Jon "Bodie" Bodenshot
Technical Artist
Bodie is from Southern Cal. After getting his BA in Graphic Design from San Diego State, as well as a post-graduate degree in Computer Animation from the Seattle Institute of Art, he finally made it to the Bay area's own Click Entertainment, where he is a Digital Artist/Level Designer. When he is not illustrating on the computer, he can be found with a cold brew cheering for his champion Lakers!
George Schmidt
Character Designer\Animator
George Attended San Francisco's Center for Electronic Arts With a heavy interest in 3D design and Animation. Formerly a Professional Magician, George finally made the transition into the 3D art world in October 1999.
Patrick Crosby
Programmer
Patrick worked as a freelance developer and senior engineer at Neoglyphics in Chicago before coming to Click. He has a BA degree in Computer Science from Columbia College at Columbia University in New York.
Koji Goto
Designer
Koji has worked as a game designer for Sewbawang Media in Singapore, and as a translator for V-Maxx Magazine in Berkeley. He has a BA in Japanese from UC Davis. Favorite pastimes include yelling at the next door neighbors yappy dog and achieving cold fusion while making horchata.
Jae cheol Hong
Animator
Jae was a 3d artist in BISONTEK multimedia in Korea. He has BS in Electronic Engineering and MFA in 3d Animation from Academy of Art College. He animated main characters in Throne of Darkness.
Erik Cufino
Lead Level Design/Background Director
Erik earned a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley in 1996. In addition to designing the game layouts Erik took part in development of the modular tile system, and level building tool from which the game is constructed. When time permits he has also contributed some of the 3D artwork for Throne of Darkness. When not working Erik enjoys the local area's hiking and wildernesses.
Eugene Galang
Background Artist
Eugene has majored in graphic design and minored in film at SFSU.
Aaron Akagi
Production Designer
Aaron has worked as a commercial illustrator and storyboard artist for music videos. He attended California College of Arts and Crafts as well as The Academy of Art College. During his time at Click, Aaron has contributed on several projects as a character designer, 3d modeler and storyboard artist. If there were a TV movie about his life, Aaron would want Pat Morita to portray him. Aaron currently holds the " Resident O.G. " title having been the first hire and longest employed member of Click.
Anthony Doe
Cinematic Director
Anthony assistant-directed the ToD Opening Cinematic and is now directing the ToD quest cinematics. He is a retired taekwondo instructor and former team captain of the UC Berkeley Taekwondo team, who won nationals 9 out of 10 years in the 90s. He has a BA in English and Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and is an art school dropout (3 classes shy of a 2nd BA in 3D Animation, Academy of Art College).
Blair Simmons
Art Director
Blair animated for the television shows Reboot, Beastwars Transformers, WarPlanets, and Weirdos while working at Mainframe in Vancouver Canada. He has a degree in animation from Digipen.
Kei Kobara
Cinematic artist/animator/modeler
Kei has a BA in Computer Art from Savannah College of Art and Design. The founder of Drumtech Productions, Kei has been a Drum and Bass DJ for over 4 years and he is about to blow the SF scene away.
Leif Jensen
Producer
Leif graduated with a BA in Business Management from Central Washington University. He produced the foreign localization for Barbie Super Sports by getting it into ten different languages. When not in the office, he's either surfing his neighborhood surf break Ocean Beach, or out chasing a storm in Lake Tahoe on his skis or snowboard.
Victor Lee
Character and Content Design
Before joining Click, Victor worked as a freelance illustrator based in San Francisco since 1990. Comfortable with both traditional and digital media, he has worked on many projects including book covers, children's book illustrations, and poster art for publishing houses and advertising agencies nationwide. He also did character design for various game companies before joining Click. He is the current Click Entertainment Soul Caliber Champion, playing his favorite character Voldo.
Liam Tumulty
Director of Web Development
I think James Gusman said it best when he said, "Although Hormel Foods allows employees all of the resources of a big company, we don't act like one. We allow individual employees to make a difference in our business. Sales people are given the responsibility to manage their territory like their own business. How many major corporations would allow you to say that?"
Edwin Loo
3D Artist
Edwin can often be found in a deep meditative state contemplating the mysteries of life such as the caramel in the Cadbury phenomena. His past lives include being a Structural Engineer, a Co-owner of an Angel Store and Digital Artist.
In this incarnation, Edwin completed his schooling at the Vancouver Film School and found his way to Click Entertainment, and is now working as a 3D artist and mystic.
Baris Yaman
Programmer
Baris has an MS degree in Computer Science. He has worked as the only lead game programmer within a 500 miles (800 km) radius on the other side of the world. After becoming exhausted from people picking on him and calling "geek", he set sail to Geekopia to be reunited with his herd. He finally managed to communicate with the natives in binary code.
