Some news of King Kong

**Arandir Tur-Anion de Bodemloze** · December 09, 2013, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Lord Zimoa

The Lordz Games Studio Announcement
For Immediate Release

THE LORDZ GAMES STUDIO EXPANDS
CHRISTIAN WALTER JOINS WARGAMING SPECIALIST

Capellen, Luxembourg, 3^rd of December 2013

Today The Lordz Games Studio announce that Christian Walter has joined their ranks as creative director. Walter aka King Kong is coming directly from the modding communities as one of the most celebrated Total War modders with titles under his belt as Stainless Steel and Third Age Total War. Four years in the making, his Lords of the Ring modification Third Age: Total War has been downloaded over 1.000.000 times and is praised by the players as being one of the best ever made. Everything from the classic movie was recreated in detail: units, settings, buildings, animations, etc.

"I am very glad Christian has joined us as a creative director", said Tim van der Moer, Managing Director of The Lordz Games Studio. "Development of strategy and wargames is a pretty specific thing and we really need to focus on details and quality of both visual and gameplay. Christian is perfect for the role, because he comes from a world where you have to keep engaging with players to refine and improve your product".

Szymon Gatner, Technical Director of The Lordz Games Studio said, "After working with Christian for some time now as an external developer, he proofs to be the right man for the job, gifted with an impressive set of skills combined with the right attitude and motivation.

Christian joins the company to work on important projects such as Warhammer 40,000®: Armageddon™, the Commander series, the Panzer Corps series and various other unannounced titles."

About The Lordz Games Studio:
The Lordz Games Studio is a privately funded, independent game development studio based out of Luxembourg. Launched in 2006, The Lordz Games Studio, (LGS) is dedicated to developing cross-platform titles that are fun, highly playable and mirror our passion for military history, fantasy and science-fiction. Our mutual interest and goal is developing quality wargames.

As you see, KK has been recruiting by a game studio. he will quite sure not come back to modding

KK's Answer : http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...-Mod-Guideline

**Mr.Jox** · December 09, 2013, 02:23 PM

Congratulations to KK!

**Ngugi** · December 09, 2013, 02:23 PM

A big con' gratz is in order then, for how long have we not said the companies should get themselves together and bring KK into their fold? Now it have come to that

Hope we'll get a message from him to us personally, about this soon!

**Veteraan** · December 09, 2013, 03:02 PM

Great news for the big ape, turning what is presumably a hobby to a paid job!

On a side note: We now do have a name and a company tied to King Kong.
This makes it possible to inundate him with congratulations and concurrently beg him to declare all parts of his TATW Mod free to be used by the community.

**chriskourou** · December 09, 2013, 03:05 PM

"Wow.. what a surprise" ... Lets see if he can spend 10 seconds to post a thread here.

**Terrorgnom** · December 09, 2013, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Veteraan

Great news for the big ape, turning what is presumably a hobby to a paid job!

sadly enaugh i have seen many who did this and lost all the fun in it, when you depend on it... anyway, hopefully it's not like that for him^^

**Jean=A=Luc** · December 09, 2013, 03:25 PM

Wish he had said something but congratulations KK. Definitely the right man for the job if there ever was one.

Good find A-TA.

**Araval** · December 09, 2013, 03:41 PM

Congratz to King Kong then!

**ElvenKind** · December 09, 2013, 03:46 PM

Congratz KK!

It would be good if you could give us a list about permitted and restricted usage of your stuff. At least for the making of TATW submods.

Cheers,

ElvenKind - A proud Local Moderator of your TATW Forum

**paradamed** · December 09, 2013, 04:45 PM

Congratulations KK. Pls make all fans happy and give Leo and other modders permission to keep modding TATW. Could we ask the guys from Lords to contact KK? They are still active here.

**Þiudreiks** · December 09, 2013, 04:55 PM

Congratulation King Kong, you did magnificent work on your mods and I'm sure you will strive to do the same there at Lordz Games Studios.

**Deathcake** · December 09, 2013, 05:15 PM

Big congrats, I'm sure this sort of thing is a dream / wish for almost all modders (Icefrog (dota) getting employed by Valve being another obvious example).
I hope however that it is not a case of like Lusted joining CA and being completely drowned out by corporate stuff and made to work on sub-par products (*cough R2TW cough*) rather than being given the necessary time and resources to create what he is best at.
I really hope they set him up like Valve did with Icefrog, give him a project that can best use his demonstrated skills on rather than shoe-horning him into whatever job has an opening, which to me would be a waste of an obviously very meticulous eye for details (amongst many other skills I am sure).