Madden 2007 Development Manager Interview

This was posted in the sports forum as well...

I just secured an interview for 2OLD2PLAY with a person that was/ is a development manger for the Madden Series. Here are some of the things he does.

 "I'm Development Manager at the Tiburon Studio of EA in sunny Maitland, Florida. My team for the '07 product worked on the XBox360 version of Madden, and we are currently working on getting the PS3 version ready for ship. My team (or Pod as we call it) consisted of 7 developers and 2 producers. My pod was mainly responsible for:
* Franchise Mode Enhancements
* New Player ratings
* Create-a-Player
* Madden Gamer Level
 * Rehab Injury/Train for Game
* Interfacing Franchise and Rehab to the new Minigames (the actual Minigames were in another pod)
* Helped final out Superstar mode
* Online (including Live Opponent, online Minigames, and all the misc. online tasks)
* Hall of Fame
* Quite a few enhancements that didn't fall into an easily labeled bucket So, lots of things went on last cycle in my pod. But, if you have questions outside of my pod, it's no problem for me to forward those questions onto other managers or producers. So, if you have some questions about Minigames, stadiums, or graphics (or any other area that my pod didn't work on) feel free to ask and we'll find the right person to get an answer."

If you a have a good question to ask him (remember he is an employee not the Head of a EA so be cool). Please reply to this blog as we want to do a kick ass interview.

Thanks for help,
Derf