I was floored because I hadn’t heard that part of the story before. We didn’t have the license to do it, yet.” He laughed. “At that time they had already decided that they wanted to make it a Star Wars game – an Old Republic game – and that it was going to be an MMO. So if he joined before that, we are talking about a long, long time ago… Some of the first pieces released by Massively-of-old about 11 years ago were about the classes and the individual stories that each class would have. “When I started the idea of a class story was something we were interested in doing, but it was just one of a couple of different directions we were considering,” he told me. It’s no wonder he was hired to write for the next major follow-up to BioWare’s wildly successful Knights of the Old Republic, released in 2003. I didn’t ask, but I would not be surprised if those helmets were all his creations, since they were all customized with different painted configurations of gold and blue. Boyd is an avid Star Wars cosplayer just check out his Twitter feed. There were far too many to have been placed there just because he wanted to draw attention to the Book of Boba Fett trailer that just came out. But what really stood out to me was his collection of Mandalorian helmets. His salt-and-pepper beard rivals any convention nerd’s facial hair, mine included. He has hair down to his shoulders, silver on top and black on the sides. New to writing games, new to the industryĬharles Boyd looks like a Star Wars writer. I also got a few peeks into where the game is going and Boyd’s priorities as the game marches toward the 15-year mark. I was personally interested in knowing what things were like back then, how things have changed in not just the game but his role in it. He started as just one of many writers on the team at BioWare‘s then-new Austin studio. Of course, he didn’t start as the Creative Director that came later. That’s 15 years! You would be hard-pressed to find a developer who has been with a single studio for that amount of time, let alone a single game. When I spoke with him this week, he reminded me that he has been directly involved with SWTOR since 2006.

Play SWTOR for freeIf you don’t know who Charles Boyd is, then you’ve probably been away from the game longer than I’ve been away from writing about it.

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