Meet the CO Team!

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Note:
I would really like to get the following three pieces of into for each Cryptic Employee in this thread:


Their official title
Their department, as well as their focus in that department (Exactly what the Dev does in game, details)
What their typical day is like.


And of course the forum names for the people listed on Post #4 (http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1485718&postcount=4) without forum handles, if they have one.


Meet the CO Team!


Production:


Poz (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=28931) - Male - Shannon Posniewski: Executive Producer and Director of Game Programming for CO
I am the (new) Executive Producer for Champions Online. The EP is ultimately responsible for the game as a whole; everything from overall game vision to programming.
I'm responsible for the overall health and care of the Champions Online game, including the happiness of our players. This means that I set the vision and direction of the game, schedule out updates and new features, and act as cheerleader both internally and externally.
Want to know more about what Poz does in CO? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/594895) and Here (http://www.massively.com/2010/03/31/an-interview-with-champions-new-executive-producer-shannon-pos)
See Poz attempt to enter the mouth of Kigatilik mountain: Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2sh6LuEbQ)
Has been with Cryptic since the City of Heroes days.
Has been the Lead Programmer of CO since launch.
Is one righteous dude! ^_^
Jackalope (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=34) - Male - Jack Emmert: Chief Operating Officer of Cryptic Studios

I interact with Atari on all matters of development – schedules, expectations, descriptions. I also manage the EP's of each project (Champions, STO and still to be announced projects). I also oversee audio and animation; these are core departments whose resources are spread out amongst all games. And also our Art Director, who advises each project. I do a lot with our finance staff – making sure they have headcounts, etc. And HR – to make sure we've got good tests for our various positions. Oh, I also try to communicate with the company about the direction of our games and our methodology. I'm trying to formulate where Cryptic is going after looking at our two MMORPG launches. How can we improve. What mistakes did we make, etc.
Want to know what else Jack does in his new roll, check out the interview: Here (http://www.massively.com/2010/03/31/a-massively-interview-with-cryptics-bill-roper-and-jack-page-2)
And the podcast: Here (http://thebigfreaks.com/?p=263) (Over 40 mins of really good and insightful info on Cryptic)
Former Chief Creative Officer of Cryptic Studios
Want to know what Jack did in his former role? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/39)
To see him in person and what he used to do in CO, check out the following videos: Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lszmQaVVJMc&feature=related) and Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vQVrAB_Lo)
Favorite comics at the moment: Green Lantern and The Incredible Hulk, but reads 80-90 comic titles a month.


Chronomancer (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=55959) - Male - Bill Roper: Chief Creative Officer for Cryptic Studios

To learn more about what Bill currently does in CO see: Here (http://www.massively.com/2010/03/31/a-massively-interview-with-cryptics-bill-roper-and-jack-emmert/)
Former Design Director and Executive Producer of CO
To see him in person and what he used to do in CO, check out the following videos: Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44VnL953j7A) and Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lszmQaVVJMc&feature=related)
Follow Chronomancer on Twitter: Here (http://twitter.com/Cryptic_Chrono)
For more personal info you can find him on wiki: Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Roper_%28video_game_producer%29)


RoBoBo (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=48570) - Male - Producer for CO

Feedback makes him Better, Faster, Stronger!


PatchworkCat (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=322791) - Female - Producer for CO


Design:


Arkayne (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=25480) - Male - Randy Mosiondz: Senior Designer for Cryptic Studios and Lead Designer for CO

I am responsible for making sure the overall design of the project matches the vision we want for the game. I oversee the work done by the content and systems teams and make sure it interfaces with programming and art, as well as working with the production team to make sure all of our design features get done on time and on budget.]
Want to know more about our Lead Designer Arkayne? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/32)
To see him in person and find out more about what he does in CO, check out the following videos: Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lszmQaVVJMc&feature=related) and Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPVEOjA5t8Y)
Follow Arkayne on Twitter: Here (http://twitter.com/CrypticArkayne)
Really likes his coffee!


Mikado (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=77386) - Male - John Hopler: Lead Content Implementation Designer for CO

I'm the content implementation lead for the Champions Online content team. [Others] come up with the who, what and where of our content; I concentrate more on the HOW. My time is split between implementing cool new mission content and events, answering implementation questions and talking with our programmers and producers about any new technology or tool features the team needs for the areas we are working on.
Want to know more about our royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan) Content Implementation Leader? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/122)


Alivet (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=60866) - Female - Diana Sherman: Community Content Writer for CO and STO

I write for the website. I write the character profiles, I write up the Ask Cryptics, I write the interviews, I write the Meet the Teams...
So, for example, [...] I wrote up info about Lemuria, the Bleak Ones, and the Bronze King. Plus the script for a podcast, a section for the game manual, and a press release. I also cleaned up the patch notes and helped come up with villain dialogue for the game. Every week is different.
Want to know more about our illustrious Content Writer? See: Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?p=294998#post294998) and Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?p=294529#post294529) and Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/15272)
Follow Alivet on Twitter: Here (http://twitter.com/CrypticAlivet)


Antiproton (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=313471) - Male - Rewards Systems Designer for CO

Handles Item Reward Drops and the Crafting System
His forum Avatar is actually a picture of him "levitating in a Hoberman sphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoberman_sphere), while working on Nuclear Strike 64 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Strike_64#Nuclear_Strike) back in the day."


Heretic (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=26910) - Male - Geoff Tuffli: Combat Systems Designer of CO

The combat systems team is responsible for most aspects of player character development as well as the vast majority of abilities, effects or powers that affect any character or critter in the game. We are responsible for the moment-to-moment gameplay feel of the game.
Want to know more about the mad escapades of the Heretic? Find out: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/45)


CrypticAkinos (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=35542) - Male - Powers Designer for CO

Currently working on the Melee redesign


Lucid (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=18500) - Male - PVP Content Designer for CO
Likes Rutabagas! :D
There's no earthly way of knowing. Which direction we are going.
There's no knowing where we're rowing. Or which way the river's flowing.

