New team members

We grew. The Moviestorm team says "hello" to the new guys:

* - Tom
* - Ivan
* - Eddz

And, though she has been helping us for a while, "hello" to Ann as well

More soon, as we hire and build up to put even more into Moviestorm!

and now Ben.

Hi, Ben.

Julian Gold joined us today. Programmer and author of "Object Orientated Game Development".

Andrew Kennedy is now helping us as Interim Director of Production.

Two more names have signed up and will join next week. Have to keep them secret until the press releases come out.

You can find Julian's book on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Object-Oriented-Game-Development-Julian-Gold/dp/032117660X/sr=8-1/qid=1171617886/ref=sr_1_1/026-6010021-5414849?ie=UTF8&s=books or http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Game-Development-Julian-Gold/dp/032117660X/sr=8-11/qid=1171617956/ref=sr_1_11/104-8524668-0790360?ie=UTF8&s=books for our US members.

Book Description (from Amazon)
Games software has its roots in a "cottage" industry, ignoring formal methodologies, instead leaving the programmers to find homespun solutions to the technical problems faced. The picture has now changed- the scale of the problems faced by programmers means that more methodical techniques must be applied to game development to prevent projects spiralling out of control, both in terms of technical complexity and cost.
The book addresses how program teams can develop ever more complex entertainment software within the constraints of deadlines, budgets and changing technologies. It establishes a set of best practices tempered with real-world pragmatism, understanding that there is no "one size fits all" solution. No member of the game development team should be working in isolation and the book will be useful to producers, designers and artists as well as the programmers themselves.
In addition, the book addresses the needs of the growing number of Game Development courses offered in academia, giving students a much-needed insight into the real world of object-oriented game design.

And welcome also to our second Ben - Ben Sanders, who worked with Strange Company on Bloodspell.

Forgot to mention Andrew - he is a project manager helping us deliver things (more or less) on time. New people are coming on throughout this month and into March in a variety of roles.

To bring it all up to date, there are now normally 12 of us in the office (in no order):

Matt - founder, evangelist, and Lenin Look-a-like
Dave L - founder, CTO, and the Man Behind the Curtain
Ann - director of marketing, ex-smoker, fashion advisor to the team
Andrew - project manager and lover of incandescent thai food
Ben S - machinimator and arbiter of quality
Ben G - likes pasties, makes our web world work
Eddz - the acceptable face of Short Fuze and forum meister
Tom - 99% chocoholic and programmer of distinction
Julian - eats green string, also codes java remarkably well
Chris - artist, modder, pole dancer wrangler
Ivan - artist and positive argument for enlarging the EU
Me - shiny headed CEO and overweight cyber-athlete

Regular Visitors

Jack - non-exec and many other good things
Michael - finance and connoisseur of bacon butties

We all have a profile here somewhere as well.

In October, we were 4 people in a bedroom. My, how things change

We keep growing: welcome to David Pajak, who joins us as Head of QA. David was formerly a senior tester at Lionhead, and was a key part of the team that created The Movies.

Welcome David!

Welcome David!

The fact that you've helped with TM should make things a bit easier for MS. That is very cool

Welcome David!

I'm impressed to see your hire here along with all the exciting work going on!

More people have joined. To bring it all up to date, there are now normally 12 of us in the office (in no order), and about 24 of us including temps and contracted help. It is certainly growing, and proving to be one amazing journey so far!

The previous list
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1 Matt - founder, evangelist, and Lenin Look-a-like
2 Dave L - founder, CTO, and the Man Behind the Curtain
3 Ann - director of marketing, ex-smoker, fashion advisor to the team
4 Andrew - project manager and lover of incandescent thai food
5 Ben S - machinimator and arbiter of quality
6 Ben G - likes pasties, makes our web world work
7 Tom - 99% chocoholic and programmer of distinction
8 Julian - eats green string, also codes java remarkably well
9 Chris - artist, modder, pole dancer wrangler
10 Ivan - artist and positive argument for enlarging the EU
11 Me - shiny headed CEO and overweight cyber-athlete
12 Jack - non-exec and many other good things
13 Michael - finance and connoisseur of bacon butties

And now, the last three months have seen us grow up quite a lot.

New Names - regular visitors over last couple of months
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14 Max - Investor Director, early supporter of the idea and tea drinker
15 Boyd - Investor Director, early supporter of the idea and tea drinker
16 Howard - marketing guru for all things entertainment
17 Michelle - darling moviemaker and all round nice machinimatrix
18 Pete - 3D engine programming guru (hopefully coming back soon)
19 Ross - DRM king and crypto-debabeliser (thanks! we could not have done it alone)
20 Anthony - summer intern and art student
21 Josh - summer intern and art student
22 Ryan - 1 month in QA, artist and bringer of horror movies
23 Tank - 1 month in QA, artist and bringer of comedy movies

Ryan and Tank were here for a month already with Josh and Anthony and helped us work on the import of Moviestorm assets from Blender and Maya as well as knocking up some pretty nice movies as part of a project we have been doing.

New Names - staff
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24 Dave P - Quality Meister, previously resident in The Movies(tm) dungeon

To come soon: new names in art, engineering and marketing, depending on how fast we can drag them out of their current jobs!

Departed
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Eddz - once the acceptable face of Short Fuze and forum meister (RIP, gone to Canada)

DavidB wrote:

Eddz - once the acceptable face of Short Fuze and forum meister (RIP, gone to Canada)

I didn't know that when British people die they come to Canada

I guess we're heaven for you guys

Toriel wrote:

DavidB wrote:

Eddz - once the acceptable face of Short Fuze and forum meister (RIP, gone to Canada)

I didn't know that when British people die they come to Canada
I guess we're heaven for you guys

I can see that. I'm not too far from the Canadian border so it's all the Molson Ice I can drink and "Hockey Night in Canada" on the CBC. That's a little taste of heaven.

Gee sorry Eddz left. He was very helpful when I first got to be a beta tester. But Canada is closer to the US. Who may I ask was David P from The Movies? Or does he wish to remain incognito? Glad to see you made the move over here. This is wonderful software and a wonderful group of people. Very helpful and friendly.

lucindamc123 wrote:

Who may I ask was David P from The Movies? Or does he wish to remain incognito? Glad to see you made the move over here. This is wonderful software and a wonderful group of people. Very helpful and friendly.

From further up the page (dated 17 April):

matt wrote:

We keep growing: welcome to David Pajak, who joins us as Head of QA. David was formerly a senior tester at Lionhead, and was a key part of the team that created The Movies.