Martin “Athert” Antoš was born in Czech republic and joined Warhorse Studios team shortly after the Kickstarter campaign in 2014. He is part of the scripting team and therefore he is assuring that the game features work correctly if you put them together.
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How did you hear about Warhorse? How/When did you join?
I had heard about Warhorse Studios even before the Kickstarter campaign started from a Czech website. And since I didn´t have a decent project to work on back then (I was only a few months out of college) and I always wanted to work in the game industry I decided to write them and try my luck. Many people told me that to work in a AAA game studio I would be required to have years of extensive experience in the field… so look where I’m writing from now!
Describe your position. What is it about being a Scripter?
As a scripter my job is to connect all the content produced by other departments (animations, models, functions, design, etc.) and ensure that it will all fit together firmly in the final game the way it´s meant to. With the help of fellow designers we create game quests and events. While, for example, animators provide us with different people´s professions that are seen in the game.
Ever worked on videogames before?
No. The only experience I had were personal projects which I was working on with my friends or while in school.
Which job would you not want to do?
Definitely nothing boring. Standing in a production line 8 hours a day and manually adjusting things, or packing stuff… I couldn´t do that. I admire anyone who could do such a job for more than a year.
Describe your usual day at the studio
In the morning I turn on my PC, plug in the headphones and start working until somebody from the QA deptartment disturbes me with a request to go through a game quest. So then I start working on a certain NPC behavior, a quest or something similar. After that we have a Standup meeting where everyone talks about their current work or if they have found an error which has to be solved and also what they will work on later that day. Then the job becomes routine for the rest of the time and I sit at my PC and work, explain to the QA that the error is actually a special feature and listen to ideas from the game designers on how the part I’m working on could look better and livelier.
What are you currently working on?
Right now I´m working on behavior in a camp and its modularity. For example, if soldiers enter a free camp (there are many such camps on the map), they would behave differently from how rogues would come in, or cumans. Of course the camp has to look a bit lively. With our game designers and researchers (historians) cooperate on what our NPCs would do in the camps and according to that I create such a script for them. Soldiers would be guarding the camp, repairing their equipment, or just sit by the fire. Cumans would rather roam around and do harm, while later they would have fun drinking around the campfire. Rogues and traders would tell their stories from the roads and tales they hear… like “have you heard that near Rataj they saw a bear eat several hens?” … and of course that would be dumb.
What do you think is the most important part or thing in the game?
Options. If I could play in great visual design, a superb storyline, but a minimum of options I would become annoyed but if I can do absolutely whatever I want, then its a good game (even little things like stealing a tankard, taping myself a beer and then fighting with the innkeeper because he had impudent words about my mother for stealing his tankrad and beer)
What do you like most about Kingdom Come: Deliverance?
Have you visited the woods in the game? I have never seen such beautiful and real woods like ours. When I walk in the woods in our game and then I have a walk in a real forest I barely feel any difference. The details put into that are totally impressive. And since I like nature I will spend most of the time in the woods (and probably hunt down a boar or such).
How, when and with which game did you first get acquainted with videogames?
The first ever game I remember was Rayman on my parents computer. They were not so happy when I started to spend a lot of time on the PC but this probably inspired me to get into programming later on.
What was your best/saddest/happiest, most touching video game moment?
I think that it would be the ending of Undertale, which spoiler warning is not actually an end and will let you finish the game with a real happy ending. My opinion is that Undertale is certainly a game with enormous potential.
Which class, gender, or type do you usually pick?
When I get a chance to handle something I am definitely a pilot or a driver. I love the feeling when landing a chopper under fire just to pick up wounded soldiers from the battlefield and save them all (yes Arma 3 I´m talking to you).
Are there any videogames you repeat playing over and over again?
One of the games I was playing over and over again was definitely “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” and consequently “San Andreas”. I was overwhelmed by the freedom and the possibilities in the game. Beside that I would certainly point out Diablo 2 and Baldur´s Gate.
Most hilarious bug you have ever encountered or worst video game experience?
A bug – Races in Mafia 1. they were terribly difficult for me and finding out that I could have saved at least half of the round by going around the concrete barriers I would have saved a lot of nerves and broken keyboards…
What game have you been really looking forward to but turned out to be a total disappointment?
No Man’s sky
How do you relax after a hard day at work?
I play with my cat, do programming, or just play one of my favourite games (PayDay 2, Smite, Arma 3…)
Your favorite music/Spotify playlist
Everything that is listenable. Rock, pop, trance, country, metal, techno… I really don´t have a favorite music style. But most of all I listen to Epic Music (Two Steps from Hell for example).
Your favorite movie or book?
A book – Eragon series
A movie – The Lion King
What species is your spirit animal?
Just look at my avatar:
What will be your famous last words?
So will you let me pilot that chopper by myself?
Do you believe in Aliens?
The thought that we can be alone in the whole wide universe is strange. We have only discovered a tiny part of outer space and have mapped only a little bit of several of our neighboring planets. I don’t think we can be alone here.
What is your kryptonite?
Spiders… yuck…
If you could fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck, which would you choose?
Definitely the duck, I don´t like things too simple.
If you could say something to the fans of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, what would it be?
When you start cursing during the horse races in the game and say to yourself “what idiot who made this so difficult?”, remember me and my memories of Mafia… You are welcome
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