The Chamber of Records Middle-earth Modding Interview #2
Palantir: Coding Manager of ‘The Fourth Age: Total War’
The Guards of the Citadel await the onslaught
This interview was first posted on the 16th of October, 2006.
COR: Greetings! This is the second instalment in our series of Middle-earth modding interviews. This time we have managed to catch Palantir (MasterOfNone/Dol Guldur at other sites) of ‘The Fourth Age: Total War’ for an interview. Palantir, thank you for finding the time for a chat.
PAL: Delighted. You did well to catch me!
COR: Can you tell us a little about yourself, how old you are, where you live and what you are up to in ‘real life’?
PAL: Well, I’m thirty-cough and live in England. I am often up to many varied things one of which is modding – a terribly time-consuming hobby with a tough learning curve for something unpaid.
COR: Could you tell us what your job is in the mod team?
PAL: Currently I am the Manager of the Coding Department and also one of the three Mod Team Managers. I have a number of other roles such as a lore researcher, Middle-earth Consultant (chiefly on geographical matters), Designer (non-graphical), writer, and a game researcher (the latter of which is still much a part of coding). My task in the early days of the Mod was to research and design the concept for the campaign map. But, to be honest, I have done a bit of everything with the exception of modelling – I do not possess 3ds Max or the skills to use it.
