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'I'm so fucking pissed off about the cupcakes,' cinematic designer Zachariach Scott groaned. One group of snarky fans infamously sent BioWare cupcakes with green, blue, and red frosting-that all were the same vanilla flavor.

(The 'green' color was meant to represent a third path tied to a seemingly cut 'Reaper Queen' who was replaced by a computer ghost child in the final game.)ДЇor any developer who's watched a half-thought idea go from storyboard all the way to ship, it's a dreadfully familiar moment that triggered what came next-the furious fan backlash and campaign.ДЇan response to the ending ranged from satisfied, to disappointed but polite, to outright hatred. Wilkinson shared that the 'three colors' variants of the ending seemed to be extrapolations of early storyboards he'd done, where he used different colors to indicate moral choices that aligned with Mass Effect's blue/red Paragon/Renegade system. Some of the developers interviewed include writer Chris Hepler, gameplay designer and Brass Lion Games co-founder Manveer Heir, animation directorВ Dave Wilkinson and more. There areВ two clear takeaways for the modern game development audience: First, even the people who worked on the ending have conflicted feelings about it, and two, BioWare management's handling of the situation led to an extended period of crunch that damaged the people who made Mass Effect 3 possible.

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People Make Games host Chris Bratt spoke with some of those developers to revisit how the ending happened-and the emotional damage of the aftermath.Д«ratt's full 30 minute video is a great beginning-to-end recap of the controversy, with some fresh facts about what happened in the following days. Whatever you think about the game's ending, there's no denying the original controversial sequence wasn't one decision-it was an end result of dozens of developersВ trying to wrangle the finale of a massive series, which also needed to be made on top of a game with its own massive story. It was supposed to be BioWare's big triumphant moment, and it quickly turned into something darker and more frustrating.

Those choices triggered three differentВ cutscenes that didn't fully explain the end of the series' story, and were only slight variations on one another with re-used cinematic assets.

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For the unfamiliar (or those in need of brain-jogging), Mass Effect 3 concluded BioWare's space opera trilogy with an explosive story whose last minutes whittled down into a series of three choices.