Vagabond Angel, a true artist and highly regarded member of the modding community.

Nice interview!

This part made me laugh "I was once asked if I search the forums for the word 'impossible' to get my mod ideas."

Wonderful interview choice! :goodjob:

Ok, we've got me out of the way. Let's get on with the good interviews now. How about Phijama? I also agree about Vagabond Angel. And definitely Emma.

I saw that AlienSlof has been mentioned several times. I'd like to give her another mention, as well. She does amazing work, especially since so much of it is done painstakingly by hand.

Edit: I wonder whatever happened to http://www.geocities.com/jw_mcguinn/armory.html of the Knights of Tamriel?

I looked through everyone's suggestions, and I agree with all of them--these are all really important members of the community, and I think being able to read some good interviews from them would be enlightening and enjoyable.

If I could only pick one of them, I would have to choose Emma. One might say that her presence among us--in her creativity, her persistence, and her dedication--is a testament to the very idea of "community." I feel that it would be especially meaningful to see an interview with her.

At the same time, I am really glad to know that we will get to have a series of such interviews. There are so many people that it would be great to hear from.

I'm going to go old school here as these people influenced me.

Brash, Ayse, Lord Gabryel, Raptre, Zuldazug, Qarl, Jeremy, Vagabound Angel, Intelligentsia, Max-aka Nobody, Neptoolemus, Duncan, Leeloo, Canadian Ice, Gorg, Carnithus, Ren, Abot, Cortex, Monica21, Korana, Emma, Westly, AlienSlof, Princess Stomper, Phijama, and the whole PsychodoG Studio.

There are few people in the modding community that I hold in as high regard as I do RedwoodTreesprite.

Just put up an interview with Darknut on the http://bethblog.com/?p=330...hope you enjoy it!

Good interviews. Both this one with Darknut and the one you made earlier with Fliggerty.

Also, I recommend you to interview (still the ones that I mentioned in my first post) Midgetalien as well.

- Tennisbollen

That was an illuminating read - thank you
@ Darknut, great stuff - looking forward to seeing what you do next. :goodjob:

I'd suggest Cortex, OldeCow69, Ronin49, RedwoodTreesprite and Princess_Stomper


EDIT:
How could I forget, Wrye and Timeslip

My Suggestions: Snakebitten, Cortex, Carnithus, Princess_Stomper, Qarl, UQForgotten (Best faces ever), Qarl, and Westly...Qarl.



Since when did Westly get to be The Westly?!

This week's interview with Connary is up...take a look.

Great choice! Thanks for the interview Connary!

Hmm, has no one mentioned Galsiah yet? Galsiah's Character Development is regarded as an essential mod by lots of players, and from his posts that I read here, I think he's got a lot of interesting things to say about game design in general.

I guess everyone's been here longer than you have, and are almost as tired of hearing my "interesting" views on game design as I am .

From a practical point of view, explanations/advice concerning the modding I've done would probably be useful to fewer prospective modders than the explanations/advice of others listed above. GCD has a pretty specific, niche focus - while its code resembles an unsightly skirmish between a black box, a lunatic and a truck full of spaghetti. It's an interesting illustration of what's possible, and works pretty well - but isn't going to have any relevance to 95% of modding projects. Neither does it lend itself to impressive screenshots. (I guess the pool table could, but that's just an absurd mini-game)

While I'm quite sure I could talk at length on game design, I'm less sure what anyone would gain from listening. In any case, I've recently resolved to stop talking quite so much, and start to put my time (and depressing absence of money) where my mouth is.

I would like to second Brash, Intelligentsia and Duncan from skydye's list.

To those already mentioned I would like to add

Rhedd and Allerleirauh
Lady Eternity and Proudfoot
Horatio
Mephisto
Dongle
Sheikizza
Motoki
Tenaka
Srikandi
MadMax
Dave Humphrey
Telesphoros
TheLys
Wakim
JOG
JB
Blockhead
Lochnarus
Sabregirl
Shezrie
Ravensong
Maboroshi Daikon
MagicNakor
Taddeus & Nymeria
and of course the inimitable Puma Man.

Interview with Midgetalian went up today.

Not to be picky but his name is Midgetalien.

Nice interview nevertheless.

- Tennisbollen

Thanks, we got that corrected...oops!

There's another interview up now...this time with AlienSlaf...I mean Slof

Very good read. Best wishes to AlienSlof, I didn't know about her health problems.

Special kudos to GStaff for asking the last question in the interview. It's obvious that this question will evoke some criticism on current products, but it does so in a very constructive way ("What would *you* do if you were in our shoes?"). Believe me - that someone was free to mention on an official Betjesda Blog that she perceived Morrowind's world as fuller and more varied, is a welcome change to the usual "marketspeak", and will mean a lot to many people in this community. So - thanks for the open-minded approach! :thumbsup:

This week we've got Wrye up on the blog.

Also Psyringe, thanks for the feedback.

Saw the Wrye interview - nice to read more about someone who's given so much to both games.

I'd like to push another vote for princess_stomper. She'll done so much for modding and released so many great mods. I feel she has to be living in an area with 48 hrs. in each day.