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Game Designer and Programmer, I've done it all over the past 28 years of making games. Currently, I'm the co-founder and Executive Vice-President of Game Development for a new MMORPG we're making at Slipgate Ironworks in the Bay area.

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The Archives : Random pictures from my gaming past, present....and FUTURE?

Random pictures from my gaming past, present....and FUTURE?

Updated: Mar 31, 2008 7:20pm PST

Cars, Houses & Things : Here's where I put pictures of my past and current houses, cars and whatever else doesn't fit in the other sections. It's more personal!

Cars, Houses & Things

Here's where I put pictures of my past and current houses, cars and wh ...

Updated: Sep 19, 2007 11:04am PST

Rhaluka : Pictures of my wonderful wife Rhaluka Romero

Pictures of my wonderful wife Rhaluka Romero

Updated: Aug 17, 2007 10:22pm PST

Posters You Can Print : Here are some hi-res posters I made. I actually have these on the walls in my office and they look great. Go ahead and order yourself some (click on buy: this photo)

Posters You Can Print

Here are some hi-res posters I made. I actually have these on the wal ...

Updated: Apr 03, 2007 11:10pm PST

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In Spear of Destiny (1992), I put a secret screen in the game that could only be reached by a secret keypress in the menu system. The original screen (320x200) is in the upper right-hand corner and it had the subtitle "We're Not Wearing Any Pants!". This picture was taken in the Mesquite, TX id apartment during the same session and was a "crazy shot" we didn't use.

Here's Greg's model of the Revenant for DOOM II. He's a favorite of mine because I just LOVE the punching sound - it makes me laugh every time! Yes, I made sure the sound made me laugh. :)

Yes, this is the clay model of the DoomGuy that Adriani created! One pose, folks, or it breaks into a silly mess.

This picture was taken just after the Ion Storm office was built-out at the top of the Chase Tower in downtown Dallas in January 1998. The floor is all terrazzo, with game posters on the walls. The walls next to the elevators and near the doors that lead to both sides of the building were limestone and marble stripes. It was a really, really nice place to work, architecturally speaking.

This is a school picture from kindergarten when I was 6 years old.

This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. Adrian's in his room (which he shared with Kevin Cloud)
and you can see here that he was modeling the Baron of Hell out of clay himself, based on his own sketch of the Baron.

At this stage, he wasn't called the Baron of Hell, but rather, a Bruiser Brother (since there were two of them at the end
of the first episode of DOOM.

Rhaluka in San Diego 2005

This is my wife Raluca's favorite monster in DOOM II - the Mancubus. This is the model that Greg Punchatz created and we used a video camera to scan it in (8 rotations), clean up the pixels, and put it in the game.

This picture was taken during DOOM development in 1993. This is the DOOM chainsaw sitting in a bucket, ready to be scanned by Kevin to create the image of the chainsaw in DOOM. The reason it's in a bucket is because it leaked oil! That's also why there's newspapers all around it. :) Heh heh, yes, the name of the chainsaw was Eager Beaver. The little Post-It Note next to the chainsaw says "Borrowed from Ann Graver Holz". Ann was Tom Hall's girlfriend at the time and since she had a chainsaw (Most of us apartment-dwellers did not own a chainsaw!), she let Tom borrow it. Tom, um, forgot to give it back to her.....so........it's still around. Tom is going to do something with it, probably sometime this year!

Both Shawn Green and myself are big heavy metal maniacs! During DOOM we used to listen to lots of Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Dokken, Metallica, etc. and here we are going crazy outside my office - HEADBANGING!

Yes, this is how nuts it was at id Software. Just a short break between coding, mapping, and insane deathmatch screaming. The rack of CDs are mine and Carmack's and that's my office you can see into. That office door is the one Carmack blasted open with his axe.

Pic taken for a magazine.

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