Ep74: Dogs Playing Dead and BioWare Closes

Dogs play to escape a Cthulhu inspired haunted mansion in a new party game by ex-BioWare and ex-Metal Head game developer Tobyn Manthorpe and BioWare finally closes its doors.

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Game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4009460/Dogs_Playing_Dead/

If you play Baldur's Gate, the very original game that brought back the western RPG by famed game developer BioWare, you might have chosen, like I did, to read all the tombstones.

On one of them is the inscription: "Here lies Tobyn, Who believed in the good of all, Died at the hands of Zombies while asking for directions". The tombstones refer to different people who worked on that game and this one refers to Tobyn Manthorpe. It's fitting maybe that the tombstone for one of Tobyn's first game is about the Zombies that might be wanting to kill him considering his latest project.

When we recorded this episode, we did not know that the week this would air, our former studio, BioWare, would finally close its doors: shut down by its current owner Electronic Arts. This episode is an interview with Tobyn Manthorpe, who I spent many years working with at BioWare on his new, independent game Dogs Playing Dead. After the interview, and on my show notes, I have a small tribute to our former studio.