Questions about Illwinter, the company

[johan osterman]

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?

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 ]