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| The Panumbra TeamThis page is about us, who imagined Panumbra and brought it to life. We all love to play computer games!Anne Brenner Anne is our designated adult. After all, someone has to be responsible... Anne does our books, helps with administrative stuff, and most importantly, gives us paychecks twice a month. Ben Brenner Ben is our playtester. He also helps out around the office, and brings us a carload of soft drinks every month or so. Márta Gabnai Lead software designer, and the wife of Jonathan. Márta has been working full time on Panumbra since January 1997. Marta is the main software designer of the game server, where most of the stuff happens. Marta is from Hungary, where she met Jonathan. At that time, she was a computer consultant as well and had no idea that she will be designing games at some point... Dave Kruse Dave is our incredible server programmer. Dave is with us since May, 1997, and wrote most of the server code, which is not easy, anyone who tried programming multi-threaded can tell you. Dave can not only program C++, but has an excellent knowledge about all possible software which you can use for development in the world. He even managed to make sense out of MS SQL server. Dave has been our LAN administrator as well as the author of Chickhead, the mighty egg. Chickhead has made a carreer as a test character in the game by far. Dave is getting married on December 6th, 1997, congratulations! Beware Quake players: you do not want to run into Dave in a dark alley on a CTF level... Check out Dave’s home page at the University of Illinois. Eric Lin Eric is our all-around technology man. Eric coded the entire messaging architecture, the client architecture and parts of the server architecture. Eric designed and coded the game client, as well, and knows Orbix very well (which is not easy, believe me). Basically, Eric knows everything! Eric has been with Manton Communications right from the beginning. He was a student at the University of Illinois at that time, and became full-time in May, 1997. He ran his own MUD before he joined us. And he can kick anyone’s butt in Quake! Jonathan Manton President of Manton Communications Corp. Jonathan loved playing computer games since he was a kid. Back in 1995, while working as a computer systems consultant in Hungary, Jonathan wrote the first prototype of a Dungeon game, which is now Panumbra. Soon after in May 1996, he founded Manton Communications to make his dream possible. And his dream was nothing else but making good quality games on the Internet, which lots of people can play for free. A lot of water has flown down the rivers since. Jonathan designed and wrote the core architecture underneath the game, found investors to finance the development, and manages the controlled chaos which is Manton Communications. Jonathan stated that his goal is to make an excellent game which he himself would like to play! Chris Strong Chris is our awesome artist. Check out the monster gallery, and you will see what I mean. Chris has been with us since summer 1997, and works part-time. He is a student at the University of Illinois. Everyone here is truly amazed by what he does and how he works, he is simply great! Brian Waak Our Game Master, or data designer. Brian has been playing role-playing games since he was grown enough to be able to. Brian has been a game master for Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, and his favorite game is Magic: The Gathering, the card game. Brian has developed his own world, Taera, years ago. The world is huge, with a details of magic, history, vast maps, skills, monsters, races etc. Panumbra’s Taera is based on this world. Brian is not only an RPG expert and game master, but he has definite writing talents, check it out on our Story page. Special thanks to the following people:
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