The Clash of Civilizations

Active Clash Members

    Achilleas Vortselas (axi)
    Email: mc97015@central.ntua.gr

    Occupation: Student of Mechanical Engineering - National Technical University of
    Athens

    Clash Tasks: Government, Riots, Economics, Infrastructure models. Playtesting.

    Clash Goal: To provide a realistic, detailed and interesting gameplay to the interior of
    the player's civilization, a feature which is totally missing from the genre, so far.

    Interests: Technology, Revolutionary Socialism, TBS Games. Books by: George Orwell,
    Jack London, Charles Bukowski, J.R.R.Tolkien. Greek poetry.

    Aric Ferrell (Lord God Jinnai)
    Email: tenchi01@netzero.net

    Occupation: College Student; Computer Animation and Storyboard Design

    Clash Objective: Research/Tech Model Design; Characters/Dynasty model; Graphics
    (later)

    Gary Thomas
    Email: gthomas@takaro.co.nz
    Home: New Zealand, basking in the South Seas.

    Occupation: full time on Clash. At other times, a Java architect and developer.

    Clash tasks: code, code, code, get D5 out, code, code... Just took on the modeling in     the military area. Little bit of artwork, temporary, I hope, until Fiera gets back. General     sniping around the edges (rivers on square edges, that is). Push for a square less map     with micro terrain. Hey, no strategy game has done it before! Teach Mark how to talk
    Kiwi.

    Background: my oldest grandson (22 years old) says "You aren't really old, you just
    look it". Originally a drain layer - got downsized. Then a commercial artist - got
    downsized. Market Researcher - got downsized. Was a research scientist
    (mathematician and statistician) for thirty odd years, got downsized. Became a
    contract programmer, got downsized. Is there a pattern developing here?

    Got a degree in history for the hell of it.

    John Dominic Maez (Dominic)
    Email: dom@cullivan.com
    Web Site: http://clash.apolyton.net
    Home Page: http://cullivan.com/john

    Occupation: High School Student. Current Web Master for Cullivan.com and of course
    The Clash of Civilizations.

    Clash Task: Web Page Support

    Juan González Villa (Fiera)
    Email: jgv@edinoesis.com

    Occupation: Journalism student

    Clash Involvement: Art Team

    Clash Goals: Making Clash a graphically appealing game, giving it unique and original
    aesthetics.

    Laurent Di Cesare
    Email: laurent.di.cesare@freesbee.fr

    Occupation: French engineer (Ecole Polytechnique and ENSTA degrees) and working
    as a software developer.

    Clash Involvement: Military Model Coder

    Comments: Interests in civ-like games date from civ1 (playing on a black and white
    Mac in school) and a deep fondness for world-building (through games and writing).

    Mark Everson
    Ph.D. in Physics, from U.Va., 1988
    Email: markeverson@comcast.net
    Web Site: http://people.mw.mediaone.net/markeverson/index.html

    Occupation: Working for Ford inBusiness Modeling and Financial Risk Management

    Clash Goals: AI programming, Everything else, and getting it done right
    (but don't ask me to do artwork, it would be a Mistake ;-)

    Marc Luzietti (chegitz guevara)
    Email: absynthe@enteract.com
    Jacksonville, Florida, USA
    Web Site: absynthe minded web smithes

    Occupation: Freelance Web Designer

    Clash Tasks: Web Design Project Lead

Hobbies: Computer gaming, cooking, going to the beach, hiking, movies, music,
reading, role playing games, swimming, trivia, wine

    Matthew Hall (Caeddyn Daran)
    Email: caeddyn@excite.com
    Home: Palmdale, California, USA

    Occupation: Jobless Bum/College Student

    Programming Languages: VB, C, C++, Java

Hobbies: Online Gaming, Computer Programming, Learning about Life

    Richard Bruns
    Email: brunsr@conninc.com

    Occupation: Student

    Clash Tasks: Help with the above while not scaring off the majority of
    players.

