GarageGames Employees

Robert Blanchet Jr.

About

C/C++ Programmer with an advanced knowledge of Torque and the various systems which it employs. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

10/02/06 - Rack 'em Up Road Trip
09/22/06 - O Memory, Where Art Thou?
07/22/06 - Mind your SimSets
05/07/04 - Plan for Robert Blanchet Jr.
12/17/03 - Plan for Robert Blanchet Jr.

asmaloney (Andy)

About

Writer of code. Past work includes automated software engineering tools, financial trading software, and a tool for bloodstain pattern analysis. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

02/01/07 - First two resources...

Jay Arrera

About

VP, Web Applications. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Timothy Aste

About

Jack of all trades View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

03/03/08 - Legions @ GDC
09/20/07 - Video from GDC
03/02/07 - Art blog
01/04/07 - Products, Holidays, Job Opening, GGE Winners!
12/12/06 - GGE Contest Extension!

Lance Bass

About

3D animator either hand rigging or Character Studio, Max proficient, Concept artist, please contact me for portfolio art pdf. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Saralyn Bass

About

Chief Marketing Wizard. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Michael Blenden

About

Educational sales representative working with 200+ schools worldwide teaching game design using Torque. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

02/20/07 - Torque Curriculum Resources

Derek Bronson

About

Product Group Whipping Boy View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

03/18/08 - Houdini Exporter Beta
01/23/08 - Rainy Day Tutorial

Thomas Buscaglia

About

Gameplay and Engine Programmer currently working on the Torque X engine for Microsoft XNA. Past works here at GG include the Torque X Platformer Starter Kit as well as countless demos and tutorials for Torque X and TGB. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

11/29/07 - Torque X 3D Beta is here!
06/14/07 - Introducing TXB!
06/09/07 - WTF is a clipmap?
04/10/07 - Something to look forward to...
02/07/07 - About this deadline...

Doug Campoli

About

As CFO of GarageGames.com, Mr. Campoli is responsible for the integrity of the financial systems and reporting, financial planning and forecasting, and financial evaluation of the company\'s growth plans. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Justin St. Clair

About

I help round out the QA team offering my experience in testing and gaming both. Working toward root cause analysis, I am comfortable playing towards a better game. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Andrew Colclough

About

Style and Design Wrassler\' View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Joshua Dallman

About

Game producer at GarageGames. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

03/28/08 - Download Shelled Online to Review
12/13/07 - Communify Me! 80 Ways to Add Community Features to Games
11/18/07 - Red Thumb Games "Shelled 2" Update
09/22/07 - How to Focus your Game and Give Players More of What They Want
09/05/07 - How To Pitch Your Game

Randy Dersham

About

I get to do the good stuff... receive game pitches, approve projects, check up on development progress, and argue with creative people about what FUN is. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Justin DuJardin

About

Justin has 8 years of experience in User Interface design and tools development. His current obsession is making game tools that make taking games from idea to prototype easier, more enjoyable and faster. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

04/01/07 - Torque Game Builder 1.5 Beta
02/01/07 - Torque Game Builder Closed Beta Signups
09/28/06 - Torque Game Builder 1.1.2 Goes Live!
08/09/06 - Torque Game Builder 1.1.1 Lives!
06/20/06 - Torque Game Builder Hits 1.1.0!

Pete Emerson

About

Vice President of Technical Operations as of October 15, 2007 View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Clark Fagot

About

3D simulation/graphics programming. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

06/14/05 - Plan for Clark Fagot
04/21/05 - Plan for Clark Fagot
02/06/05 - Plan for Clark Fagot
04/14/04 - Plan for Clark Fagot
10/22/03 - Plan for Clark Fagot

Matt Fairfax

About

Game Programmer View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

04/04/08 - TGEA 1.7 is Officially Released!
03/28/08 - Torque Game Engine Advanced Open Beta 2
03/18/08 - Torque Game Engine Advanced Open Beta
01/18/08 - Big Update to TGEA on the way!
09/14/07 - A Week in Oregon

Nate Feyma

About

2D illustration, Graphic Design, Web and Game interface skinning View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

02/08/07 - Great Games Contest Avatar Winners - Round 2!
02/05/07 - Great Games Contest round 1 avatar winners
08/18/06 - Tankbuster: the .plan

Jacob Fike

About

Internal Tools Developer for GarageGames, creator of the Overlord Management System, and awesome at Starcraft. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

10/16/06 - Overlord Management System 2.2.1
10/13/06 - Overlord 2.2 Released!
09/02/06 - Return of Overlord
07/25/06 - Overlord II Released!
07/16/06 - Overlord II is Feature Complete!

