BioWare Blog: (Dragon Age) Demo Moments, Part One

BioWare’s Bruce Venne shares some of his experiences while demonstrating Dragon Age: Origins during public events in the latest entry to the company’s blog.

So I set up the demo box. But the set up of the cords seemed . off. Like I plugged the cord in the bottom of the box except the outlet on the back of the machine had always been at the top. So my keen QA powers of observation kicked in and I thought (I actually thought this) well I guess it has changed, no problems here! Then one of the EARS IT guys comes over and asks if we are using a different box from the day before. A light bulb flashed in my head, and then fizzled out . nope it’s the same box. No problems here!

The demo itself went great. It seemed to go by really quickly in comparison in how long we had to wait to do it (we were the second last group to present) So afterwards I start un-hooking everything to back up the demo box. Then I go to snap open the computer to remove the hard drive (for security reasons I carry the hard drive with me on flights to and from events) but I can’t find the latch on top of the machine. Then it hits me.

The computer was upside down.