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Art:


TheGreatCarloski (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=314981) - Male - Carlos Montero: Lead Environment Artist for CO

I am become life, creator of worlds! In other words, I am the lead environment artist for Champions Online. I get to do lots of awesome stuff like drive the artistic vision behind our epic environments and guide our team of totally awesome environment artists with rocking out and making sweet environments. When I'm not doing that, I'm figuring out how we're going to push the boundaries even more and really make the environments exciting and captivating.
Want to know more about TheGreatCarloski? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/127)


Tumerboy (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=2362) - Male - Environment Artist for CO

I use programs made by 3rd party (Max, Photoshop, etc.) and our own proprietary engine/editor to do my work. I don't write any code. I model things (Max), I texture things (PS), and I place things in the world (Cryptic Editor). I fix bugs when my lead sends them to me and tells me to. I will send that tree location to him. Yes, that is exactly the kind of thing we (Env) fix. :P
Want to know more about our peachy keen Tumerboy? See Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1471797&postcount=1)
Is really Satan! Shhh :D
Wasted massive amounts of time creating an overly intricate and complex avatar, rather than working on the game... I have proof!!! ^_^ Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1487750&postcount=22)


Rbrneck (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=364181) - Male - Environment Artist for CO

I find myself doing anything from modeling and texturing simple props and large scale architectural pieces to building room interiors and fixing bugs. I'm also known to randomly and completely break things in our engine. I help out a little with marketing, capturing screenshots etc. I'm also learning our video capturing system and trying to play with that some...
Want to know more about Rbrneck? See: Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1486910&postcount=32)


Averytingwong (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=130677) - Avery Ting Wong - Male - Environment Artist for CO

I'm an environment artist, I've been around since 2004 and worked on CoV and updates for CoH. I did a large chunk of the Arachnos environments, all the sky scrapers in CoV, the updated Rikti ships and assault suits and various other things in CoV like base assets and whatnot. In Champions, I had my hand in doing something for every zone, be it terrain work, models and textures, putting together instances like the Mandragalore, Therakiels Temple and many others along with detailing work in Vibora bay and areas such as West Side. I also created Crisis areas such as Canada and Monster Island.
To find out more about what might be Wong :D see: Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1511465&postcount=90) and Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/81)
Therakiel's Temple apparently contains his soul.

Programming:


Poz (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=28931) - Male - Shannon Posniewski: The New Executive Producer and Director of Game Programming for CO

(See Production).


Lexeme (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=25575) - Male - Associate Programmer

"I mostly take care of UI related issues. Some of you who've been around since beta might remember me as aames, but I thought that was kind of a lame name so I had it switched to something spiffier."
Want to know more about our local Lexeme? See: Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1487833&postcount=50)
At one point had the word "underpants" in his signature... oO
Currently has a secret message in his signature. Shhhhh!


CrypticJWreschnig (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=32431) - Male - Joe Wreschnig: Programmer for CO

"I work on the software side of the user interface. That means a lot of things – aside from writing the code for many of the interfaces like the HUD (head-up display) or the character creator, I also created the library and tools that let our programmers and artists make changes to the interfaces quickly. Most of our UI is based in data files that are similar to HTML or Flash, and we keep adding features to that system to help everyone on the team make better UIs faster."
Wrote most of the backend to the UI systems we use in CO.
Want to know more about CrypticJWreschnig? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/96)


Diamonds (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=1) - Male - Lead Web Programmer for Cryptic Studios

Follow Diamonds on Twitter: Here (http://twitter.com/CrypticDiamonds)

Coderanger (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=25645) - Male - Infrastructure Programmer for CO

PC and Technical Specialist

Jfinder (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=211987) - Male - Jared Finder: Programmer for CO


Customer Service:


Online Community Rep:

StormShade (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=107843) - Male - Shaun Brodie: The primary Online Community Rep for CO

He is the bridge between the worlds of the player and the Dev. Though many Devs have started communicating directly to us on the forums, StormShade is directly responsible for keeping his thumb on the pulse of the community and letting the lurkers in the Ivory Tower know what the beat on the street is.
For more info see his Introduction thread: Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=19881)
Follow StormShade on Twitter: Here (http://twitter.com/Cryptic_Stormy)
StormShade has recently started a level 1 character and has been working his way through the levels so he can further see things from a players perspective. Feel free to group up with StormShade in game when he is on, which he usually announces on his Twitter account before he logs on. ^_^


Wishstone (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=198147) - Female - German Online Community Rep for CO

Follow Wishstone on Twitter: Here (http://twitter.com/Cryptic_Wishy)

GMs:

GM_Marauder (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=32439) - Male - Phil Dean: Director of Customer Service for Cryptic Studios

For more info on Phil see the following: Here (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/phil-dean/0/25b/1b8)


GM_Destra (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=120632) - Male - Noel Holmes: Lead GM for Cryptic Studios

Follow GM_Destra on Twitter: Here (http://twitter.com/cryptic_destra)



Foxbat (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=33) - Male - CO Supervillain Moderator

Foxbat is the world's greatest supervillain. Women want him, and men want to be near him. His crimes are comic masterpieces, and are always successful. He lives life with legendary panache and a tastefully sexy style that movie stars and other supervillains can only envy (He's also not above bribing those who write his profiles :D). If you see a post from Foxbat, you're in for a special treat, if you're keen enough. ;)
For more info on the Awesomeness that is Foxbat, see: Here (http://www.champions-online-wiki.com/wiki/Foxbat)

???:

IronAngel (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=53584) - Female - Tara Jennings: Former(?) Champions Online Community Team

What to know more about IronAngel? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/36399) (Note: Much of the info here may be outdated)
Follow IronAngel on Twitter: Here (http://twitter.com/CrypticIrnAngel)
Is it raining, is it snowing. Is a hurricane a-blowing.

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Quality Assurance:


BJ_Hardbuild (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=272024) - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO

Adds critter descriptions to mob info boxes.

AsDesigned (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=59596) - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO

Turtle_Surfer (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=270820) - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO

BFG (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=216579) - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO

Baby_Bear (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=357662) - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO

Ironswan (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=288347) - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO

Atomic_Gorilla (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=357449) - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO


For Archive Purposes:

Daeke (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=207776) - Male - David Bass: Former primary Online Community Rep, replaced by Stormshade

For more info see his Introduction thread: Here (http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=36495)
Listed for reference purposes.


