Brent Knowles

Brent Knowles
Born
Canadian
Alma materUniversity of Alberta
OccupationVideo game designer

Brent Knowles is a writer, programmer, and game designer currently working at Beamdog. He worked at the role-playing game studio BioWare (Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Dragon Age) for ten years, during most of which he was a Lead Designer/Creative Director.[1]

As a designer, he feels that party control and tactical combats should be huge factors in a role playing game. Dragon Age II's departure from that made him realize that he would not be satisfied with what it would be.[2]

Brent eventually left BioWare in September 2009, to pursue writing. He has been published in a variety of magazines including Neo-Opsis, Not One of Us, On Spec, Perihelion Science Fiction, Tales of the Talisman and Through Blood and Iron. He has had articles published in Dragon Magazine and Pyramid.[3]

  1. ^ calgary seo. "Former BioWare Lead Designer Brent Knowles Joins Empire Avenue | The Empire Avenue Blog". Blog.empireavenue.com. Archived from the original on 2012-12-09. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
  2. ^ "An Interview With Brent Knowles: Writer, Video Game Developer and Next Gen Social Networking Emperor - Blogcritics Sci/Tech". Blogcritics.org. 2011-05-03. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
  3. ^ Erik Kain (2012-04-18). "Former BioWare Designer Brent Knowles On Day-One DLC And The Mass Effect Of Public Relations". Forbes. Retrieved 2012-10-05.