Actually they both have "real" jobs.
To quote from a press release:
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Illwinter Game Design is based in Sweden, specifically the southern towns of Malm and Lund. Formed many years ago with the intent to create massive fantasy turn-based strategy games Illwinter consists of Johan Karlsson and Kristoffer Osterman. By trade Johan is a computer engineer and Kristoffer is a teacher of religion and social studies.
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Johan Karlsson is the programmer and does most of the code to make things work. Besides the game, he also programs his own tools that he uses (such as sprite and sound editors), and the installer and get all of it to work on Windows, and Mac, and Linux (well it already works on linux since thats what he programs on)
Kristoffer Osterman is the theme and graphics guy. He teaches, and part of that involves mythological/religio history. So he is able to mix in his already extensive knowledge with creating the nations, pretenders, units, etc. He is also the balance guy. The one with the overall picture for the game.
Johan Osterman is Kristoffer's brother and besides being a #1 alpha tester he also tends to take short answers from J and K, and turn then into longer ones. Both in the game (such as the messages you get when a global is cast) and often here in the forums also.
A day at work at Illwinter game design..
http://www.illwinter.com/illwork.jpg
What our heroes really look like..
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Origins...2/dcp_0309.jpg
Thats Kristoffer on the left side of the image, and Johan in the middle.
Disclaimer: not an official response
Gandalf Parker