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The Story Game Initiates
The Story Game Initiative is an entirely volunteer organization
consisting primarily of Ex Stainless Steel Studios employees
(creators of Empire Earth and Empires: Dawn of the Modern
World). We have professional experience in design, programming,
and project management, amongst many others.
This list does not contain all of the developers in the Story
Game Initiative, just the most present ones at the time of
writing.
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Ben
Schneider |
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| Position: |
Lead Designer, Spiritual Guru |
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| Location: |
Somerville, MA |
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It was about three years ago, and maybe it was April,
but it was definitely the East 86th Street subway,
and Ben Schneider was on his way to the Metropolitan
Museum when he passed an EB Games, and, not quite
knowing why, stopped and looked in. He recalls that
the day was warm and sunny. He also recalls that
a blue beam of light came out of heaven and hit
him squarely between the eyes. If one of the people
walking down that street that day, at that moment,
had been listening, as he stood there, staring into
the store window, they might have heard Ben whisper
-- just audibly, not aware that he himself was even
talking -- "Story... game... story... game...
ye gods and little fishes!" Since that day
it has been this poor man's mission -- a mission
from God -- to unite as one what were never meant
to be: story and game. Will you aid him on his quest? |
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| Name: |
Chris
Canfield |
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| Position: |
Producer, Heavy Lifter |
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| Location: |
Cambridge, MA |
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| Website: |
ChrisCanfield.net |
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Despite the recommendations of developmental psychologists,
when Chris was five his father took him and sat
him down in front of a game he was working on.
From this day forward, he knew that games were
more than just a source of entertainment: they
are a technically skilled art and a genuinely
new way of interacting with other people. Later,
this would be reinforced by watching other children
pass around the calculator games, Wolfenstein
levels, and Warcraft arenas that he had worked
so hard to design and implement. Having worked
on sports games for Sega and the above - mentioned
RTS, Chris Canfield is turning his eyes to the
real prize: playing out stories with other individuals...
The most primal and least understood of human
instincts.
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| Name: |
Chad
Dawson |
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| Position: |
Programmer, General Savior |
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| Name: |
Abe
Schneider |
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| Position: |
Programmer, Linux Wizard |
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| Name: |
David
Fox |
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| Position: |
Writer, Mood Maharishi |
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