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The Budcat Crew

Jason Andersen - Technical Director :: Jason has been exploring the limits of new hardware for nearly a dozen years. Prior to founding Budcat, Jason was a founding partner of Tiburon Entertainment. Responsible for creating the core technology behind most of Tiburon’s products, he was frequently the first to experiment with new technologies and platforms. Before starting Tiburon, Jason was a lead programmer at Visual Concepts, where he was the driving force behind several technologically innovative Super Nintendo titles. He has experience with all of the major videogame platforms of the last decade, as well as extensive knowledge of the PC and various graphical APIs.

Isaac Burns - Development Director :: Isaac joined Tiburon Entertainment as part of the NCAA Football team. Soon after, he moved to the Madden team and assisted in the completion of the 2001 versions for Playstation, Nintendo 64 and PC/Windows. Isaac went on to develop new core systems for the revolutionary Madden 2001 for Playstation 2. This included both low level work with the Playstation 2 API and the development of a scriptable interface system now used for many Electronic Arts releases. Before entering the videogame industry, Isaac worked for CADSI, a developer of computer aided design and simulation software.

Jeremy Andersen - General Manager :: Jeremy’s first experience in video game development management was with Tiburon Entertainment, where he contributed to the best selling Madden NFL and NCAA franchises. After a brief stint at Infogrames, Jeremy combined his two loves, video games and skateboarding, as a producer on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series at Neversoft Entertainment. Recently Jeremy has come full circle, joining Budcat as the producer of Madden NFL 2005 for the PC. After completing Madden NFL 2005, Jeremy moved on to produce Psychonauts (PS2) and Madden 06 (PC).

Heath - Programmer :: Heath has spent the last 10 years of his career in the telecommunications industry. His experience with networks and programming makes him our resident expert implementing network play into our projects. Heath was solely responsible for the design and implementation of our network code for Live Arcade titles and anything depending on multiplayer.

Chris - Programmer :: Chris is a gaming wizard with a vast knowledge of games for every platform. He has been an avid gamer since birth and has been handling sound systems and animation systems for our titles. Although his focus has been on sound systems Chris is a go to guy for any programming task.

Bryan - Programmer :: Bryan is fresh from school but has been programming games from a young age. He has contributed tremendously to project interfaces, implementing screen flow and mini-games. He has also contributed to PS2 interface and design.

Nick - Programmer :: Nick went to super secret ninja school where he learned ultra-deadly moves outlawed by the government. When not out on the disco floor or hunting wolverines with a shotgun, he spends his free time honing his leet hacking skills by programming things blindfolded. Nick is the resident Budcat dungeon master, and delights in challenging the very sanity of his players in the dread realm of Ravenloft. His mastery of esoteric knowledge is challenged only by Tom, and he is also known to make mean pancakes.

Jason - IT Technician :: Jason brings an expertise level of management to the projects by overseeing the entire development process. He has the respect of all the team members and effectively reduces development time with his project awareness and critical decision making skills.

Grant - Designer :: Grant has been analyzing games since he was old enough to hold a controller. Now he’s putting that talent to use as one of our Designers. He likes guns, machinery, zombies, and long walks on the beach. He hopes to someday get his “video game opus” developed; but for now we just keep him at work… seriously, get back to work.

Matt - Programmer :: Although most of Matt’s previous gaming experience has been PC based he has mastered the use of OpenGL and DirectX for pixel and vertex shaders. His knowledge for creating complex particles systems has contributed tremendously to the team. He has mastered Maya export tools and scripting and also models, textures. On a more revealing note, the stereo in Matt's car consists of a couple of cheap PC speakers, a CD player, and some dangerous wiring. Be sure to wear rubber-soled shoes when ride with him.

Jake - QA Lead :: Jake's hard work at Budcat has led to his advancement to the head of our QA division. His skills as a manager are only surpassed by his world-class sarcasm and guitar chops, though not in that order.

Mat - Producer :: No one quite knows what Mat did before he started working for Budcat. I'm pretty sure it involved Shurikens and Katanas, but if you really want to know, you'll have to ask him personally. I'm not interested in losing my head.

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