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 without forum handles, if they have one.
Meet the CO Team!Production:Poz -
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 and Here
- See Poz attempt to enter the mouth of Kigatilik mountain: Here
- Has been with Cryptic since the City of Heroes days.
- Has been the Lead Programmer of CO since launch.
- Is one righteous dude! ^_^
Jackalope -
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
And the podcast: Here (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
- To see him in person and what he used to do in CO, check out the following videos: Here and Here
- Favorite comics at the moment: Green Lantern and The Incredible Hulk, but reads 80-90 comic titles a month.
Chronomancer -
Male - Bill Roper:
Chief Creative Officer for Cryptic Studios
- To learn more about what Bill currently does in CO see: Here
- 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 and Here
- Follow Chronomancer on Twitter: Here
- For more personal info you can find him on wiki: Here
RoBoBo -
Male -
Producer for CO
- Feedback makes him Better, Faster, Stronger!
PatchworkCat -
Female -
Producer for CODesign:Arkayne -
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
- To see him in person and find out more about what he does in CO, check out the following videos: Here and Here
- Follow Arkayne on Twitter: Here
- Really likes his coffee!
Mikado -
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 Content Implementation Leader? See: Here
Alivet -
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 and Here and Here
- Follow Alivet on Twitter: Here
Antiproton -
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, while working on Nuclear Strike 64 back in the day."
Heretic -
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
CrypticAkinos -
Male -
Powers Designer for CO
- Currently working on the Melee redesign
Lucid -
Male -
PVP Content Designer for CO
- Likes Rutabagas!
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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TheGreatCarloski - Male - Carlos Montero: Lead Environment Artist for CO
Tumerboy - Male - Environment Artist for CO
Rbrneck - Male - Environment Artist for CO
Averytingwong - Avery Ting Wong - Male - Environment Artist for CO
Programming:
Poz - Male - Shannon Posniewski: The New Executive Producer and Director of Game Programming for CO
Lexeme - Male - Associate Programmer
CrypticJWreschnig - Male - Joe Wreschnig: Programmer for CO
Diamonds - Male - Lead Web Programmer for Cryptic Studios
Coderanger - Male - Infrastructure Programmer for CO
Jfinder - Male - Jared Finder: Programmer for CO
Customer Service:
Online Community Rep:
StormShade - Male - Shaun Brodie: The primary Online Community Rep for CO
Wishstone - Female - German Online Community Rep for CO
GMs:
GM_Marauder - Male - Phil Dean: Director of Customer Service for Cryptic Studios
GM_Destra - Male - Noel Holmes: Lead GM for Cryptic Studios
Foxbat - 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 ). 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
???:IronAngel - Female - Tara Jennings: Former(?) Champions Online Community Team
- What to know more about IronAngel? See: Here (Note: Much of the info here may be outdated)
- Follow IronAngel on Twitter: Here
Is it raining, is it snowing. Is a hurricane a-blowing.BJ_Hardbuild - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO
AsDesigned - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO
Turtle_Surfer - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO
BFG - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO
Baby_Bear - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO
Ironswan - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO
Atomic_Gorilla - Male - Quality Assurance Team for CO
For Archive Purposes:
Daeke - Male - David Bass: Former primary Online Community Rep, replaced by Stormshade
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 - Male - Content Designer for CO
- Writes in game mission text - adds interactive items to the missions.
Jon-L - Male - Jon Leitheusser: Content/Mission Designer... possibly....CrypticOps - Male - Network Operator for Cryptic Studios
SuperMartin - Male - Cryptic Programmer... of some sort... something to do with the Launchers... for Cryptic Studios...
RavenAkurei - Female - Content Designer of some sort...
Kemoj - Male - Powers Developer for CO
SuperCrypticDave - Male - PC and Technical Expert?
StokeMan - Male - Costume Designer for CO?
Restricter - 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
Adglgmut
Pandam0nium
Blue-Crusader
GameWalker
Balseraph
Munkyboi
Casador
h2orat
GM_Terramak
GM_Ceres
GM_Mystycle
GM_IndigoFyre
GM_Diviner
GM_Drannic
GM_Skytrail
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.
Chris Lena - Producer of CO
Want to know more about CO's producer? See: Here
To see him in person and find out more about what he does in CO, check out the following video: Here & Here
Christopher Chamberlain - Art Lead for CO
Want to know more about Christopher? See: Here
To see him in person and find out more about what he does in CO, check out the following video: Here
Shayne Herrera - Art Development Director for CO
Want to know more about Shayne? See: Here
Bruce Rogers - Chief Technical Officer of Cryptic Studios.
Imario Susilo - Concept Artist for CO
Want to know more about Imario? See: Here
Josh Guglielmo - Concept Artist for CO
Zeke Sparkes - Lead Content Designer for CO
Want to know more about Zeke? See: Here
Nellie Hughes - Content Designer for CO
Want to know more about Nellie? See: Here
Michael McCarry - Powers and Advancement Systems Programmer for CO
Want to know more about Michael? See: Here
Michael Henry - Audio Manager for CO
Want to know more about Michael? See: Here
Joe Lyford - Audio Manager for CO
Andrew Jansen - Environment Artist for CO
Want to know more about Michael? See: Here
Dennis Adams - Associate Producer for CO
Want to know more about Dennis? See: Here
Ben Foxworthy - Mission Programmer for CO
Want to know more about Ben? See: Here
Alan Salmassian - Quality Assurance Lead Tester for CO
Want to know more about Alan? See: Here
Brian Gilmore - Content Designer for Co
Want to know more about Brian? See: Here
Rob Overmeyer - Associate Producer for the CO Content Team
Want to know more about Rob? See: Here
Michael Cavallaro - The Lead Visual FX Artist for CO
Want to know more about Michael? See: Here
Adam Lee - Quality Assurance Tester for CO
Want to know more about Adam? See: Here
Stephen D'Angelo - Programmer for CO
Want to know more about Stephen? See: Here
Brian Urbanek - Combat Systems Designer for CO
Want to know more about Brian? See: Here
Daniel Stahl - Producer for CO
Want to know more about Daniel? See: Here
Brad Stokan - Lead Character Artist for CO
Want to know more about Brad? See: Here
Note:
I would really like to get the following three pieces of into for each Cryptic Employee in this thread:
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.
And they're certainly not showing. Any signs that they are slowing.
Also, I should probably assert the manhoods of Rbrneck & Lucid. . .
(Femicated)
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.
And you know what they say about Cyborgs...
Anyway, you guys start supplying more info and we won't have to.
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!)
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
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
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!)
jk Livingston, good research.
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
That's a shame.
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...
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...
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)
Too late! Now you're a man!
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.
LOL @ Brou.
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!)
You should headbutt Tumerboy next time you see him for not asserting your manhood.
That'll learn em.
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:
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!!!)
Also, hai Cryptic doods!
Clearly that is a lie until he gets me my Q AF
Maybe that's why you haven't gotten it yet? I smell a conspiracy. Or it could just be burning monkey.
Nobody wins, but anyone that headbutts Tumorboy will definitely lose. He's the art monkey devil after all.
-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.
Should have led with that, I didn't need to read anything else!
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.
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.
No no! It's what's your major?
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.
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!!!!! @_@!!!!!)
It had me at "hockey" ...
LOL, yeah I picked up on that.
(Cluey!)
pffft. . bread crumbs he says. . .
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....
Yeppers!!!