[Piranha-Bytes] Employee's Profiles

[Leviticus]

As far as I can see nobody is translating the profiles of Piranha-Bytes, which appear nearly almost every second day. So bit by bit you'll find the translations of their profiles in this thread. It's worthy watching. Today I'll start with the newest released profile, Björn Pankratz.


Name:
Björn Pankratz

Field of activity at Piranha Bytes:
Project Director, Game Design, Storywriter, QA

Age:
I'll become 38 in the next summer.
...that's nearly 40, isn't it?

Apprenticeship:
Scholastics in machine building, chemistry and physics.

Jobs up to now:
Well, I've made a lot things. For example my job as a doorman for eleven years is noteworthy.
You could say that I've spend my whole younger years in a Small Town - Disco.
And for a short time I've worked as a teacher till I've realised that the job as a teacher is not my appointment.

Involved in the following games:
Gothic 1, Gothic 2, The Night of Raven, Gothic 3

Favorite music:
Mostly Dark Music, EBM, Industrial, Wave and the eighties. A long time ago I was a fanatic Iron Maiden fan.
My hairs were ebbing away and even my flavor for this style of music.

Favorite game(s):
There are a lot of games, but my favorite games are still System Shock, DeusEx and Outcast.
I know, all of them are old games. And well, anyway Bioshock is good, too. But the gameplay of the System Shock saga was much better.

What are your Strengths:
Strength is a matter for the head. With a healthy mix of ambition, purposefulness, self-discipline and stamina you can get very far.

What do you not like?
"All hat and no cattle", I think is adapted.

What are your hobbys?
Jenny, computer games, role playing games, board-games, composing music,
playing guitar, to draw, festivals, partys, Jim Beam and so on...

What do you ever wanted to see in a computer game?
A balanced gameplay with a breath taking story and a free world in a third person rpg.

Are you afraid of losing your ideas to make a game?
No, I'm not. There are many ideas.
Though to have fun all the time isn't easy at all.


Name:
Stefan Kalveram

Field of activity at Piranha-Bytes:
Story

Age:
33

Apprenticeship:
Well, I've got a diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation

Jobs up to now:
Piranha-Bytes

Involved in the following games:
Gothic 1, Gothic 2, The Night of Raven, Gothic 3

Favorite music:
Now I'm listening to Prog-Rock from the seventies.

Favorite game(s):
Doppelkopf :D (Note: Card game from germany. Double-Head)
No, seriously I don't have a favorite game.
But Doppelkopf is nearly my favorite game.
It is essential: Little game with much gameplay = good game

What are your strengths:
Well, I've got a big fur. (Not just because of my moustache:-))

What do you not like?
People with no sense of humour.

What are your hobbys?
Gambling (Board, cards, role playing games and computer games), (watching) football, and hearing music.
And I'm not aversed to a cold beer and a good meal.

What do you ever wanted to see in a video game:
I would like to see more games, which you can play through in a cooperation mode.

Are you afraid of losing your ideas to make a game:
No, I'm not.


Name:
André Braun

Field of activity at Piranha Bytes:
Programer

Age:
30

Apprenticeship:
Computer Sientist with a diploma.

Jobs up to now:
Software Developer in a engineering company. (Database, SQL,...)

Involved in the following game:
Risen is the first game, where I'm involved in.

Favorite music:
All sorts of music. Starts with the C=64 Chiptunes and ends with the Punk-Rock.

Favorite game:
It's difficult to abridge this on just one game. But I just say Darwina.

What are your strengths?
Well...next question, please.

What do you not like?
Stand up early in the morning.

What are your hobbies?
Beside my computer one of my hobbies are chamaeleons. But unfortunately for the time being my terrarium is empty, but this will change soon.

What do you ever wanted to see in a computer game?
I don't have any specific wishes.

Are you afraid of losing your ideas to make a game:
As a programer the creativity is often important when you have to solve problems. But acutally I don't think about it, right now.


