Interview: Tarion_31

Tarion has caused quite a stir recently with his comeback with his updated amazon modpack and his work-in-progress Greek improvement mod. He decided to take a break from saving the world with his super texturing abilities to answer some questions. Read on.

1. So, you make mods for AoM, is that correct?
A: Yes, i make mods for Aom. I enjoy more making a mod than playing AoM itself.

2. How long have you been here? What did you do when you were new?
A: My first mod was uploaded in 2005. It was an Amazon warrior capable of ranged and melee combat, it wasnt anything great but i think some ppl liked it
at 2006 i stoped playing this game but now i decided to get back to it and back to modding of course.


3. With all of these mods you're making, what is your biggest/favorite?
A: My favorite and most famous mod is probably the keeper of the groove (is a warcraft3 hero) wich features a night elvish centaur with buck antlers and long pointy ears and magic arrows btw i released it like a fun mod, now it have almost 1400 downloads so far but i like alot my new project too.

4. What's your current project?
A: My current project is a re-texture and anims mod to make the greek human units, boats and siege engines look better and maybe more historical than the defalut versions wich for my very personal opinion look ugly jejeje, what im doing for this mod is use some parts of cinematic armor textures, some hand painted textures and some very cool shield patterns i found around the internet.
Im not working alone on this, a guy named Emjer is doing some nice head models for this too.


5. Do you play any other type of game outside of AoM?
A: Yes, of course my favorite type of game are the FPS and RTS but....i need to buy a new pc so i have to keep playing games like this until i can support more actual games. Other games im playing this year are BFME2, World of Warcraft and CS 1.6 btw..i've played all the "age of" saga since the very first AOE wich was the first pc game i ever played.


6. Thanks for answering these questions, do have anything else to say?
A: Well i feel proud that you decided to make this interview because you like some of my work that make all the effort put on this worth it. Also....make sure to download "improved greeks look" mod when its released.