A Casual Stroll to Mordor

A Developer Diary, written by Joe ‘”jwbarry” Barry, was released today focusing again on the Isengard Cluster that came with Update 5. And although I thought it was strange that we would see another diary focusing on the cluster it appears that while the Roundtable was focused on the process of designing the cluster, today’s focuses on the end result.

Released today was a Developer Diary that takes a different perspective and instead of coming from one source it comes from a number of Turbine employees

Burgzergarcade.com will be hosting an interview with Turbine Content Designer Paul Simon this coming Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 5:00 PM EST

Lauren “Budgeford” Salk is the content developer best known for bringing to life the wonderful new festival events like the Haunted Burrow of Fall and Winter-home during Yule. We were able to send her some questions we had about working at Turbine and the design process that she graciously answered for us.

Just a brief note, patch servers are up so go start updating if you can! Secondly, today the WarCry network hosted a chat with Turbine employees. For those who were not able to attend we have a transcript here in PDF form.

In this episode, we talk dev diaries, LOTRO store, servers and all the new F2P information that came out this week.

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WarCry will be hosting a Developer Chat with some of the Turbine Staff on Tuesday, September 7th at 1:00 PM EDT (-4 GMT/UTC)

Today WarCry held their second Developer Chat, this time aimed at European players. Making an appearance this time were Sapience, Jalessa, Raskolnikoy, ZombieColumbus, and Faya.

Announced this morning are two bits of information that our European readers may be interested in! A dev chat and a welcome back week just for the European servers!

In this episode of CStM we have a chat with Galenswerd (aka John) from the Celtic-Rock band, Fathom. John was the first Featured Player on the Turbine Community blog. He is a musician in real life working on a Tolkien inspired project entitled “The Lonely Mountain Band”. He is also a kinship leader of the same name on Landroval. We discuss music, LOTRO and kinships!

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A Developer chat was hosted by WarCry’s LOTRO fan site on 11/11, where players were able to ask questions of Orion, Sapience, Jalessa, jwbarry, and Graal.

Warcry.com is hosting a dev chat about Siege of Mirkwood where you can ask your questions of Sapience, Orion, Jalessa, Budgeford and JWBarry. This will happen on Wednesday, November 11th at 8:00PM EST.

Visit Warcry’s site for more information on how to join in this event!