Interview with the "Father of the Elder Scrolls" | Julian Jensen (aka Julian LeFay)
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Oct 31, 2017 16:11
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An in-depth 3-hour interview with programmer/game designer Julian Jensen (aka Julian LeFay), the creator of the Elder Scrolls, and one of the primary forces behind classics like Arena, Daggerfall and Battlespire.
Julian LeFay is one of the most important people in the early development of The Elder Scrolls as a series, sometimes even credited with being its father. This is due to his high profile during the early development of the series, and comments by Ted Peterson and Vijay Lakshman that LeFay "spear-headed the initial development". This was really needed as, up until that time, Bethesda had never released a Role-Playing Game. Eventually, Arena developed into the most award-winning Role Playing Game of 1995.
Julian now goes by Julian Jensen, and he was kind enough to interview for a few hours while we talked about his origins, his long history with the Elder Scrolls and Terminator games at Bethesda Softworks, as well as his vision that was to be Morrowind and the continuation of the series he had a major hand in creating.
LeFay was born on Oct. 30, 1965 in Denmark. During the early 1980s, he began programming and quickly became known as one of the best Amstrad and Amiga programmers during the high period of Commodore's success. His programs have won numerous industry awards in virtually every category. Julian LeFay joined Bethesda shortly after its creation in 1987 and eventually became Chief Programmer. At this time, he was considered by many as one of the key technical people in the entertainment multimedia industry as he combined a rare mix of programming knowledge and computer language skills with proven design capability and music composition experience.
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CONVERSATION TOPICS
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MUSIC CREDITS
Daggerfall soundtrack was composed and arranged by Eric Heberling.
http://heberlingmusic.com/index.html
Remixes in this video were created by:
Dan Goodale, Karl Christmas, Ramon Molesworth and Robert Hood.
http://teatimecoder.com/daggerfall-music
Additional Daggerfall remixes by Leozim5:
https://soundcloud.com/leozim5
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ARTWORK / FOOTAGE CREDITS
The Division screenshot/real life comparison:
https://np.reddit.com/r/thedivision/comments/49ob1h/the_division_did_an_awesome_job_with_my_brooklyn/
The Terminator (1991), Terminator 2029 and The Elder Scrolls: Arena gameplay by Thriftweeds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnO0ShP56aA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PBi-N1hQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3SW2Uz63VY
Battlespire gameplay by zirkoni88:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlV1I0AhGQ
Daggerfall Unity gameplay by Galactic Chicken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7JCP2ih-zE
Elder Scrolls icons / mock covers by Blakegedye and King Reverant:
https://blakegedye.deviantart.com/
https://kingreverant.deviantart.com/art/The-Elder-Scrolls-series-icons-161685128
Sword of Sodan gameplay by World of Longplays:
https://youtu.be/EoI9NH5GlQw
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