Michiel Frishert

About

New to Garage Games, working on architecture and implementation of scalable online back-end systems and whatever other cool stuff comes my way on an upcoming project. Recently with search engine Ask.com, where I worked on their maps platform, local search View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Eric Fritz

About

15 years of experience in marketing and print production. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

07/06/06 - Survey Time!
06/07/06 - Where is Torque Game Builder?
06/05/06 - The Big Move
05/14/06 - Fun with Acronyms: TGB, BIG, IGC, PP

Mark Frohnmayer

About

Here at GG I have had a chance to wear many hats: engine programmer and architect, game designer and programmer, producer and executive. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

06/13/07 - An inconvenient game?
08/21/06 - Sometimes you can't do everything.
08/04/06 - State of the Garage
10/17/05 - Plan for Mark Frohnmayer
07/29/05 - Plan for Mark Frohnmayer

Steven Garcia

About

View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Ben Garney

About

Lead developer on an unannounced project.

My GGE Profile View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

02/11/08 - Come See Me At GDC 2008!
10/27/07 - TGEForest Free Release
10/12/07 - Polysoup Free (And IGC)
01/26/07 - Speaking and Running Into Walls (Collision Fix)
12/24/06 - Merry Christmas, Community - Poly Soup

Tim Gift

About

Game engine programmer. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

01/14/05 - Plan for Tim Gift
12/16/03 - Plan for Tim Gift
11/24/03 - Plan for Tim Gift
09/19/03 - Plan for Tim Gift
05/05/03 - Plan for Tim Gift

Scott Hill

About

Product Manager at Garage Games.
Working on really cool, top secret stuff... Watch for it...

View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Kenneth Holst

About

Torque QA Manager View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

04/24/08 - Associates Program Exposed
04/07/08 - TGEA Beta wrap up - thoughts and thanks

Curt Hopkins

About

Here at GarageGames I use my background in journalism, blogging and marketing communications to reach out to both the enthusiastic community that has grown up around the company and the public at large. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

03/14/08 - A window into the company & InstantAction
02/18/08 - InstantAction Podcast
12/06/07 - Gamer Social Media Survey Results
11/02/07 - Global Gamer Social Media Survey
09/10/07 - GarageGames' Twitter account

Shawn Hymer

About

Hardware, O/S testing, game testing. Compat Lab Robot Overlord. General \"Funny Guy\". View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Davey Jackson

About

Gamer, entertainer, host, sales and people person. I dual class as the Director of Educational Outreach (Mr. Ed),and the Director of Commercial Licensing. I work with schools interesting in using Torque for teaching or research. and commercial accounts wa View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

03/12/08 - 2007 review, Boot Camps at The Guildhall at SMU, GDCSE
12/05/07 - December Education Updates
03/13/07 - GDC Buddy Pics
03/02/07 - Back in Port Trip Report
02/21/07 - All Aboard! GG's Mr. Ed Goes out to Sea

Christopher Krupa

About

I move numbers from paper to computer. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Channa Langley

About

Administrative Assistant and Office Management View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

11/07/07 - Halloween and GG
03/14/07 - GDC and back again
01/16/07 - Internships and Employment
10/04/05 - Plan for Channa Gilchrist
09/29/05 - Plan for Channa Gilchrist

Matthew Langley

About

Lead Documentation Engineer, Build Master, TDN Administrator, Product Group Member View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

11/29/06 - Torque Game Builder 1.1.3 Goes Live!
11/05/06 - The Future of the TGB Documentation
05/15/06 - TGB Bounties Extended!
05/12/06 - Final review of TGB Bounties today
05/04/06 - Call to the TGB Community

Deborah Marshall

About

Product Group Manager: Strategic Marketing for Torque View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

04/18/08 - Survey Says ... TGEA 1.7
03/21/08 - GDC, TGB, You and Me
01/30/08 - Game in a Day: GG Style!
01/23/08 - Call to Action: GG Internships
12/14/07 - TGB 1.6 Released...and Manatees?

