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I edited the quote to add emphasis to that sentence.

:)

This thread is NOT for asking questions about Fallout: New Vegas details. The rest of this board is for those questions. This is for personal, off-topic questions to ask the developers to find out what they're like as individuals.

Started writing pen and paper game products (about 5-6 adventures for Dungeon magazine, all rejected), a bunch of proposals for Champions and GURPS and other RPG houses (all rejected), and then finally the editors at Hero Games changed and they needed a Dark Champions submission, fast. My advice: Be persistent, and your time will come.

After the first Dark Champions book (Underworld Enemies), I did some superhero RPG books, realized pen-and-paper's a tough industry to make a living in, so I asked my editor if he knew of any real game design jobs. He recommended Interplay, since they were starting up an RPG division (Dragonplay). And, if I applied and got in, he'd get $300 worth of Interplay software as a referral bonus. Suffice to say, I got a job and felt cheapened by the whole experience when the $300 worth of games traded hands.

Been designing ever since.

a question i got in before leydenne closed the thread was something my friends asked me a lot:

Do You Consider Video Games an Art?

For anyone, if you please:

What is the best part of your job, and the worst?

I guess this is more oriented towards writers in the Dev team.

What exactly triggers the inspiration and thought in your work?

What's your favorite junk food item?

And what's your favorite snack food item?

What are your favorite places and characters in Fallout 1, 2 and 3 (and maybe in Tactics and Van Buren as well - not gonna count the other ones)?

Another question, perhaps for someone who crunches numbers.

In a project, is the budget determined before hand, and is it firm? Would it be possible to increase the budget if, say, the developers come up with something really cool? Have you ever delivered under budget?

I understand any answere would need to be general and vague.

Favorite ES game?

MCA - Did you ever find out what happened to that recording of Ron Perlman threatening you?

To all devs - A PNP RPG question, have you played Alternity and what do you think of the mechanics?

Computer RPGs have increasingly been hybridized with genres genres other than strategy/tactics, how do you feel about this trend and what type of gameplay are you most interested in seeing hybridized with RPGs, if any?

Also, since I gotta throw in a weasel question , what is your favorite and least favorite mechanic in Fallout 3?

I have to admit I was late to the ES games, Morrowind was my first and thus has the most prominent place for me in the ES series.

Same here. ^_^

Favorite Fallout Game? (Besides New Vegas)

Best/Favourite office story?

It's a toss-up between the game we are making and the game the other team is making =)

I never get bored. Frustrated? Physically tired? Wondering what daylight looks like? Sure. Just never bored.

Our old building was they type of place that no matter where you put the structure, you'd be working on the wrong side of the tracks. We used to call the downstairs bathroom Rapture because it was always under 6-inches of water. That place has stories...and ants. Lots of ants.

Are we expecting any new kinds of mutants? Hopefully one you can ride like horses in TES4 but you know not horrible.

Favorite candy?

you guys ever do something totally random while working like maybe one of you is programming and all of a sudden you yell loudly "PUDDING!!!!!" or do something.... thats just so random..?

Any off you guy's/girls played final fantasy if so which would you say is your fave one.

How ecstatic were you guys when you first found out that you guys were going to develop the next fallout game?

Did you guys get a free trip here to Vegas when working on the game?

What is your favorite Fallout and why?


Also, what is your favorite game platform (PC, 360, etc.) and why

When you guys take trips to Disney World, is it free or do you pay your own way? Also, when going do you car-pool, take a bus, or all take your own cars and plan to meet there at a certain time?

Favourite season/weather?

Any of you guys play Magic: The Gathering?