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Williams, Michael (CEO/Founder, Oomba, Inc.)
Michael Williams is a Game Legend (entirely in his own mind) who has produced, programmed, and/or designed more
than twenty-five classic video games, including such noteworthy titles as The Bard's Tale II & III, Wasteland,
BattleChess, Men In Black, Pinky & The Brain, Railroad Tycoon II, KISS: Psycho Circus, Time Crisis III, Subspace
(the first MMO!) and Sega Swirl (the first online console game!). Mike is also a serial entrepreneur who has founded
more than fifteen companies in his day, including Tremor Entertainment, CodeFire, Planetwide Games, Reality Gap,
and Oomba.
Wilson, Alan (Vice President, Tripwire Interactive)
Alan has worked in Oil, Defence and Finance sectors over a 30-year "serious" career, before moving over to the games
industry. Alan has also been a military historian, mixing that with game design over the same period. This led to the
“Red Orchestra” mod in 2003. When the team won the MSU contest, Alan supported the creation of Tripwire
Interactive LLC along with the other key players in the original team. Alan worked on the design, budgeting and
planning of the development of “Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45”, as well as focussing on raising the required funding
for the company to develop the game completely independently. RO scored in the top 10% on Metacritic for 2006 (81)
and has now sold over 600,000 units on PC worldwide. Tripwire launched the hit co-op zombie shooter, Killing Floor
in 2009, which went to #1 on Steam and Red Orchestra 2: “Heroes of Stalingrad” in 2011. KF has now sold over 1.3m
units on PC. Tripwire has pioneered selling games digitally, alongside traditional retail routes to market, with great
success. Additionally, Tripwire has got involved with other independent developers, publishing Zeno Clash, The Ball
and Dwarfs!, as well as mentoring and advising startups."
Woomer, Matt (Co-founder, Blue Mammoth Games)
Matt Woomer is co-founder of Blue Mammoth Games, an Atlanta based game developer. Their first launched title was
Dungeon Blitz, a browser-based action MMO. Matt has been programming massively multiplayer online games for ten
years. Matt served as lead graphics programmer on City of Heroes at Cryptic Studios, a senior programmer at Hi-Rez
Studios, and a consulting programmer at CCP Atlanta. Matt is teased by fellow programmers because his degree is in
American History.