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Todd Howard

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

What is a perfectly productive day in the life of Todd Howard look like?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

So maybe not perfectly, but just like a perfectly average production.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Are you a morning person, evening person?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Is it chaos?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Is it pretty regular schedule?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

So brainstorming about specific big picture, both big picture and very specific detail of a game that's not working, something's not working, you want to fix it, that kind of stuff.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Who's on the team?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Is it designers, engineers?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

All the above.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Artists, voice, over folks?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Is the Lude design team still hiring?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

How do I apply?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

That seems like the most fun job.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Always.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

I mean, all of this seems like a super fun job.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

You know what?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

And like I mentioned to you offline, I think of video games, I mean, to me, it's brought thousands of hours of happiness.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

And so when you're designing the game, whatever you're doing, you have a part to play in a thing that's going to bring like millions, hundreds of millions of hours of happiness to people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

It's crazy, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#342 โ€“ Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield

Like even tiny decisions.