Daniel Erickson
Daniel Erickson | |
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| Born | December 9, 1976 Modesto, California |
| Occupation | Video games writer, director, producer, executive |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
| Period | 1998-Present |
| Genre | Fantasy, science fiction |
| Website | |
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Daniel Erickson (born December 9, 1976) is an American video game writer, director and producer. He served as the lead writer and lead designer for BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic, senior writer for Dragon Age: Origins and the lead designer for EA Sports Big’s NBA Street Vol 2 and Vol 3.[1][2]
Career[edit]
Began as game critic and founding member of online site Daily Radar, Erickson's game development career started at Electronic Arts Canada as a producer in 2001. He soon moved into game designing. During his time at the company he served as assistant producer on the original, NBA Street and Lead Game Designer on NBA Street Vol. 2 and NBA Street Vol. 3.[3][4]
He stepped down from his lead designer role at EA to get into BioWare, a Canadian video game development company, in 2005. He remained with the company as a writer, designer and creative director for seven years;[5] during this time he was senior writer for Dragon Age: Origins and his major project Star Wars: The Old Republic, in which he also served as lead designer.[6] Since 2018, he leads a new studio called Fogbank Entertainment as studio director.[7]
Works[edit]
Games[edit]
- NBA Street Vol. 3, Lead Game Designer
- NBA Street Vol. 2, Lead Game Designer
- NBA Street, Assistant Producer
- Star Wars: The Old Republic, Lead Writer, Lead Designer,
- Dragon Age: Origins, Senior Writer
- Star Wars: Uprising, Director
- Spirit Lords, Director
Bibliography[edit]
- The Art and Making of Star Wars: The Old Republic[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ Horti, Samuel (2018-03-10). "Star Wars: The Old Republic's lead writer heading up new studio working on episodic narrative game". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
- ↑ "A New Galaxy: Daniel Erickson On Writing The Old Republic". www.gamasutra.com. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
- ↑ James (2011-08-02). "Azeroth to Zork: Daniel Erickson Interview". Azeroth to Zork. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ↑ "Creative director departs Bioware". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
- ↑ "Exodus at BioWare continues as SWTOR creative director Daniel Erickson leaves Austin studio". PCGamesN. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ↑ Writing for video game genres : from FPS to RPG. Despain, Wendy. Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters. 2009. ISBN 9781568814179. OCLC 299151182. Search this book on
- ↑ "FoxNext Games starts Fogbank Entertainment studio in San Francisco". VentureBeat. 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
- ↑ Parisi, Frank. (2011). The art and making of Star Wars : the Old Republic. Erickson, Daniel. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811875004. OCLC 706025485. Search this book on
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