Name:
Tristan Heitzinger

Field of activity at Piranha Bytes:
Programer

Age:
26

Apprenticeship:
HTL/Games Academy

Jobs up to now:
Software engineer

Involved in the following games:
Risen is my first project.

Favorite music:
All sorts of music, as long as it's not folk music.

Favorite game(s):
The "Wing Commander" saga

What are your strengths:
Improvisation

What do you not like:
Loudly comments and chips noise in the cinema.

What are your hobbies:
When the opportunity arises, I like to jump out of a plane.

What do you ever wanted to see in a computer game?
That the hero sacrifices himself in order to win.

Are you afraid of losing your ideas to make a game?
Always I've got ideas, though the quality loses it's value while converting it.

[Rashnu]

As far as I can see nobody is translating the profiles of Piranha-Bytes, which appear nearly almost every second day. So bit by bit you'll find the translations of their profiles in this thread.

That is a very noble undertaking. §klatsch Thank you for your dedication. We try to give you a new profile once a week.

I changed the title to better match what it is. These "Steckbriefe" are not meant to be wanted posters or warrants, they are profiles with bits of a short biography.

[El Kamil]

Thanks for translating, great job! Can I put this translation on my site (where are some other PB-members english translations)? (link in signature)...

[Leviticus]

I changed the title to better match what it is. These "Steckbriefe" are not meant to be wanted posters or warrants, they are profiles with bits of a short biography.
Right, and I wasn't doubt with "warrants of apprehension". I just wanted to have a better word. However, thank you for the clearing. ;)

Thanks for translating, great job! Can I put this translation on my site (where are some other PB-members english translations)? (link in signature)...

Of course you can. ;)

[nooneimportant]

^ This is great and very much appreciated§prost I look forward to reading more of them.

[TeLovesc]

thanks mate ! i was really curious :P

[mkreku]

"Favorite game(s):
There are a lot of games, but my favorite games are still System Shock, DeusEx and Outcast.
I know, all of them are old games. And well, anyway Bioshock is good, too. But the gameplay of the System Shock saga was much better."

Wow, that's really good to hear! System Shock 2 and Deus Ex are two of my absolute favourites of all time, and I quite liked Outcast too! Bioshock.. not so much (too shallow).

[rotator]

Thanks for the translation! Too bad only a fragment of the news gets translated to english (not mentioning the other languages).

[Leviticus]

New profile is online. ;)

[Leviticus]

New profile is online.

[Powaz]

Name
Michael Hoge - my colleagues call me Mike.

Field of activity at Piranha Bytes
Story + Design / Project Management

Age
old enough

Education
none

Jobs till now
Barkeeper, day laborer, 2D Animator, level designer, game designer + story and eventually project manager and help programmer .

Worked on games
Lots of small projects, then Gothic 1, 2, AddOn, Gothic 3, now Risen.

Favorite music
Everything accross-the-board

Favorite game(s)
Beyond Good & Evil (PC), Dead Rising (360), Psychonauts (XBox), Mafia (PC) .. Prior: System Shock, Ultima 6+7. Even earlier: Dungeon Master, Zak McKracken (Amiga)

What are your strenghts
I think I can deal with children pretty well.

The thing you can't stand the most
Blondes (as always exceptions prove the rule)

Hobbies
Go, Boule, Poker

What would you like to see in a game
Hacked off heads without any huge reactions. There musn't be a lot of blood

Have you any fear that there might be a day when you don't have any game ideas
...


Think I'll make myself useful. ;)



Name
Horst Dworczak.

Field of activity at Piranha Bytes
3D Character Artist and other stuff.

Age
33

Education
Piranha Bytes.

Jobs till now
...take a guess ...Piranha Bytes.

Worked on games
Gothic 1, Gothic 2, Gothic 2 Addon, Gothic 3

Favorite music
good music.

Favorite game(s)
Too many games out there to be determined.

What are your strenghts
sleeping.

The thing you can't stand the most
getting up.

Hobbies
Sculpting, percussion playing, motorcycle riding, bow shooting, my dogs, going to cinema.

