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Talith
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States1102 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-05 00:34:20
May 18 2008 00:58 GMT
#1
Since many members of the original StarCraft/Brood War Development team has left to pursue other careers, I thought it would be deemed appropriate to have a thread with all confirmed job positions for current employee's responsible for the in's and out's of the game's overall production

However, after searching the internet I was unable to find a complete compendium of positions, and searched through threads and google for the people responsible. So far I have


Officers
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Blizzard President & Co-Founder - Mike Morhaime
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Blizzard Vice-President & Co-Founder - Frank Pearce
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Chief Operating Officer - Paul Sims
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Vice President of Creative Development - Chris Metzen
Role on SC:BW: lead design, story, script, voice production, direction and casting, scenario design, manual design and layout, manual artwork, "Strike Team"
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Director of Communications & Community, Europe - Julia Gastaldi



StarCraft 2
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Lead Designer - Dustin Browder Dustin Browder (Red Alert 2 Era)

He has worked in the video game industry since 1995 at a variety of companies, including Activision, Electronic Arts, and Simon & Schuster Interactive. He has experience in developing real-time strategy games, most notably as Lead Designer for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Command & Conquer: Generals, and as Game Design Director for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth series.

Senior VP of Game Design - Rob Pardo

Previously he was the lead designer of World of Warcraft. In 2006, he was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.


Lead Technical Artist - Rob McNaughton


Lead Producer - Chris Sigaty

Held the position of Quality Assurance Manager during Brood War development.



Lead Writer - Andy Chambers *Seen here congratulating the winner of 40k at KublaCon

Andy Chambers is an author and game designer, best known for his work for Games Workshop. He worked extensively on various Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks and sourcebooks, and also authored at least one fiction novel set in the same universe. [1]

In 2003 Chambers joined Mongoose Publishing as the lead designer of the company's development team for the Starship Troopers tabletop miniatures game.[2]

Chambers is currently the Creative Director of Blizzard Entertainment, working on Starcraft II. [3]


Art Director - Sam Didier

Working with Blizzard from the beginning, he started out as an art director for Lost Vikings 2 in 1994 while proving his talent and working on every major blizzard project from Diablo to Lost Vikings to currently StarCraft 2.


Map Editor Designer - Brett Wood

Balance Designer - David Kim

A little more information about David Kim for you folks:

David Kim is korean, born in korea, and moved here to go to school. He was a competitive SC player back in the day, playing with CuteBoy[gm] as well as ZeuS. His favourite sport to watch on TV is Starcraft. He switched to Warcraft3 when war3 came out, but SC was still his favourite RTS (and is to this day).

I worked with Dayvie for over a year. Out of everyone i've had the pleasure of working with in the Game Industry, i feel he is the most qualified to handle SC2 balance. (other than me of course. lol)

I'm confident he'll do a great job.

edit - oh right, i think he also placed in the top 8 for Korea WCG qualifications in 2000. i think.

Community Map Maker - Brett Woods

RTS Community Manager - 'Karune'

Blizzard Poster - 'Cavez' (Dustin Browder) Dustin Browder (Red Alert 2 Era)

Please feel free to add to this list if you find anymore positions!

All names are hyper linked to their portrait.
funkie
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Venezuela9374 Posts
May 18 2008 01:04 GMT
#2
Isn't Cavez a nickname Dustin uses to post in B.net?
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Talith
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States1102 Posts
May 18 2008 01:06 GMT
#3
That's a good question, I'm not sure but possibly. This thread will be updated with links and more info as time progresses, I just wanted to get the ball rolling and start gathering information! =)
Centric
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1989 Posts
May 18 2008 01:12 GMT
#4
It should be "Employees," not "Employee's."
Super serious.
LaLuSh
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden2358 Posts
May 18 2008 01:13 GMT
#5
Producer - Chris Sigaty
Talith
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States1102 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-18 01:25:22
May 18 2008 01:23 GMT
#6
Thanks! I'll be able to update this a whole lot more once I get back from WWI!
Showtime!
Profile Joined November 2007
Canada2938 Posts
May 18 2008 01:31 GMT
#7
Yes funkie, it is.
Mini skirt season is right around the corner. ☻
nofAcedAgent
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States952 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-19 22:14:39
May 19 2008 21:33 GMT
#8
This is a good idea I think it would also be cool to have some kind of chart that shows which members that *did* work on the original SC, are on the current team.

