AspirinSGD says:
1. How did you get acquainted with the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R?

2. Your nickname have is in the list of developers team Misery what made you leave them?

3. Modification has become very popular and became the winner in the vote «mod of the year» on MODDB, what, in your opinion, is the secret of success?

4. Most of the mods are trying to attract the presence of many interesting quests and a good plot. Why did you decide to develop in the direction of A-life and empowerment NPC?

5. Last question: would you recommend to other modders?

Thank you for agreeing to answer questions.

Alundaio says:
1. I saw a boxed version of Shadow of Chernobyl in a store while browsing for PC games. It seemed to have similarities with the game F.E.A.R. so I purchased it. I fell in love with the series.

2. I was a developer for Misery 2 during beta. I was a scripter and the project co-manager along with Trojanuch. I helped the team learn how to use GIT and improved the teams workflow; previous to my involvement they were just passing around loose files in zips every other day, it was a mess. I was responsible for creating some of the never-before-seen features in Misery 2, like Class selection, new AI behaviors, Handheld flashlight, dynamic all.spawn, mutant looting, as well as many other things. Most scripted features that appears in CoC that are is also in Misery 2 were of my creation.

I lost interest in modding and was having problems in my life. I went absent without telling the team. Upon my return a few months later I found them discussing the possibility of making money on a Misery 3. This is something I strongly objected to and forced me not to rejoin the team. Instead I joined Bangalore's project, Call of Chernobyl and created TeamEPIC.

3. The secret of success is project management. Let your team work on what they want, when they want, as long as it fits within a reasonable guideline. Valve has a similar work environment and it seems to work for them. Try to involve the community, CoC would have not gotten anywhere without the two dozen testers that have contributed to testing the mod and suggesting changes and ideas. Don't plan or attempt features that you know your team is incapable of implementing. Most of CoC features are gameplay changes (scripted or engine) and level design. We did not plan for animation or mesh work because we do not have any members with such expertise. The fact that CoC extends the game's moddability is also a huge factor to it's success.

4. Originally Call of Chernobyl was going to be a barebones map pack for Call of Pripyat. But the game was just so fun to explore and play with the enhancements from my Pripyat Reborn mod. I had a script base that consisted of a couple years worth of work that we used to built Call of Chernobyl off of. If we implemented our own original story into CoC, it wouldn't have been done well. As I said in my previous answer, don't implement features you are incapable of doing well. We wouldn't have been able to implement cinematic cutscenes or spoken dialog without expanding the team beyond what we originally wanted to accomplish. You can see in Lost Alpha what happens when you try to implement features you are incapable of doing well. Players wouldn't enjoy any story we would have come up with, so we spent that time improving other areas of the mod.

5. To embrace their inner midget.