Joe Maruschak

About

General Manager, GG Studios View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

11/07/06 - Focusing development by way of bootstrapping
10/20/06 - New Human 2.0
09/30/06 - The Finish Line
09/03/06 - Value of a Thing
06/18/06 - The shape of things to come

Mark McCoy

About

I make art. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

11/01/06 - Laying out celled sprites & Photoshop automation
06/09/06 - RIP: Eric Elwell 2005 - 2006. We hardly knew you...

Daniel Miller

About

QA Engineer, Web tool developer View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Jessica Morrell

About

I am the Executive Assistant here at Garage Games. I provide support for the Executive Officers, high level coordination, and general tomfoolery for the benefit of the masses. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Matt Ostgard

About

View Profile.

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Rick Overman

About

It has been over 16 years since the four of us met and I am still happy to be on this wild and crazy road -- Whether it is programming games, game engines, websites or building infrastructure for it all to run on. Make games, Have fun! View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

12/19/06 - Scheduled Outage December 19th at 11am PST.
09/26/06 - A Good Problem to Have
06/01/06 - Goodbye Old Office :(
04/30/06 - What's up at GG? New MySQL servers and more...
04/03/06 - Want a Web Development Job at GarageGames?

Karen Peal

About

Director of Administration View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Todd Pickens

About

Veteran Artist and Designer. Particular interest in game design and high concept development. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

06/24/07 - I think I saw Bigfoot...
03/31/07 - There's a Surprise Inside!
03/24/07 - Flower Power
02/08/07 - Road Work
01/31/07 - Marathon Man...

John Quigley

About

Game and Engine programmer View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

08/16/05 - Plan for John Quigley
02/14/03 - Plan for John Quigley
04/24/02 - Plan for John Quigley
03/29/02 - Plan for John Quigley
02/11/02 - Plan for John Quigley

Alex Reid

About

Recently employed by GarageGames as systems programmer in the Operations team. Basically we make things work, make sure they keep working, and make sure we have room to grow. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Brian Richardson

About

Shaders/graphics, game objects, and input devices.
My up to date portfolio is here. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

02/06/08 - A PIX debugging session
08/18/07 - TGEA Batching Doc + randomness
01/13/06 - Torque is a good playground!
10/26/05 - Plan for Brian Richardson (bzztbomb)
09/24/05 - Plan for Brian Richardson (bzztbomb)

Jacob Rolfe

About

Can you say Heinz 57, I do a lot of different things. I mainly focus on hardware and Networking, I\\\\\\\'ve been in the Telecommunications field for about 11 years. I am also doing Facilities management as well. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Dylan Romero

About

I am a writer in a programmers world who is slowly catching up on his technical skills. Proficient writer with everything from game storyboards and dialogue, marketing/ad copy, newsletters, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry under my belt. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

03/20/08 - Legions Chat with Tim Aste: Today!
03/10/08 - InstantAction Game Dev Contest Winners
02/28/08 - Developer Contest Update
02/21/08 - IA Game Developer Contest Finalists
02/13/08 - GarageGames' GDC Schedule

Melissa Saunders

About

Financial Controller View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Alex Scarborough

About

I am a self taught OpenGL programmer with 2 years experience in general OpenGL programming and nine months experience with advanced OpenGL features such as GLSL shaders, framebuffer objects, and vertex buffer objects. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

08/31/07 - Various musings
03/01/07 - Modernization Kit: Now on Windows!
01/31/07 - A couple of personal records
01/27/07 - Read a manual today!
01/04/07 - Old games and new tech

