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The mod grew from a historically set alternative to Warband, to a distinct game with novel features, options and challenges. The latter is such an important system that Ibidil says he can’t imagine the mod or the resulting DLC, Viking Conquest, without it. With each version of the mod more novel features were added, like naval combat and a religious system. You can’t satisfy everyone,” Adorno says. “It’s both helpful and motivating, but also challenging, since you need to keep focus.
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The mod has been downloaded nearly 100,000 times on Nexus Mods alone and each player had suggestions for tweaks and changes. There may have been seven modders but there were hundreds of contributors to Brytenwalda. “Your own passion for something can infect others,” Adorno adds. As the mod developed, the players were brought into the fold, too. But the seventh century! What happened there?” Adorno says. “Almost everyone knows about the Roman era in Britannia, the legendary King Arthur, and the Viking raids on the British Isles. “I certainly didn’t think such a relatively obscure time period would make for a popular mod.” But as the blank spaces in the seventh century drew in Ibidil, they also captivated the others. “I remember first reading Ibidil’s post about his pursuit to create a historical mod about Britain in the seventh century, and thought, ‘Who is this guy?’” Adorno says. Thankfully, the rest of the team came to see Britannia through Ibidil’s eyes. Their expertise in modding, and history, made for a productive harmony. As more versions were released, the team kept growing Michael ‘Motomataru’ Richter from the US, Matthias ‘Phaiak’ Grohmann from Germany, and Marco Aurelio ‘Yeyo’ Balbás Polanco, Leyre ‘Elyllon’ Ramirez Erviti and César ‘Caesar’ Iñarrea Sangués from Spain were brought into the fold. Asbjørn Lindegaard ‘Adorno’ Møller from Denmark had been developing scenes and locations as a hobby, and decided to join forces with Ibidil before the mod’s first official version. He knew that to succeed he couldn’t go it alone, so he tapped into Warband’s budding mod scene.
Ibidil was wise to the low completion rates of mods-the TaleWorlds online forum is peppered with blogs for mods that never left the nest. An opportunity arose-“I wanted everyone to enjoy the Dark Ages,” Ibidil says. He released a rough beta of the mod, and Warband modders loved it.
But Ibidil couldn’t hide his desire to tell stories. He wrote a quest here, changed textures there, and little by little the fictional kingdom of Calradia turned into Britannia.
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He even translated the Canu Heledd, a series of early Welsh poems, into his native Spanish.īrytenwalda was never intended for other players, it was “a simple mod, just for myself”, says Ibidil. He loved the rich and complex history of seventh century Britain and wanted to bring the period to life-he found it a shame “names like Penda or Cadwallon were only known by historians”. Not many records remain from the period, hence the name ‘Dark Ages’, but this only empowered Ibidil. “It was a world with very defined dynamics, of small and warlike kingdoms, with kings who knew that everything played out on the battlefield,” he says. This change came from reading about the fall of the Roman Empire, and post-Roman Britain. Like Britain itself, Ibidil progressed from Rome to the Dark Ages. Ibidil dealt with documentation relating to the mod as well as editing the battle system and organising the work of those modding models and textures-giving him a well-rounded suite of experiences to bring forward. Ibidil became involved after a community of Spanish gamers felt its nation was portrayed with too many historical inaccuracies Iberia: Total War was developed in part to address these issues. Ibidil is a creative type, always telling stories in whatever way he can, and he found recognition in the modding community for his work on Iberia: Total War, the 2005 total conversion mod to Rome: Total War.
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