Age of Conan - Developer Profile @ MMORPG.com

MMORPG.com chats with Heidi Schmidt, one of the Content Designers at Funcom working on Age of Conan.

MMORPG.com: Tell us a little about your childhood. How did school and where you live influence your choice to join the video game community?

Heidi Schmidt: I was born and raised in Los Angeles. My parents would take me on backpacking trips into the mountains of San Gabriel and Sierra Nevada. I think my real education and appreciation for the world came from being up in the mountains, exploring the wilderness, and not from the public schools. I remember when I first jumped into an MMO and my immediate reaction to the sheer joy of being able to explore the world around me--it was this experience from my childhood that naturally attracted me to MMOs.