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God jul & Happy Holidays all Paradoxians from wintry Sweden!

PDS is happy to present:
My name is: Johan Andersson
My forum nick is: Johan
At Paradox development studio I work as: Studio Manager
So what do I do, really – what does that mean? I manage the people who make the games, and am responsible for the games. It’s a lot of meetings and planning and analyzing. I also do a lot of design, and help out programming when I got time off.
I have worked on: Every single PDS title and a fair bit of other games… Victoria 2 was the last project I was hands on from start to finish as a programmer, even if I put in quite a lot of time in Europa Universalis IV.
Right now I´m working on: Management stuff, and helping out fixing bugs on EU4: Conquest of Paradise.
My best game ever and why I like it: (that I did not create) Nothing beats World of Warcraft and I wish I had time to play it more, haven’t really raided since early Cataclysm.
If I was a game character, I would be: But I am already one in CK2!
My super power is: I can do with very little sleep for a week. 3-4 hours each night, if I get a full night at the weekend.
And out of the 7 deadly sins, I am definitely guilty of: I guess pride is the one I am definitely guilty of.
I have decorated my desk with: Just pure evil... A bobblehead Chtulhu, a lego deathstar and a pair of murlocs!

We are very happy that we could count down the days til Christmas together with you,
and give you a small glimpse of our world so you could get to know us devs at PDS :)

You can find all dev presentations from the PDS Advent Calendar here:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?738716-Paradox-Development-Studio-Advent-Calendar-Archive

God jul & Happy Holidays from PDS!


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oskar-kar said:
Where we can find your character in CK2 Johan?
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I might be wrong, but he should be a courtier in Småland somewhere named Johan of the Anderson dynasty :)
Everybody that worked on CK2 should be a character in there except me and Witch-King because we haven't had time to put ourselves in yet.
 
Ah, the ego of putting yourself last! I guess it's good to be the boss.:cool:

But seriously, you're a great game designer dude. Though it's kind of odd that Johan seems to be the only person (I think) who has worked at Paradox from the start. The vast majority of people in the list have only worked on like the last two games, I couldn't see any that had worked on say EUII or Vicky1, and certainly nothing before that. A lot of the community on the forums seems to have been playing these games for longer then most of the Devs, which is a bit weird, but I guess there have been big turnovers in staff or something.
 
Hibernian said:
Ah, the ego of putting yourself last! I guess it's good to be the boss.:cool:

But seriously, you're a great game designer dude. Though it's kind of odd that Johan seems to be the only person (I think) who has worked at Paradox from the start. The vast majority of people in the list have only worked on like the last two games, I couldn't see any that had worked on say EUII or Vicky1, and certainly nothing before that. A lot of the community on the forums seems to have been playing these games for longer then most of the Devs, which is a bit weird, but I guess there have been big turnovers in staff or something.
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I think that that's mainly because the studio has grown so much.
 
You're tough Johan, 3-4 hours of sleep... I've had the misfortune when I was doing my bachelor's to have slept sometimes 3-4 hours per night. Needless to say, it didn't end very well. But I think Johan is definitely guilty of greed. And I mean that he is greedy to make as many good games as possibly. So let nobody say that greed is a sin... :)

But isn't Regina also part of the devs? Marketing dept is essential.
 
Hibernian said:
Ah, the ego of putting yourself last! I guess it's good to be the boss.:cool:

But seriously, you're a great game designer dude. Though it's kind of odd that Johan seems to be the only person (I think) who has worked at Paradox from the start. The vast majority of people in the list have only worked on like the last two games, I couldn't see any that had worked on say EUII or Vicky1, and certainly nothing before that. A lot of the community on the forums seems to have been playing these games for longer then most of the Devs, which is a bit weird, but I guess there have been big turnovers in staff or something.
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Doomdark worked on those... And Besuchov was a beta back then.
 
3 elephant ornaments on the Paradox tree. And two grey elephant-like creatures on the tree as well. I wonder what this means... :)

Pretty much the same as you with sleep. Helps a lot with the manner of job I have too otherwise I'd be fired by now :D
 
I haven't ever got past Cataclysm either.. didn't even enter Pandaria. Have you heard of Hearthstone? Pretty fun... I built a Murloc deck, in fact.
 
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