Dragon Age Central

[bioware officially confirmed a toolset in their ‘world builders’ email newsletter; excerpts follow]

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The Dragon Age Toolset provides builders with powerful, developer-grade tools.

Key features include:
Create Original Adventures: Using Dragon Age’s rich set of assets and locations as starting blocks, you can modify these stunning areas by adding new quests, characters and scripting to create your own adventures, conversations and cut-scenes.

Powerful Script Editor: You can fully customize combat and creature AI to create detailed action sequences full of heart-pounding party-based tactical combat.

On-Going Toolset Content Updates: We have plans to release additional assets and features for the toolset in the future, allowing for expanded creation of new areas.

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At PAX, Dragon Age: Origins Producer Fernando Melo and Senior Designer Ferret Baudoin will be presenting a 45 minute overview of the toolset for Dragon Age fans.

• The demonstration takes place in the Ruins of Ostagar area
• A quick look at the extremely flexible Face Morphing feature
• Clothing, armor and weapons will be selected giving a quick look at the variety
• Enemy monsters will be selected and placed in the area
• The new dialogue editor will be featured
• The module created on stage will be played through live in the Dragon Age: Origins game

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BioWare is considering doing DS versions of Mass Effect, Jade Empire, and Dragon Age, plus a couple of others.

[...] Miles Holmes, lead designer of Sonic Chronicles, said the developer was looking at "basically anything that reinforces the franchises".

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during BioWare president Greg Zeschuk’s demonstration of Dragon Age: Origins, the executive revealed that the game would arrive on consoles in addition to the PC. Unfortunately, the developer would only say that the titles would arrive "in the future," and Zelschuk did not elaborate on whether the title would surface on all platforms simultaneously.
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EA expects to release the game as part of its current fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2009.
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Dragon Age is going to be "one of the premier titles" showcase at E3 next week
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I have an appointment to play the thing next Tuesday
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You’ll get your first look at Dragon Age this Friday, as first footage of the game will be featured on the next episode of GameTrailers TV on Spike.
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[dragon age will be] officially known as Dragon Age: Origins
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BioWare has re-titled its Dragon Age game, to Dragon Age: Origins.
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PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™ software, the leading render farm management software for film production, game development, and digital media education around the world, today announced that BioWare has added Qube! in their game development pipeline.

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“We chose Qube! due to its proven track record,” said Peter Woytiuk, Principal Programmer of Dragon Age, BioWare Corp. “Due to the excellent support we received during the evaluation, we were able to integrate Qube! into our pipeline in less than a week and immediately started seeing results. Qube! has given our artists more time to produce and iterate on content, which is key to creating the next generation of BioWare games.”

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“Qube! will distribute across many machines the rendering of images, cinematic cut scenes, lightmaps, ambient occlusion maps, and normal maps. It can also assist with exporting and processing game assets for the different game platforms. Qube! has many features that help game teams save time and studios save money by leveraging resources and improving efficiencies."

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"...we have big plans afoot at BioWare for post-release and episodic content for upcoming cool BioWare games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Jade Empire: Special Edition and other upcoming BioWare titles, both on console and PC", BioWare CEO Ray Muzyka divulged
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players will be presented with a plot far darker than fans of previous BioWare PC RPGs will be used to, the storyline apparently influenced by - the utterly fantastic - A Game of Thrones series of fantasy novels penned by George R. R. Martin. Beefing up the storyline aspect, each character archetype selectable by the player features its own origin story, offering variety in the open stages of Dragon Age and, we reckon, potentially allowing for multiple endings to the adventure.

We can expect in-depth interaction between characters and NPCs too, with BioWare said to be employing a modified version of the conversation system that features in its Xbox 360 game Mass Effect.
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orders can be queued up for members of your party who are able to execute coordinated attacks
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Role-playing game fans were hoping that BioWare might show off its forthcoming all-original high-fantasy RPG.
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The studio heads went on to give a vague but optimistic update on Dragon Age
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"With Dragon Age--the first iteration of it, anyway--we’re focusing on making it the most ambitious PC RPG we’ve ever done at BioWare," said Muzyka. However, just because it’s not a current 360 project doesn’t mean it won’t be so in the future. "It’s a franchise we own, so there will be other versions that will be on other platforms," Muzyka said
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Dragon Age will run on BioWare-made engines
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