What would you like to see in a game
Although I have strainly thought about this question, but my brains haven't delivered any specific output.

Have you any fear that there might be a day when you don't have any game ideas
One is more afraid that all of his ideas will never be realized.

[Michael Rüve]

Think I'll make myself useful. ;)

"everything queerbeet"



German word "querbeet" is an idiom and essentially means "mixed".
"quer" literally translates to "across" (nothing to do with queer) whereas "Beet" is a place in a garden where you plant flowers in, kind of a small field.

[Rethon]

German word "querbeet" is an idiom and essentially means "mixed".
"quer" literally translates to "across" (nothing to do with queer) whereas "Beet" is a place in a garden where you plant flowers in, kind of a small field.
Ich muss sagen, das Wort "querbeet" habe ich auch noch nie gehört :p. Ich schätze das dürte so etwas wie "across-the-board" bedeuten, wo man so "alles mögliche" meint, oder?
*edit*
Oops, english board, sorry.
I guess the correct translation for "querbeet" is "accross-the-board".

[woodoo man]

So, thanks for this translate. Now we can translate this questions on russian language and will post on our forum:gratz

[AngelOfGothic]

Nice profiles and good job for translating.

[Powaz]

Here are some more.


Name
Roman Keskenti

Field of activity at Piranha Bytes
Programming: UI, music, effects, file system, (this and that).

Age
(I must reckon...) 33

Education
Abitur (3.0), Studies of Media-Informatics.

Jobs till now
Network Admin (IBM), Prog. (CodeCult), Prog. (Wings)

Worked on games
Gothic 1, Söldner, Gothic III.

Favorite music
Rock, Pop, Metal, Indy, House, depends on mood. At the moment: Built to Spill

Favorite game(s)
Final Fantasy, WipeOut, Warcraft 3

What are your strenghts
Have I any? Others should judge about that...

The thing you can't stand the most
Smartasses, like me ;)

Hobbies
Programming, Festivals, Badminton, Martial Arts.

What would you like to see in a game
A new genre.

Have you any fear that there might be a day when you don't have any game ideas
No, in game-programming there's always something new to learn. I'm more afraid of not being able to try everything, whats swimming in my head.



Name
Michael Rüve

Work By Piranha Bytes
Managing Director

Age
36

Education
Highschool.

Jobs till now
Game programmer, EDV-Administrator in University Münster, managing director in many companies, EDV-Head.

Worked on games
Conquestador PC (1992),
Magic of Endoria (1994),
Gothic, Gothic II, Gothic Night of the Raven, Gothic 3, Risen

Favorite music
My wife calls it noise - I call it metal.

Favorite game
Doppelkopf.
On Computers: Civilization

What are your strengths
Hopefully not to have the characterictics below.

The thing you can't stand the most
Unreliability and injustice.
Pacta sunt servanda!

Hobbies
Board games (on board, with maps, Pen&Paper Role Playing Games, LARP).
Computer games are are both my job and hobby. And sometimes I even do sports.

What would you like to see in a game
I won't write it here because otherwise I will have to hear month long protests in the Studio again :->

Have you any fear that there might be a day when you don't have any game ideas
No, because it's not my job to find ideas.


Could any german translate this "Hoffentlich die untigen Eigenschaften nicht zu haben". I don't know the the word "untigen".

[Rashnu]

I don't know the the word "untigen".

Don't worry, this word is so strange, it looks almost like a newly coined word from Michael.

What he wanted to say is: He hopes, he doesn't display any of the characteristics stated below (the ones under: The Things You Can't Stand the Most). I reckon, his motto is duly mirrored in the Latin sentence.

BTW: thanks for all the translation work. You're doing great. :gratz

[Michael Rüve]

Could any german translate this "Hoffentlich die untigen Eigenschaften nicht zu haben". I don't know the the word "untigen".

Rashu has done that already.



But this one is misleading:
"Have you any fear that there might be a day when you don't have any game ideas
No, because I'm not too sure about the ideas I have."