The following is based on intuition, guesses, second hand sources, and reading bones. In other words we need more info from official sources and confirmation on what we do have:


Solion (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=25962) - Male - Content Designer for CO

Writes in game mission text - adds interactive items to the missions.

Jon-L (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=459295) - Male - Jon Leitheusser: Content/Mission Designer... possibly....

CrypticOps (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=14704) - Male - Network Operator for Cryptic Studios

SuperMartin (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=356938) - Male - Cryptic Programmer... of some sort... something to do with the Launchers... for Cryptic Studios...

RavenAkurei (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=357767) - Female - Content Designer of some sort...

Kemoj (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=57782) - Male - Powers Developer for CO

SuperCrypticDave (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=331499) - Male - PC and Technical Expert?

StokeMan (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=357789) - Male - Costume Designer for CO?

Restricter (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=328244) - Male - Bug fixer of some shape or size for CO...


The following I either don't have any info on, or I haven't had time to add it.


Crateos (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=157648)
Adglgmut (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=184644)
Pandam0nium (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=16503)
Blue-Crusader (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=356975)
GameWalker (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=166377)
Balseraph (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=55965)
Munkyboi (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=121569)
Casador (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=212044)
h2orat (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=102109)
GM_Terramak (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=98040)
GM_Ceres (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=182682)
GM_Mystycle (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=224628)
GM_IndigoFyre (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=332503)
GM_Diviner (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=57872)
GM_Drannic (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=293020)
GM_Skytrail (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=291722)

Note: I've included gender specifically as forum handles can be rather ambiguous and I hate using "they" or having to type he/she when using a pronoun for a Dev, so for me at least, this is important info! ^_^
Not a speck of light is showing. So the danger must be growing.
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing. Is the grisly reaper mowing.

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The following are CO members I have info on, but they either don't have a forum account or we don't know which user name they are working under. If you know what their handle is, let us know. Note: some of these guys may no longer work for Cryptic, if that's the case, let me know and I'll remove them.

Chris Lena - Producer of CO
Want to know more about CO's producer? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/34)
To see him in person and find out more about what he does in CO, check out the following video: Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lszmQaVVJMc&feature=related) & Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REQe8cYcBno&NR=1)

Christopher Chamberlain - Art Lead for CO
Want to know more about Christopher? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/90)
To see him in person and find out more about what he does in CO, check out the following video: Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lszmQaVVJMc&feature=related)

Shayne Herrera - Art Development Director for CO
Want to know more about Shayne? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/40)

Bruce Rogers - Chief Technical Officer of Cryptic Studios.

Imario Susilo - Concept Artist for CO
Want to know more about Imario? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/48)

Josh Guglielmo - Concept Artist for CO

Zeke Sparkes - Lead Content Designer for CO
Want to know more about Zeke? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/52)

Nellie Hughes - Content Designer for CO
Want to know more about Nellie? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/57)

Michael McCarry - Powers and Advancement Systems Programmer for CO
Want to know more about Michael? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/60)

Michael Henry - Audio Manager for CO
Want to know more about Michael? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/62)

Joe Lyford - Audio Manager for CO

Andrew Jansen - Environment Artist for CO
Want to know more about Michael? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/66)

Dennis Adams - Associate Producer for CO
Want to know more about Dennis? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/70)

Ben Foxworthy - Mission Programmer for CO
Want to know more about Ben? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/75)

Alan Salmassian - Quality Assurance Lead Tester for CO
Want to know more about Alan? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/86)

Brian Gilmore - Content Designer for Co
Want to know more about Brian? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/88)

Rob Overmeyer - Associate Producer for the CO Content Team
Want to know more about Rob? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/104)

Michael Cavallaro - The Lead Visual FX Artist for CO
Want to know more about Michael? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/109)

Adam Lee - Quality Assurance Tester for CO
Want to know more about Adam? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/146)

Stephen D'Angelo - Programmer for CO
Want to know more about Stephen? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/131)

Brian Urbanek - Combat Systems Designer for CO
Want to know more about Brian? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/134)

Daniel Stahl - Producer for CO
Want to know more about Daniel? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/145)

Brad Stokan - Lead Character Artist for CO
Want to know more about Brad? See: Here (http://www.champions-online.com/node/4390)


Note:
I would really like to get the following three pieces of into for each Cryptic Employee in this thread:


Their official title
Their department, as well as their focus in that department (Exactly what the Dev does in game, details)
What their typical day is like.


And of course the forum names for the people listed without forum handles, if they have one.

Updates:

Completely reformatted the thread, grouped names under departments, and updated many of the profiles.
Yes, the danger must be growing. For the rowers keep on rowing.

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Reserved for future expansion...
And they're certainly not showing. Any signs that they are slowing.

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Wishstone is female and I believe Solion is, at least Solion in one of the new VB missions is female if I'm not mistaken (and the mission was designed by Solion).

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Keep your pants on, we're working on getting you guys more info.



Also, I should probably assert the manhoods of Rbrneck & Lucid. . .

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That's what they get for using female avatars. :p
(Femicated)

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Er... yeah. I assert my manhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcrBsuE205U


Edit: Let's not go judging people by their avatars! I mean, my other avatar is an soulless cyborg.

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LOL, nice feint there. ^_^

And you know what they say about Cyborgs...


Anyway, you guys start supplying more info and we won't have to. :p

Would PVP Content Designer for CO be an accurate description for you?

Have you made any introduction posts or did any interviews that I could link to, or have you appeared in any of the few videos that Cryptic released? Even as a background person?
(WE must know!)

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I'm not female and RoBoBO is a producer, not QA!

Edit: Also PatchworkCat is a producer as well. Champions QA is all the people who moderate the PTS boards: AsDesigned, Turtle Surfer, Baby Bear, Iron Swan, BJ Hardbuild, BFG, Atomic Gorilla, and Higher Caliber.

-S

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Wishstone is female and I believe Solion is, at least Solion in one of the new VB missions is female if I'm not mistaken (and the mission was designed by Solion).

