So, day before yesterday, I'm surfing around FaceBook and discovered a post by a friend of mine (who's played Fire On The Suns before) regarding how AAA game developers (the Big Guys) feel about indy developers. The post linked to a blog article and was very complimentary towards indy's so I posted how another friend of mine had gone from playing FOTS to working for BioWare, specifically on Mass Effect.
Yesterday, my friend from BioWare, Chris L'Etoile, who has now gone on to other things, posted a connection to a YouTube video detailing how the Geth in Mass Effect had gained sentience. He said I might be surprised at just how much FOTS had influenced Mass Effect.
Wow, was he ever right. I really wish I had the hyperlink, but that segment is straight out of FOTS (in FOTS the Machines asked their masters, the ancient Creators, if they, the Machines, had souls and this same thing is said to have happened to the Geth in Mass Effect).
It makes me very proud to have designed something that not only had a little/minimal influence on Mass Effect, but also had an influence, however minmal, on someone else's career.