six to start

Here’s James, one of our game designers:

James Wallis jumped at the chance to join Six to Start, since ARGs are one of the few areas of games design, or for that matter media, he’s not worked in yet. James is the former founder and director of Hogshead Publishing, where among other things he set up the journal of game design and criticism Interactive Fantasy, and won an Origins Award for his work on Nobilis. He’s been a TV presenter, managing editor of Bizarre magazine, a Sunday Times journalist, a movie publicist, and has written thirteen books. His card-game Once Upon a Time (Atlas/Trident, 1995) has sold a quarter of a million copies, and his rather silly RPG The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen has been published by MIT Press. Yes, that MIT Press.

At Six to Start he designs games, keeps a Sauron-like eye on product quality, holds the office high-score for Rez, and doesn’t update his blog (www.spaaace.com/cope) on company time.

Ben Burry joined Six to Start in December of 2007 as a Senior Developer after fueling his interest in gaming and interactive narratives at Mind Candy. He spends a good deal of his time elbows-deep in code, explaining why it would be nice just once to not push the boundaries of what’s possible and discussing technical issues with Moishe.

We celebrated Kass’s birthday this week, but we haven’t really properly introduced her to anyone yet. Here she is:

Kass Schmitt joined Six to Start in February 2008 after nearly fiveyears at the BBC doing things like nursing Celebdaq, engineering elusive pop sensation Jamie Kane and rescuing Leeds from forecasts of 188°C at the Weather Centre. Kass is a technical project manager at Six to Start which means that she spends most of her time figuring out how to deliver amazing things on time and under budget or, when no one’s looking, reminiscing about life on the high seas. Kass can currently be found at her desk practicing knots.