Who’s who
Alex
Technical Director
- I play:so little that everyone cringes when I try to demo LBP. But uncharted 2 dragged me in with awesome and showed me how bad I really am.
- I love: unlistenable German electronic music and unwatchable French movies
- I cry when: I go to almost any movie, I just can’t help it, damn them for pushing my buttons, am I not a man? No I am a mouse
- I eat: increasingly.
- I drink: decreasingly. Honest. (you’re not counting water or wine, are you?)
- I watch: TV shows in binges. 3 episodes in a row, minimum.
- Favourite cheese: chaumes.
Amy
Networking Programmer
- I play: In real life - football! In terms of computer games I enjoy most genres if done well, and lose many many hours to a good RTS when I find one. Currently playing Pixeljunk Shooter, Assassins Creed II and Army of Two: TFD.
- I love: My family and friends - they’re absolutely awesome. Soppy I know, but true :o)
- I cry when: Bad things happen to good people. A good cry is definitely underrated - makes me feel loads better!
- I eat: Everything! Especially keen on roast dinners with oodles of roast potatoes.
- I drink: Tea - lots and lots of tea. Also Black Sheep.
- I watch: Match of the Day, Bones, any film with Johnny Depp in it :o)
- Favourite cheese: Chevre - warm, drizzled with a balsamic vinegar dressing, served on toasted bread with crispy salad - nom nom nom!
Anton
Senior Programmer
- I play: legos, guitars, wooden trains
- I love: fractal noise
- I cry when: I am high on anaesthetic at the dentists having my wisdom teeth cut out
- I eat: pixel shaders for breakfast, SPU code for lunch, roast C++ dinner and a perl pudding
- I drink: hot chocolate sometimes but mostly coffee
- I watch: Heroes
- Favourite cheese: Wensleydale with blueberries in.
ChrisC
Gameplay Programmer
- I play: As much as possible – preferably single screen multiplayer ones cos that’s always more fun
- I love: Beer, Prodigy and programming (ideally all at once)
- I cry when: A good game comes out the same day I have to paint my kitchen
- I eat: Most things that aren’t green
- I drink: Too much
- I watch: South park
- Favourite cheese: Stilton
Christophe
Level Designer
- I play: LBP, Pixel Junk Monster, Pixel Junk Shooter, Wipeout, Fat Princess, Dices, Monopoly, Mixmot, Scrabble.
- I love: Photography, Travel, Art, Make Flash games, Books, and Computer graphics.
- I cry when: I miss my Eurostar.
- I eat: “Magret de Canard”, beef, beef, and beef, with some vegetables for the color.
- I drink: Mint, Cider, and everything strong enough like Absynth.
- I watch: iT Crowd, Lost, Heroes, HIMYM, Tim Burtons movies
- Favourite cheese: la “Vache Qui Rit”
Costa
QA Technician
- I play: With Cats! Also games.
- I love: My Job!
- I cry when: Bugs are discovered!
- I eat: Yummy things!
- I drink: Cider and Wine.
- I watch: Kitty sleeping, Japanese animation.
- Favourite cheese: Appledore!
Daniel G
QA Technician
- I play: With minds… and sometimes games….
- I love: Biscuits and beards
- I cry when: The kettle runs out of water
- I eat: When im hungry.. and also when im not. Mostly toast….. mostly
- I drink: COFFEE! White with no sugar!
- I watch: Anything new weird and wonderful.
- Favourite cheese: Toe
Dave
Technical Director
- I play: Everything! Quirky games that are original at the expense of being any good. I especially like games called Mr Driller.
- I love: Lovely people and making cool stuff.
- I cry when: Your alien friend in Another World (one of the greatest games ever made) gets killed :(
- I eat: Too much bread. I really think I ought to eat less bread and perhaps eat more vegetables. I should probably be eating vegetables right now.
- I drink: Water, coffee, tea.
- I watch: The world spinning round. Also: naff retro TV shows.
- Favourite cheese: Extra mature smoked cheddar.
