George Ziets

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George Ziets
Video game designer
EmployerDigimancy Entertainment
Known for

George Ziets is an American

video game designer best known as the Creative Lead for the 2007 PC game Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
.

Early life and education

Ziets earned a degree in Psychology from

MMORPG Earth & Beyond.[1]

Career

In 2004, Ziets was hired at

Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (LOTRO) and Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO).[citation needed
]

Ziets relocated to southern California in 2006 to become a designer at Obsidian Entertainment. He was recruited during development of Neverwinter Nights 2, and after the game shipped he was promoted to Creative Lead on the first Neverwinter Night 2 expansion, Mask of the Betrayer (MotB). Ziets was responsible for MotB's overall creative vision, including characters and story.[2] MotB shipped in 2007 and received mostly positive reviews, winning praise for its story and narrative elements.[3][4]

Ziets left Obsidian in 2008 and spent a year at

WGA nomination for Best Videogame Writing with the Fallout: New Vegas writing team and attended the 2011 Writers Guild Awards in Los Angeles.[8]

He left Obsidian after a project got cancelled in 2012, however he returned soon after as a freelance writer on Pillars of Eternity.[9]

In March 2013 it was announced that Ziets would join the writing team at

inXile on Torment: Tides of Numenera, and he later joined inXile as a full-time employee in April 2014.[10]

Ziets left inXile in July 2019 to found his own studio, Digimancy Entertainment.

References

  1. ^ Murnane, Kevin (February 23, 2017). "The George Ziets Interview Part 1: Writing For Video Games, The Writer's Job". Forbes. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  2. ^ "Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer Q&A - Story, Classes, and Enhancements". GameSpot. April 30, 2007. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  3. ^ Biessener, Adam; Juba, Joe (November 2007). "Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer". Game Informer. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. Retrieved May 26, 2009.
  4. ^ Onyett, Charles (October 15, 2007). "Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer Review". IGN. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2009.
  5. ^ BuckGB (March 3, 2011). "Dungeon Siege 3 Interview". Game Banshee (UGO Networks). Archived from the original on November 5, 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
  6. ^ Jason Wilson (January 29, 2011). "Dungeon Siege 3". GamePro. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
  7. ^ Brett Molina (December 21, 2010). "Six things you didn't know about 'Dungeon Siege III'". USA Today. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
  8. Writers Guild of America, West. January 6, 2011. Archived from the original
    on December 15, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  9. ^ "George Ziets on Torment, Mask of the Betrayer and Pillars of Eternity". GameBanshee. March 31, 2015. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  10. ^ Ziets, George (April 2, 2014). "Updated our Journal (30): George Ziets Joins Full Time". Kickstarter. Retrieved April 11, 2016.

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