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Claus Grovdal’s Experience

• Lead Designer/Producer

  Aventurine SA

  (Computer Games industry)

  October 2002 — Present (5 years 10 months)

• Lead Designer/Producer & CEO

  Razorwax AS

  (Computer Games industry)

  January 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 10 months)

• Strategic Consultant

  British Telecom/Wireplay

  (Computer Games industry)

  July 1999 — September 1999 (3 months)

• Editor

  Games AS

  (Entertainment industry)

  December 1997 — July 1999 (1 year 8 months)

• Editor in Chief

  Telenor Media

  (Online Media industry)

  May 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 8 months)

• Editor in Chief

  Giga AS

  (Publishing industry)

  April 1995 — May 1996 (1 year 2 months)

Yay bob.

Nice find Polar.

Thanks.

Seems he has no previous experience in game design or production whatsoever.

He’s interested in things like a new job,career opportunities, new ventures and business deals, I thought he was totally dedicated to working on this project full time till completion.

I don’t believe this

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Ricki Sickenger

Lead Tools Programmer

Summary

- Co-founder of Razorwax AS.

- Experience with Java programming since 1999. Using Java and JNI to interface with engine code in a massive multi-player online game, where the focus is clear, simple and effective code.

- 6 years experience with project management issues as a result of being a co-owner and shareholder in Razorwax AS and Aventurine SA.

- Experience with mid-sized project consisting of 4000 Java classes, interfacing through a clean JNI interface to C++.

- Experience and interest in development methodologies such as continuous integration and agile development.

Kjetil Helland

Kjetil Helland was one of the first founding members of Razorwax and Darkfall in 2000, but he does not list any involvement before 2004 with Razorwax, which is strange.

Its possible this is 3 different people with identical names all from Norway that have worked or are working in Oslo, Norway who registered on the same site.

Dont take this the wrong way but it is at all possiable that these pages have not been updated in months/years?

I have a myspace page that I have not looked at or updated in 3+ years.

What exactly would they update them with?, they have apparently all been working on Darkfall since June 2000 when they founded Razorwax.

Originally posted by Polarization

What exactly would they update them with?, they have apparently all been working on Darkfall since June 2000 when they founded Razorwax.

So they are all still current.

Apart from Kjetil Helland of course, he seems to of forgotten or decided not to mention he was a founding member of Razorwax or that he was its Lead 3d/client programmer.

Gosh, you guys are dangerous...

Henning Ludvigson and Tasos as well as other Darkfall developers and Aventurine employees are on this site, although some of there names are listed as private you can tell who they are by there job descriptions.

Tasos Flambouras

Associate Producer - Darkfall Online
Vice President - Aventurine SA

Summary

Associate Producer - Darkfall Online
Vice President - Aventurine SA

Originally posted by Polarization

Tasos Flambouras

 

Vice President and Partner, Aventurine SA - Associate Producer of Darkfall Online

Current

• Vice President at Aventurine SA

Education

• Harvard University

Summary

Associate Producer - Darkfall Online
Vice President - Aventurine SA

Specialties:

Game Development, Business Management, Strategic Planning, Marketing, Public Relations Management, Project Management, Community Management / Community Building.

Holy crap, he actualy considers community management and community building as some of his specialties.

Anyone have the time to check if he really has a Harvard education?

Strategic Planning?  LOL!!... bush and rumsfeld have better strategic planning than tasos.  I think Darkfall has been in development longer than the Iraq war.

Harvard?  Harvard must not be that big on having English courses because he's made countless grammatical errors in his journals and his ability to clearly express himself and explain details in writing is dismal at best.  He is constantly making mistakes and writing post-journals for errors or confusing statements he has made in previous journals.  Not to mention many lies and blatant misleading statements and miscalculations such as "2005 clan beta sign ups" and "summer 2007 beta".  Seriously, AoC was a few months off, but how in the world can somebody be more than a year off, let alone 3 years??

Community management.... don't even get me started on that one...

I'am telling you this project is complete bullshit.

There will be no launch this year and there will not even be a beta.

There's a Harvard University in Greece?

Originally posted by chr1sm

 Strategic Planning?  LOL!!... bush and rumsfeld have better strategic planning than tasos.  I think Darkfall has been in development longer than the Iraq war.

