Nicolas Samuel Lietzau

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Nicolas Samuel Lietzau-Schreiber (* May 25, 1991, in Munich) is a German video game writer. Lietzau-Schreiber worked on Enderal , a total conversion modification for the role-playing game Skyrim . He was also the lead writer for the video game SpellForce 3 .

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Projects

Lietzau-Schreiber was a project leader for Enderal, which has been in development since 2012. He led the development and the writing of Enderal's team SureAI. [1] In 2016, he worked on downloadable content (DLC) Forgotten Stories for Enderal. [2] In March 2017, Lietzau-Schreiber worked as a writer on SpellForce 3. [3] Since 2021, he has been the Lead Writer for the Spanish game development studio Alkimia Interactive. There, he is working on the remake of the role-playing game Gothic.

Video games

YearTitleRole
2016 Enderal: The Shards of Order Project Director, Lead Writer, Game Designer, Programmer
2017 SpellForce 3 Lead Writer
2019 Enderal: Forgotten Stories Project Director, Lead Writer, Game Designer, Programmer
2019 SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest Lead Writer
2020 SpellForce 3: Fallen God Lead Writer

Books

YearTitleSeries
2020Dreams of the DyingThe Twelfth World

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References

  1. "30 000 Stunden für eine neue Welt", Münchner Merkur, 2017-02-20, retrieved 2017-04-29
  2. Yin-Poole, Wesley (19 Dec 2016). "Skyrim mod Enderal gets DLC expansion of its own". Eurogamer. Gamer Network Limited. Retrieved 2023-06-21.
  3. Weber, Maurice (2017-03-16). "SpellForce 3 - Enderal-Autor schreibt an den Dialogen mit". GameStar (in German). Retrieved 2023-06-18.