Timeslip, not a name known to many unless you play Bethesda Softwork games like me and more specifically PC versions of each. After scurrying around the RSS feeds of the Beth Blog, a blog kept by Bethesda Softworks to, well ramble while keeping the public informed that they are actually working and that they are human beings like us, I had found this little gem which Beth Soft have been doing for awhile.

Modder Interviews does exactly what its name says, the company takes time to regard the efforts made by modders to give them 15 minutes of fame and to promote their work. This I believe is a wonderful idea and a very good move by Beth Soft since nothing says "We really do look after our mod community" than interviewing the very modders themselves.

Now you must be asking why I have took a personal interest in this interview and not the others that were done in the past. Well Timeslip isn't known for actually modding the games he plays, no. He is known for the programs and utilities that not only help the game but have influenced many events within modding.

Not only that but it seems I found something that Kspiess will smile at and that is Timeslip is a Fallout 2 player and modder, that's got to be worth something he he.

So yes, Timeslip is most known for the Oblivion Mod Manager, a simple tool that keeps things in order and uses a new revolutionary format called .OMOD. This format is compression data like .ZIP but can be read instantly by OMM and automatically installed and activated in a few mere clicks. Ironically enough the same program has been rewritten to work with Fallout 3.

How did you get involved with the Elder Scrolls modding community?


I have my uncle to blame for that, for leaving his copy out on his desk when I was visiting. I borrowed it for the evening, and a few lost hours later I’d already decided I was going to buy my own copy the next day. As it turned out, I was lucky enough to get the very last copy that my local games store had in stock. On installing it, I spotted the data files option in the launcher, visited the Elder Scrolls website to try and find out what it was for, spotted the modding forums, and things went downhill from there.

ShadowJ via bethblog.com »