But yeah good job, ill just leave you with a link to moby games SC1 credits (a helpful site for things like this, although I dont think youll find sc2 there =/) http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/starcraft/credits

Edit: Also please replace dustins photo with this one thanks in advance - =D

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Talith
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States1102 Posts
May 20 2008 00:09 GMT
#9
Thanks for the kind words AcedAgent! Moby games is an excellent resource! Ya there's no official list of employees that I have seen on any one website and a lot of the information is scattered around which makes it difficult.

Haha what a funny picture of him, I'll be sure to add that in
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
May 20 2008 00:18 GMT
#10
this is a really good idea
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
May 20 2008 00:26 GMT
#11
Chris Metzen: Vice President of Creative Development

Role on SC:BW: lead design, story, script, voice production, direction and casting, scenario design, manual design and layout, manual artwork, "Strike Team"
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
Dave[9]
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
United States2365 Posts
May 20 2008 00:40 GMT
#12
Dude is it just me or does it look like the entire starcraft 2 crew could be a in a biker gang
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=104154&currentpage=316#6317
Night[Mare
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Mexico4793 Posts
May 20 2008 00:45 GMT
#13
or a heavy metal band!
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fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
May 20 2008 00:57 GMT
#14
Rob McNaughton (lead technical artist)
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
SlickR12345
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Macedonia408 Posts
May 20 2008 03:04 GMT
#15
I don't know if these work on starcraft 2 but they worked on the original sc and basicly on all blizzard titles and from what i know last they are still at blizzard, so yeah here it goes:
Shahram Dabiri
Bob Fitch - lead programmer
Matt Samia - cinematics and director of blizzard film
Joey Ray Hall - Cinematic Technical Artist/Video Engineer
saitox
Profile Joined August 2007
Chile70 Posts
May 20 2008 03:50 GMT
#16
On May 20 2008 09:45 RtS)Night[Mare wrote:
or a heavy metal band!


yep i noticed that too. most of them look like metalheads which is good.

actually I think they have a trash metal band in the design team that played last year in blizzcon, not sure though.

i wonder why they all like metal.
Mantoss !!!!!!!!!!
Pafnucy
Profile Joined October 2002
Poland1124 Posts
May 20 2008 04:36 GMT
#17
Metzen's pictures in SC handbook (I know everyone over D+ must have read it) were great. Good thing hes working on 2nd starcraft. Maybe in competitive 1v1 it doesn't matter, but guy's art made single player world and SC background a lot more interesting and deeper.
Member of the "Fuck Yeah, Canata !" committee :-) to join copy/paste this
dat[fury]
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Philippines129 Posts
May 20 2008 06:10 GMT
#18
They are very experience teams so I know StarcraftII will be a great game
^^
En Taro Tassadar!!! Die you Terrans
Nitro68
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
France470 Posts
May 20 2008 06:39 GMT
#19
On May 20 2008 09:45 RtS)Night[Mare wrote:
or a heavy metal band!


You are sooooo right.
Level 70 Elite Tauren Cheaften played at Blizzcon 2005 and 2007
You have some videos on youtube :

(There are high quality videos in the Burning Crusade Collector edition)

The members as they appeared at the 2007 Darkmoon Faire concert:

* Samuro / Samwise Didier - Lead Vocals (Orc)
* Sig Nicious / Chris Sigaty - Rhythm Guitar (Blood Elf)
* Bergrisst - Lead Guitar (Forsaken)
* Mai'Kyl / Mike Morhaime - Bass Guitar (Troll)
* Chief Thunder-Skins / Allan Dabiri - Drummer (Tauren)

Former members

* Arthas Menethil (Tenth Level Tauren Chieftain) - Lead Guitar



Just a question, what is the job of the Lead Producer ?
Showtime!
Profile Joined November 2007
Canada2938 Posts
May 20 2008 11:36 GMT
#20
Good question. I think Blizzard's definition is different from other companies because they don't seem to have a timeline/release date for any of their games in production and the lead producer usually makes every team meets their deadlines for release.
Mini skirt season is right around the corner. ☻
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