    Clash Goal: A game that at least attempts to accurately model the complex
    interactions between technology, military, economics, environment, and society that
    have defined human history.

    Hobbies: The study of historical and technological progress, military history, chess,
    computer strategy games, reading, and hiking. Favorite Computer Games:
    Civilization 2; X-Com: UFO Defense; Warlords 3: Darklords Rising; Sim-City; and
    Seven Cities of Gold (An ancient new world exploration game)

    Rodrigo Quijada (roquijad)
    Email: roquijad@cec.uchile.cl

    Occupation: Transportation Engineer

    Clash Tasks: Government Model design

    Clash Goal: My main goal is to help make Clash a game with the most realistic
    features, allowing to handle and model the real complexity of a civilization. I'll pursue
    this objective mainly through discussion and critique of current models.

    Simon Loverix
    Email: simon.loverix@rug.ac.be
    Bio: Student History (just finished as bachelor)
    I live in a village near Tongeren (Atuatuca Tungrorum) (near Maastricht and Liège)
    that had its glory days in the first and second century AD.

Clash occupation: Ecology model, and general commentary and remarks.

    Stian A. Stokken (sas)
    Email: sastokke@broadpark.no
    Home: Bergen, Norway, Europe, Planet Earth
    Occupation: Work in a Bookstore

    Clash tasks: Graphics! Mainly Terrain and Units currently. But I will help out wherever
    needed.

    Free time: Huh ??? I got a 6 months old son, need I say more ?

    Hobbies: I'm a history and literature buff. I also love my bicycle almost as much as my     wife. Well, then there's that graphics again.

Inactive Clash Members

    Henrik Røgind (Beör)
    Email: hroegind@dadlnet.dk

    Occupation: Research Fellow, Copenhagen University Hospital

    Clash Goals: Great playability, possibility of creating historically acurate scenarios

    Comments: Unfortunately I cannot offer to code. I've done some visual basic
    programming (and a long time ago TurboPascal), and am thus a little schooled in OO
    thinking, but it is rudimentary. What I can primarily offer is a razorsharp mind with an
    eye for inconsistencies in design (which I guess you've all noticed by now).

    Brian Wentzloff
    Email: wentzloffr@voyager.net

    Occupation: Student

    Clash Task: Map AI Coding

    Chris Wilkinson
    Email: chris.wilkinson@excite.com

    Occupation: Student

    Clash Tasks: Wonders Model & User Docs Editor

    Joe Falaschi (F_Smith)
    Email: JFalasch@csc.com

    Occupation: Java developer for mostly intranet/database interfaces

    Clash involvement: Interface and general programming, miscellaneous design

    Krenske
    Email: krenske@usq.edu.au
    Web Site: http://www.usq.edu.au/users/krenske/game/civ/index.html

    Occupation: Programmer

    Clash Tasks: Military model.

    Adam Maturin (Toubabo_Koomi)
    Email: Toubabo_Koomi@netzero.net

    Occupation: Full time student, enrolled for Computer-aided Drafting

    Clash Tasks: Disease and Natural Disaster models and helping out anywhere else I
    can.

    Clash Goal: To see Clash develop into a completely customizable game with lots of
    detail, options and extreme realism, while never sacrificing playability.

    Hobbies: Study history in my spare time, mainly Greek, Egyptian, and Roman history
    but some medieval stuff too. Play music, computer strategy games, chess and
    weightlifting.

    Jacob Bernstein (jacobo)
    Email: jacobo010@hotmail.com

    Occupation: Student

    Clash Goal: The best damn diplomacy possible

    Josh Burns (Osiris)
    Email: osiri@earthlink.net

    Occupation: College student

Clash Tasks: multiplayer programming

    Druid2
    Email: ancientsage@hotmail.com

    Clash Tasks: Military Model

    Hrafnkell Oskarsson (Hrafnkell)   --LLOOKK--
    Email: hrafnkell@vortex.is

    Occupation: Enrolled in History at the University of Iceland

Final thesis will probably be on the influence of military cost on state evolution

Clash interests: Design of government model, and general design

    Garth Blore (Garth_Blore)
    Email: garthb@abraxas365.com

    Occupation: Systems Integrator at AST-A

Clash Tasks: Technology coder, general dogsbody.