I rather stated that since "my ideas are not important (since I'm not involved in design anyway) I'm not afraid of running out of ideas."



And this one could even be hard for Germans:
"Favorite game
Doppelkopf."
That's a game of cards (standard cards, having Queens, Aces, 10s, Spades and the like - similar to a Poker deck), played mostly in the northern part of Germany.

[Powaz]

Fixed. Is the sentence good enough?
No, because it's not my job to find ideas.

Oh and I found about Doppelkopf in Wikipedia when I translated it.

[Maladiq]

Name
Kai Rosenkranz

Activity at Piranha Bytes?
Composer and sound designer

Age
28

Training
I have worked since the school for Piranha Bytes, my training in the field of game development is, therefore, work experience.

Jobs so far
Mainly Piranha Bytes. Sometimes even small tasks from other areas, such as Photography, media design, film production, composition, web programming and design.

At the following games cooperated
The complete Gothic series and Risen.

Favorite music?
Soundtracks and Webradio www.martiniinthemorning.com.

Favorite game?
Beyond Good And Evil.

What are your strengths?
Bubbling ideas, some of them to implement.

What do you completely dislike?
1) "Due to a delay in the operation, our train is currently a delay of x minutes"
2) Long queues.
3) To be called "impatient"

Where does inspire you, what are your hobbies?
Delight comes from my wife, exciting challenges, changes. The only real "hobbies" I have time for outside of work include family and friends.

What would you like to see in a game?
Something that moves me to tears.

Are you afraid that you eventually might run out of ideas for a game?
When I once had a creative slump and help my colleagues came with inspiring ideas and proposals; if that works at that moment the situation is pretty good. How long can I, as a composer, come with fresh and new styles and ideas before everything sounds the same ... Good question. I hope I'll stay inspired for a few more years.

I don't know if it is totally correct, but i did my best and the ideas should be the same as in the original profile.

EDIT: Furthermore:


From Here (http://www.worldofrisen.de/article_77.htm)


Our russian Partnersite Piranha Club (http://www.piranhaclub.eu/) managed to get some members of Piranha Bytes to fill a question paper they created.

Here are the answers from Ralf Marczinczik.

1) Name of the Piranha
Ralf Marczinczik

2) Age
41

3) What profession are you trained in (i.e. I remember that Björn Pankratz mentioned in a video that he used to be a school teacher)?

Printer, after a Hauptschulabschluss. I studied at the university by second-chance education.
[Hauptschulabschluss: Lowest of three levels of school graduation in Germany, does not allow direct access to university]

4) What is you job at Piranha Bytes?
Art director/Illustrator

5) What was the first computer game you played in your life? And are you still playing it from time to time?
RIVEN. But I have been inserting it only to take screenshots for reference purposes for quite a while.

6) What game are you currently playing?
Assassin's Creed.

7) Do you like reading and if yes what is your favorite book?
I do like reading and I do it a lot. But there are too many books in our house to point at one which I like best. We're currently at about 30,000 volumes in our library.
At the moment, I favor a book named "The Hounted House" which is 110 years old. I bought it at an online antiquarian bookshop. Dreamlike illustrations...

8) Do prefer to read the book in the electronic form or as a real book you can hold in your hands?
I prefer the printed form.

9) What is your favorite film genre?
Any genre and any era of film (there are many russian classics as well!)

10) What is your favorite movie (it's okay to state more than one if you find it hard to choose only one)?
Blade Runner, Lawrence of Arabia, At Razors Edge... and about 500 others...

11) What is your favorite movie character?
The Muppets.

12) Your favorite music?
Again, everything from any time and genre. I'm still very interested in everything about "Dead can Dance" even though they unfortunately don't exist anymore.

13) Do you listen to classical music and does it inspire you at your work (if you're allowed to hear music there, of course)?

Permanently. I listen to Lounge online radio stations and a lot of modern classic like Peteris Vasks or Nicolas Lens.

14) Your favorite food?
Sushi.

