About Flying Lab Software
Flying Lab Software, a Seattle-based game development company, is the maker of the critically acclaimed Rails Across America, Editor’s Choice from Computer Gaming World and Editor’s Choice and Best Multiplayer Game of the Year from Computer Games magazine. Their current project is Pirates of the Burning Sea, an innovative massively multiplayer online roleplaying game of adventure and naval combat in the age of sail.
Pirates of the Burning Sea Development Team
Senior Staff / Directors
Russell Williams
CEO & Co-Founder of FLS
Nickname : Rusty
Manages business relationships and kibbitzes on design and UI issues. Previous credits include DaVinci Systems eMail, Windows 95, Exchange, and Microsoft Golf 3.0 and 4.0.
Paul Canniff
Executive Producer & Co-Founder of FLS
Nickname : Robespierre
Programming and design work, including the camera modes and the ship wake.
Michelle Williams
Producer
Nickname : Misha
Does important stuff now, replacing Rev (and/or Joe?). Used to do testing and whatnot.
Bruce Sharp
Art Director
Nickname : BSharp
Art and production management, shader and editor work, textures, lighting. Previous credits include: Unreal Championship 2, Blinx 2, Half_Life: Counter Strike, Fuzion Frenzy, Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, Torin's Passage.
Troy Hewitt
Director, Community Relations
Nickname : Aether
Community Manager, and dev-support, and infamous meme. Reports directly to the CEO.
Jess Lebow
Content Director
Nickname: Admiral Elbow, Daniel Jackson
Work History: ArenaNet, Wizards of the Coast
Leads
Tom Tobey
Animation Lead
Nickname: ttobey
Jeff DuLong
Environment Lead
Nickname: jeffd
Ken Osuna
Character Lead
Nickname: KenO
Kevin Maginn
Lead Game Designer
Nickname : Isildur
Design crackpot
Raymond Wood
Technical Content Lead
Nickname: Raymond
Todd Schultz
Test Lead
Nickname: Nutch
Quality pulse taker, assigner of tasks, killer of bugs
Janice Von Itter
User Experience
Nickname: fraxl
Purple-haired, starry-eyed taker of notes.
Developers
Heidi Gaertner
Developer
Nickname : Heidi
Graphics, graphics, graphics, physics, graphics.
Rick Saada
Gentleman Programmer, Pastry Chef, & EPFBM
Nickname : RickSaada
Chief tools guy. My job is to make John and Bruce happy. Oh, and bake banana bread, which we list as a corporate benefit. Years ago I wrote a shareware adventure game called Castle of the Winds, which still generates fan mail :)
Mike Byron
Developer
Chat, login, inventory, general UI
Brady Houck
Developer
Nickname : Brady
Combat and damage, AI
Brendan Walker
Developer
Nickname: BrendanW
Creator of flags, slave to the mission system
Justin Miller
Developer
Nickname: Justinian
Servers, avatar motion/combat, and more servers
Tim Burris
Software Development Engineer in Test
Nickname : Timbojones
Automation, testing
Frank Krause
Software Development Engineer in Test
Nickname : ActionFrank
Automate! Test! Flip!
Kevin Tatroe
Web Developer
Nickname : ktatroe, K2
PHP god
Designers
Drew Clowery
Designer
Nickname : Drewc
David Hunt
Designer
Nickname : Taelorn
Community / PR
Theresa Pudenz
Public Relations
Nickname : TheresaP (or treesap)
Comes up with crazy yet brilliant PR ideas.
Tom Atkinson-Edwards
Community Specialist
Nickname: Rhaegar
Idler, GM (when beta was small and men were mice), infamous IRC Griefer (allegedly)
Donna Prior
Forum Specialist
Nickname: Danicia
Forum moderator and drop bear tamer.
IT
Travis Anderson
Operations
Nickname :
Justin Roberts
IT Flunkie
Nickname : Squidd
Content Team
Bert Harvey
Content Designer
Nickname : Bert
Val Miller
Content Designer
Nickname: Val
Bryan Yarrow
Content Designer
Nickname: HighLevelMob? on the PotBS boards
¯\(º_o)/¯
Gavin Irby
Content Designer
Nickname : Dioscuriguy
Matt Tobiason
Content Designer
Nickname :
Pat Hoynes
Content Designer
Nickname :
Anna Murchison
Technical Content Designer
Nickname :
Chris Pramas
Writer
Nickname :
Cory J. Herndon
Writer
Nickname :
Jaclyn Schumate
Sound Designer
Nickname :
Artists
Greg Frizzell
Environment Artist
Environment designer, modeler, texturer.
Work history: Lidar VFX
Nathan Lange
Environment Artist
Nickname: Nate
Town designer, modeler, texturer.
Work History: Valkyrie Entertainment
http://nlange.com
Jason Hammon
Environment Artist
Environment designer, modeler, texturer
3d_artist@jasonhammon.com
Noah Presnell
Environment Artist
Vo Hoang
Environment Artist
Megan Merritt
Environment Artist
Woody Engle
Environment Artist
I design, model, texture, light, and fix environments.
Gavin Mackay
Environment Artist
Nicholas Peterson
FX Artists / UI Artist
Kevin Loza
CG Artist
I sketch, paint, animate, design UI, 3d model, texture, 3d animate, tool design, create intellectual properties, and game design.
Mat Staltman
Character Animator
Name on Boards: Mat
Lindsey Krassin
Character Animator
Portfolio site: www.lindseykrassin.com
Animator, Illustrator, concept/character designer.
Young Jin Kwon
Character Artist
TD Chiu
Character Artist
Diana Lee
UI Artist
Nick Beeson
Technical Artist
Test Departement
Marc Watkins
Test
Jason Gettel
Test, Customer Service
Nickname : Nutty
Ex Employees
Joe Ludwig
Director of Development
Nickname : Joe
Writes a lot of the core technology on the servers, some of the UI, and tries to keep the other programmers way too busy.
Joe has now moved on to a new company, developing a new game.
John Tynes
Producer - Former Game Designer & Writer, Content Lead
Nickname : Rev
Designs and scripts the mission system and some other features; oversees sound, music, and particle effects.
Links
Flying Lab Software Homepage
Flying Lab Software Forum
Pirates of the Burning Sea Homepage
Rails Across America Homepage
Delta Green Homepage (On Halt)