Who Am I?

I’m Michael Liaw, a senior gameplay designer with almost 13 years of experience in the video games industry.  I made my start in the industry as QA and eventually transitioned into game design.  I’ve worked on a variety of titles at BioWare:

• Mass Effect
• Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
• Dragon Age: Origin
• Dragon Age 2
• Dragon Age: Inquisition
• Anthem

As well as a bunch of DLC for those titles and some cancelled projects as well.  I’m currently in Toronto working at Get Set Games.

Everything here is my own viewpoint and opinion and doesn’t reflect any company that I work with or in the past.

I’ve always wanted to be able to give back to the community in some manner but I’ve also never felt comfortable in doing so and I want to be able to do it in a manner where we can have discussions about it and it’s available freely to everyone.  So let’s talk about games and game design, and occasionally we might touch on some stuff close to my heart like bullying, depression and racism.

Thanks for giving my stuff a read and let me know what you think.