15) What is your favorite beverage?
Cola light.

16) Do you do any sports and if so what form?
Swimming.

17) Do you have a hobby? Or is the work your hobby?
I collect films and books like a madman. And I love do draw comics.

18) Do you have any pets at home? Perhaps a dog, a cat or a fish - like a piranha?
No, not yet.

19) So you have children? If so, did they also play your games? (I remember a story which Johnny Depp told in an interview. He came home in the costume of Jack to give his children a pleasure and they only said: "Dad, don't bother us, go away, we're watching Spierman!")
Not yet, too.

20) Do any of your friends or family play your games?
Many of my friends work as game designers. Therefore, games are always a topic.

21) How do they like them?
I like many of them and others, I only made to pay the rent. But there is not much to be ashamed about.
[The original question had been translated ambiguously from russian to german. "They" is a formal way of addressing someone you are not familiar with (think of the archaic form "thou" in english). The only way to know if the word refers to the one you're talking to (2nd person singular) or to a group of others (3rd person plural) is by context and in the written form, whether the word starts with a capital letter. Here, the writing suggested that Piranha Club asked Ralf what he thinks while context suggested that they were interested in what those others from the previous question think. That is why Ralf's answer does not seem to fit to the question. I think he misinterpreted the question.]

22) If they critizise the game does this help you for later projects, like RPB [working title of RISEN]
Definitely. I'm constantly reading the comments in the forums.

23) How do you usually spend your holidays?
I like to see new cities and countries.

24) Do you like travelling and what country would you like to visit the most?
I like travelling (as a process) and are really nuts on Spain.

25) Have been to Russia before? If not, would you like to visit Moscow or Saint Peterburg? Or more some exotical place like the sibirian taiga or the Altai mountains?
Not yet, unfortunately. But I have many friends who've been to Saint Petersburg and nag me about going there myself.


From here (http://www.worldofrisen.de/article_75.htm)

Our russian Partnersite Piranha Club (http://www.piranhaclub.eu/) managed to get some members of Piranha Bytes to fill a question paper they created.

Here are the answers from Marko Jelen, known in the forum as "Orkze".

1) Name of the Piranha
Marko Jelen

2) Age
22

3) What profession are you trained in (i.e. I remember that Björn Pankratz mentioned in a video that he used to be a school teacher)?
Media tech and designer (BSc)

4) What is you job at Piranha Bytes?
3D Artist

5) What was the first computer game you played in your life? And are you still playing it from time to time?
Surely Solitaire or Minesweeper but the first big game was "Settlers 2 - Veni, Vidi, Vici". That was when I thought that I wanted to make something like that, too.
I do not play the old originals anymore but luckily there are enough newer parts.

6) What game are you currently playing?
Assassins Creed on the company's Xbox, The Witcher and Settlers 6 on my PC at home.

7) Do you like reading and if yes what is your favorite book?
Yes, I like reading very much. I read one book of Terry Pratchett after the other but my favorite book is "Hagen of Troy" from (Hohlbein).

8) Do prefer to read the book in the electronic form or as a real book you can hold in your hands?
Real book, of course. I spend enough time in front of a monitor already.

9) What is your favorite film genre?
Difficult decision, I only know that I do not like Horror at all.

10) What is your favorite movie (it's okay to state more than one if you find it hard to choose only one)?
The Great Escape (from 1963)

11) What is your favorite movie character?
Tony Montana! 8-)

12) Your favorite music?
Metal and Reggae, currently Dethklok

13) Do you listen to classical music and does it inspire you at your work (if you're allowed to hear music there, of course)?
see question 12

14) Your favorite food?
Definitely lasagna.

15) What is your favorite beverage?
Apple cider *hic*

16) Do you do any sports and if so what form?
Not really, sadly. Until a year ago, I was part of a re-enactment group for historial fighting. But I stopped with that after I moved here.

17) Do you have a hobby? Or is the work your hobby?
I have enough of those, luckily. I play the bagpipe, am active live roleplayer, crazy about board games and of course do some 3D in my spare time as well.

