Mac Walters

Mac Walters is a video game developer best known for his work at BioWare as a writer on the Mass Effect series.

Career Walters joined BioWare in 2003 as a writer on Jade Empire. He followed this with a senior writer on the first Mass Effect game, before becoming lead writer on the second and third entry in the series. As the writing team worked on the story, Walters encouraged the team to focus more on characters, to get players invested in the events of the game. Around the time of the second Mass Effect game, Walters also wrote the story for a spin-off comic called Mass Effect: Redemption. In 2013, Walters was also nominated for a BAFTA award for his writing on Mass Effect 3.

He briefly served as narrative director on Anthem, before returning to the Mass Effect universe as creative director on Mass Effect: Andromeda. The planned fourth novel was effectively canceled, as Walters' duties as creative director of Andromeda eventually took precedence, and development has stalled for the Mass Effect film. After the release of Andromeda, Walters became project director for Mass Effect Legendary Edition. However, NetEase withdrew its funding from Worlds Untold, resulting in the studio "pausing" its operations the next year.

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