Paragon Studios
Overview
NorCal is NCsoft's North California studio, also referred to as Mountain View and NCNC/NC². NorCal formed from NCsoft purchasing Cryptic's half of the City of Franchises "Intellectual Property". Along with this, most of the current dev population of the game moved over to the new studio (15 miles from Cryptic Studio). They completed moving to the new studio on December 18, 2007.
Staff
Management Team
Brian Clayton (General Manager/Executive Producer), Matt Miller (Lead Designer)
Design Department
Melissa Bianco (Writer/Zones), Jonathan Courney (Powers), Floyd Grubb (Powers, Lead), Bruce Harlick (Story/Mission Writer), Matt Miller (Lead Designer), Joe Morrissey (Writer/Bible/Ouroboros), Ray Snyder (Support), Phil Zeleski (Powers/Designer).
Programming Department
C.W. Bennett, Aaron Brady (Lead Software Engineer), Mike Chock (Graphics), Vince D'Amelio, Ghost Widow, Matt Stults, Garth, Graham
Art Department
Christopher Bruce (Animation/FX), Jay Doherty (Character/Costume), Nate Van Dyke (Concept Artist), Ron Friedman (Animation), Ken Morse (Lead Artist), Don Pham (Environmental/3D Artist), Ryan Roth (Environmental Artist), Carolina Tello Alvarado (Concept Artist), David Nakayama (Concept Artist)
Production Department
Ross Borden (Dir. Business & Marketing), Rachel Bristol, Jesse "J-Dog" Caceres, Jill Henderson (Community Coord.), Richard Higbee (AP/Build Engineer), Koschej (Moderator419) (Former Moderator/Community Dev), Alex Von Minden (Former Community Mgr.), Niviene (Moderator11) (Moderator/Community Dev), Jimmy "the IT guy" (IT guy), Teressa (HR/Office Mom)
Sound and Music Department
Please note that this department actually operates out of NCAustin and is not part of NorCal. Sound and Music is usually outsourced to other parts of NCsoft and is only included here for convenience sake.
Michael Henry, Joe Lyford
See Also
Links
- Google Docs - devs by Zombie_Man