An Interview with Fate of the Old Republic Director Casey Hudson
In this career-spanning interview, I talk to Mass Effect creator Casey Hudson about his philosophy on game development, projects like Star Wars: KotOR, and his new remote-friendly studio, Humanoid Origin, which is hard at work on an all-new sci-fi game IP.
Mass Effect creator Casey Hudson left the University of Alberta with a bachelor’s degree in 1998 and found himself creating 3D art for a game called MDK2. He remained at Edmonton-based developer BioWare for the next sixteen years, serving as project director on the licensed RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003) and the beloved sci-fi trilogy that followed it. Today, Hudson’s hard at work on an all-new game at Humanoid Origin, the studio he founded in 2021. We spoke via Zoom last spring.
Edited by Elijah Beahm. Music by Christy Carew. Art by Audrey Estok.