Evan Michaels

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Evan Michaels is a member of Age of Conan development team.

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Forum Name → Jayde

Occupation → Item Designer

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Hi all, my name is Evan Michaels and I am currently working on item design/implementation as well as creating the wide variety of traps and puzzles within our world. To sum up: I basically spend my time creating a plethora of killing and maiming devices—which, given the gritty Conan theme, is quite a bit of fun. Working with these content elements requires a pretty decent overview of many game mechanics, so Dave and I find ourselves pestering most of the people around the office multiple times a day.

Although those coming from Anarchy Online are probably familiar, for the rest of you: Pre-Conan I was involved heavily in the AO community, being part of the Professionals feedback program and also running the Anarchy Mainframe database site. Apparently Funcom decided they were interested in giving me a job after I had sent them roughly 612,485 bug reports! (Ok, ok... not quite *that* many!) My prior work-related background is that of a web application developer, database administrator, and other related technobabble.

Outside of work I've mostly been exploring scenic Norway and slowly working through my ever-growing queue of games to play. As a side note, to answer the ever-present question, "Is it pronounced 'Jade' or 'Jay-dee'?" it is the former and not the latter. At any rate, looking forward to answering some of the fun questions you folks will have in store for us!