Devs moving on


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Congrats to Nate "Second Measure" Birkholz.
Senior Producer on an unannounced project at Z2Live.
Congratulations to Nate!! I'm hoping all the Devs drop in on the evening of 11/30 if not before, so we can party in Pocket D and visit virtually until the servers go dark. If the Devs say yes, just pick a server and I'll move a toon there if I don't have one already.


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Really good to see how relatively quickly the Devs are finding new jobs in the industry even in straightened times. It's a testament to this game



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I think it's more a testament to the dev's skills than this game.
But I am happy they are getting new jobs; especially since the job market is not that open at the moment.

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Really good to see how relatively quickly the Devs are finding new jobs in the industry even in straightened times. It's a testament to this game


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Phil "Synapse" Zeleski is working for Carbine Studios.
I'm going to leave it up to him to say (or not say) where he ended up, but Carbine Studios isn't it.


 

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I'm going to leave it up to him to say (or not say) where he ended up, but Carbine Studios isn't it.
I don't know which game he's working on, but he's working at Cryptic Studios according to his Facebook page. Since he was hired AFTER NCSoft bought out Cryptic's portion of the game I know that can't be just an old entry he hasn't updated.

No idea where the Carbine Studios thing came from.

Also, didn't realize it was Phil that was married to Carolina Tello (aka Carotello).


If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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I don't know which game he's working on, but he's working at Cryptic Studios.
Cryptic, huh?


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Jeff "Arbiter Hawk" Hamilton has landed at Cryptic Studios as a System Designer as well.

He's working on STO and Neverwinter.


If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Jeff "Arbiter Hawk" Hamilton has landed at Cryptic Studios as a System Designer as well.

He's working on STO and Neverwinter.

Even Cryptic despises CO


@Golden Girl

City of Heroes comics and artwork

 

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Leo "Honey Badger" Braz de Cunha is an FX Artist at Gazillion Entertainment.


If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Destin Bales is a Senior Producer at Riot Games.

Neal Kettler is a Software Architect at Riot Games.

Jason Lee is a UI Engineer at Storm8.

Those aren't names most players are familiar with, and I'm not sure how much Neal worked on CoH. He may have been on the other project at the time the studio was closed.


If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Andy Maurer is Online Engineer at Sledgehammer Games.


If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Even Cryptic despises CO
lol. hey dont worry the way things are going, only super hero MMO out there are going to be the ones where you have to choose between a set of well know heroes and team up with other well known heroes.

A team four spidermans and a batman. lol.

Or 5 wolverines and two jean greys.

At leats costume contests will be easy.


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I laffed so hard. Never change, E_L!

 

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Cryptic got screwed by Atari when they started out. Right now they are finally recovering enough to start adding things in game, like vehicles.


 

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Thanks to Texas Justice, the OP has been updated a lot. I PMed Phil and we'll see if he responds. Both Phil and Jeff were kind enough to reply to me in the past but I never tried to 'friend' them on FB. I figure that most devs want to keep that separate like Matt does.

Twitter is a different story.


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I don't have Jeff or Phil on my FB friends list. I just looked at their FB pages and LinkedIn pages to get the info.

You don't have to be on the friends list if they have their profile set to public.


If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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I don't have Jeff or Phil on my FB friends list. I just looked at their FB pages and LinkedIn pages to get the info.

You don't have to be on the friends list if they have their profile set to public.
He gave me permission but didn't tell me where he is working. We'll see if he responds.

EDIT: yep, Synapse is working at Cryptic for STO.


My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
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He mentioned Arbiter Hawk is working on STO also - so those of you who enjoyed what those guys did for powers/ATs may want to give Star Trek Online a chance.


My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
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He mentioned Arbiter Hawk is working on STO also - so those of you who enjoyed what those guys did for powers/ATs may want to give Star Trek Online a chance.
I play STO off and on, so I have to honestly ask: "How many different powers can you make out of 'fire phasers?'"


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Well, Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney is on the move northward, eh.

Congratulations on the new job with Capcom Vancounver.


If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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It is good to know that so many have landed on their feet.
They're the best dev team around - it wouldn't take long for them to be snapped up by other studios.


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He mentioned Arbiter Hawk is working on STO also - so those of you who enjoyed what those guys did for powers/ATs may want to give Star Trek Online a chance.
Hmmmmm


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I play STO off and on, so I have to honestly ask: "How many different powers can you make out of 'fire phasers?'"
Depends how much you willing to tolerate the trekkies screams of nerdrage. Star Trek by nature opens it's doors for countless forms of alien tech finding it's way into players hands, and in the future the game can always be expanded to allow players be more than Federation or Kingon. It's a huge universe. You are already allowed to create your own race, why not allow you to be a completely independent faction?


 

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I play STO off and on, so I have to honestly ask: "How many different powers can you make out of 'fire phasers?'"
Why do system designers have to do something with powers in the Star Trek universe?


My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
You might know me as FlintEastwood now on Freedom

 

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Well, Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney is on the move northward, eh.

Congratulations on the new job with Capcom Vancounver.
Updated the OP. Hmm.... I wasn't aware that Capcom created anything in the USA - I thought it was all about distribution, translation, and platform certification.

They've come under fire lately but I won't bring all that up here.


My new Youtube Channel with CoH info
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Updated the OP. Hmm.... I wasn't aware that Capcom created anything in the USA - I thought it was all about distribution, translation, and platform certification.

They've come under fire lately but I won't bring all that up here.
Usually when they develop something in the west they just shop it out to an outside developer. Yeah, they are pretty much hated by Mega Man fans and charging for on-disc DLC, but they are one of the main publishers of western games for the japanese market (GTA games are published by them over there).