SWG Team Profile – Ellen Anderson

2008-05-19 22:32:12

What is your real name?

Ellen Andersen

What is your official title/position?

Associate Producer

How long have you been working on Star Wars Galaxies Galaxies? 

Since November 2007

What profession do you like to play in Star Wars Galaxies Galaxies?

I just started a Jedi and I have an Officer which I use for internal play testing; it's hard for me to say which profession I like to play. I like all of the professions for different reasons.

What is your favorite thing about the game?

The ever increasing game content

What types of things do you do in a typical day at work?

In no particular order:

Scrum Master daily scrum meetings

Listen to Loche or Millbarge sing "I'm a Little Tea Pot" (if they arrive late) at the start of our morning scrum meetings. Best Tea Pots ever!

Read the forums & review in-game feedback

Scheduling & planning

Maintain our internal SWG wiki

Daily support of the team

Interact with the Dev Team, Lucas Arts, QA, Community, Customer Service and SWG Operations.

Reboot the DevH AI

Feel thankful that I work at such a great studio, with a great team!

Who is your favorite Star Wars Galaxies character and why?

My favorite is Jabba Desilijic Tiure aka Jabba the Hutt.  He's 50% Tony Montana , 50% Pirate and 50% Vito Corleone. He's my Manbearpig of Star Wars Galaxies. 

What's your favorite video game of all time and why?

Favorite Console Game Old School: Dark Wizard; It's an old turn-based, RPG strategy game that I played over and over again. I love strategy games.

Favorite Handheld: Puzzlequest on PSP. Great game for the PSP!

Favorite PC: Dark Ages Of Camelot only because it was my first MMO. I played hardcore for about two and a half years. My next MMO was SWG; I was in beta and I played for about six months after it released and now I'm playing SWG again. Oh, and I have very fond memories of Diablo and Warcraft.

Favorite Guilty Pleasure Game: Chuzzle because it's cute and the chuzzles get mad when you poke them

Outside of work, what do you like to do?

I like to spend time with my husband and friends.  I play games, watch BluRay movies and I watch more TV than I probably should.  I also love to cook.