Idle News Podblast - 10/27/10: With Max Schaefer

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🗓️ 27 October 2009

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

After putting the finishing touches on Torchlight, Runic Games co-founders and Diablo co-creators Max and Erich Schaefer did what game industry luminaries always do after wrapping a project: drive over to the Idle Thumbs podcast. We chat at length with Max about the new action RPG, the Blizzard North days, and unreleased football games. And Erich pipes in at the end.

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0:00.0	I ran a fan site on the internet.
0:02.0	It's October 28, 2009.
0:07.0	And this is Idle Thums 49, and I'm Chris Remo.
0:11.0	I'm Nick Brecken.
0:12.0	And I'm Jake Rodkin. And today we are joined by Max Schaefer of Runick games which is has just launched Torchlight their new action
0:20.0	RPG. Hello everybody. Hey hey good to be here. Thanks for coming over. Yeah. Hello everybody. Hey.
0:23.0	Good to be here.
0:24.0	Thanks for coming over.
0:25.0	We appreciate it.
0:26.0	No problem.
0:27.0	So the game, as we're speaking to you, the game is about to come out.
0:29.3	By the time people hear this, the game is out.
0:32.3	You guys been working on this for what almost a year?
0:34.0	Yeah about 11 months in starting from scratch so it's a been a quick project.
0:38.0	Yeah, how does it feel to be done?
0:40.0	Tiring. It's tired. Yeah, we're very tired. But no it feelsiring. It's tiring.
0:43.0	But no, it feels great.
0:45.0	It's really been a lot of fun making this game.
0:47.0	Probably the most fun we've had in our game careers and really happy this day has come.
0:51.1	Yeah.
0:52.1	Was it pretty down to the wire? I mean, of course.
0:54.4	Yeah, everything goes down to the wire. You know, little changes are being made until the exact last possible
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