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BioWare doctors add 'AIAS Hall of Fame' to credentials

by Alexander Sliwinski on Dec 18th 2010 12:30AM

BioWare co-founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk will be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) Hall of Fame. Muzyka and Zeschuk will be the fourteenth and fifteenth (they can quibble about which is which) members in the hall of fame, which includes folks like Mike Cerny, Mike Morhaime and Dani Bunten. This is the first time the award has been given to a pair.

"The Doctors," as they are referred to in the industry, took the leap from medicine to game design and have been more than marginally successful, heading up the studio that created top-tier franchises Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect and Dragon Age. The awards will be presented to the pair by Epic Games prez Mike Capps at the 2011 D.I.C.E. Summit in February. We really hope someone chooses the renegade option when the duo get up to accept their awards.

Tags: AIAS, aias-hall-of-fame, BioWare, DICE-2011, greg-zeschuk, mass-effect-3, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, ray-muzyka, xbox

Reader Comments (19)

Wow. Are you advocating violence at a public assembly?

That's it. You're off my speed-dial.

@Rikerbot

...and onto mine!

So medicine didnt make them rich, so they went to gaming?

@Faenix no they didn't even work as doctors. Check out bioware history in this series of videos by machinima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbwTnQxOoLs

@DokiDokiBawanga I was under the impression that one of the two went into geriatrics while the other went into pediatrics, and essentially as soon as they could afford to fund their own game development full time, they left medicine. I think it was from the original Mass Effect Collector's Edition making of disc.

@Epoque well machinima's "All Your History" tells another story) don't know which is more accurate =)

@Epoque and did you know that there was not 2 but 3 founders of bioware.

@DokiDokiBawanga

Mister 3 decided to go back into medicine.

Well deserved too. Bioware is my number 1 developer, followed closely by Blizzard.

Although at the moment I only care about Mass Effect.

Dragon Age and TOR are....not looking the greatest, shall we say.

Though Mass Effect in itself is a hundred times better than the next best game.

I love Bioware.

If there are making a game - I am buying it. I don't even ask wonder if I will like it or not anymore. Time has proven I like it all :)

KOTOR 3!

Bioware is amazing. Period. I have played the shit out of each and every game(Minus Sonic, cause I never owned a DS) they have produced since Shattered Steel, and while I don't exactly remember my time with that particular title, I DO know I enjoyed it and every other game they made for many many many hours.

My complied hours between Baldur's Gate, NWN, KoTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age specifically, must be way above and beyond anything I would admit in a public situation. lmao

@xHaldirx

My xfire reads kotor at well over xxxx hours.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

No idea why I just said xfire considering I have it on xbox >_>. Actually meant my combined save games time count.

Good.

They certainly deserve it. I've spent WAY too much time playing their games.

This is pretty cool :)

Congrats to the two dudes they and their company have certainly earned it.

I always wonder what the 3rd Doc thinks of having gone back into medicine... if he now always thinks of "what might have been" while these two are pouring champagne over ladies body parts in celebration of all their success. Well... ok maybe not that but, you get the idea :)

They deserve it for Baldur's Gate 2 alone.

I live in Edmonton, and had a nice chat with one of the Doctors years and years ago, back before they released Baldur's Gate. He was at a trade fair promoting Edmonton companies at a local college (they were the only interesting company there). He had an alpha version of Baldur's Gate, which people couldn't play because it would likely crash. He gave me a little demo, and we talked about the company.

Flash forward about 13 years and they're a massive force in the gaming industry. It's very cool.

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