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Questions about Illwinter, the company
While we have a bunch of Illwinterized people roaming the new forum, I will take advantage of this rare situation to ask somes questions which always teased me. Feel free to not respond, if there is secret facts about it.
How IW is organized, as a company with full times employees, or is it still a garage studio, with benevolents people burning all their spare time to develop a game (and have a work outside).?
Does a dedicated artist works for IW, or is it more some freelances hired from time to time?
How many devs there is in the team? Johan, Kristopher, anybody else?
Are the beta testers friends of the IW team, or are they choosen amongst venusian or altarian population?
Do you eat pizza when you code?
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September 19th, 2003, 01:30 AM
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Re: Questions about Illwinter, the company
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Originally posted by Pocus:
While we have a bunch of Illwinterized people roaming the new forum, I will take advantage of this rare situation to ask somes questions which always teased me. Feel free to not respond, if there is secret facts about it.
How IW is organized, as a company with full times employees, or is it still a garage studio, with benevolents people burning all their spare time to develop a game (and have a work outside).?
Does a dedicated artist works for IW, or is it more some freelances hired from time to time?
How many devs there is in the team? Johan, Kristopher, anybody else?
Are the beta testers friends of the IW team, or are they choosen amongst venusian or altarian population?
Do you eat pizza when you code?
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The company essentially consists of Kristoffer Osterman and Johan Karlsson, they are the developers Johan does almost all of the coding, Kristoffer most of the graphics and most of nation race design etc. Daniel Serra is in charge of the economics. Johan is currently unemployed otherwise so he is closest to working full time on illwinter at the moment. Most of the swedish beta testers and the developers are people that have played various rpgs and boardgames together for several years. No one is hired by illwinter, neither dominions -PPP or CoE made anything more than pocket money.
*Edit* Johan eats ice cream after he has coded.
[ September 18, 2003, 12:40: Message edited by: johan osterman ]
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September 19th, 2003, 01:53 AM
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Re: Questions about Illwinter, the company
Thanks for all these infos!
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September 18th, 2003, 03:59 PM
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Re: Questions about Illwinter, the company
Originally posted by johan osterman:
"neither dominions -PPP or CoE made anything more than pocket money."
That is very sad...
I feel bad for not bying the Dominions I...
[ September 18, 2003, 15:01: Message edited by: Nerfix ]
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September 18th, 2003, 05:30 PM
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Re: Questions about Illwinter, the company
HA!!! I bought it....3 times even....although, I am wondering if I could get my money back for one of them....75 bucks for the same game is kinda strange...especially with me wanting to pre-order Dom2.....but, I cannot figure out how to email the certain company that i paid through....enough rambling....
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Re: Questions about Illwinter, the company
Quote:
Originally posted by Pocus:
While we have a bunch of Illwinterized people roaming the new forum, I will take advantage of this rare situation to ask somes questions which always teased me. Feel free to not respond, if there is secret facts about it.
How IW is organized, as a company with full times employees, or is it still a garage studio, with benevolents people burning all their spare time to develop a game (and have a work outside).?
Does a dedicated artist works for IW, or is it more some freelances hired from time to time?
How many devs there is in the team? Johan, Kristopher, anybody else?
Are the beta testers friends of the IW team, or are they choosen amongst venusian or altarian population?
Do you eat pizza when you code?
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Kristoffer (ph - pah!  )
A couple of beta testers are old friends. When we joined forces with Shrapnel we got some new ones that gave us good imput on basic details that swedes are unable to observe. They also had newbie approach wich was wery informative. Our friends were used to old UI misses that the shrapnel crew quickly found.
I drink coffe.
* Edit * Johan Osterman is our main critic/idea contributor, but most of our friends give us imput from time to time.
[ September 18, 2003, 16:55: Message edited by: Kristoffer O ] |
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