retired from the game industry as a whole in 2012, but remained in Canada and continue to work toward bettering their communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just what we did at BioWare, it&#8217;s what we continue to do to try to make everything around us better,&#8221; Zeschuk told CBC. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a key part of it, how we do it and how our philosophy around making a business and building businesses and working with people, building people up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, two of the original co-founders of BioWare, have been named members of the Order of Canada, an honor reserved for those deemed to have enriched the lives of others and made a difference to Canada through their actions and achievements. The duo is among 103 Canadians receiving the honor this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72211","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\/72211","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=72211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}