A Casual Stroll to Mordor #23: Interview with Skirmish Devs
Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by Goldenstar in Episodes, Episodes from 2010
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This is a very special and extra long episode of A Casual Stroll to Modor where we sit down to chat with Turbine Developers Brian “Zombie Columbus”, Joe “jwbarry”, Tim “Raskolnikov”. We talk about their positions at Turbine and ask them your questions that you sent in.
They also were so kind to give us a big scoop to a major change to Skirmishes that is coming with Volume III, Book 1. I’m not going to spoil it but it is about the most asked question we received for these guys. I’m certain most of you will be super happy to hear about it. That’s why you’re getting this episode in the middle of the week. We couldn’t wait!
This is a very long episode so we left out the news and other chatter that we usually do just to give you as much of the interview as we could possibly cram into your ears.
A special thank you to Brian, Joe and Tim as we had a great time chatting with them. They are some really funny guys and we appreciate them staying late at work just to sit and chat with us for a couple hours.
Musical Credits:
- “Battle of Ballylochian” by Fathom
- “Pigeon on the Gate” by Fathom
- “Let us Sing Together” performed by The Lonely Mountain Band
- “Banshee” performed by Fathom
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Update 2/5/10: I’ve created a post with a timeline of the questions we’ve asked and where they appear in the podcast in case you can’t listen to the whole thing but want to skip to a specific discussion. You can find the list here!
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Merric & Goldenstar
03. Feb, 2010
A Casual Stroll to Mordor #23: Interview with Skirmish Devs: This is a very special and… http://goo.gl/fb/j1dG #lotro
Azz
03. Feb, 2010
The Skirmish devs drop it at about 1:48:20 into the podcast!!! This is awesome! http://www.casualstrolltomordor.com/2010/02/episode23/
Kaelin
03. Feb, 2010
That was a long interview, but so worth it. >D Everything sounds awesome. Especially… well, YMMV.
Merric and GS, you guys work your butts off. o_o /salute
Merric
23. Feb, 2010
Thanks Kealin, we appreciate it.
Hatch
04. Feb, 2010
Awesome interview, great bunch of guys. Good candid banter & refreshing conversation.
Thanks
Little links from a tired mind « Nerf the Cat
04. Feb, 2010
[...] Stroll to Mordor podcast. It’s well put-together, interesting to listen to and well, in the latest one they interview Turbine developers about skirmishes, and come out with some juicy [...]
Bex (arbitrary)
04. Feb, 2010
RT @strolltomordor: A Casual Stroll to Mordor #23: Interview with Skirmish Devs: This is a very special and… http://goo.gl/fb/j1dG #lotro
Heiko
04. Feb, 2010
A great interview with some nice scoops! Well done!
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04. Feb, 2010
[...] in and I have found a winner. From the great podcast/site A Casual Stroll to Mordor in their latest podcast with Lord of the Rings Online Skirmish devs, getting hit by environmental effects or geometrical [...]
Tony
04. Feb, 2010
Yeah, my question was more of it being like “currency”, yes. I didn’t phrase it was well as I would have liked haha.
I’d especially like that with the marks. Glad to see it’s something they’re wanting to do at some point.
Goldenstar
04. Feb, 2010
Sorry Tony, I was the one who screwed up your question. But it sounds like Xaan had the same question so at least it got answered!
Merric
23. Feb, 2010
Hopefully we’ll see this too. I wonder if there’s a reason why it’s not being released soon. Or if there’s something they’re going to plan to take it even further than previously imagined.
Urailas
04. Feb, 2010
great interview guys, it’s great to see you get the big scoop on the 2-man skirms too!
Thanks for staying up late and editing to get this out, very much appreciated!
Frieja
04. Feb, 2010
Awesome interview! Lots of juicy tidbits and fun banter to listen too. Great job, guys.
Elrondas
04. Feb, 2010
I really enjoyed the interview. It was full with some nice information about the upcoming book.
Will there be another episode this week?
Goldenstar
04. Feb, 2010
What? 2-1/2 hours of us wasn’t enough?
I think merric is planning on still doing a short news and updates post this weekend since we couldn’t fit it in here.
n0name28 (Ranni)
04. Feb, 2010
Guys, that was awe_some! I listened to it as I took my new grd from 16 to Undying. Made me want to get one of my skirmishing characters out instead (especially when I almost died thanks to ‘awesome town’). Great interview, questions and answers. Thanks so much to all involved!
Darzil
04. Feb, 2010
Thank you very much for hosting this interview, and very much indeed to the Devs for the Skirmish changes !
Rharan
04. Feb, 2010
Great interview guys!
Nice to hear about the shared storage being built to expand. I’ve found that VERY useful. Transferring stuff between alts is great, but it also serves a nice purpose that was a royal pain before — looking through a pile of crafting recipes and pick out the duplicates (since it shows the item names and alphabetizes).
Skirmishes are fun right now… and I know those guys were very wed to it. But quite honestly, I don’t want to see it become *too* much of a focus.
When you boil it down, skirmishes really are just instance-dungeons. I’ve played games that were heavily instance-dungeon focused (City of Heroes/Villains, for example), and the game just got old too quickly.
Trellis
05. Feb, 2010
Many thanks for yet another excellent, entertaining and informative podcast.
Tony
05. Feb, 2010
Combo: Volume 3, Book 1 http://bit.ly/ccFRZ8
Harperella
05. Feb, 2010
Great interview, very fun and informal. Can we get you guys to kibitz about games every week?
–Harp
Timeline for Episode 23 | A Casual Stroll to Mordor
05. Feb, 2010
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Edhellreth
05. Feb, 2010
Hehehe, thanks for that. I enjoyed listening to the interview, thanks to both you guys and the devs for the time.
Ramiro
06. Feb, 2010
Great interview… laughed a lot with you guys.
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Why
06. Feb, 2010
And about PVMP? Are we getting something???? This is a one sided game, PVE.
If you like PVP dont buy that.
Merric
08. Feb, 2010
The Skirmish Devs would like to do a lot with PvMP and Skirmishes, and they’ve gone as far as pricing out what the cost would be to develop the system. Beyond that, I’m not sure where it stands.
However, that being said I have requested from Turbine to interview people who are working on developing the PvMP side of the game and hopefully we can get an interview with someone who can focus on this (neglected) aspect of the game.
Goldenstar ROX
08. Feb, 2010
Thank you so much! i liked this podcast, i liked it and it was shiny
Fengald
08. Feb, 2010
Fantastic podcast. The discussion was very interesting, keep up the good work….
Berlios
08. Feb, 2010
PVMP got exactly the attention it warented, as describedin numerous posts on the forums, during the podcast and on the forums. A blurb…
Awesome interview. I did a by the minute report to my kin as i listened.
Geraldorn
09. Feb, 2010
I have to say, trememdous interview. This was the best MMO Dev interview I have listened to, including Blizzcast. Keep up the awesome job, love the podcast!
Merric
23. Feb, 2010
Wow, thank you very much!
Blue Kae/Brynulf
09. Feb, 2010
Really great interview and epic quest in length too.
Dreadhed
09. Feb, 2010
Awesome guys! Thank you so much!
Gewl
11. Feb, 2010
This was wonderful! I listen to it as I redownloaded the game and made it much more enjoyable. Thank you very much.
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Welby
24. Feb, 2010
Love it,…
Great interview,..the Billy Mayes bit had me lol’ing :p
Neil Johnson
10. Mar, 2010
I LOVE goldenstar!!!!
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