Ah HA! I see where this misinfo came from. All the rescuable people in that map (To the Rescue of Noobs!) are using a civilian costume template. This has the unfortunate side effect of the occasional mixup since the categories for civilians aren't exactly gender specific. Don't use what you see in that map as a guide for what people are IRL.

-S

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Now the real question is what do you do Solion? oO

Thanks for the info on the other guys, I'll update them when I've had some sleep and thus can open more than one eye at half mast... @_@
(Sleep!)

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I find this all quite funny, and a little creepy. Lock your doors and change your passwords dev's, Livingston will find you.....chsh chsh chsh chsh.....ahh ahh ahh ahh

jk Livingston, good research.

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Ah HA! I see where this misinfo came from. All the rescuable people in that map (To the Rescue of Noobs!) are using a civilian costume template. This has the unfortunate side effect of the occasional mixup since the categories for civilians aren't exactly gender specific. Don't use what you see in that map as a guide for what people are IRL.

-S

My suggestion, don't make them civilians. Have them with be unique and have each person design their own civilian/wanna-be hero costume. That way they can return in future missions for more epic adventures.

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My suggestion, don't make them civilians. Have them with be unique and have each person design their own civilian/wanna-be hero costume. That way they can return in future missions for more epic adventures.

It takes longer then you'd think to do that for every rescuable person in there. I had something like 2 hours to make that map so... well, I went with what I had available. =P

-S

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It takes longer then you'd think to do that for every rescuable person in there. I had something like 2 hours to make that map so... well, I went with what I had available. =P

-S

That's a shame.

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The following I either don't have any info on, or I didn't have time to add it.

GM_Terramak (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=98040)
Baby_Bear (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=357662)
Crateos (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=157648)
Awen (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=72024)
Adglgmut (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=184644)
Pandam0nium (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=16503)
Blue-Crusader (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=356975)
GameWalker (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=166377)
Balseraph (http://forums.champions-online.com/member.php?u=55965)

I've posted this previously, not sure if you missed it or just haven't had the time to add it yet...

Awen was a CM for both Champions and STO. I think she started at STO, went to CO around launch, then returned to STO as Community Lead at the end of Sept...

Early Oct she abruptly disappeared from the STO boards and, after much speculation...

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=28582

It was announced that Stormshade was taking over...

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=28627

(This sounds very familiar... I just can't put my finger on it... :rolleyes:)

Awen was, and I assume still is, a female...

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Awen is female but has left Cryptic. No big drama necessarily, sometimes people just get better jobs. :eek:

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Awen is female but has left Cryptic. No big drama necessarily, sometimes people just get better jobs. :eek:

Yup, and when that happens, they usually leave abuptly without a word to the community they've cared about for almost a year. :eek:

I'm sure Awen and Daeke are drinking Margaritas on a beach somewhere, toasting their fortune...

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I don't remember ever referencing my gender... does Lexeme just sound feminine or something?

I just chose it because I wanted something suitably computer-sciencey (a lexeme in formal languages is basically a word; it's what a lexer produces when reading a file before feeding it to a parser to have it parsed)

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I guess that makes you a man?

Too late! Now you're a man! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiXaT_1I-vw)

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I don't remember ever referencing my gender... does Lexeme just sound feminine or something?

I just chose it because I wanted something suitably computer-sciencey (a lexeme in formal languages is basically a word; it's what a lexer produces when reading a file before feeding it to a parser to have it parsed)

Basically if the name was ambiguous and I didn't have any strong hints to draw from context clues in posts, or from gender specific avatars, I flagged it as female. If I put female for a male, that person is usually more likely to step in and say that they aren't female, thus I have a clarification and can correct it.

You didn't clarify, so I am going to guess that you actually are a female, further based on Tumerboy not asserting your manhood like he did with Rbrneck and Lucid.

Unless of course you say otherwise, which then I'll change it. :D

LOL @ Brou.


I've posted this previously, not sure if you missed it or just haven't had the time to add it yet...

Ah that's right. No I didn't miss your previous post, I was using my earlier list, so I hadn't removed her yet.

I probably would have caught it, but by the time I was that far through making those posts I had been awake for around 26 hours. I knew this would be a huge project, which is why I tried to get a Dev to do it first. :P

So I knew that if I was going to do it, I just had to jump into it and keep going until I had most of it fleshed out. So as soon as I got home from work I started doing it and didn't stop until I couldn't see the screen clearly any more. @_@

I'm happy with what I got up there, as it's a solid frame to work on. Now I can flesh it out more in smaller chunks and have it still be useful.
(Listed!)

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Clarification then: I'm a dude.

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Yayz! Now you're a man!

You should headbutt Tumerboy next time you see him for not asserting your manhood.

That'll learn em. :D

So anything else you'd like to share that could go up on your profile?

Maybe you could describe what you do during a typical day like they have in the Meet the Team articles?

To me, the most important information for this thread are these three things:


Your official title
Your department, as well as your focus in that department (Exactly what you do in game)
What your typical day is like.


If I could get these three pieces of info for everyone on the list, that would be awesome. ^_^
(Now your playing with the power of Awesome!!!)

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Sorry yo, I just didn't notice that one.

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Nobody wins in a headbutt.

Also, hai Cryptic doods!

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Livingston, you need to fix Antiproton's, he is also King of Action Figures.

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Livingston, you need to fix Antiproton's, he is also King of Action Figures.

Clearly that is a lie until he gets me my Q AF :p

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Clearly that is a lie until he gets me my Q AF :p


Maybe that's why you haven't gotten it yet? I smell a conspiracy. Or it could just be burning monkey.

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Nobody wins in a headbutt.

Also, hai Cryptic doods!

Nobody wins, but anyone that headbutts Tumorboy will definitely lose. He's the art monkey devil after all.

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Your official title
Your department, as well as your focus in that department (Exactly what you do in game)
What your typical day is like.

-Environment Artist
-I find myself doing anything from modeling and texturing simple props and large scale architectural pieces to building room interiors and fixing bugs. I'm also known to randomly and completely break things in our engine. :) I help outa little with marketing, capturing screenshots etc. I'm also learning our video capturing system and trying to play with that some...

