GI Podcast Q&A about Skyrim with Todd Howard. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/podcasts/archive/2011/02/03/toddhowardse.aspx I haven't given it a listen yet, but the comments seem positive! :)
I don't know if it means anything, but in one of the Bethesda podcasts the level designers talk about being huge fans of Minecraft. I hope that game had some influence on them :D That would be awesome.
Truly. While listening to the podcast-interview todd went into the subject a bit more, and he speaks of great logical stuff, like how they dont want to oversell radiantstory and explains that it is basically a powerful tool for the designers to build quest-templates with that the system uses, and how they improved the look…