A couple years ago, in a thread on the old forums, a dev kindly listed the team and their responsibilities. Would it be possible to get a new list, possibly stickied? More out of curiosity than any real reason.
There are six main sections of EverQuest, production, systems, code, content, Quality Assurance, art. Production: Phathom - Producer. Rathti - Used to be an EverQuest dev, but is now an associate/assistant producer. Systems: Ngreth - Lead Designer) Elidroth - AAs. Chandrok is on itemization Aristo does spells (Also runs the patches) Jansan - Does tradeskills. Used to be a systems dev, and possibly still is. Code JChan - Lead Coder. Jgray - Think he's a coder... Did a lot of the housing stuff. Choover - Spell effects and combat. Jhansen - visual effects, combat, etc. Rtugok - Jerk that turns me chain illusions me into a Vah Shir and changes my surname to Aggrometer. Content: Absor - Assistant Lead Designer... Concentrates on the basepop/quest/mission/raid/story side of EverQuest. He knows the systems, just not as well as the ones assigned to those. Also, covers for Ngreth when he's out. Augur - Does some quests. Dzarn - Raids, zones, basepop, etc. Ellyra - Did some raids, zones, basepop, etc... also seems to be helping out with some systems recently? (Spells/AA) Elegist - Did some raids, basepop, quests, etc. Elidroth - Some raids. Normando - Misc quests Quality Assurance: Zieri - Quality Assurance. She usually tests a bunch of quests with groups on beta. Calivess - Quality assurance, and apprentice Dev... Most recently has been helping with the Zek things that are out of balance. Art: I don't actually know any of the artists... But they are pretty cool. Kinda out of date.. Someone can lurk through the zone threads in beta to get a list of what exactly the content devs did this expansion.
I made some corrections above. Zieri is not QA, but CS, and she is an Apprentice. Calivess retired as an apprentice, but is still QA. He got a larger role in QA, and the overtime was too much to apprentice. There are more QA, but I do not know their Forum names. We also have two more apprentices at this time, they do not work EQ QA, but they do work QA in the company (One is international QA, the other Platform QA) We also have an Art Lead, 5 Environmental artists, and one Character artist. I unfortunately do not know their Forum names, and I do not give out their real names unless the volunteer them. You can see a few of them on the "Talking Head" video that will be coming out.
Zatozia is community relations. Our CR person now is Piestro. Zatozia is off doing evil things to some other games for now.
Zatozia is still very much around it was her that organised all the Halloween events on each server along with the party ones we had earlier in the year. She was working with the guides, so I imagine she is the SOE contact for our Volunteer Guides. She also deals with the Mac server.
Zatozia is the EQ Mac CR person last I saw, as well as doing the actual community related things for EQ. Piestro is mainly a forum troll that was hired to combat the other forum trolls, which is why we like him, he is one of us.
Good list, thanks. I have a related question. Why do the EQ devs not use their real names? Are the names listed above the names of Everquest characters that the devs actually play? When the producer calls the systems lead designer, does he say "Hey Ngreth, this is Phathom, I need to talk to you about blah blah blah."?
1) So that people don't bother them. 2) No, if they play (lulz) they don't let players know their character names for reason #1 (among others). These are their "dev" names, if you see them, they are on their dev accounts, not a player account. 3) No, he says, "Hey Adam this is Tom..." because they actually know each other in person.
Yes, because he was on his work account and his dev avatar so he was using his dev name. He also uses other names when working on beta.
Seems kinda weird to me for computer game developers to hide behind fake names. Do they think we are gonna look them up in the phone book and call them or something? I play, and have played, many other computer games besides Everquest, and the names of the people most directly involved in creating the games (at least the ones I play) is easy to find just by visiting the company web site and/or forums. Not a big deal, just seems odd to me.
Is there really a reason for us to know their names? Look at this forum, everyone is hiding behind an avatar with a fake name and really there is no need to share real names.