Gareth
QA Manager
- I play: Anything that has blue skies!
- I love: My wife, my two cats, Costa! J
- I cry when: Someone kicks me in the shins.
- I eat: Too much!
- I drink: Tea, Samuel Adams and red wine.
- I watch: The Wire and South Park.
- Favourite cheese: Meira
James
Server Programmer
- I play: at being a grown-up.
- I love: our beautiful planet.
- I cry when: I’m sad.
- I eat: with wild abandon.
- I drink: GOOD COFFEE.
- I watch: anything French. Also romantic comedies. :-)
- Favourite cheese: Morbier. It’s got a layer of ash through the middle. What’s not to like?
Jay
IT Support Analyst
- I play: guitar and games…not at the same time! :)
- I love: Ducks! They rock!!
- I cry when: I drink too many Desperados!
- I eat: Bacon Rolls in the morning, curry in the evening! There is nothing better!! :p
- I drink: Desperados, Thatcher’s Cider, anything produced by the Meantime Brewery Company
- I watch: Breaking Bad, South Park and Monk!
- Favourite Cheese: Keen’s Farmhouse mature!!
Jim
Motion Graphics Designer
- I play: The ukele badly. I know four chords, A minor, F, G and C.
- I love: Lucy.
- I cry when: It isn’t appropriate.
- I eat: Often, but stay skinny despite my efforts.
- I drink: Gin and tonic with cucumber instead of lemon.
- I watch: The world go by, when I should be working.
- Favourite cheese: A really nice, mature cheddar. Especially one with those awesome little salt crystals in it.
John
Level Designer
- I play:wiiiithe everything! everything you can that is? I mean, it might be hard to play with erm. . . well. . . err a carpet tile. no wait you could make a cool ramp for you super mega Lego car with it? mmmm that reminds me . . . . .
- I love: making amazing things happen, they’re just amazing
- I cry when: I watch pretty much any film that is even a teeny bit tear inducing, sniff sniff. . please don’t tell the guys I have a reputation to protect you know.
- I eat: a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- I drink:liquid type substances which give you substantial sustenance.
- I watch:things with my eyes, they can see everything. . . shhhh they might be watching now . . . . .
- Favourite cheese:mmmmmmmmmmmmmm…. cheeeese!!!!. . . . so tasty
Kenny
Audio Designer
- I play: Violin, guitar, theremine, many of the latest console and PC games, and quite a few old, cheap awesome games on Steam :)
- I love: Cooking and sound. Cooking with sound = musical awesomeness.
- I also love Mrs. Kenny very, very much xXx
- I cry when: When I am sad ¦( Which isn’t very often :)
- I eat: Anything with frangipane (nom, nom, nom) and microwave chocolate sponges with boozy chocolate sauce (OM-nom, nom, nom, nom). I also chew any sensitive informationz on pieces of paper to stop BAD MEN AND WOMEN from stealing my identity. Toner, carbon paper and thermal paper all taste fowl. BAD MEN AND WOMEN should be made to nom these as punishment.
- I drink: Laphroaig Quarter Cask, home made Sloe Gin and Stella.
- I watch: David Lynch, Coen Brothers and anything purported to have interesting uses of sound or music.
- Favourite cheese: Wensleydale with Cranberry (on oatcakes with a large glass of port!)
Kevin
QA Technician
- o I play: Far more than I should, specially as I do it 8 hours a day for work then go home and continue for fun. I play FPS, Strategy, 3rd person action, Role play and I Play: point and click adventures.
- I love: My friends and family, I don’t know where I would be without them.
- I cry when: I read the paper, there is way to much depressing stuff in there.
- I eat: Pizza
- I drink: Tea, Orange juice or Rum. Depending if it is morning, afternoon or night.
- I watch: Lots of films and TV both old and New. Current favourites TV shows are breaking bad and the good life. Movies are How to train your dragon and Machete. No doubt this statement will be out of date in a month but that’s the way it goes.