I've been at Cryptic for about a year now. For CO, I built some crafting nodes and did a lot of bug fixing while I learned the tools, but the majority of my work here is seen in Vibora Bay. The train station and the steam boat are pieces that I'm fond of....also did a lot of foundation work around the city.

-My day usually starts out with catching up on email... I'm the most productive in the morning, so usually I try to fire up some tunes and/or Howard Stern and jump right into whatever I was doing last and make that focus last as long as i can. The rest of the day is a mixture of multitasking between different things, talking to / helping out my teammates, and doing whatever my lead tells me to do. Outside of work, I've played hockey for about 20 years so when I'm not here, I'm usually rushing home to get my gear and heading to the rink.

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Outside of work, I've played hockey for about 20 years so when I'm not here, I'm usually rushing home to get my gear and heading to the rink.

Should have led with that, I didn't need to read anything else!

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Clearly that is a lie until he gets me my Q AF :p

What, you expect me to just go and hand you one? Keep climbing on that monkey's back!

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What, you expect me to just go and hand you one? Keep climbing on that monkey's back!

As soon as I'm back to really playing and not just visiting to check out the new content on PTS, I will probably be back to leading Ape hunting parties.

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Should have led with that, I didn't need to read anything else!

Yea....the rest of its kinda....bla ....I really have no idea what to say. Every day is a little different so saying what a typical day is like could mean a lot of different things depending on how detailed one wanted to get. I'm a litteral person...I figure if someone wants to know something about me, they'd ask.

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What's your sign?

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What's your sign?

No no! It's what's your major?

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What's your sign?

Cancer (this message is too short so this is me adding characters to lengthen it.)

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Yea....the rest of its kinda....bla ....I really have no idea what to say. Every day is a little different so saying what a typical day is like could mean a lot of different things depending on how detailed one wanted to get. I'm a litteral person...I figure if someone wants to know something about me, they'd ask.

Bah, ignore that.

Your answer was perfect!

Thanks a heap for replying, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Now if I could the same from the 40 others or so. :D

On another subject, if monekyboy isn't bugged with his AF drops and Dar hasn't gotten it by now, that has to be the single rarest AF in the game...
(It's so freaken rare!!! AHHHHHH I CAN'T STAND IT!!!!! @_@!!!!!)

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Your answer was perfect!


It had me at "hockey" ...

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It had me at "hockey" ...

LOL, yeah I picked up on that. :p
(Cluey!)

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This thread is full of win, lemon scented win even, thanks for making it Livingston!

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Yah, the folks can be talkative. You just have to leave enough bread crumbs to draw them away from their work!

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not bread crumbs. . . PIE crumbs . . .



pffft. . bread crumbs he says. . .

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What about graham cracker crumbs with delicious overtones of cheesecake?

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This is going way back to alpha/early closed beta, but whatever became of Katalyst?

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-Environment Artist
-My day usually starts out with catching up on email... I'm the most productive in the morning, so usually I try to fire up some tunes and/or Howard Stern and jump right into whatever I was doing last and make that focus last as long as i can. The rest of the day is a mixture of multitasking between different things, talking to / helping out my teammates, and doing whatever my lead tells me to do. Outside of work, I've played hockey for about 20 years so when I'm not here, I'm usually rushing home to get my gear and heading to the rink.

I listen to Stern every morning on the way to work. It generally stays on 100 unless we are on a roadtrip. Though last couple of em, we got to listen to the history of parts. Those are great!

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I listen to Stern every morning on the way to work. It generally stays on 100 unless we are on a roadtrip. Though last couple of em, we got to listen to the history of parts. Those are great!

Stern fans and hockey fans. lol. Awesome! I've been listening to Stern for a while I guess....off and on. It always stays on 100 for me....just not into the other personalities he has on there. Missing Artie. Hope he comes back soon.

Have some hockey vids i guess i could post up if you guys were interested....

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I think my title is Associate Programmer. Like I mentioned I work on UI. CrypticJWreschnig wrote most of the backend to the UI systems we use here. I mostly concern myself with the stuff that sits on top of that. I wrote a good deal of the UI windows that you see in game, although I occasionally dip into lower level stuff too. It's hard to say what typical day is because UI touches pretty much every other system in some way. I generally just check out my personal bug list for pressing issues, then check the general UI bug list and pull some from there if I need to. If there's nothing game breaking I'll hit the lower priority bugs which can be anything form a button being out of place or some text needing to be clarified, to implementing new features for UI widgets to any number of other things.

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Have some hockey vids i guess i could post up if you guys were interested....

Yeppers!!!

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Update!!!


Updated the profiles for:

Tumerboy
Rbrneck
Mikado
Lexeme


Removed the intro, as I ran out of room...

(Rumorz!)

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not bread crumbs. . . PIE crumbs . . .



pffft. . bread crumbs he says. . .

Yah, the folks can be talkative. You just have to leave enough bread crumbs to draw them away from their work!

You need a new in game Photo feature of the Cryptic Sentai... [hero team] GM and Champions Style Pantheon of DEV TM.. What if you made that a RMC reward.. for PC Toons MEet the DEV's in a MC Gazette?

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Stern fans and hockey fans. lol. Awesome! I've been listening to Stern for a while I guess....off and on. It always stays on 100 for me....just not into the other personalities he has on there. Missing Artie. Hope he comes back soon.

Have some hockey vids i guess i could post up if you guys were interested....

I actually don't like Artie all that much. I don't really find him really funny. Though we did see him at the Gotham Comedy Club when they had a benefit for the girl that I think high pitched eric was dating. He was somewhat funny. I think it's the whole he is in denial about having issues and the way Howard talks about it.

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This thread is full of win, lemon scented win even, thanks for making it Livingston!

Your very welcome. ^_^

Now if we could just get some more Devs to add some additional info about themselves.

*Starts tossing down lemon flavored pie and cake crumbs*
(Waits with the net)

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For each pie I receive, I am willing to rat out one other dev.*


*note* provided dev info may be entirely fraudulent, by providing pie, you acknowledge that you don't care if the information is valid, truthful, or contains nothing but the word "puppy."