In your EQ directory: credits_voa.txt (There will be a new one for RoF). EverQuest - Veil of Alaris EVERQUEST DEVELOPMENT TEAM Producer Thom Terrazas Associate Producer Harvey Burgess II Designers Lead Designer J. Adam Bell Assistant Lead Designer Alan VanCouvering Designers Julie Burness, Douglas Cronkhite, Justin Deeb, Norm Freeman, Edward Hardin III, Jason Leo, David Stewart, Christopher Black, Sam Parra Additional Design Arwen Keys, Amos Murchison, Michael Tam Programmers Lead Programmer Steven Klug Assistant Lead Programmer Jennifer Chan Programmers Jered Gray, Justin Hansen, Chris Hoover Artists Art Director John Roy Assistant Lead Artist Allen Bond Environment Artists Robert Collier, Rob Cuenca, Kevin Lydy, Bob Painter, Shannon Parnell, James Rochelle Additional Character Art Sylvia Liu, Wesley Martin MUSIC, SOUND & VIDEO Audio Director Rodney Gates Audio Manager Joy Parkes Senior Sound Designer Rob Krekel Additional Sound Design Steven Juarez, David Gilbreath Music Inon Zur COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT Director, Global Community Relations Linda Carlson Community Relations Managers Eric Cleaver, Tiffany Spence CUSTOMER SERVICE AND QUALITY ASSURANCE Senior Director of Quality Assurance Rob Thompson Quality Assurance Manager- San Diego Andrew Lamp Quality Assurance Manager- Austin Taylor Haley Quality Assurance Manger, Platform Nicci Tynen Quality Assurance Assistant Manager Ryan Antonelli Quality Assurance Supervisor for EverQuest James Rackliffe Quality Assurance Supervisors Jay Lauterwasser, David Curington, Dennis Liggio Quality Assurance Lead Analyst Rich Sobehrad Quality Assurance Assistant Lead Mike Liu Quality Assurance Analysts Christina Bonet, Andrew Buschmann, Sean Declercq, Daniel Iribe, Brand Lancaster, Thomas Larsen, Cody McDowell, Robert Montgomery, Ryan Owens, Austen Rooney, Sean Valencia, Andrew Van-Stelle Platform Quality Assurance Lead Shawn Murphy Platform Quality Assurance Assistant Lead David Polakoski Platform Quality Assurance Team Fransiska Subroto, Kyle Duke, Jeanie Herger, Eric Carlson, Erwin Gasmin, Doug Slavens QA Lead Compatibility Lab William Bidermann Compatibility Lab Analysts Charles Tillman, David James, James Romedy Quality Assurance Lead Engineer Jason Polk Quality Assurance Engineers James Mastri, David Stover, David Avram, Sean Campbell, Simon Garcia, Matthew Logston, Kyle Duke, Gage Kehoe, Ben Kresky, Carlos Mabalot Training/Usability Specialist Abby Watts Executive Director, Global Customer Service Brad Wilcox Executive Assistant Leia Wight Customer Service Manager, Technical Support Satao Minami Customer Service Assistant Manager Scott Dale Technical Support Supervisor Daniel Tucker Senior Technical Support Representatives Tony Flores, Dennis Gonzalez, Chris Leisure Technical Support Representatives Philip Robinson, Darwin Bignoria, Danny Libby, Arnold Graham, Eric Tran, Edward Ranf, Chad Allen, Jim McDuffie, Daniel Hall, Jamison Wright, Stephanie Brown, Kevin Freistroffer, Aaron Bartholomew, Joseph Hall, Jesus Soliz, Stephen Haines, Stephen Palm, Andrew Goulding, Josh McBride, Andrew McCurdy, Veronica Weglin, Steve Shinn, Stuart Hertzig, Tiyana Sharp, Steve Shinn, Keleigh Bonini Technical Support Subject Matter Expert Jeremiah Jackson Customer Service Manager Timothy Vick Customer Service Supervisors Zachary Kearns Subject Matter Experts Arwen Keys Senior Game Masters Chad Hartmann, Gary Panther, Rob Robertson, Greg Sodeman Game Masters John Hill, Victor Stratton, Jason Tello, Steven Jones, Farrell Lynn, Anna Tschudy, Mark Hein, Jayson Wright SALES, COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing Laura Naviaux Senior Vice President, Sales Don Vercelli Director, Global Brand Marketing Tim Granich Marketing Brand Manager Adam Key Director, Global Communications Michele Sturdivant Manager, Public Relations