Meet the Fallout 3 devs - Christiane H . K . Meister Christiane H . K . “ Maverique ” Meister What ' s your job at Bethesda ? Lead Character Animator on TES projects - currently taking a break with Fallout and doing whatever character stuff needs doing . What prior projects have you worked on ? Morrowind , Tribunal , Bloodmoon , Oblivion . . . Horse Armor ( snort ) , Knights of the Nine , Shivering Isles What have you drawn on for inspiration in developing Fallout 3 ? Books , movies , music , etc would be fine , if you don ' t want to name any games . MSFD makes me watch BAD 50 ' s sci - fi movies - wow everyone ' s hair was PERFECT back then - except for the crazy old scientists smile . gif I do like the old War of the Worlds flick , though . The literary version is the best . Mad Max - how could you not look at that for inspiration ? How is the work - environment ? Is it competitive or co - op ? Do the different teams talk together ? It ' s very co - op , sometimes you can ' t hear all of the opinions that are being thrown around in the meetings ! There ' s also a lot of good - natured jibes and ribbing - especially at Jonah ( Well he IS blond and so damn cheerful ) . What is your favorite type of game to play ( RTS , FPS , RPG etc ) I love me some old time UT ! I ' m looking forward to the new one . Hope it has the beautiful simplicity and gibs - gotta have that . I ' m a dork and still play Oblivion from time to time ( you ' d think I would have had enough of that by now . . . ) Never really got into RTS . How long have you been playing Fallout , and how would you describe your feelings towards the franchise ? Well I know this will get a lot of tomatoes thrown at me . Good thing I like tomatoes . I haven ' t played Fallout YET . But as a game , I really like the concept and I like where our team is going with Fallout 3 . Considering that much of the game will probably be in a wild wasteland , do any of you spend much time hiking , camping , etc , and if so where ? Uh , there ' s no wasteland aound here - unless you consider the urban setting a wasteland . . . I do spend a lot of time riding my horses before work though . What ' s the last game you bought ? Did you like it ? I don ' t have too much time to play games , but I was so jazzed to get KOTOR 2 after the first one - what a let down . . . just didn ' t have story I was looking for . Don ' t get me wrong , I still like the mechanics and the system though . What games are you looking forward to on the horizon ? Assassin ' s Creed , UT 3 , Fallout 3 : ) Other than videogames , what are your interests ? ( Board games , reading , music , etc ) I love to play Scrabble - I even got this puzzle a day calendar - I have it stacked up - I keep promising myself that I ' ll get through March one day . I ride my horses ( one 5 year old and one 25 year old ) . We ' re about to move to a farm so that I can have the horse at home - that will be exciting - and scary . Last book I read was Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen . Good read . Just saw Lisa Gerrard in concert ( known from Dead Can Dance ) . She ' s an interesting person - not quite on this planet if you take my meaning - awesome voice though ! This is for Mav . . . Are you a Pisces ? You seem to be into the elusive fish thing . I am , so im just curious . Hehe , no the " quiet like a fish " reference comes from Chicken Run . I love those entrepreneurial rats . . . You mentioned to love tomatoes ? Ever tried them with olive oil , slightly salted and with a pinch of origano ? Is good . I try to grow my own tomatoes in summer and I make a pretty good tomato salad . Vinegar , oil , salt , pepper , sugar , green onion , dill , and of course the tomatoes Source . Meet the Fallout 3 devs - Christiane H . K . Meister @ No Mutants Allowed