Introduction to the dev team by @handles.

ltgamesttv

Frequently here on the forums when players feel there is a topic that deserves a look by the devs/community manager they will *Ping* them here by their @handles. The primary issue is we have no "directory" telling us "who's who" of the dev team. Without a reference to which dev is responsible for a given in game mechanic forum goers will simply ping all the dev @handles they've seen in hopes to reach the one that will find it pertinent.

In order to avoid this overuse of @handles, and unnecessary *pinging* , perhaps we could get a directory/list of the @handles of the devs and their position/responsibilities in game? It would be much appreciated!

If players would like to see this, feel free to support!

@nitocris83

santralafax

Great idea!

demonmonger

I feel bad for the guy named @handles so many alerts and no one's talking to or about him.

ltgamesttv

demonmonger said:

I feel bad for the guy named @handles so many alerts and no one's talking to or about him.

True, however you just pinged him as well, and I may have too simply by quoting you... it's a vicious cycle.

strathkin

Sadly many of the developers likely don't respond to the forums too often unless perhaps they are introducing a new mechanic or changes. I'd suspect we're unlikely to see them willing to provide anyone in the forum a breakdown of the various developers and their roles because roles / responsibilities likely change frequently depending what they are working on.

I think the best we could hope for is to ping @nitocris83 or maybe the Lead Game Designer; even he'd likely prefer we mostly kept our CM in the loop as it's her job to interface between players and developers.

ltgamesttv

There are three things I'd point out. The first is, it's common courtesy for any company to make a directory that is updated even as employees change positions (it literally takes 2 minutes or less to update a "roster" or directory). I mean unless the positions are changing so often they feel players would be disappointed to see how quickly the roster rotates?

Secondarily, if the CM and the Lead game designer want to be kept in the loop, it is very easy to ping them both while pinging the developer who would be working on said task.

Thirdly, I'd say it's actually the CMs job to inform us of who's who as it's her job to keep the players updated on developers developments.

kalina311

I am sure you are looking for @dev@responsibleforpvpchanges : D

nitocris83

Oooh this is one of those community ideas/mindmelds that I can actually confirm will happen! It has actually been in the works for the last few months (as part of a larger "professional growth" project for yours truly) which is also why we created icons that go with each area that we've used in some streams.

bloodzakjon

i've put lol as i've found it funny, you wish to communicate this, but not maintenance to the steam forums etc

kreatyve

bloodzakjon said:

i've put lol as i've found it funny, you wish to communicate this, but not maintenance to the steam forums etc

There was a maintenance thread posted here on the forums. Not sure how you missed it. It was right here.

ltgamesttv

nitocris83 said:

Oooh this is one of those community ideas/mindmelds that I can actually confirm will happen! It has actually been in the works for the last few months (as part of a larger "professional growth" project for yours truly) which is also why we created icons that go with each area that we've used in some streams.

It's good to see you trying to bring the Dev team and the Playerbase a little closer. The more that happens, the more transparent the company becomes and inclusive the better morale will be amongst the community.

bloodzakjon

kreatyve said:

bloodzakjon said:

i've put lol as i've found it funny, you wish to communicate this, but not maintenance to the steam forums etc

There was a maintenance thread posted here on the forums. Not sure how you missed it. It was right here.

thanks for the reply, but i didn't miss it, seems you also didn't read the post, i said steam, not here, the steam forum, but thanks all the same, as like i said, i didn't miss it, the question was asked at the steam forums, i'm just the messenger who got shot down for posting it, 2,568 In-Game atm on steam, with no maintenance posts there, but it's your game, so use which forum you wish, makes no difference to me

wintersmoke

demonmonger said:

I feel bad for the guy named @handles so many alerts and no one's talking to or about him.

See... now I have to go create a handlesatgmaildotcom email account.

kreatyve

bloodzakjon said:

kreatyve said:

bloodzakjon said:

i've put lol as i've found it funny, you wish to communicate this, but not maintenance to the steam forums etc

There was a maintenance thread posted here on the forums. Not sure how you missed it. It was right here.

thanks for the reply, but i didn't miss it, seems you also didn't read the post, i said steam, not here, the steam forum, but thanks all the same, as like i said, i didn't miss it, the question was asked at the steam forums, i'm just the messenger who got shot down for posting it, 2,568 In-Game atm on steam, with no maintenance posts there, but it's your game, so use which forum you wish, makes no difference to me

Yeah, I don't think we ever have much to do with the Steam forum. Maintenance messages generally go out on Twitter, Facebook and sometimes here (if there are changes). But yeah... Steam forums are not a good place to watch for stuff like that.

karamekos

Midway through 2017 I compiled a list that included some of the handles for a portion of the Neverwinter team for the Developer Appreciation Week. Here's what I had from that point in time and I'm not sure how many of this team still works on the game, whether their roles have changed, etc. I also do not know how to post this in a more visually friendly format and apologize for the lack to technical savvy.

The format is:

First Name Last Name (Role) at handle

Thomas Foss (Lead Designer and Mimic King) mimicking
Julia Fredrickson (Community Manager) nitocris83
Robert Gutschera (Sr Systems Designer) rgutscheradav
Vincent Malley (Producer) terramak
Douglas Miller (Systems Designer) asterdahl
Randy Mosiondz (Sr Content Designer/Loremaster) crypticarkayne
Jules Norcross (UI Artist) midnightlight
Jared Sears (Systems Designer) noworries
Chantelle Tatum (Systems Designer) ctatumdev
Tradd Thompson (Systems Designer) dreadnaught

I do not know the names of others, such as ashryver, chaidrin, miasmat and ontheriver. Who could forget the Starlight Parcel weekend of work miasmat did during the Winter Festival of 2016! Thankfully that issue did not surface again in the 2017 Winter Festival and miasmat hopefully enjoyed the holiday break.

kalina311

@nitocris83 is this list up to date is it current form any omissions additions?

some devs are no longer logging into the forums and checking or reading thier mail or even responding to a thread
that is quite apparent when you click their name and it says last time logged in and the numbers given is in several months +
maybe we are addressing feedback to members that are no longer on your team

kalina311

Devs responsible for audio and ambient sound effects are also missing for this list as there are many threads asking where to find them to ask questions/ make suggestion and report audio issues as well