Anyway, Warhammer related:
1) What where your favorite things in working with Total War: Warhammer as well as Alien Isolation. Like things you enjoyed working with the most.
2) As a follow up to the first question, the least favorite things when working on those said games?
3) Among the factions in Warhammer lore, which are your favorites? Space Marines? Orks? Tau? Necrons?
1) I didn't work directly on Alien Isolation (though my face is in the game lol) but my fav thing in Warhammer was probably the wyvern *_*.. it was really fun to animate!
2) Least favourite.. probably bug-fixes and trying to work when the tools are broken lol..
3)Hmm.. I like Empire (griffons!) Oh and Lizardmen! Skaven are cool too!
There is only one possible question.
WHEN IS THE FREAKING PSO2 COMING WEST?! :D
PS02? I don't even know what that is..
"When you see something leak that is 100% true... what goes through your mind that tells you denying it instead of just ignoring it is a good idea?"
I don't deny stuff. I just ignore it or if someone pesters me, I'll just say "no" to everything or just shrug and say "sorry I can't say" or "I dunno" or laugh. If someone's not going to respect my contract then I won't pay attention to them.
Might be the wrong person to ask given your area, but are you ever under pressure to rush a product for an earlier release by the publisher or whoever at the expense of the final product?
I'm not really under pressure, to be honest, but I do work overtime from time to time even at the beginning of the project. We try and schedule so that no one has to do overtime during the project, but sometimes it's either inevitable, or it's by choice because we personally want to make a feature better. Every feature is planned and scoped accordingly. Sometimes bugs pop up that aren't expected to happen and then they cause blockers or eat into the time of other tasks and that's probably why some bits don't get released as polished as we would like but we do our best to catch them and polish them up ASAP.
Oh! And how is your perspective on other big devs out there. Especially ones in the same genre? Do you collaborate with them at all? Is there any jealousy around your workplace towards other dev companies?
We don't collaborate with others no, unless there's some sort of legal partnership (Warhammer and Total War, for example.) I can't speak for the studio, but for myself, there isn't any jealousy or competition. During conferences or events that I've met other devs, everyone is all really cool and I've gotten along really well with everyone. We're all just here to make cool games, share knowledge, and yeah.. just show our passion to the world :3