18) Do you have any pets at home? Perhaps a dog, a cat or a fish - like a piranha?
No.

19) So you have children? If so, did they also play your games? (I remember a story which Johnny Depp told in an interview. He came home in the costume of Jack to give his children a pleasure and they only said: "Dad, don't bother us, go away, we're watching Spierman!")
No, that can still wait for a few years.

20) Do any of your friends or family play your games?
Yes, my younger brother for instance.

21) How do they like them?
Up to today, they always found something to grouse about.

22) If they critizise the game does this help you for later projects, like RPB [working title of RISEN]
Not so much since RPB is much bigger than anything I did before.

23) How do you usually spend your holidays?
At home in Austria or at places with untouched nature (last year I was in Iceland for example, great landscape!)

24) Do you like travelling and what country would you like to visit the most?
A change of scene once a year is okay but I don't want to have it too often. I'm more a cosy type. I especially like Austria and Iceland.

25) Have been to Russia before? If not, would you like to visit Moscow or Saint Peterburg? Or more some exotical place like the sibirian taiga or the Altai mountains?
Alas, not yet. But a visit there is planned, that is why I'm currently learning russian.


From here (http://www.worldofrisen.de/article_76.htm)

Our russian Partnersite Piranha Club (http://www.piranhaclub.eu/) managed to get some members of Piranha Bytes to fill a question paper they created.

Here are the answers from Sascha Henrichs.

1) Name of the Piranha
Sascha Henrichs

2) Age
04.12.1975, so 32.

3) What profession are you trained in (i.e. I remember that Björn Pankratz mentioned in a video that he used to be a school teacher)?
None, I worked at demolition sites. I do have Abitur, though.
[Abitur: Highest of three levels of school graduation in Germany, the only one that allows you to go to college]

4) What is you job at Piranha Bytes?
Level design, modelling, mapping, texturing.

5) What was the first computer game you played in your life? And are you still playing it from time to time?
Pac-Man

6) What game are you currently playing?
None.

7) Do you like reading and if yes what is your favorite book?
Yes, I recently started reading again. At the moment, it's Michel Houellebeq's "La possibilité d'une île" ["The possibility of an Island"]. Closely followed by Bret Easton Ellis' "Glamorama".

8) Do prefer to read the book in the electronic form or as a real book you can hold in your hands?
Real book are better the electronical ones. They're not so... electronical.

9) What is your favorite film genre?
Science Fiction and Horror. So the best is Horror Science Fiction.

10) What is your favorite movie (it's okay to state more than one if you find it hard to choose only one)?
I don't know. There are so many...

11) What is your favorite movie character?
Don't have one.

12) Your favorite music?
I listen to almost any kind of music but have my origins in metal.

13) Do you listen to classical music and does it inspire you at your work (if you're allowed to hear music there, of course)?
I do not understand classical music. And I do feel inspired from music either.

14) Your favorite food?
Do not have one.

15) What is your favorite beverage?
I'm trying to get to know different kinds of whiskey.

16) Do you do any sports and if so what form?
No.

17) Do you have a hobby? Or is the work your hobby?
My work is a passion, I only have music making as a hobby besides that.

18) Do you have any pets at home? Perhaps a dog, a cat or a fish - like a piranha?
I do not have any pets. My girlfriend has two dogs. If I lived on the countryside I would have a cat.

19) So you have children? If so, did they also play your games? (I remember a story which Johnny Depp told in an interview. He came home in the costume of Jack to give his children a pleasure and they only said: "Dad, don't bother us, go away, we're watching Spierman!")
Yes, two. No, they did not play Gothic yet because they're too young.

20) Do any of your friends or family play your games?
Some of them, yes. But most don't play roleplaying games.

