Update: https://youtu.be/yC6W0htYBOc
Hello 👋,
One of my friends who posts here told me it would be sweet if I tried out an AMA here so here goes.
I have been a programmer for the mod since 2019 and have been working on the project I would say almost every other day, except for holidays of course. Working on the game has been really exciting and I’m really proud to be a part of it and I really really can’t wait for people to start playing it! It’s honestly such a cool mod and we have an incredibly talented team of people who have been working on this thing nonstop.
Anyway, cheers for having me and thanks for the questions!
What brings you here of all places?
I’m really looking forward to skyblivion. I thought the remaster would quell my desire but it was such a disappointment it only hardened my resolve to play.
I got into a drinking game with one of your posters who is also my friend. After losing they told me it would be cool to chill out here and do an AMA. I haven’t revealed them yet because they’re most likely sleeping, might be a cool surprise for them once they wake up to see this. Lol.
I got into a drinking game with one of your posters
This would have required a poster here to logoff which is
Speaking of drinking, someone on the tine brews their own mead so when the time comes and we release the project we’re all going to be drinking home brewed mead and having a party. Looking forward to that.
This would have required a poster here to logoff
what a disgusting pervert, hopefully they get banned
How have you maintained the zeal and discipline to work on it so consistently for 6 years? That’s a long time!
We just really love the Elder Scrolls.
:waow-based:
what’s your favorite bean based dish
Hmmmmm I really like a bean salsa that I had at TGI Fridays once. I don’t really eat beans often.
omg careful don’t wanna be saying that shit in these parts! All joking aside thanks for what you do. Spending time on a communal project just because you like it kinda just… Confirms some of the most important ideas in communism, so I’m all for it. A commie world would still have games and art and you’re living it:)
I wish I was an elder scrolls fan so I could respond in a more meaningful way but this’s what I got.
I don’t think Elder Scrolls would exist under a communist regime and I’m more of an anarchist myself, but thanks for the positive feedback!
there’s at least one Soviet Lord of the Rings tv movie, there’s no reason we can’t have high fantasy and communism. Socialist-realism TES might fuck.
Well, I don’t mean Marxist communism specifically! It confirms the bits Marxists and anarchists have in common, so thanks regardless:)
Ban
Actually I do have a question. Which part has been the hardest or longest or most problematic component for the project?
Initially trying to bridge the gap between being able to access Skyrim and vise versa Oblivion but this was too much of a challenge that needs more time to accomplish. I think we will eventually get it to work but for the time being we have shifted our focus elsewhere.
When are you doing Fallout New Vegas?
Hahahaha. I’ll pass this on to the leads.
Have you read “Marx at the arcade” by Jamie Woodcock? Great book on the gaming industry, its workers and its consumers
Never heard of it.
I’d encourage you to read it, it provides nice insights especially as someone working in the industry.
what’s your favorite dinosaur
Allosaurus
Same. It’s a sportier handier t-rex lol
No questions, but I wanted to say thanks for your hard work and it’s very cool to know someone who works on Skyblivion is a lefty. Hell yeah.
When the full thing is out, what character will you make? What’s your playstyle?
Also, how do you handle the expectations for this project? People have been thoroughly excited about it for years, must be hard being so close from release. Do you feel pressure?
So obviously we are all very used to delay delay delay… things feel different this year however, the project has been coming along for over a decade but we have so few loose ends now that I really do see it being released in 2026.
Of course things happen, this is a passion project that we aren’t getting paid for so besides this we also are busy with the jobs we go to in order to survive and pay rent. Because of this there’s gaps in development time, especially the holidays, but that isn’t to say that it slows down in any sort of capacity. For most of us this has been the project we work on any moment we have free time. And we love it.
Oh forgot to answer the first part of the question. I do love me an orc and 2 handed strength playstyle with a warhammer
I don’t have any questions related to the project, but I hope you’re having a good day
Thank you! You too!
No questions, but as someone who has made a hobby out of customizing games (using mods) and appreciates the hard work done by modders to allow me to do so
eventually i got so good that I started beta testing, making patches, content, etc. but i haven’t published an actual mod in almost 15 years I am purely a consumer
Mods keep me playing games despite some efforts by corpos and bad actors to crush it. sometimes it feels like the only two (mostly digital) things on the internet that are true hobby spaces where people can be creative without mandatory monetary gain: mods and fanfic. Both spun from something people love and want to expand upon. i will fight for both to the bitter end (even though I don’t read fanfic)
so thank you for working so hard on this project with your team and I hope to check it out one day.
Thank you so much! Without the fans projects like this would never happen.
How has the Oblivion remaster affected your project?
Also, as a fellow game dev who has been working on a project for a similar length of time, how do you maintain enthusiasm and prevent burnout?
I’m not going to lie, when we heard rumors that it was a thing we felt a little unease but when the full project came out I think that took a day of wind out of our sails, also because we were playing our free copies, thanks Bethesda!
In all truth we didn’t expect the game to be what it is. We all expect a “remaster” or “remake” to be like a cash grab akin to Dark Souls 1 remaster where they ruined the lighting and put the gama all the way up, that’s what I and many were expecting. Not a full blown remake of the game that improves it vastly and makes the experience so much greater.
It was scary at first but then we also realized that that game was born out of love and admiration for the original so it gave us a morale boost. Also the team at Bethesda called us behind the scenes and we even got to talk to Todd Howard (I don’t know how well he’s received in your community) but I thought that was nice.
But yeah, it’s a different game and different to what we have been working on for decades, but the fact that the remake far surpassed everyone’s expectations made it that much better for us to focus on doing the same with ours.
we even got to talk to Todd Howard (I don’t know how well he’s received in your community)
Todd Howard has proven himself an exceptional salesman and will be allowed to assume the role of a humble bureaucrat in a provincial or county media firm after an appropriate rehabilitation period.
tbh tho I’m shocked they reached out and were so cool with you it feels so rare these days from giant studios
Hwat in the goddamn
i just watched that update video! fully support the decisions to push those features beyond initial release many such cases where something looks good/kinda works for a preview but is unpractical for full implementation. shame the spell making modder peaced out before their shit needed adjustments
Question: what is the level of collaboration between your team and beyond skyrim cyrodiil on the Imperial City? are yall gonna use the same tileset once its done?
I don’t have an interesting question really I just want to say that I’ve been waiting to play it and thanks for all your work.
Thank you!
Was there any hype in dev chats or downloading spree when young scrolls posted their ZOOM album with Xedilian track having an explicit “My bitch is 4k like SkyOblivion” positive reference to your project?
Oh that, haha. Yes. There was. The group chat was filled with gifs and memes and I felt the odd one out for not knowing ANYTHING beforehand but I thought it was cool nonetheless. Big fan now of course.
