Christian Vanover Interview

Celestial Heavens has conducted an interview with former New World Computing designer Christian Vanover, in which he reveals a bit about his past experience with the Might & Magic and Heroes of Might & Magic franchises. A snip:

Q: What was Heroes V like later on? Was development coming along well? Did you have high hopes on that games, or was it just a project on life support?

A: We had actually pitched a few game ideas to 3DO, and encouraged them to shelve both the Might and Magic and Heroes series for a few years to give everybody a break (both us and the fans). Unfortunately, 3DO insisted we deliver two Heroes IV expansions and get to work on Heroes V, so off we went. I spearheaded the expansions, and by the time they were done, Jon and Bryan (Farina) had a pretty solid framework in place for how we would build Heroes V. Our Art lead already had an entirely new set of gorgeous looking terrains ready for the map editor, and creation of the new towns and creatures was well underway. We were all pretty excited.