- Favourite cheese: Mozzarella for my Pizza J
Louise
HR Manager
- I play: games with my 2 year old - such as painting, play dough, dancing, singing nursery rhymes and being silly.
- I love: food, friends and horse riding.
- I cry when: I watch documentaries about troubled families.
- I eat: pretty much anything apart from coffee flavoured chocolates!
- I drink: Good white wine and the odd glass of champagne J
- I watch: CBeebies most of the time (not by choice!)
- Favourite cheese: Brie de Meaux – yum!
Luci
Producer
- I play: Games that don’t annoy me. Singstar, Ratchett & Clank, Zelda series.
- I love: My little girl.
- I cry when: At the drop of a hat.
- I eat: Anything with my mashed tatties, fry-ups, things on toast.
- I drink: Vodka & Coke, Prosecco & other bubbles, too much coffee.
- I watch: Lots of American TV shows (True Blood, Dexter, Mad Men, etc)
- Favourite cheese: Almost all of them. I do love cheese. Oh alright, Dolcelatti Gorgonzola if you’re gonna make me pick.
Mags
Company Accountant
- I play: Scrabble.
- I love: My family and my friends
- I cry when: Authors or film makers make me
- I eat: to avoid starvation
- I drink: Earl grey tea
- I watch: sunrises when I drive to work early
- Favourite cheese: Brie
Mark
Creative Director
- I Play : The fool, but secretly I am an all knowing omni present fragment of the Sun mixed in with some earth mud.
- I Love: Everything, but just don’t know how to show it, I come across as hating everything.
- I Cry when: Nowhere near often enough. Once every few years if I’m lucky. Crying is good for you, it cleans your eyeballs.
- I Eat: Chi.
- I Drink: anything wet enough, except that stuff they drink a lot of in Argentina (Matte?) – it tastes horrible.
- I Watch: Whatever happens to be in front of my eyes at any given moment, and wonder what it is trying to tell me.
- Favourite cheese : HOW DARE YOU.
Mark S
Level Designer
- I play: Video games (right now, Zelda Spirit Tracks, next BioShock 2)
- I love: My Wife, my Job, marmite, peanut butter, my Imac, shelves, stationary, books. bags, clean socks, warm bed, umbrellas, sturdy walking shoes, jeans that fit nicely, old tee shirts with cracking logos, train journeys, tea & biscuits, old castles. walking on a foreign beach at dusk and anything to so do with Saiyuki.
- I cry when: I’m sad. Interesting fact, in 2009 I didn’t cry once, is that bad?
- I eat: Gioza, Nabe, Kimchi, Okinomiyaki, Tori-Don, Tempura (my wife cooks:)
- I drink:Tea, current favourite is Chai, closely followed by Earl Grey. When it’s hot outside, lemon tea or muigcha (barley tea).
- I watch: 30 Rock, 24, Lost, Fringe, Mad Men, Samurai Jack, Better Off Ted, CSI (Miami sucks though), Dexter and Supernatural. Oh, and Sci Fi films. And documentaries on interesting stuff like nature and conspiracies.
- Favourite cheese: I don’t like cheese really, it has to be with something else. But, force to eat any particular one with nothing else, hmmmm, hmmmmmmmm, Dairylea (is that actually a cheese?, what’s that in American??)
Men Lu
Senior Artist
- I play: Guitar and Games
- I love: My wife and Parents
- I cry when: I listen to Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Eels
- I eat: Chinese food
- I drink: Sugar cane juice
- I watch: Animation and Movie
- Favourite cheese: Appledore
Omar
Programmer
- I play: Tetris <3, colorful games, old sega games
- I love: Learning, three small things, thinking about it
- I eat: Enough
- I drink: Sometimes
- I watch: Artsy korean & hk movies, crazy scientists building machines
- Favourite cheese: Southern france stinky chemical bomb, halloumi
Paul
Generalist/Online Programmer
- I play: I’m regularly addicted to FPS games, so playing lots of Modern Warfare 2 right now. I’m also hooked on Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook. My mum keeps beating me :(
- I love: Coffee. Cooking. Coding. Running (which unfortunately doesn’t start ‘co’)
- I cry when: I chop onions.
