With Skyrim's announcement on Saturday, we're excited to open up our latest Bethesda Game Studios' Meet The Devs thread. This thread is your opportunity to get to know the developers working on Skyrim. Should be fun as you'll run into some familiar friends, as well as plenty of new folks to the team.

Please keep in mind this thread is NOT for asking questions to the developers related to Skyrim. There will be a time to ask questions, but not yet, and not in this series of threads. Our amazing forum moderators will keep an eye on posts that aren't in line with the theme of the thread.

Just wanted to post a quick hello to everyone on the forums. Thanks for being here and keeping TES going. Yes, we read a lot of it, and have been for a long time. It's great to finally see a "V - Skyrim" section on here along with Morrowind and Oblivion. Like you, we're fans too, and we're just as excited about this game. The whole team at BGS has been giving this their all for the last several years. The next 11 months should be fun, and this is a great place for the team to hear from you. No, we can't give away info early, so don’t bait us into trouble!

Thanks again for all your support, not just now, but for the last 16 years.

todd

Thank you Todd and the rest of the team for giving us such incredible games.

Question: do you ever wonder or does it cross your mind how much something you were part of creating affects people's (gamer's) lives all over the world?

Odd question: do you feel that you are putting too much effort or that you somehow are getting too little recognition for the fact that you make absolutely huge games that give the player 100s of gaming hours compared to "normal" games but you're being evaluated and reviewed by the same standards? (to clarify: I sometimes think to myself that these guys, Bethesda, they make these huge worlds for relatively little in return, probably being fully aware that they could much more easily make a slim and polished Uncharted or Dragon Age and release it every other year. But oh, do I admire you for this!!)

What do you want for christmas?

Is the game as fun for you as it as for us ?
Because you know all the spoilers, or is it even better because your playing something you have created ?

Honestly, you do loose some of the surprise, but only in the immediate area your involved in. I find that its still pretty awesome when you come accros something awesome someone put into the world that you have never seen before. And sometimes you get used to something but all of a sudden it changes and totally surprises you, which is also very cool. Personally, I love this job..... Im not just saying that because Todd mmight be reading either

My question is probably directly pointed to Todd. I want to know how did the Elder Series Idea start? Was it like a dream or did a prophet tell you what fortune could be made?

@Atomic I'm not a dev, but I can shout out for redheads - love 'em! I was disappointed to skip that particular family trait, but I do dye my hair red on occasion. I also have a pop star crush on the distinctly flame-haired Jim Thirlwell.

Oh, here again is the archive I've kept of the Meet the Devs threads from Fallout 3's development - it's far from exhaustive, but it might help.

http://princess.elricm.net/MeettheDevsArchive.html

http://princessstomper.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/fallout3developers.jpg <-- annotated photo of some of Bethesda's team during Fallout 3's development.