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Chris Spears
Chris Spears is the Technical Director of Shroud of the Avatar. While his official title is Tech Director, he worked on several roles from lead technical designer to programmer and even company lawyer at one point. Chris Spears was teaching C++ at the University of Texas at Arlington before his brother talked him into joining the game industry which he's been a part of for 20 years. He also worked with Richard "Lord British" Garriott on more...

Joseph Toschlog
Joseph "Rustic Dragon" Toschlog is the Web Developer and Community Relations guy of Shroud of the Avatar. He is known to the community for his solid support of Shroud of the Avatar through The Hearth of Britannia. He joined the development team on October 28, 2013. He is currently one of the voices that bridge the gap between the development team and the community on both Live Streams and more...

Scott Jennings
Scott Lum Jennings has been playing roleplaying games since 1976, when at the age of ten, during a game that had just come out called Dungeons & Dragons, he lost his first character, a 1st-level wizard, to a balrog. He’s been complaining about poor game balance ever since. More recently, he has been involved in the massively multiplayer gaming world in various capacities. In 1999, he posted tales of his more...

Stephen Daniele
Stephen Daniele is an artist passionate about the creative process, crafting an immersive and memorable experience, telling a story and building worlds through visual mediums. A veteran game artist beginning at TSR, Inc. in the mid 90’s he was Art Director for such RPG titles as Dungeons & Dragons, Dark Sun and Ravenloft. After leaving TSR, Stephen started freelancing in 1998 for Wizards of the Coast’s Magic the more...

Rick Holtrop
Rick "Chaox" Holtrop started playing Ultima 4 as an 11 year old on a friend's Commodore 64, and a lifelong obsession with Ultima began. Fast forward to age 22 where he began working in QA at Origin systems; within a few years a close working relationship with Richard Garriott began. He later moved into development and design on Ultima Online 2, Tabula Rasa, and Thor: God of Thunder. In September 2011 he began more...

Scott Jones
Scott Jones is a Game Developer at Portalarium who is involved Environment Art and World-Building of Shroud of the Avatar. "Joining up with the folks at Portalarium is a lot like coming home for me. Having worked with Richard in the past to bring Ultima to life in the world of 3-D graphics, it only seems natural to help him realize his goals and dreams for his new... read more...