- I eat: more than I should. I’ll eat everything and anything, in large quantities :)
- I drink: Tea and coffee throughout the day. Ale in winter, lager in summer.
- I watch: lots of trash on TV. I am strangely hooked on Come Dine With Me.
- Favourite cheese: Anything smoked is amazing and probably gets #1 spot (my top 5 would probably contain grilled halloumi, blue stilton, any kind of goats cheese and mature cheddar). Nom nom nom.
Paul D
IT Manager
- I play: Games mainly FPS or Warhammer online
- I love: My car, when it’s working, it’s an old skool M3
- I cry when: we blow the main fuse to our building
- I eat: Medium Sirloin Steak with blue cheese sauce
- I drink: Red wine: Luigi Bosca, Pinot Noir Reserva, 2005
- I watch: Frasier, Scrubs, Heroes and tons of films
- I Read: Raymond E Feist, Robert Jordan and many others…
- Favourite cheese: Roquefort
Peter
- I play: at knowing what I’m talking about
- I love: it when a plan comes together
- I cry when: when it doesn’t
- I eat: when I’m hungry
- I drink: cocktails (after work!)
- I watch: code compiling
- Favourite cheese: cheddar
Sara
HR Manager
- I play: Professor Layton and Singstar
- I love: Scuba Diving and sunshine`
- I cry when: I watch any Disney film
- I eat: Anything except tomatoes…Yuk!!
- I drink: Far too much coffee
- I watch: Dexter and Grand Designs
- Favourite cheese: All cheese is yummy but the bluer the better!
Shaun
DLC Art Lead
- I play: Eve Online, RPG’s, Burnout Paradise and a bit of everything else.
- I love: My wife. High weirdness: fringe science, fringe culture and fringe history
- I cry when: My hands are on fire.
- I eat: Nothing but the best.
- I drink: Tea
- I watch: Very little, though I did love The Wire, Oz and Dexter
- Favourite cheese: Blue Castello
Spaff
Community Manager
- I play: Video Games – quirky, interesting and indie ones usually. Also board games.
- I love: Horses, best of all the animals
- I cry when: my cats come and rub their allergy inducing selves over me
- I eat: Pan Roasted Liberty Valley Duck Breast with Roasted Cippolini Onion, Wilted Arrowleaf Spinach, Mariposa Plums and Sautéed Moulard Duck Foie Gras.
- I drink: Lovely wine, G&T, a nice Brewdog ale, or some peppermint tea please.
- I watch: Chris Morris, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, Edgar Wright, and Neighbours.
- Favourite cheese: Deep fried mozzarella. or Strathdone Blue, either one. Maybe deep fried Strathdone Blue.
Tess
Finance & HR Assistant
- I play: lots of energetic games with my Jack Russell
- I love: Singing, Baking, my pets, rubber ducks. And my hubby ♥
- I cry when: I watch the news L and at weddings and other happy stuff
- I eat: Really slowly. Mango and lychees. And CAKE!!
- I drink: Mojitos, cream soda, also Apple and Mango juice.
- I watch: the world go by and the awesomeness of nature. And Desperate Housewives, Lost and Glee!!
- Favourite cheese: Brie & Port Salut: creamy cheesy goodness
Tom
Community Manager
- I play: FPS games, sticking googly eyes on my chin and dressing up as a zombie.
- I love: Lamp.
- I cry when: I read YouTube comments.
- I eat: Like an omnivorous beast.
- I drink: Harveys, Sussex Best Bitter.
- I watch: Marine fish swimming about in tanks, wishing I could be one.
- Favourite cheese: It would have to be the creamy goodness of Port Salut.
Victor
Level Designer
- I play: Tetris <3
- I love: Stomping my dancing feet till 6 in the morning… and tetris.
- I cry when: I cut onions.
- I eat: Onions.
- I drink: Yes.
- I watch: Don’t watch. Feeeel!
- Favourite cheese: Herrgård ost