21) How do they like them?
I like them most of the time. Of course there's always room for improvement.
[The original question had been translated ambiguously from russian to german. "They" is a formal way of addressing someone you are not familiar with (think of the archaic form "thou" in english). The only way to know if the word refers to the one you're talking to (2nd person singular) or to a group of others (3rd person plural) is by context and in the written form, whether the word starts with a capital letter. Here, the writing suggested that Piranha Club asked Sascha what he thinks while context suggested that they were interested in what those others from the previous question think. That is why Sascha's answer does not seem to fit to the question. I think he misinterpreted the question.]

22) If they critizise the game does this help you for later projects, like RPB [working title of RISEN]
Of course you learn from mistakes. But as a human, you're never immune to making the same mistake twice. You do get better, though.

23) How do you usually spend your holidays?
I usually take my holidays by the day to run some errands or for working as a docent.

24) Do you like travelling and what country would you like to visit the most?
Yes, I would like to travel someday. I am very interested in Australia.

25) Have been to Russia before? If not, would you like to visit Moscow or Saint Peterburg? Or more some exotical place like the sibirian taiga or the Altai mountains?
No, the cold and the missing communication skills will probably prevent me from doing that for the rest of my life.


From here (http://www.worldofrisen.de/article_78.htm)

Our russian Partnersite Piranha Club (http://www.piranhaclub.eu/) managed to get some members of Piranha Bytes to fill a question paper they created.

Here are the answers from Quy Hoang.

1) Name of the Piranha
Quy Hoang

2) Age
25

3) What profession are you trained in (i.e. I remember that Björn Pankratz mentioned in a video that he used to be a school teacher)?
Bachelor of Science, media computer scientist.

4) What is you job at Piranha Bytes?
Character artist (3D, 2D), level objects and weapons (3D, 2D).

5) What was the first computer game you played in your life? And are you still playing it from time to time?
Mario Bros. on the NES. I do not play it anymore because it has no savegame function. I don't have the patience to start all over again and again.

6) What game are you currently playing?
Beyond Good and Evil, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

7) Do you like reading and if yes what is your favorite book?
I like reading but I don't do it very often. I'm especially fond of the "Harry Potter" series and the book of Dan Brown. I hope to start with "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet soon.

8) Do prefer to read the book in the electronic form or as a real book you can hold in your hands?
Reading book on the screen is a complete no-go. I'm sitting there often enough already.

9) What is your favorite film genre?
Comedy and Thriller.

10) What is your favorite movie (it's okay to state more than one if you find it hard to choose only one)?
Butterfly Effect.

11) What is your favorite movie character?
Makunouchi Ippo from the series "Hajime no Ippo".

12) Your favorite music?
Absolute mainstream.

13) Do you listen to classical music and does it inspire you at your work (if you're allowed to hear music there, of course)?
I prefer modern music but it cannot inspire me.

14) Your favorite food?
Dim sum.

15) What is your favorite beverage?
Diet Mountain Dew.

16) Do you do any sports and if so what form?
Badminton and soccer.

17) Do you have a hobby? Or is the work your hobby?
Video games, watching TV series and any form of sport.

18) Do you have any pets at home? Perhaps a dog, a cat or a fish - like a piranha?
Sadly not.

19) So you have children? If so, did they also play your games? (I remember a story which Johnny Depp told in an interview. He came home in the costume of Jack to give his children a pleasure and they only said: "Dad, don't bother us, go away, we're watching Spierman!")
No.

20) Do any of your friends or family play your games?
All my friend want to play the coming game and my girlfriend at least wants to watch me playing it. ^^

21) How do they like them?
It's my first game.

22) If they critizise the game does this help you for later projects, like RPB [working title of RISEN]
see 21.

23) How do you usually spend your holidays?
Preferably in the sun on the beach.

24) Do you like travelling and what country would you like to visit the most?
I love travelling but do not do it very often. But I would like to go the USA again and sometime I'd like to go to the Carribean.

25) Have been to Russia before? If not, would you like to visit Moscow or Saint Peterburg? Or more some exotical place like the sibirian taiga or the Altai mountains?
No, I haven't been to Russia so far. But I think it could be interesting to visit Moscow.