Casey Hudson is a Canadian

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, known for his work on several of

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's video games, and mainly the ''

Mass Effect ''Mass Effect'' is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien civilizations have colonized the galaxy using technology left behind by Elder race, a ...

'' trilogy as game director.

Biography

After obtaining a degree in

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, Hudson began his career at the

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with credits as a technical artist on several games, including '' MDK 2''. He eventually became the project director of '' Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic''. Hudson fulfilled the same role in the development of the ''Mass Effect'' trilogy, a series of games based on a new science fiction intellectual property. On August 7, 2014, Hudson left BioWare to pursue other projects. On May 18, 2015,

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announced that Hudson had joined their video game production wing at

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. On July 18, 2017, Hudson announced that he had returned to BioWare and replaced Aaryn Flynn as

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for the studio. Hudson announced he was departing BioWare a second time on December 3, 2020. In June 2021, Hudson announced that he had established a new game development studio, Humanoid Origin, that was working on a new

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later to be revealed as Space Age: Parallax. On November 25, 2024, Humanoid Origin announced its closure.

Games

*'' MDK 2'' (2000) *'' Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'' (2000) *''

Neverwinter Nights ''Neverwinter Nights'' is a series of video games developed by BioWare and Obsidian Entertainment, based on the ''Forgotten Realms'' campaign setting of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game. Aside from also being set around the city Nev ...

'' (2002) *'' Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' (2003) *''

Jade Empire ''Jade Empire'' is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare, originally published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2005 as an Xbox exclusive. It was later ported to Microsoft Windows personal computers (PC) and published by 2K in 2007. ...

'' (2005) *''

'' (2007) *'' Mass Effect 2'' (2010) *''

Mass Effect 3 ''Mass Effect 3'' is a 2012 action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. The third major entry in the ''Mass Effect'' series and the final installment of the original trilogy, it was released in March 2012 for ...

'' (2012) * ''Anthem'' (2019)

References

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