Meet the Devs #14 : V - Skyrim

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:21 pm

Who designs the creatures/enemies in your studio?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:56 am

So I'm trying to descipher whos autograph belongs to who on the GameInformer Skyrim poster.

Which of you guys/gals have undescipherable squigly wriggly lines as autographs, HMMMM? :verymad: (no worries, I heart this poster muchos

)

Also, Assassins or Templars?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:49 am

What are you doing posting on a Saturday night?!? GO OUT AN HAVE FUN (vicariously, for those of us who were at the office working on Skyrim...for YOU! It's the least you could do)

I live in Scotland and it was actually the early hours of Sunday morning when I had posted that. The fact that you guys are hard at work on a Saturday night --for US-- sends shivers down my spine!

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:11 am

Can you describe your first day working at Bethesda? Were you nervous?

or has this already been asked :C

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:09 pm

What are you doing posting on a Saturday night?!? GO OUT AN HAVE FUN (vicariously, for those of us who were at the office working on Skyrim...for YOU! It's the least you could do)

I'd rather be in the office working on Skyrim.

:sadvaultboy:

How about a swap? You could come over here and clean my room, hunt wild haggis and wear a kilt with no underpants...

...Whilst I delve into the secrets of Skyrim :shifty:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:33 am

Question, me me me me....Who orders the pizzas at Bethesda HQ and who gets in the beers? Are these roles distinct? Is it the same person?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:51 pm

You know he was an EDF spy, right? Interesting.......

I HATE you!!! Why Jenkins? why? I had not gotten that far yet.... Ugh. Spoilers...

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:53 pm

Question, me me me me....Who orders the pizzas at Bethesda HQ and who gets in the beers? Are these roles distinct? Is it the same person?

And what beer do you guys usually have?

Also, Thunder Road, your thoughts on the song?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:26 pm

vsions can even a bosmer look like a scary cold hearted assassin with skyrims character creator?

Made me lol so hard...

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:00 pm

Do you guys look at all our speculative topics, and look at our ideas on what's what (Scamp-lich-grandma orc-falmer being a prime example.) and just laugh off your asses?

Sometimes. And sometimes facepalm over people taking things the wrong way. And sometimes are impressed by people's deductive reasoning and leaps of logic. :biggrin:

Do you ever read fanfics?

Do you ever readed a comic, online or normal?

Manga?

Anime?

1. Yup - I refer you to http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

2. Don't read many comics actually. At least not the traditional western super-hero ones.
3. Yup - have a collection at home
4. Yes - see above

OK a few questions to probe your developing mind

1. Whats your roll on the skyrim project, and what are some of the things your roll governs or effects in the long haul?

2. What has been your favorite project to work on in your history as a dev?

3. Favorite superhero of any fictious comic/tv/movie etc. series?

4. Do you find time to reach out to the fans and other great dev teams and let them in a way help make decisions in your area of work on the games you help create?

5. Whats your favorite TES game to play and why? (you can say skyrim for the ppl with short attention spans and little intrest in the past... but you gotta push the detail of why)

1. Script system programmer. Which means the designers (and modders, in the future) either love me or want to beat me within an inch of my life :biggrin:
2. Probably Skyrim, so far.
3. Hmm... don't really read/watch much super hero stuff actually. But the latest Batman movies have been good.
4. I try to - NDAs sometimes make it hard through.

5. Skyrim - cause we're always improving things.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:42 am

A Game Trailer detail that I find very creative....whose idea was it at the end to have the word Skyrim morph into 11.11.11? Thanks.

Hey, did you notice that in the Skyrim Countdown in my sig that we've broken the 200 day barrier? Still a long way to go but we're in the 100s!

:tes:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:43 am

Why are you guys so good at making games that turn me into an obsessive recluse?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:11 pm

When you entered your dream career of game creation how did it feel to you? Did it feel like you were in an unbelievable scene in a movie? Were you nervous? Were you high on life? I know I would be.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:34 pm

I'd like to know who is responsible for the foliage in the game- the foliage in the pic with the Orc, in particular, wirth the leaves on the right-hand side of the log, is incredibly detailed.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:02 am

when we meet alien civilizations would like them to look humanoid (sort of like us... aka startrek-ish) or more exotic like farscape and avp ..etc.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:43 pm

Did you have a job before game development?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:25 am

How is big dragon guys name pronounced? (That will clear up alot of confusion for alot of people!

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:18 am

When we play a Khajiit or Argonian, are we going to be able to choose the different variations that each has? example: Argonians have Nagas, sarpas, Archeins, and Agacephs. and Khajiits have Ohmes, Suthay, Cathay, and Tojay etc.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:31 pm

How about a swap? You could come over here and clean my room, hunt wild haggis and wear a kilt with no underpants...

Other than cleaning your room, how is this different from my normal day?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:11 pm

What do you devs love the most in this world?

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear da lamentations of da women!

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:08 am

Hey Thunderjunk- get back to work already! The damn game's not going tro make itself! :happy:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:31 pm

Hey Thunderjunk- get back to work already! The damn game's not going tro make itself! :happy:

Shhh... don't tell him, but us programmers are working on a "Make Game" button that will obsolete designers and artists entirely. :biggrin:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:48 am

Shhh... don't tell him, but us programmers are working on a "Make Game" button that will obsolete designers and artists entirely. :biggrin:

How bout we start with a "make it work" button first.... Booya!! :toughninja:

Joking......sort of :tongue:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:08 am

Who will win in this titanic battle of the programmers and the character artists? And did Thunderjunk actually go back to designing levels, or did he bunk off some more by continuing to faff about on the internet? Find out, next time, in Meet the Devs #14!!!! :intergalactic:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:20 am

1. Script system programmer. Which means the designers (and modders, in the future) either love me or want to beat me within an inch of my life :biggrin:

Any chance you can allude to some of the changes made to the script engine in the Creation Engine ? Or should my tongue be beaten wafer-thin with a steak tenderizer for asking so much of you ?