13pm
Water Chip? Been There, Done That
Inside the Vault again at Bethblog. Today they are interviewing Erik Deitrick, interface programmer.
"We are not asking them if they played Fallout. Get over it"
<blockquote>What’s your job at Bethesda?
I’m an interface programmer. So I work on menus and minigames.
What other games have you worked on?
I started off at Ubisoft working on Tarzan Untamed for the GameCube, which was a platformer geared to a young audience. I then worked at a failed dot-com making small games for a platform that never made it to market, which is a shame because my head-to-head wackamole would have revolutionized all mole-based games. Then I got hired here at Bethesda and worked on Oblivion, and now Fallout 3.
What would you say is your personal favorite game of all-time?
I’ve had a lot of games that I really got into over the years. I was fully addicted to Tribes for a least a year. I played lots of Red Alert. When I was younger and had more time than money, I’d play any game I bought to death. Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem come to mind. The only game that I still pick up and play regularly though is Mario 3. I even went so far as to meet in real life — in an industrial park at night no less — a guy I met on the internet because he promised me a toploader NES for free after mine had broken. If you ever get such an offer I say go for it, because people are basically good, right?
What games are you looking forward to?
Ghostbusters on the Wii. The Batman and Indiana Jones Lego games. Spore.</blockquote>Link: Inside the Vault - Erik Deitrick
"We are not asking them if they played Fallout. Get over it"
<blockquote>What’s your job at Bethesda?
I’m an interface programmer. So I work on menus and minigames.
What other games have you worked on?
I started off at Ubisoft working on Tarzan Untamed for the GameCube, which was a platformer geared to a young audience. I then worked at a failed dot-com making small games for a platform that never made it to market, which is a shame because my head-to-head wackamole would have revolutionized all mole-based games. Then I got hired here at Bethesda and worked on Oblivion, and now Fallout 3.
What would you say is your personal favorite game of all-time?
I’ve had a lot of games that I really got into over the years. I was fully addicted to Tribes for a least a year. I played lots of Red Alert. When I was younger and had more time than money, I’d play any game I bought to death. Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem come to mind. The only game that I still pick up and play regularly though is Mario 3. I even went so far as to meet in real life — in an industrial park at night no less — a guy I met on the internet because he promised me a toploader NES for free after mine had broken. If you ever get such an offer I say go for it, because people are basically good, right?
What games are you looking forward to?
Ghostbusters on the Wii. The Batman and Indiana Jones Lego games. Spore.</blockquote>Link: Inside the Vault - Erik Deitrick
