What did BioWare's David Gaider say about keeping the long-term Dragon Age lore in a master lore document, who could see it, and what problem forced it to be written?
In an Oct 2024 Eurogamer interview, David Gaider says the overarching Dragon Age plot lived in his head until Inquisition, when other writers 'dragged' it out into a master lore doc that was hidden from most of the team. The journalist reports about 20 senior people had access. Gaider says the plan has 'more or less held up' in The Veilguard, which he did not work on. The source supports a practice of a restricted master document and a single-person-memory risk; it does not show how contradictions were checked.
In an Oct 2024 Eurogamer interview, David Gaider says the overarching Dragon Age plot lived in his head until Inquisition, when other writers 'dragged' it out into a master lore doc that was hidden from most of the team. The journalist reports about 20 senior people had access. Gaider says the plan has 'more or less held up' in The Veilguard, which he did not work on. The source supports a practice of a restricted master document and a single-person-memory risk; it does not show how contradictions were checked.
Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; Gaider interview (Eurogamer 2024) as reported.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] In an Oct 2024 Eurogamer interview, David Gaider says the overarching Dragon Age plot lived in his head until Inquisition, when other writers 'dragged' it out into a master lore doc that was hidden from most of the team. The journalist reports about 20 senior people had access. Gaider says the plan has 'more or less held up' in The Veilguard, which he did not work on. The source supports a practice of a restricted master document and a single-person-memory risk; it does not show how contradictions were checked. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source
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