Skyrim - The Making of Skyrim Teaser and More

Welcome to today's Skyrim roundup.

The Bethblog has a teaser video previewing "'Behind The Wall: The Making of Skyrim' — the extensive, behind-the-scenes look included with the Skyrim Collector’s Edition". The 2:39 video mixes some footage and behind-the-scenes shots, such as a dev talking about the 315 "spaces" within the game (all the locations).

CountChocula sends in this preview with CVG's article covering "Solitude, the Bard's College, the Annual Burning of King Olaf's Effigy and a poetry writing mini-game" among other things:

Solitude in this case is a city in the northern-most reaches of Skyrim; a man-made structure on a vast ridge, it juts from one of this area's many mountains like a middle finger, raised in defiance at the rest of the nation. The place has its own identity, a flavour unique to this one small part of Skyrim. Not just cosmetically - the people here seem proud to live in Solitude. They have their own festivals, myths and customs.

Also from CountChocula is a preview/interview at the Playstation UK magazine:

“Actually, that goes through Radiant Story,” explains Howard, talking of Skyrim’s new AI-guided quest system. “The story manager looks at everything you do. Even a chicken on fire. If you drop an item, kill a dragon, how do people react? Those events go through the story manager.”

The idea is that this story manager will look at what you’ve done and adapt parameters to create bespoke mission conditions – the characters you meet or locations you visit, for example. You can already go anywhere and do anything, creating a narrative by exploring; discovering and interacting with whatever interests you.

Kotaku has an unboxing of a retail Collector's Edition video and Joystiq does the same with photos, instead of a video.