    Interests: Creating AI's, writing short stories, playing computer games, reading sci/fi
    or fantasy.

    Roman Brunecky (Harlikwin)
    B.A. in Biochemistry
    Email: harlikwin667@yahoo.com

    Occupation: Chemist

    Clash Tasks: Currently working on the Military Model

    Martin Carlsen (mca)
    E mail: mca@imada.sdu.dk

    Occupation: Computer Systems Engineering student, University of Southern Denmark.

    Main interest: Software Engineering.

    Clash Task: Programmer, University of Southern Denmark.Building visual tools and
    back-end infrastructure for multi-lingual natural language processing systems. (The
    longer the job description, the lower the pay ;-) )

Clash interests: Map generator implementation and general software design issues.

    Jim Cockram (JimC)
    E mail: james.cockram@easynet.co.uk
    Web Site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~james.cockram

    Occupation: Computer Science / Software Engineering student
    University of Birmingham, UK

    Clash interests: general Java (or C++ / Assembly) programming, AI

    Paul Crocker
    M.S. Forestry/GIS from Michigan Technological University - 1999
    E mail: crocker@bellsouth.net

    Occupation: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/ Remote Sensing Analyst

    Clash Tasks: Map Generation Module (and hopefully graphics soon)

    Paul Cullivan (Kull)
    B.S. in International Business, Northeastern University, 1986
    E mail: pculliva@whc.net
    Web Site: http://members.xoom.com/Kull1/
    Occupation: IT Manager

Clash Tasks: Web Editor

    Daniel Knowles (L o k i)
    College certificate in multimedia; including webdesign, interface design, photoshop
    and many other multimedia programs.
    Email: knowles@ihug.co.nz
    Web Site: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~knowles/Civ3/Enter.htm

    Occupation: Web and graphic designer

    Clash Tasks: Anything to do with the graphics.

    LOGO
    Email: logo@hawaii.rr.com

    Occupation: Student

    Clash Tasks: Give my input on the game for consideration, help in anyway I can.

    Clash Goal: Work hard to make the game everything I hope it will be.

    Interests: History (mostly 20th century), keeping up to date with world wide politics,
    looking at how technology effects society, dumbed down sociology, reading great
    Science fiction like Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov, military technology, tracking
    the computer industry.

    Manurein
    Email: manurein@cybercable.fr

    Clash Task: Social Model

    John McDiarmid (johnmcd)
    Email: johnmcdiarmid@newscientist.net

    Occupation: Sculptor of Illegal Art.

    Clash Tasks: Unit Artwork

    Darren McGuicken (Darren_McGuicken)
    Email: dmcguicken@bigfoot.com

    Occupation: MSc Student, QUB

    Clash tasks: Diplomacy Model Coder; dabbling with the Interface; whatever else
    needs to be done

    John Ratcliffe (jgr)
    BEng, Liverpool (1976); MSc Brunel (1980's)
    Email: jgr@beeb.net
    Web Site: http://jgr.members.beeb.net

    Occupation: Computer Consultant, Technical Architect for Cap Gemini (UK)

    Clash Tasks: AI coding and anything else Mark comes up with 8-)

rentgen

Clash Tasks: Technology/Research Model coding

    shimmin
    Email: shimmin@students.uiuc.edu

    Clash Tasks: Merchant Agents

    Feher Zsolt (Blade Runner)
    College degree for computer programming. 1988, Budapest.
    Email: gk@pandora.be

    Occupation: Computer programmer, OS installer, PC troubleshooter and builder.
    (So all the dirty work)

    Clash: Modification, macro language, play.

    My favorite movie is: surprise surprise!!! Blade Runner