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If I made you meyer lemon pudding-cake, what could I get out of you?

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Here ya go Tumerboy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_cream_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banoffee_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_lime_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_meringue_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecan_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_pie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato_pie



Now give up the info!!:D

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PFFFT!!!! You call directing me to Wikipedia pages ABOUT pie, PIE!?

Let me restate. For each REAL, Tasty, NON-poisonous, NON-Toxic, Pie, Containing No animals, byproducts, toxic waste, radioactive spiders, or cthulus, I will reward you with the a short biography* of one of the other devs.
*NOTE* - As stated above, by providing the above mentioned, REAL, tasty, non-toxic pie, you acknowledge that any and all info obtained by you, from Tumerboy, may in fact be made up, and have literally nothing to do with the real dev in question, or may be about a dev who is entirely fictional to begin with.

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PFFFT!!!! You call directing me to Wikipedia pages ABOUT pie, PIE!?

Let me restate. For each REAL, Tasty, NON-poisonous, NON-Toxic, Pie, Containing No animals, byproducts, toxic waste, radioactive spiders, or cthulus, I will reward you with the a short biography* of one of the other devs.
*NOTE* - As stated above, by providing the above mentioned, REAL, tasty, non-toxic pie, you acknowledge that any and all info obtained by you, from Tumerboy, may in fact be made up, and have literally nothing to do with the real dev in question, or may be about a dev who is entirely fictional to begin with.


Do Hostess fruit pies count?
What's the address to have them shipped to you? :)

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And since this thread was started by me and I'm the primary gatherer of info on this thread, I'll implement my mad ninja skills and point out the black (<-- highlight to see) text in both of T-boys's posts, in order to avoid having to add "puppy" to a Dev's post or creating one who does not actually exist...

Sorry Tums. :D
(I'm a NINJA!!!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3f4xU_FfQ&feature=related)

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Friggin Stool Pigeon!

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There may or may not be hidden black text in my posts as well, but it's nothing as devious as Tumerboy's disclaimers. :)

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I sent a nice apple pie in the mail to the Cryptic offices. Hopefully it will reach you and you can share info.

Haha, I didn't really send it. Hopefully he will give us the info before he realizes it isn't coming. Hidden text is fun.

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Atomic Gorilla? haha that name rocks. Nice team! Just came back, what happend to Deake?

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Atomic Gorilla? haha that name rocks. Nice team! Just came back, what happend to Deake?

Best not to discuss it since it will lead to this thread getting locked.

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Atomic Gorilla? haha that name rocks. Nice team! Just came back, what happend to Deake?

Daeke's gone. He moved back tot he east coast to even if his twitter leads me to know anything. Why he left will never be known but there are dozens of conspiracy theorists out there who, I am sure, will give you their opinion quickly.

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Friggin Stool Pigeon!

LOL. As I stated before, since I'm the one that started the thread it would be counterproductive to not point it out.

I did give you a bit of time before I pointed it out though.

And yeah that's like calling a PI a stool pigeon, that's kinda the point. :p
(Now face my Shaq-Fu!)

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Update!!!


Added the following yellow tags and some unconfirmed info on them:

Restricter
StokeMan


Added Averytingwong and some confirmed info on him.

Performed some minor format adjusting, and various smaller edits.


Have to give props to the Environment Artists as they have been by far the most forthcoming department as far as personal info and what they do in game goes. ^_^
(Environment Artists - 7 Opposition - 3)

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PFFFT!!!! You call directing me to Wikipedia pages ABOUT pie, PIE!?

The treachery of images (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images), "Ceci n'est pas une tarte!"

Thanks Livingston!

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Update!!!Have to give props to the Environment Artists as they have been by far the most forthcoming department as far as personal info and what they do in game goes. ^_^
(Environment Artists - 7 Opposition - 3)

Meh, we're just the most egotistical. . .

Alright, I'll rat out some of my Env Artist companions.

Rbrneck did most of the exterior Trey Kings areas. He also built the exterior of the Bayou Queen
Avery did most of the dock work, starting area, Windsong Mall, etc. And the Vamp Bar. Most of the Vamp stuff, the Crypts, and Therakiel's Lair.
An as yet, unposted (?) Artist, did much of the New Shadows neighborhood, and the Dog Pound Bar.
Another artist who probably hasn't posted since he's moved off to another project a while ago, did all of the buildings around Vib, including the High Apostolic Church.

The treachery of images (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images), "Ceci n'est pas une tarte!"

Exactly! Ce n'est pas tarte!

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Alright, I'll rat out some of my Env Artist companions.

Rbrneck did most of the exterior Trey Kings areas. He also built the exterior of the Bayou Queen
Avery did most of the dock work, starting area, Windsong Mall, etc. And the Vamp Bar. Most of the Vamp stuff, the Crypts, and Therakiel's Lair.
An as yet, unposted (?) Artist, did much of the New Shadows neighborhood, and the Dog Pound Bar.
Another artist who probably hasn't posted since he's moved off to another project a while ago, did all of the buildings around Vib, including the High Apostolic Church.


Thanks Tumer! ^_^

I'll update it soon.

A couple other things you could help me out with.

1) Could you give a basic list of the various departments at Cryptic? So I can start grouping the names on this list under their respective departments.

2) Could you look through the info on my unconfirmed list and let me know if the information is correct or not? I know some of it you might not have any idea, but anything you could confirm would be awesome. ^_^
(One pill makes you larger. And one pill makes you small.)

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Most Yellow Names around here will be from: Art, Design, Programming, QA, CS, Production

And the pills that mother gives you, don't do anything at all.

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Most Yellow Names around here will be from: Art, Design, Programming, QA, CS, Production

And the pills that mother gives you, don't do anything at all.

Yep. That was informative.

And more hidden text.:)

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********Mini-Update*******

1) Updated poz with his new position. Congrats again poz! ^_^

2) Moved Chronomancer to the archive section with Daeke.

Now if we could confirm a couple things with poz that would be great.

Bill was Design Director and Executive Producer of CO, but it appears that he's no longer going to be directly involved with CO, so is poz also going to be the Design Director as well as the Executive Producer, or is someone else going to fill that role, or is it maybe going to be voided out. Is poz retaining his lead programmer position?
(Inquiring minds want to know!)

