Editing Christian Vanover (section)

=== Recollections on the [[Forge (NWC)|Forge]] to AcidDragon [https://www.forge.acidcave.net/listy_od_tworcow.html] ===
Regarding Heroes III, as soon as the base game was released, I was transferred to Legends of Might and Magic. Because of that, I didn't work directly on any of the expansions or [[Heroes Chronicles|Chronicles]] (well, except for one map for the first expansion). I actually heard about [[Forge (NWC)|Forge]] at the same time as the public... when unapproved concept art was released without our marketing department's consent. I can say with certainty that if [[NWC]] had continued working on the city of [[Forge (NWC)|Forge]], nothing even resembling a [[Naga]] in a tank or a [[Zombie]] with a chainsaw would have ever existed there, because that was simply not our style - the concept of the city was supposed to be "steampunk", not "horror". The concept art would have gone through a revision process and the artists would have heard "this is wrong, do it again" and if it wasn't for our marketing department, the public would never have even known what units didn't make it into the game in the end (and that's something that happens in every game development, really). Instead, the Heroes III team decided to abandon the city altogether. Why? I never found out, but that's how it turned out.