Ryan Schneider

About

Working on the browser and game infrastructure for InstantAction.com. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Brett Seyler

About

GarageGames VP Bizdev. I also manage GarageGames\' technology licensing. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

03/26/08 - Torque's 2D and 3D Future
03/13/08 - Torque X!
12/21/07 - What a year... Here comes 2008!
04/30/07 - Still looking for Senior Engineers
04/11/07 - GarageGames Now Hiring for several positions

Sean Sullivan

About

Strong background in and knowledge base of Internet-related technologies, strategies, and languages. Focuses include innovative and effective design coupled with high performing and scalable code. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

12/20/06 - GGE Holiday Cheer = New Features!
12/06/06 - New Features on Great Games Experiment!
11/21/06 - Introducing the Great Games Experiment
05/26/06 - GarageGames or Bust!

Alex Swanson

About

Level designer for the Marble Blast series, art director for Marble Blast Ultra, Minigolf Mania & Puzzle Poker, producer for upcoming GarageGames titles. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

10/04/06 - New TGB Demo Art Preview
02/15/06 - DTS & DIF Exporter Matrices Added to TDN
01/25/06 - Marble Blast Ultra... Finally Complete
07/01/05 - Learning to do many things at once
01/11/05 - GG at MacWorld 2005

Ian Tornay

About

Putting the knowledge base @ support.instantaction.com together with Dr. Wiley. Answering your tickets, catching your bugs and taking requests! View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Jeff Tunnell

About

Co-founded Dynamix a development studio for Sierra/Vivendi/Universal, GarageGames, and Great Games Experiment. Credited in over 70 titles including The Incredible Machine, Starsiege: Tribes, Trophy Bass. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

12/20/07 - Blog O Fix
10/09/07 - Acquisition Fun!
09/14/07 - Design Journals Rule
09/21/06 - Publishing Solutions and Affiliated Developers
06/12/06 - Five Realistic Steps To Starting A Game Development Company

Brian Vaughan

About

Web Developer for GarageGames/InstantAction.com. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Ben R Vesco

About




ToneMonster View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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James Wiley

About

- InstantAction Community Manager
- GGE Marketing Manager
- Customer Support
- Marketing Strategies View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

02/22/07 - Great Games Contest

Josh Williams

About

GarageGames CEO and CTO View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

09/18/07 - News is out!
08/18/06 - Torque X-- why we're doing it.
02/25/05 - Plan for Josh Williams
02/22/05 - Plan for Josh Williams
02/10/05 - Plan for Josh Williams

Sam Williams

About

Program Manager for GG Networks View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Pat Wilson

About

View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

08/14/06 - Torque X and Microsoft
02/11/06 - 10th Most Popular Game on Live
07/12/05 - Development of TSE360
07/03/05 - Where's the beef
06/08/05 - Recovery Time

David \"Fulcrum\" Wyand

About

David Wyand has been an active member of the GarageGames community and a Torque owner for a number of years. His most recent work was developing Torque ShowTool Pro. View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

01/24/08 - Amazon EC2 Torque Test Follow Up
01/16/08 - Torque on Amazon's EC2. Need your help!
10/10/07 - Jeff Tunnel's Band LIVE
10/10/07 - Live Video Stream from IGC2007
10/02/07 - Come ride the rapids

Andy Yang

About

General Manager, GG Networks
www.instantaction.com
www.greatgamesexperiment.com View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

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Zachary Zadell

About

Integration Program Manager, product manager, programmer, producer, office ninja View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

08/30/07 - Torque for Wii availability and licensing
03/31/05 - Plan for Zachary Zadell

Stephen Zepp

About

--RTS/RPG design
--Project Management
--Major Systems design/implementation View Profile.

Recent Blog Posts

04/28/08 - Announcing TGB 1.7.3 Open Beta!
10/18/07 - Transparent Development, Torque 2, and You!
02/16/06 - Torque Boot Camp for Game Builder Announced!
01/12/06 - Torque isn
12/03/05 - I/ITSEC trip--(blog removed due to extreme photo content)