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Bill's not gone. His new title is "Minister of Fun."

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Bill's not gone. His new title is "Minister of Fun."

His new office, just by coincidence, is right next to the Ministry of Silly Walks.

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There is no Design Director role on Champs, though I have a lot of say in that stuff as EP. I'm still keeping a close eye on programming ;-) but I have a key programmer helping me out.

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His new office, just by coincidence, is right next to the Ministry of Silly Walks.




Damn......The job I wanted is already taken:(

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His new office, just by coincidence, is right next to the Ministry of Silly Walks.

Just for those who'd like to know more about the MoSW. Clicky here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahTwt4olqH0)

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There is no Design Director role on Champs, though I have a lot of say in that stuff as EP. I'm still keeping a close eye on programming ;-) but I have a key programmer helping me out.

His new office, just by coincidence, is right next to the Ministry of Silly Walks.

I was afraid for a moment it was near the Fish Slapping.. MACkerel Locker. I can no rest easy knowing my Henchmen will not be nerfed..

Now Mr Poz maybe we can have a Latte and talk about a Tailor and galleria shoppe..That Qulaar Mother ships just laying around i n the harbour after all..

The Palace of Star Foxy in Auburn hills has a nice ring to it..??

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His new office, just by coincidence, is right next to the Ministry of Silly Walks.

My brain hurts. ;)

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Update!!!

1) Added Meet The Team article on Poz.
2) Added the new Podcast interview with Jackalope.
3) Added a couple newish names to the list.
We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. A full commitment's what I'm thinking of. You wouldn't get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand.

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

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GAH! Don't do that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrSN7176XI

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Update!!!

[...]

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.
I counter with: THE GAME

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WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.
I counter with: THE GAME

KHAAAAANNNNNN! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMeUPFjQHc)


I counter with Always.

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We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. A full commitment's what I'm thinking of. You wouldn't get this from any other guy. I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you understand.

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

I see what u did thar!

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Another thread successfully derailed! TACOFANGS STRIKES AGAIN!
There she goes, just a-walkin down the street. . .

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Another thread successfully derailed! TACOFANGS STRIKES AGAIN!
There she goes, just a-walkin down the street. . .

Singing Doo Wa Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Doo
:):D:rolleyes:

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Let me get this thread back on it's respective rails. :P

I'm an environment artist, I've been around since 2004 and worked on CoV and updates for CoH. I did a large chunk of the Arachnos environments, all the sky scrapers in CoV, the updated Rikti ships and assault suits and various other things in CoV like base assets and whatnot. In Champions, I had my hand in doing something for every zone, be it terrain work, models and textures, putting together instances like the Mandragalore, Therakiels Temple and many others along with detailing work in Vibora bay and areas such as West Side. I also created Crisis areas such as Canada and Monster Island.

My typical day usually involves staring at the brightly glowing screens for hours on end and moving my hands a lot around between the keyboard mouse and wacom tablet. I usually keep a bottle of eye drops hand nearby to eliminate the need for blinking. Sometimes I set aside time to scratch where needed.

Also my meet the team profile is here:

http://www.champions-online.com/node/81 (albiet a bit dated)

I also took all of the earlier meet the team profile photos (the cool looking ones ;D).

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Thanks Avery! I really appreciate it when Devs come in and volunteer the info I've asked for:


Official title.
Department, as well as their focus in that department (Exactly what the Dev does in game, details).
What their typical day is like.


It shows that they really care about getting in touch with the player base and bridging that gap so they are no longer faceless monoliths behind yellow tags.

And those who willingly provide their info don't have to face my stalk... I mean uh...

My mad ninja information gathering skillz. :D

I haven't had much time this month due to an unusually high work load, which I suppose made up some ground for my unusually low work load from Dec-Feb.

Once I get some extra time I'll be targeting... uh I mean focusing on specific Devs and gathering all the info I can until I have a sufficient profile for them, starting with those that I only have a bit of info on, then moving to those that I have none on.

Really my threads are rather un-derailable (as much as T-Boy tries) though as I'll continue to post and update them whether other people pay attention or stay on topic or not. ^_^

One last question though, is your middle name actually Ting, and if so did your parents understand the wordplay when they named you that? oO
(Your Kung-Fu is unorthodox!)

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Yes, Avery's parents obviously hated him.

Avery is the only Env artist on Champs who's been around longer than me. He's got mad skillz.

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Update!!!

I've added some of the new information, and fleshed out many of the profiles.

I've grouped the profiles under their departments. If I have any of them wrong or need to add new groups, just let me know.

I've added links to the new articles with Chrono, Jack, and Poz from Massive, and I think I've fixed up their new titles.

Is Poz still Director of Game Programming or still actively involved with Programming outside of his new role?
(Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from cotton-eye Joe?)

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I'm the key programmer that Poz mentioned. I work with Patchwork and Poz in making sure bugs and issues get handed to the correct dev to be fixed. That and I try to get in new features and fix bugs.

Gender: Male
Expereience: In the computer game industry since 1982. This alone should be be enough information to figure out who I am :)

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I'm the key programmer that Poz mentioned. I work with Patchwork and Poz in making sure bugs and issues get handed to the correct dev to be fixed. That and I try to get in new features and fix bugs.

Gender: Male
Expereience: In the computer game industry since 1982. This alone should be be enough information to figure out who I am :)

Daddy?!?!?

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Thanks, a laugh is always a good way to start the morning. :D

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Daddy?!?!?

Okay, that made me inhale coffee. :D

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CO has the best devs ever. This Thread is proof of that.

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Gender: Male
Expereience: In the computer game industry since 1982. This alone should be be enough information to figure out who I am :)

Kevin Flynn?

(Tron was released in 1982)

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Daddy?!?!?

In the case of X year old NotThatBright, GameWalker.....


*takes out results*


You are NOT the father...

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I know.

This forum is my homepage, I read everything here :)

Even this? :D
(What about THIS!?!)

