Brent Knowles

Brent Knowles
Born
Canadian
EducationUniversity of Alberta
OccupationVideo game designer

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.

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.

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. In 2021, he wrote a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition sourcebook Raiders of the Serpent Sea.

Works

References

  1. ↑ calgary seo. "Former BioWare Lead Designer Brent Knowles Joins Empire Avenue | The Empire Avenue Blog". Blog.empireavenue.com. Retrieved 2012-10-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ "An Interview With Brent Knowles: Writer, Video Game Developer and Next Gen Social Networking Emperor - Blogcritics Sci/Tech". Blogcritics.org. 2011-05-03. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
  3. ↑ Erik Kain (2012-04-18). "Former BioWare Designer Brent Knowles On Day-One DLC And The Mass Effect Of Public Relations". Forbes. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
  4. 1 2 3 Meehan, Alex (22 October 2021). "Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate writer behind Norse-inspired D&D 5E RPG book". Dicebreaker. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  5. ↑ "Credits - Design". Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn manual. Black Isle Studios, Interplay Entertainment: 242. 2000. Core Design Team: [...] Brent Knowles
  6. 1 2 Henley, Stacey (9 November 2021). "Dragon Age: Origins And Neverwinter Nights' Lead Designer On A Life Lived Through Dungeons & Dragons". TheGamer. Valnet. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  7. ↑ "Credits - BioWare Corp". Manual [Xbox version]. Microsoft Game Studios: 26. 2005. Technical Designers - [...] Brent Knowles
  8. ↑ Beamdog (2017). Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition (Windows). Beamdog. Level/area: Credits. Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition Credits - Production: Brent Knowles
  9. ↑ "Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition". Brent Knowles Blog. 8 April 2017. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2025.