Amelia Lukiman Marketing Multimedia Team Andre Padilla, Dylan Bruce, Andrew Huse, Stefano Dalu Marketing Team Jen Belfield, Lauren Zeiger, Lisa Nicklin, Kristen Pierce, Jaqueline Gloria BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Executive Director, Business Development & In Game Advertising Louis Figueroa TECHNICAL OPERATIONS Executive Director, Technical Operations Gregory Bartlett Director, SOE Security Bryan Blank Director, Production Systems Mark Preston Director, Service Architecture Colin Dupre Director, Service Support Ted Garrington Director, Office Systems Jeff Bolaris Manager, Service Improvement John Shireling Manager, Operations Terry Brawley Operations Team Leads Chris Trichel, Thomas Delzer, John Sotelo Operations Team Manuel Deramos, Robert Maul, Gary Neffendorf, Chris Richard, Virgil Celestino, Bill Corning, Robert Ellison Manager, Production Systems Deon Mitton Production Systems Team Japeth Cleaver, Sid Jaffee, Josh Penix, Gregory Ruiz-Ade, Scott Nguyen Manager, Network Engineering Kevin Crislip Network Engineering Team Austin Hill, Jason Fermo, Roger Sewell, Amber Lukaaacs Office Systems Team Lisa Scaduto, Domenico Scaduto, Scott Riddell, David Becerra, Jason Zimmerman, Bryant Clark, Nate Wright Windows Systems Loren G. Skeels, Chris Corbin Manager, Operational Engineering Gordon Tetlow Operational Engineering Developers Chad Folz, Greg Herzbrun, Ben Cole, Matt Reynolds, Caleb Starr, Ramiro Agudelo Manager, Database Administration Beth Howie Database Administration Team John Honarvar, Tarikhusen Saiyed, Archana Pansuria PLATFORM SERVICES Executive Director, Platform Development Nari Gopala Platform Producers Elle Larsson, Jenne Geno, Matt Dickson, Edwin Yee, Matt Meyer Technical Director Bob Kline Systems Engineering Team Tav Margers, Wei Li, Wes Peters, Steve Winston, Jason Crawford Database Development Team Donyl Cruz, Radhika Tallamaraju, Director, Commerce Services Clif Bate Applications Engineering Team Gavin Moore, Mike Walters, Paul Christenson, Joseph Tan Web Development Team Mike Hall, Tim Cox Web Presence Team Paul Tighe, Jenn Brady, Noah Watkins, Ken Donnellan, Erica Craft, Ian Kim, Joaquin Senosian, Ivan Berkovic, Greg Bown, Aaron Bartholomew Exec. Director, Business Intelligence and Reporting Dave Dhunjishaw Business Intelligence and Reporting Team Andy Thompson, Sreedhar Ganji, Prabhakar Dhasarathan Executive Assistant Cameron Washburn INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Director, International Operations Robert McEntee Senior Project Management Raymond Nguyen Tan Truong, David J. Kim Project Management Tim Erskine, Stephen Rodgers, Douglas Wright Linguistic Production Bernard Dambron, Britta Noack, Juan Chiquiza, Anna Dirschinger Globalization Engineering Manager Katty Bashir Globalization Engineering Team Hirobumi Kurosu, Duy Le, Chris Lee, John Stearns, Cuong Tran LEGAL DEPARTMENT Executive Vice President, Legal, Business Affairs and General Counsel Andy Zaffron Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs Steve Weiss Legal Coordination and Contracts Administration Olivia Malmstrom, Jana Rubenstein Legal Administrator Melissa Morris PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Director, Artistic Development Joe Shoopack Director, Franchise Art Sebastian Strzalkowski Director, Project Management Bruce A. Ferguson, Oliver Smith Director, Operations Michael Gaylord Project Management Ty Keith EXECUTIVE STAFF President John Smedley Chief Operating Officer Russell Shanks Chief Technology Officer Richard Lawrence Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer Ken Dopher Executive Assistants Pam Impson, Christine Lena Special Thanks The EverQuest development team would also like to say thank you to our families and friends for all of their support. Without their support, Veil of Alaris would not be possible.
