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PDS is happy to present:
My name is: Dan Lind
My forum nick is: Podcat
At Paradox development studio I work as: Project Lead
So what do I do, really – what does that mean? It means I'm responsible for making sure a game goes from a rough sketch on a pub napkin to Steam for download. This involves managing a team and keeping The Powers That Be (Johan) up to date and happy, programming, writing game design documents & sketching interfaces, reading very long feedback threads on the forum. Other activities include PR, like live streams, writing development diaries and answering interviews and sorting out installers and builds for releases as well as managing contact with beta testers (90% of that is posting cat pictures)
I have worked on: EU3, Rome, HoI3 (+ For the Motherland and Their Finest Hour), Victoria 2 (+ A House Divided and Heart of Darkness), CK2 and a bit on EU4.
Right now I´m working on: Secret! Working title is Project Armstrong.
My best game ever and why I like it: Eve Online. An amazingly immersive sandbox game and a large community to troll the socks off.
My hobbies include: Computer games, board/card games, photography, crafting, reading (mostly sci-fi)
I have decorated my desk with: Katanagatari figurines, a blue monkey and a toy cat called Kuroneko-sama.
My super power is: Eating ghost peppers without dying.
My kryptonite is: Early mornings. No, just no.
My personal motto is: Reject reason to make the impossible possible!
Little known fact about a Paradox Development Studio game: Hearts of Iron 3 had a spooky bug in a province named Samara (the name of the monster-girl in the movie remake of The Ring) where any units entering it would disappear forever. Probably dragged down a well and eaten.

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Why does your board say Dan, 'the man' when your name is pronounced 'Don'? I hope someone got fired over this error, it's an embarrassment to the entire Paradox corporation

its not actually pronounced "Don" though, there is a definite "a" in there. Once I went bowling abroad though and they got my name wrong/wrote Don so I got to feel like a mafia boss for the night ;)
 
its not actually pronounced "Don" though, there is a definite "a" in there. Once I went bowling abroad though and they got my name wrong/wrote Don so I got to feel like a mafia boss for the night ;)
:laugh:

I've been pronouncing it 'Don' in my head all along, now I feel like such a fool. Is it short for anything, like Danathon, Doniel, Danald or perhaps Danley?
 
:laugh:

I've been pronouncing it 'Don' in my head all along, now I feel like such a fool. Is it short for anything, like Danathon, Doniel, Danald or perhaps Danley?

nope, 3 letters only, optimized for arcade games :)
 
hmmm, is "both" too much of a cop out? V3 in single player and HoI4 in multiplayer?
 
hmmm, is "both" too much of a cop out? V3 in single player and HoI4 in multiplayer?

Yes, it's too much of a cop out. What I wanted to hear is " HoI4 because I'm working on it so now go cry and don't worry about our next games anymore because you don't care about HoI". Well, I wouldn't actually want to hear that though...

How many Project Lead do you have at Paradox anyway?
I know Besuchov for EU4, then I'm guessing you for one of the secret games and Doomdark for CK2 and the other secret game?

Why am I even asking. Everything is secret.
 
How many Project Lead do you have at Paradox anyway?
I know Besuchov for EU4, then I'm guessing you for one of the secret games and Doomdark for CK2 and the other secret game?

Lets see.
Besuchov - EU4 (Conquest of paradise)
Podcat - Secret Project
Doomdark - in change of CK2 and a secret project
Birken - One secret project

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I'm pretty satisfied with that answer. Are those your two favorite PDS franchises?

Tough one. I think Victoria is probably my favorite marginally followed by HoI. But the rest are close seconds.
 
Lets see.
Besuchov - EU4 (Conquest of paradise)
Podcat - Secret Project
Doomdark - in change of CK2 and a secret project
Birken - One secret project

???
And here I thought there were only two games in development, plus the EU4 and CK2 DLCs.

If I was a V2 event, I'd be saying "Let us not overextend" now.
 
I concur. Though CKII and EUIV have improved a lot those franchises, I'm a Victoria and HoI guy. Hopefully one on those secret project should be HoI4.

About project Armstrong... PDS used to give American president names to their projects. But Armstrong is not actually one of them. It could be just a change of internal rules... or it could be a very important clue. Armstrong, a former astronaut becoming president in an alternative world... that's a sci-fi PDS game!!!!

Podcat, are you leading us to the stars? ;) -which would be awesome-.
 
... But Armstrong is not actually one of them. It could be just a change of internal rules... or it could be a very important clue. Armstrong, a former astronaut becoming president in an alternative world... that's a sci-fi PDS game!!!!

Or it could just be Podcat trolling by referring to this guy

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Why does your board say Dan, 'the man' when your name is pronounced 'Don'? I hope someone got fired over this error, it's an embarrassment to the entire Paradox corporation

The correct pronunciation is "Don de mon".