Gamedevs, can you name and describe an instance when you put something really personal about you or your life into a videogame?
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In an #EQ2 expansion with cat people, I named crafting questgivers after cats of team members & a long-time fansite owner whose cat had just passed away. Also my cat Chinook, who has since passed, but still lives on in Norrath. 
She's a Tailor because my last name is Taylor 
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My Kerran was a tailor too.
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Also when I had to quit SOE and the EQ2 team for unrelated reasons (it was heartbreaking to leave), I put a small grave in the Hold of Prexus (volunteer Guide-only zone) with a grave marker for my dev character and a small epitaph when you mouse over.
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Heh. I remember Chinook.
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I love this
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Soren, Natasha, Harriet, and Nutmeg are the other cats named for real ones
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Great to hear the stories behind the characters we bump into
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That was Shadows of Luclin. I loved that expansion.
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Close - Shadows of Luclin added the cat people (Vah Shir) to original EQ1, but I worked on EQ2 so this was Kerrans in Sentinel’s Fate.
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Sentinel’s Fate.
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