The Mass Effect bible is 'quite large,' BioWare's Muzyka assures
by Ludwig Kietzmann 
on Feb 8th 2010 2:30PM
Thank the Enkindlers! Encompassing an entire galaxy's worth of alien beings, uncharted worlds and tattooed psychopaths,
Mass Effect's bible doesn't exactly make for light reading. "We probably spent 6-12 months with a team of designers, artists and so on doing concepting, world building, design and character iteration, timelines, and the history of the universe," BioWare CEO Ray Muzyka recently told
IGN. The "IP bible" is consulted for all
Mass Effect games, he explained, comparing it to an "iceberg that's down there, giving it weight and gravity, credibility and depth."
Echoing
earlier statements made by BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk, Muzyka pointed to the franchise's considerable backstory as a viable source for "future extensions, ancillary products, things like that."
Things like that may include spin-offs like
Mass Effect: Galaxy for iPhone,
novels, further expansions to
Mass Effect 2, and, obviously,
Mass Effect 3.
Sadly, if there's one thing the
Mass Effect bible can't teach us, it's the virtue of
patience. Who wouldn't kill for the next part of the trilogy right now?
