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Tassilo Philipp

2014-10-30T14:34:29Z

71.42.187.202: link update

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|caption=Tassilo Philipp
|forumprofile=https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?members/tphilipp.16327/
|position=Server Engineer
}}

'''Tassilo Philipp''' is the Server Engineer of [[Shroud of the Avatar]]. He is a self-taught programmer originally from southern Germany. He is kind of a nomad, never staying in one place for too long. Having lived in multiple countries he worked at different games and middleware studios for more than a decade. It all started at Spellbound Studios in Germany, Creative Patterns in France, then Trinigy and Havok, and finally [[Portalarium]]. He joined [[Lord British]]'s team in July 2012, now working with quite a few people that were responsible for many memorable child-hood memories - first and foremost Ultima games. Currently working on Shroud of the Avatar's server backend, all things networking, website backend, the OS X and Linux versions of SotA, etc. he is one of Portalarium's core members being part of SotA from the very beginning.<ref>Dev Team, https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=26862</ref><ref>LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/in/tassilophilipp</ref><ref>Mobygames, http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,406245/</ref>

Outside of Portalarium, he's an open-source enthusiast at home on many different platforms and enjoys working on all kinds of different projects, meshnet links in Austin (please contact him if interested), contribution of some FreeBSD ports,<ref>FreeBSD contributors, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib-additional.html</ref> http://dyncall.org, a bunch of websites for friends, blog at http://blog.0xpebbles.org, ...

He is known in the SotA community as the ''epic mustache guy'' and '''loves''' to sip on a glass of Chartreuse every once in a while. He's also known to leak some dev-screenshots<ref>Linux fans rejoice, https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/linux-fans-rejoice.2422/page-3#post-103275</ref> from time to time :)

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Chris Spears

2014-01-28T00:32:20Z

71.42.187.202:

{{Infobox Developer
|image=Chris Spears-150x150.jpg
|caption=Chris Spears shaving with an axe on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE5i1t4YO10 Shroud of the Avatar Scene Challenge]
|forumprofile=https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?members/chris.2627/
|position=Tech Director
|IGN=
}}

'''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.<ref name="MD_Chris_Spears" />

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 more than 20 years. He also worked with [[Richard Garriott|Richard "Lord British" Garriott]] on ''Tabula Rasa''. Chris has shipped more than a dozen titles including console games from all generations, hand held titles, MMOs, mobile, and even two smart toys.

:''"In the small amount of time Chris spends away from the office each week, he enjoys cooking for his wife, playing computer games, hiking, and playing with his Italian Greyhound. While Chris believes that any good game is worth playing no matter the genre, fantasy RPGs are where Chris spends most of his time. Most recently Chris played Skyrim, Diablo 3, and Guild Wars 2 but enjoyed them all far less than he should have because he continuously studies their design and tech choices instead of just sitting back and letting art flow."''<ref name="SotA_DevTeam" />

== References ==
<references>
<ref name="MD_Chris_Spears">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqh4FW1BT2E YouTube | Shroud of the Avatar Roundtable #8 with Guest Chris Spears SotA Developer]</ref>
<ref name="SotA_DevTeam">[https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=26862 Shroud of the Avatar | Dev Team]</ref>
</references>

== External Links ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqh4FW1BT2E YouTube | Shroud of the Avatar Roundtable #8 with Guest Chris Spears SotA Developer]

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Chris Spears

2014-01-28T00:26:06Z

71.42.187.202:

{{Infobox Developer
|image=Chris Spears-150x150.jpg
|caption=Chris Spears shaving with an axe on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE5i1t4YO10 Shroud of the Avatar Scene Challenge]
|forumprofile=https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?members/chris.2627/
|position=Tech Director
|IGN=
}}

'''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.<ref name="MD_Chris_Spears" />

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 more than 20 years. He also worked with [[Richard Garriott|Richard "Lord British" Garriott]] on ''Tabula Rasa''. Chris has shipped more than a dozen titles including console games from all generations, hand held titles, MMOs, mobile, and even 2 smart toys.

:''"In the small amount of time Chris spends away from the office each week, he enjoys cooking for his wife, playing computer games, hiking, and playing with his Italian Greyhound. While Chris believes that any good game is worth playing no matter the genre, fantasy RPGs are where Chris spends most of his time. Most recently Chris played Skyrim, Diablo 3, and Guild Wars 2 but enjoyed them all far less than he should have because he continuously studies their design and tech choices instead of just sitting back and letting art flow."''<ref name="SotA_DevTeam" />

== References ==
<references>
<ref name="MD_Chris_Spears">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqh4FW1BT2E YouTube | Shroud of the Avatar Roundtable #8 with Guest Chris Spears SotA Developer]</ref>
<ref name="SotA_DevTeam">[https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=26862 Shroud of the Avatar | Dev Team]</ref>
</references>

== External Links ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqh4FW1BT2E YouTube | Shroud of the Avatar Roundtable #8 with Guest Chris Spears SotA Developer]

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