Team


Friday, September 08, 2006 |


Darian Hickman: Founder of Village the Game
(650) 464-5342 | founder@villagethegame.com
Founded Villlage in May of 2006 after an inspired conversation with friends at 3am one morning at Conrad's Restaurant in Pasadena. Prior to founding Village, Darian worked as a software engineer for several defense contracting firms and has volunteered much time to nonprofit organizations teaching people how to use the internet to communicate with supporters. Darian holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.


Angel Inokon: Associate Producer at Playfirst and Advisor to Village the Game.

Angel is a creative professional with 8 years of industry experience in e-learning and game production. After completing her Masters Degree in Learning Design and Technology from Stanford in 2006, she joined the casual games industry at PlayFirst. Prior to Stanford, in 2003 she worked with the IBM Center for Advanced Learning where she designed innovative IT systems for management development. Ms. Inokon believes in the future of games for learning. She aims to produce games that transform how we understand the world. She is a member of the International Game Developers Association. She holds a Bachelor's in Sociology and Economics from Harvard University (1999).

Sheila M. Romero: Research Associate and Consultant at Village the Game.
Sheila enthusiastically joins VtG as a writer, regular blogger and consultant. She has been an active advocate of human rights and social justice since 1996. She recently relocated to California after working for Minnesota-based non-profit, the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, where she co-authored a variety of reports based on Wilder’s community research and evaluation studies. While a student at the University of California, Davis, where Sheila obtained her B.A. in International Relations, she moonlighted as a Research Assistant for Student Affairs Research and Information (SARI) and Peer Counselor for the Educational Opportunity Program. In 2004, she obtained her MSc (M.S.) in Globalisation and Latin American Development from the University of London.


Business Development:
JC Santiago

Cover Art and Level Design: Blake Douglas

Programming: Anton Bursch

Simulation and Modeling: Daniel Winterstein

Game Engine Advising: Matt Langley

Business Consulting: Jason Carvalho

Business Consulting: Ryan Brown

Logo Design: LogTechnology.com

Map Art: Geoff Castro

Village Card Game Artwork: Blake Douglas

Village Card Game Design: Joshua Fix

Soundtracks:Joel Catalan

Sound Effects:Todd Kinsley

Game Design:Bryan Wiegele of BigTimeGames.com



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Thursday, September 07, 2006 |

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State of the Game


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  • Village the realtime strategy game is still deep in pre-production. I'm consulting with game veterans on the feasibility of using Flash/AJAX to serve the online demo. Ideally users won't have to download/install any software. However the more I look into the more I doubt Flash/AJAX could handle the rapid server communication necessary for a multiplayer game.
  • Village Board Game has a few gameplay revisions done, but no artwork yet. Hopefully I can get some friends together to play this weekend and get some broader feedback.
  • Village Collectible Card Game aka Third World version 0.01 was just invented by Joshua Fix. Some of the concepts he's developing are looking pretty cool. He definitely developed further the whole notion of having illegal businesses with negative social impact. But, what kind of social impact do you have when you're profitably selling drugs and using the money to fund a nonprofit orphanage and school at the same time?
  • Village Map has a few preliminary sketches done for the storefronts in the game.

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