Core Team
James Cavin
James Cavin is the lead writer for the project. His responsibilities include designing the backstory, writing all the dialogue, and designing the characters' appearances.
Lars Doucet
Lars is the lead programmer and artist for the project. His day job is as a freelance game design consultant and programmer.
His past games include Super Energy Apocalypse and CellCraft.
He blogs at Fortress of Doors and Gamasutra.com.
Kevin Penkin
Kevin Penkin is the game's musician and composed the Defender's Quest Original Soundtrack.
Anthony Pecorella
Anthony is the lead gameplay and level designer in the project, as well as assistant programmer.
His day job is developer relations manager at Kongregate.com. Outside of a few tiny personal projects,
his game development cred comes primarily from directing and assisting in programming the smash hit educational game CellCraft.
Gold Edition Special Forces
These are the contractors we hired to help us with the gold edition upgrade. They weren't part of the permanent team, but they've done amazing work and deserve recognition.
Karen Petrasko
Karen is responsible for the massively updated new graphics - specificially backgrounds, special art scenes, interface, etc. You can find her work at KarenPetrasko.com
Tyvon J. Thomas
Tyvon made all the new sprites in the game, both design and animations. This includes characters, enemies, and effects. You can find his work here: Resume Website
Zhi Jiang
Zhi Jiang made all of the new tile and overworld art for the game. You can find some of his work here.
Others
More people than just this worked on the project, but we don't have enough space to list them all here. A full credits list is included in the full version of the game as well as the demo.
