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clearing on 17/3/2011 at 04:06

(http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/33575/Valve_Confirms_Hiring_Of_Thief_Designer_Doug_Church.php) Valve Confirms Hiring Of Thief Designer Doug Church.

sNeaksieGarrett on 17/3/2011 at 16:38

Interesting. Thanks.

I wonder what he's doing there?:erm:

Goldmoon Dawn on 17/3/2011 at 17:29

Well, it *is* Doug Church we're talking about. I'm sure it's some sort of lead visionary role!

malau on 26/3/2011 at 17:01

Wow ! He's a young looking, handsome guy !

With an old fashioned name like 'Douglas' I imagined him with lank, greasy hair and specs - like a thinner Gabe Newell.

jtr7 on 12/4/2011 at 03:12

Not only did Tim Stellmach leave Vicarious Visions roughly a year ago, but eventually, so did Mike Chrzanowski.

Mike is now Founder and CEO of Bat Country Entertainment:
(http://www.batcountryentertainment.com/)
(http://www.facebook.com/BatCountryEnt)

:angel:

Kolya on 12/4/2011 at 17:34

Their product "Aardblox" is an obvious Tetris rehash of which there exists thousands of free versions. In the trailer they depict their customer as a complete imbecile and the speaker sounds like a TV shop announcer. They borrowed their id from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and their site is hosted on a free website service.
Is that even a company or an elaborate joke?

jtr7 on 12/4/2011 at 20:35

Both. Mike's quite the goofball.

Fala on 12/4/2011 at 22:07

Emil Pagliarulo, who worked as a designer for TDP, TMA and TDS before joining Bethesda Softworks, speaks in (http://bethblog.com/podcast/) episode 8 of the Bethesda Podcast, which is on the team's memories of the creation of Oblivion, 5 years on. He talks about thief (skip ahead to about 6:00 if you don't want to wait ;)), and how his love of the games influenced the work he did on the Dark Brotherhood questline from Oblivion.

He also talks about a mod with Garrett's equipment. There're some interesting snippets there.

jtr7 on 12/4/2011 at 22:43

Thanks! :thumb:

Fala on 13/4/2011 at 16:01

All I can say is that it's a shame he didn't do the Thieves Guild instead. Though it does explain why the Dark Brotherhood assassins' gear looks so much like Garrett's from TDS :p