Merric posted this on January 31st, 2011.
Categorized as Dev Chat, Interview, LotRO News, Paul Simon.
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Burgzergarcade.com will be hosting an interview with Turbine Content Designer Paul Simon this coming Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 5:00 PM EST. Paul will be discussing items focused around past projects and his daily work flow (present and future items are understandably not up for discussion). Burgzergarcade will be asking a “static list of questions” and once those are asked they will be opening up the floor to the live chat so that they can ask their own questions. Additional questions may be asked by posting a comment to the announcement post and they will be used if time permits.
This interview will be aimed at aspiring game developers, however everyone is welcome to come. You can attend by going to Burgzergarcade’s live broadcast page or by using the Justin.tv Android or iPhone app during the interview.
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Goldenstar posted this on January 25th, 2011.
Categorized as Budgeford, Dev Chat, Dev Team, Interview, LotRO News, turbine.
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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. Let’s get right to the questions!
What is it like being the only female developer working on content for LOTRO right now?
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Merric posted this on September 7th, 2010.
Categorized as Dev Chat, Dev Team, Events, Free to Play, jwbarry, Kate Paiz, LotRO News, Sapience, turbine, victorie, warcry.
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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 members:
- Kate “Nereid” Paiz – Executive Producer
- Leo “Ransroth” Zelevinsky – Engineering Team
- Jen “Jalessa” Gordy – Systems Team
- Joe “jwbarry” Barry – Content Team
- “Victorie” – Account Management Team
- “Sapience” – Community Team
For those who were not able to attend we have a transcript here in PDF form.
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Goldenstar posted this on September 5th, 2010.
Categorized as Dev Chat, dev diary, Enedwaith, episode, Episodes, Episodes from 2010, PAX, podcast.
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In this episode, we talk dev diaries, LOTRO store, servers and all the new F2P information that came out this week.
Goldenstar and Merric are playing their Runekeeper/Hunter duo again and started out questing in Oatbarton and then moved on to Esteldin. Goldenstar got her jeweler to kindred with the jewelers guild. Merric got his Runkeeper to level 34 and the RK/Hunter duo is now level 32.
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Merric posted this on September 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as Dev Chat, F2P, LotRO News, turbine, warcry.
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Sapience posted today:
Do you still have questions about Free to Play or Volume III, Book 2? Join us for a Developer Chat hosted by Warcry on Tuesday, September 7th at 1:00PM Eastern (-4 GMT). Visit Warcry.com for the full details!
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Kairos posted this on November 26th, 2009.
Categorized as Armour, design, Dev Chat, Dol Guldur, First Age, legendary items, loot, Second Age.
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Back on the Stateside forums, a vicious little
argument erupted on 17 November over the top-end raid loot in Siege of Mirkwood, namely the armour set dropping from the Dol Guldur instance, and raged for two days until the thread was closed. The title given to the thread by the original poster says it all: “If you value raid loot, Mirkwood is NOT for you...”. Well, we already knew (see previous post!) that DG armour will be a visual disaster, but it seems that it’s going to be distinctly poor in terms of stats as well – some posters felt it will be barely better than the full Watcher set. And to add insult to injury, it turns out to be (oh, the shame!) purple rather than teal.
At the same time – and I’m definitely confused as to the thinking behind this - it seems the new SoM legendary weapons will only come in Second-Age flavours. No First-Agers at all. So will a l.60 First-Ager be better or worse than a l.65 Second-Ager? I would guess worse, but who knows?
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almazar posted this on November 25th, 2009.
Categorized as Dev Chat, General, lord of the rings online, lord of the rings online reporter, lotro, lotro reporter, Show Notes, turbine, Warden.
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Another late show notes. Sorry!
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Our big feature this week was our interview with Sapience AKA Rick Heaton. Thanks again Rick! Turbine, give this man a raise!
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1) UI Dev Diary – New Main Menu!
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Merric posted this on November 23rd, 2009.
Categorized as Codemasters, Dev Chat, Dev Team, Q&A, Seige of Mirkwood, turbine.
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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. And although there were quite a few fans in attendance, I’m not sure what the issues were but the chat this time around seemed a bit more disorganized. First off, it neither started on time, nor did it last that long. Secondly, there were not as many questions answered (whether it was due to lack of time or questions, I’m not sure). And thirdly, most of the questions answered were already answered in the first chat.
There were a couple of questions that I hadn’t seen before such as “Why is all the end-game gear purple instead of teal?” (Because it’s not the last set of gear we’ll see in Mirkwood.) and “if PvMP gear will be brought up to par with raiding gear” (the new gear will be brought up to par with the 3-man/6-man gear). However, most of the other answers were the same that we’ve seen over time or answered “no/not at this time”. Overall, I think a lot of people were disappointed in the chat, but I’m not sure if it could be helped. I hadn’t spent much time thinking about a question, but the one I came up with was rather droll. Honestly, I just want it to be 8+ days from now so I’ll have Mirkwood in my hot little hobbit hands!
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Goldenstar posted this on November 17th, 2009.
Categorized as Codemasters, Dev Chat, LotRO News, Seige of Mirkwood, turbine, welcome back.
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Announced this morning are two bits of information that our European readers may be interested in!
First is a Warcry Dev Chat that is being hosted on Monday, November 23rd at 8:00pm UK time (GMT). The chat will be about an hour long and you will be able to submit your questions to the developers from Turbine directly. Visit Warcry’s site for more information on how you can participate in this chat!
Next bit of news is that Codemasters is opening up a Welcome Back week for the European servers that will run from Monday, November 23rd through Monday, November 30th. This is to invite people who used to play LOTRO to come and play their old characters for free. Everyone playing during this week will have a +25% experience boost which will be handy if you’re trying to catch up before Mirkwood launches!
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Goldenstar posted this on November 15th, 2009.
Categorized as Dev Chat, Dol Guldur, episode 12, Episodes, fathom, galenswerd, landroval, lonely mountain band, lottery, Mirkwood, music, SOM, welcome back.
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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!
Festival in the Shire was mentioned in the interview which is a big celebration of all things Tolkien that is taking place next summer in Wales. Fathom is trying to get a group trip organized to attend this festival. So if you’re interested in traveling to the UK with Fathom, keep an eye on their website for updates on that!
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