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I guess you don't read everything here do you Lexeme? :p

Clarification: Lexeme stated the above quote on a different thread, and I've posted my response here to see if the forum omniscience was true. It wasn't...

oO (Dramatic Hamster Face!)
(Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger)

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Omniscience != omniresponsive

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If you were saying Omniscience does not equal Omniresponsive, then of course you are correct.

Just look at God, dude never gets back to my e-mails. >_<

But I'm betting if Lexeme actually seen that one, he would have replied.

So I call Shenanigans! :p
(Han shot first!)

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Here-Working CLass Hero = Bad family decisions i n choice of Kings to back...
"It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality"

I like those Cryptonians..Their as zany as we.. Mein Id ego Super Ego feels the love here..
Hugs -For you and POZ as you have the spirit of goodness and fun.

And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.


So in the Blithe Spirit that i encompass I showed a Lvl 40 Hero where to find ellie ews and deadbeat... imagine
never meeting our Fav "Blue Haired girl"

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As usual, I have no idea what you're talking about...

:confused:
(Wakarimasen ^ ^;;; )

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Even this? :D
(What about THIS!?!)

This isn't the Controls and Interface forum, is it? :p

I hang out the most often in C&I, and in the Gameplay Bugs forums, but when there's nothing new there I just his "Today's Post" and click on whatever is interesting

I only do it when my code is compiling, I swear! (http://xkcd.com/303/)

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Bah! To me that would be a forum section, as I consider forum to be the whole shebang, but I suppose that's just semantics. :p

*Let's you off the hook*

Now if only I could get someone to go beat up the Dev responsible for the T4 MA power....
(Evil Grin)

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This isn't the Controls and Interface forum, is it? :p

I hang out the most often in C&I, and in the Gameplay Bugs forums, but when there's nothing new there I just his "Today's Post" and click on whatever is interesting

I only do it when my code is compiling, I swear! (http://xkcd.com/303/)

Looking for new DEV TM input from the Critter Creators... in the line of
" What inspired you most"
in general or
ARC specific Critter dialog, fashion, behaviours. OR just stop in and say hi..
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What's more thrilling then Fox-o-Vison?

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To dederail the thread a bit...

Soon I will be implementing:

Project Dev Stalk!!! :eek:

Uh I mean:

Project Dev Spotlight!!! :D

I'll begin by selecting a Dev that we don't know much about and see if we as a player based can pull our resources and find out some more info on them. And obviously if the Dev in question would stop by and share a bit, that would make it a lot more interesting and effective.

So how I'll do it is I'll start a separate thread for each Dev in the introduction section and I will edit the first post to include the various info we discover on said Dev.

Once we have sufficient info, I'll make a link to that thread on this thread, so this thread will serve as an easy access point and hub for all the info we collect.

Then we'll choose a new Dev and start all over again. :D

So lets hear some candidates for our first Dev?
(Remember that's not me hiding in your closet at night... I swear! ^_^)

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This seems like the right place to ask a question:

Who is the current Top Writer for Champions Online? Has Layman been replaced? Or was it decided not to replace him?

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Did we run out of Team to MEet?

I want a follow up with you in your game faces.. Elli Ewes Mony!
"Igor the MAd -Clan Douglas"
yay the tartans all wrong so sue me..i have deadbeats back.

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We don't have a dedicated writer at the moment to my knowledge. . . I think Arkayne, Poz & Bill might come up with general stories it's just mostly the designer of the given area to fill in specifics? Could be wrong on that though.
squeek!

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It's perfectly understandable that, in the current economy and with subscriptions not as high as we would like, the decision is made to put off hiring a dedicated writer.

However, I am obliged to note that DC Universe Online has, as its writer, Marv Effing Wolfman, the guy who wrote Crisis on Infinite Earths and about a thousand other comics of the 70s, 80s and 90s. A dedicated comics writer is going to know how to create sophisticated and intelligent storylines with dialogue that does not sound like Skeletor. (For a change, in this game.)

Now, I know what you guys are thinking. That kind of a writer is expensive. But that's the thing: it's not as expensive as you think. Wolfman could not get a lot of work in the last decade because he is not seen as young and hip as the newer batch of hotshot comic writers (see: Bendis).

Tumerboy, I know you are not in charge of this sort of thing. And you may not even have the ear of anyone. But you guys might think about reaching out to semi-retired comic writers like Steve Engelhart, Roy Thomas, or Dan Fingeroth, and see if they would be willing to work for the kind of reasonable salary you can offer. These guys are all doing their own things these days, but they aren't in demand writing comics. Which is a damn shame. And perhaps something you guys could benefit from.

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We don't have a dedicated writer at the moment to my knowledge. . . I think Arkayne, Poz & Bill might come up with general stories it's just mostly the designer of the given area to fill in specifics? Could be wrong on that though.
squeek!

From the hundreds of Dev posts I've read, I too believe this to be the case.

Shame really, but this game isn't very story oriented to begin with. The way the game engine is designed everything is extremely linear, with very little real NPC interaction, so there's only so much they could do with a good writer. Though I would love it if they employed one, I imagine the writer would end up very frustrated with such a limited means of expression.

Now if he had more control over the layouts and NPCs as a designer as well, it would be a different story, but that would also mean a higher pay grade.

So yeah, would be awesome, but likely impractical.

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SenshiBat: No we still have plenty more to meet, but I haven't had time to do much with it.

I'm also still gathering feedback on who our first Dev Spotlight project is going to be. I've got two in the running at the moment, so post to the thread if there's a Dev in particular you would like to know more about. And as soon as I have the time to write it up I'll choose our first one.

-Cheers
(Project Dev Stalk shall commence soon!)

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Excellent yes..
I do miss the Brief questionnaire.. So your and Art Director but what do you like more Pirates or Ninjas..
Friendly Profiles of the DEV TM..
I was going to Necro one or two..
Then I saw they were so busy getting Vibrio Bay Ready and wanted to give them a break ..
Now i think the times right for some updates. I really don't check Tweet like i once did
So don't be a shy Ninja and tell us if Worcester Park has any good food Kiosk that gets you out of the office.

IS Valeriano's any good to inspire your creativity?
What has CodeRanger been up to?