Brent Knowles

Brent Knowles is a writer, programmer, and game designer currently working at Beamdog. He worked at the role-playing game studio BioWare (Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Dragon Age) for ten years, during most of which he was a Lead Designer/Creative Director.^[1]

Brent Knowles
Born	Canadian
Alma mater	University of Alberta
Occupation	Video game designer

As a designer, he feels that party control and tactical combats should be huge factors in a role playing game. Dragon Age II's departure from that made him realize that he would not be satisfied with what it would be.^[2]

Brent eventually left BioWare in September 2009, to pursue writing. He has been published in a variety of magazines including Neo-Opsis, Not One of Us, On Spec, Perihelion Science Fiction, Tales of the Talisman and Through Blood and Iron. He has had articles published in Dragon Magazine and Pyramid.^[3] In 2021, he wrote a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition sourcebook Raiders of the Serpent Sea.^[4]

Works

• Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000, designer)^[5][4]
• Neverwinter Nights (2002, lead designer)^[6]
• Jade Empire (2005, technical designer)^[7]
• Dragon Age: Origins (2009, lead designer)^[6]
• Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition (2017, production)^[8][9]
• Raiders of the Serpent Sea (2021, writer)^[4]