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Patel, Shovaen (Programmer, Robot Entertainment)
Shovaen has worked as a generalist programmer for Robot Entertainment for the past few years. Prior to that, he
attended graduate school at Southern Methodist University, worked as a Field Technical Consultant at Ariba, Inc., and
earned an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Pink, Harrison (Game Designer, Telltale Games)
Harrison Pink is an award-winning game designer currently employed at Telltale Games in San Rafael, most recently
working on The Walking Dead series. Harrison has designed and developed games for many different audiences, from
child to adult. He is passionate about the immersive nature of the experience, and cites the Myst video game series as
his inspiration (often and frequently!). Harrison always has more than a few board game ideas rattling around in his
head, or half-prototyped on note cards scattered around his house.
Pitstick, Katelyn (Level Designer, Hi-Rez Studios)
Kate is a Level Designer at HiRez Studios in Alpharetta, GA. Originally hired to work on the Global Agenda:
Sandstorm release, she has worked on successive Global Agenda patches as well as developed Arena, CaH, and TDM
maps for Tribes: Ascend. A graduate from the Game Development and Architectural History departments from SCAD
Savannah, Kate enjoys hosting level design workshops for students interested in creating game worlds.
Pope, Chris
Chris Pope (dubbed SpacePope by Sierra/Space Quest/SpaceVenture fans) is an internet personality, producer, social
media mogul, podcaster and co-founder of Guys From Andromeda LLC. Most recently, Chris played a key role in
helping Guys From Andromeda LLC get crowd funding through Kickstarter by taking the reigns to generate
excitement around the return of the Two Guys From Andromeda. This was in regards to their new game idea
SpaceVenture. After the successful funding of SpaceVenture, he now works with his partners, Scott Murphy and Mark
Crowe (Original creators of the Space Quest Series from Sierra) in making the new game become a reality. Prior to
being apart of Guys From Andromeda LLC, Chris first gained internet notability in 2001 when "The Day Report"
announced his breaking of the Arcade Pac-Man Turbo world record as recorded by chief scoreboard record keeper
Walter Day with Twin Galaxies. In 2008 he launched Tech Jives LLC, a social media and podcast production
company. Pope created multiple live interview-based podcasts, including some of the first to do live interviews with
celebrity film and voice actors, such as Robert Clotworthy (Voice of Jim Raynor), Rob Paulsen (Voice of Raphael,
Yakko Warner, and Pinky), Jen Taylor (Voice of Cortana).
Posey, Burton (Co-Founder, Addo Games)
Burton has been enthralled with games his whole life. Wanting to use computers to entertain people, he found himself
pursuing an education and career in programming and ultimately game development. He has created interactive and
game applications for some of the largest companies and brands in the world. As an interactive Flash developer, Burton
managed to make a name for himself as someone who knows a lot of tricks of the Flash platform and Actionscript
language, ever intrigued with how to pull every drop of performance he can find from them. More recently, he has
struck out on his own, founding Addo Games with his wife Becca. The first title to be released by the studio is Robots
Love Ice Cream for the iPad, due out around the end of 2011 and is being developed in Unity.