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Lepidus  11/23/06 12:57:05 PM
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Heidi Schmidt, a Content Designer for Funcom's Age of Conan, talks about her unqiue path to her first job in the industry: keeping the lore.

MMORPG.com: What is your job at Funcom? How did you get your foot in the door?

Heidi Schmidt: I am a content designer, specifically a quest designer, and the Lore Wench, for the Age of Conan MMO. I spent a lot of time on the TestLive test server for Anarchy Online, helping the developers by testing new content. I also delved into creating a huge in-game map for the community, which I really enjoyed working on (it was the perfect excuse to explore every meter of Rubi-Ka). When Funcom was looking to hire new people, I knew I had to apply. I had been so impressed with the artistic and creative talent behind Anarchy Online, and I wanted to be part of that amazing team. I applied as a designer, was interviewed, and hired, all in the matter of a few weeks. I moved to Norway from the U.S. just a few weeks after that!

The full Q&A is here.

 
Zapani  11/23/06 4:33:27 PM
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Arcona  11/23/06 4:48:57 PM
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Originally posted by Zapani




Age Of Conan will get lots of subscribers since its released a year before Warhammer
(Conan april 2007, Warhammer april 2008 )

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Greenneutron  11/23/06 6:41:24 PM
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  Good stuff. 


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Darkjinxter  11/24/06 7:31:29 AM
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I do hope this woman has actually read (and understands) RE Howard's works. Doesn't sound like it to me.
 
ericolm  11/24/06 8:14:02 AM
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"Right now I think this genre is sort of stuck in a trap of its own making. It's brain-locked on a certain formula and I think a lot of companies, because of how much it costs to make games, are very afraid of taking risks, afraid to take creative chances. I truly hope this will change--but it might not happen until the number of games in this genre using the same formula reaches a critical mass, first. Perhaps then, this genre can grow and become much more than it's been allowed to be thus far."

Doesnt it seem like shes saying that Age of Conan wont bring that much new to the table?
 
Fion  11/24/06 8:00:07 PM
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This is a great interview and from various things the interviewe says, I think she's Dovve from Anarchy Online, author of the most famous mod for the game, Dovve's Maps. Very cool that she's now working on Age of Conan with Funcom directly. Every old AO player should recognize the name.
 
thundera  11/26/06 11:29:11 AM
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Originally posted by Fion
This is a great interview and from various things the interviewe says, I think she's Dovve from Anarchy Online, author of the most famous mod for the game, Dovve's Maps. Very cool that she's now working on Age of Conan with Funcom directly. Every old AO player should recognize the name.
She is actually Nepentheia, she made the HugeMap for AO. http://travel.to/rubi-ka
 
Zorvan  11/26/06 11:40:53 AM
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Originally posted by thundera

Originally posted by Fion
This is a great interview and from various things the interviewe says, I think she's Dovve from Anarchy Online, author of the most famous mod for the game, Dovve's Maps. Very cool that she's now working on Age of Conan with Funcom directly. Every old AO player should recognize the name.
She is actually Nepentheia, she made the HugeMap for AO. http://travel.to/rubi-ka


Cool. I figured it was either Hugemap or Spheremap she was talking about. 'Course, features wise, I think CSP map is actually bigger.

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Fion  11/26/06 12:31:46 PM
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Ah hugemap, thats a great one too. Would have been cooler if she was Dovve but thats still quite cool. :D
 
darkentrees  12/02/06 2:40:34 AM
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