Jens Pöhlmann
Occupation at Piranha Bytes:
Environment Artist
Birthday:
18.01.1981
Vocational training:
Media designer
Worked on the following games so far:
A pair of small mobile phone games and the starter figures for Second Life
Favorite Music:
Soundtracks from games, rock, 80's
Favorite Game(s):
Feels like a different game every week. But all time favorites: Overwatch, Chrono Trigger, Suikoden, Killer Instinct, Goat Simulator, Serious Sam, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Pinball Fantasy, Battle Area Toshinden,
What are your strengths?
Eating liters of ice cream without throwing up.
What can't you stand?
Scratch a chalkboard with fingernails.
What are you enthusiastic about, what are your hobbies?
Clearly gaming, developing games, 2D pixel art, 3D art, tattoo art, various martial arts
What do you prefer when gaming: PC or console?
50/50… Shooter and strategy games as well as titles with mouse and keyboard, I prefer the PC, otherwise titles that you play with friends on the couch on the console.
What kind of films or series do you particularly like to watch or do you watch often?
Movies: I'm a big fan of Guillermo del Toro e.g. (Pacific Rim, Hell Boy, Pans Labyrinth, Blade 2 etc.)
then there are 80s films like Demolition Man, all Bud Spencer & Terence Hill films, Star Wars, John Wick are always in
Various anime: Your Name, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle
Series: Rick & Morty, Game of Thrones, American Horror Story, Breaking Bad
What kind of feature would you like to see in a game?
A tourist mode, after you have played through the game, unlock a mode that allows you to enter the world again but without hostile NPCs reacting to you.
To explore the world without being interrupted by fighting.
Are you afraid that you might run out of ideas for a game at some point?
On the contrary, I have too many ideas and, for lack of time, have to discard most of them.
Where do you find the inspiration for your work?
Books, films, even playing other games. Partly from real situations, other people often inspire me through different perspectives, e.g. game jams
Which game from other studios are you eagerly awaiting and would like to play through?
Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2019), Cyberpunk 2077 and Links Awakening and Breath of the Wild 2 for the Switch
If you weren't working in the game industry today, what would you have done otherwise?
Did you originally have a different career goal?
NOPE .. that was always my greatest wish.
© 2020 Photos by Piranha Bytes / Pluto 13 GmbH
© 2020 Interview by World of Elex + russian provision by Elind & PontifEx +
+introduction & english provision by Ravenhearth + image processing and german provision ArthusoKD +
