"I put an average of 40-70 hours a week into the mod." " Falskaar was my full-time job," he says, noting that he worked around 8 hours each weekday, along with some overtime during evenings and weekend. However, Falskaar was by far Velicky's biggest project to date, with over 2,000 hours of work piled into this beast of a mod. Velicky used to create full campaigns for Age of Empires II: Age of Kings when he was just 7, built maps for the Timesplitters games, and experimented with various RTS titles. Project Genesis for Fallout 3 (My first completed and released mod) The Collector for Fallout: New Vegas (A small two week project to practice quest and dialogue writing) And Deimos for New Vegas (A larger project to practice scripting and environment setup)."īut his modding days started long before this. "I've made three completed mods before Falskaar. The Skyrim's the limit"I've had a passion for game design all my life, though I really only realized it four years ago when I started modding," Velicky tells me. The mod comes with a completely new soundtrack, with 40 minutes of composed music from Adamm Khuevrr, and is fully voiced, featured nearly 30 professional and semi-professional voice actors. It includes an entirely new and sizable land to explore, complete with 26 quests, 20-30 hours of gameplay, lots of new items to discover, two new spells, and a new shout.īut it's the attention to detail that really sets this mod apart. Velicky is gunning for a job at Bethesda, and the 19-year-old is hoping that Falskaar, his recently-released mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, will impress enough to earn him a look-in at the company.įalskaar is one hell of a mod. When preparing to apply for a job in the video game industry, the average applicant will be looking to emphasize their past experience, and why it gels well with what the company in question is looking for.įor Boise, Idaho-based Alexander Velicky, there's only one studio that he wants to work at - and he's put thousands of hours of work into a single mod of one of their games to prove that he has what it takes.
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