After extensive RPG playing, he started to believe he could find gems and gold inside domestic animals. He is now under custody for giving laxatives to animals in a local shelter.
Brian Chrisman
Programmer
Brian was a senior engineer at Apple Computer before joining Click. He has a degree in Computer Science from Michigan Tech University.
Herman Wong
Animator
Herman has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Computer Animation from the Academy of Art College. He comes from a traditional 2-D drawing background specializing in portraits. He was rewarded as the most outstanding artist of the class of '93 at George Washington High School. Herman animates and gives life to the enemy characters in the game. In his free time he enjoys playing sports, watching movies, and playing Soul Caliber.
Ben Haas
Godfather
Ben is the co-owner of Click and creative director.
David Ball
Animator
David earned his degree at San Francisco State with a BA degree in Art. If he's not animating at click entertainment, he can be found helping the homeless feed the pigeons at the park next to the Taco Truck. "Just trying to spread a little sunshine" as he often says. Hopefully, his efforts will help make the world a better place.
Doron Gartner
President, CEO
Doron is the Co-founder, Technical Director and Lead Programmer at Click. He has BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Martin "Cold Pet Rat" Simpson
Programmer
Martin earned a BS in Computer Science from UC Davis in 1999, a year after completing a three month internship at LucasArts where he was a programmer on Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. When Martin's not coding Throne of Darkness, Click management uses a magical time acceleration device to return him to work as soon as possible. If he's not humiliating fools at Quake then he's in the east bay hiking with his dog or playing volleyball when time permits, which it doesn't.
Chris Wiler
Animator
A recent émigré from the war torn hills of Kosovo, Chris Wiler knows nothing about animation or art. When asked what skills he could provide for the company, he enthusiastically claimed that he could destroy a tank with gasoline and some common household detergent. What a country!
Eric Queen
Senior Background Artist
Prior to attending the Computer Arts Institute of San Francisco, Eric worked as a test subject to determine the long term effects of prolonged Otter*Pop use. After the project lost funding, he had to search high and low to continue his research. Low and behold, he landed at CLICK, which now boasts the third largest Otter*Pop consumption in the nation.
Joe Peterson
Spells Animator
Joe is actually an illustrator and would like to be drawing robots, but has sufficed to help with effects for games based on the fact that his superior, Ben, finishes every request with "thanks sweety". That helps, and the way the programmers flirt with him.
Panel Vaughn
Artist/Animator
When not drawin purty pic-tors, Pannel can be seen touring the South with his cover band "Love Is A Battlefield."
Mat Nastos
Art Director
(from the Encyclopedia Mythica)
Mat Nastos, or the San Mateo Sasquatch, is a creature said to have inhabited the vicinity of the summit cairn of the highest peak of the Santa Cruz Mountains, for generations. The Nastos is identified as a presence encountered both physically and psychically. In its physical form, the Nastos is most often described as quite large and broad shouldered, standing fully erect and being in excess of 10 feet in height, with long waving arms. He is also reportedly olive complected or, alternatively, covered with short brown hair. Because of this, some tend to associate him with the Bigfoot or Sasquatch of North American fame, or the Yeti of the Himalayas. Footprints found in the heights of the Santa Cruz Mountains do closely resemble the "typical" Bigfoot imprint. However, this association is misleading, as the Nastos has far more interesting identifying characteristics than his physical description alone.
More frequently, the Nastos is encountered in physical sensation, but without a true physical form. Sensations of this type include vast, dark blurs which obscure the sky, strange crunching noises, echoing footsteps which pursue the listener, an icy feeling in the surrounding atmosphere, as well as a physical feeling of a cold grip on, or brush against, the observer's flesh. There is also a high pitched humming sound, or the Singing as it is sometimes called, which is associated with the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Nastos.
The Nastos has most often been encountered within this century by mountaineers climbing in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He has also been described in several books, including Affleck Gray's The Sasquatch of San Mateo and F.W. Holiday's, Fully Erect Wild Men.
Ivetta Harte
Background Artist
Ivetta has a Bachelors Degree of Fine Arts in Intermedia from Arizona State University. Her honors include the 21st Annual Telly Award 2000 Special Effects Silver Award, and the WorldFest International Film Festival 1999 Grand Gold Award in the TV/Commercial division. Born in a medieval town, she has a natural curiosity for history. In her spare time she enjoys the outdoors, horseback riding, and skiing.
Jill Schulze
Office Manager/ Administration Assistant
When not dealing with everything in the office from hanging files to hanging blinds, she is helping Koji with the game manual for Throne.
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