Harvard?  Harvard must not be that big on having English courses because he's made countless grammatical errors in his journals and his ability to clearly express himself and explain details in writing is dismal at best.  He is constantly making mistakes and writing post-journals for errors or confusing statements he has made in previous journals.  Not to mention many lies and blatant misleading statements and miscalculations such as "2005 clan beta sign ups" and "summer 2007 beta".  Seriously, AoC was a few months off, but how in the world can somebody be more than a year off, let alone 3 years??

Community management.... don't even get me started on that one...

In my opinion, he is actually very good at public relations management, and community management-building but in his own special evil genius way, considering he appears to have so little to work with.

He's got a Bull Shitting degree that's for sure.

Originally posted by Antikythera

I'am telling you this project is complete bullshit.

There will be no launch this year and there will not even be a beta.

I don't see -- even now -- anything that makes me think this project is any less real then it was before.  There are 30 "developers" minimum working on DarkFall, this constitutes perhaps 5 or 6 of them. 

Also take into account that you don't have to have experience in anything in particular to start a business -- or to do it for that matter.  Usually thats the whole point of franchising, but in this case it's just a small upstart business with big ideas.  Can't blame them for that.

Either way I disagree that this project is bullshit... so far they're much farther alon in the process then some of the games on MMORPGs list, and the forums themselves make the game more fun then playing half these Free to Play games.

Originally posted by maskedweasel 

  There are 30 "developers" minimum working on DarkFall, this constitutes perhaps 5 or 6 of them. 

Can you list the names of these 30 people working? Or are you just believing what you're told?

Either way I disagree that this project is bullshit... so far they're much farther alon in the process then some of the games on MMORPGs list

In what way? Releasing 3-4 Alpha videos after 7 years?

They can't even put together a new video from a supposed feature complete game that is supposedly launching in less than 6 months.

WAKE UP
 

Originally posted by Antikythera

Originally posted by maskedweasel 

  There are 30 "developers" minimum working on DarkFall, this constitutes perhaps 5 or 6 of them. 

Can you list the names of these 30 people working? Or are you just believing what you're told?

Either way I disagree that this project is bullshit... so far they're much farther alon in the process then some of the games on MMORPGs list

In what way? Releasing 3-4 Alpha videos after 7 years?

They can't even put together a new video from a supposed feature complete game that is supposedly launching in less than 6 months.

WAKE UP
 

You often bring this up, but the sad realization is, there are games that come out all the time without a glimmer of pre-gameplay videos. 

There are tons of games released from small developers you've probably never heard of.

Difference is, you've heard of this small developer.. and they're doing something a small developer hasn't done before.

So what if they don't release a video?  The announcement that they were launching this year only happened a couple months ago, not even... I think I can give them until the end of the year at least and reserve my judgement.

Personally I don't care if it releases or not, I think its hilarious you think you're so righteous because you have an opposing view on something you have about as much *inside* information on then any of us.  At this point I much more value Polarizations opinion then yours, at least he finds NEW reasons why to question Darkfall.

Originally posted by Polarization

The worrying thing is most of them are apparently interested in being contacted about things like Carrer opportunities, new ventures and business deals.

It's quite obvious you have no clue about what LinkedIn is. It's not a job advert site where you publish your CV to find a job. It can help finding a job/employee/business partner/contract etc. but it's a social networking site focusing on business contacts. The fact that someone has "looking for career opportunities" checked doesn't mean he's there to get out of his current job. Everyone I know from IT has a similar profile there with everything checked, and I assure you they're not looking for a job at the moment.

Originally posted by wumptrooper

 It's quite obvious you have no clue about what LinkedIn is. It's not a job advert site where you publish your CV to find a job. It can help finding a job/employee/business partner/contract etc. but it's a social networking site focusing on business contacts. The fact that someone has "looking for career opportunities" checked doesn't mean he's there to get out of his current job. Everyone I know from IT has a similar profile there with everything checked, and I assure you they're not looking for a job at the moment.

And what's your explanations for Core developers / founders and co-owners of Darkfall and Aventurine/ Razorwax being Interested in things like “new ventures” and “business deals” ?

Maybe they are looking for a publisher

Originally posted by Fodfod

Maybe they are looking for a publisher

Personally, I think its much more likely there looking for investors.

Originally posted by Polarization

Originally posted by wumptrooper

 It's quite obvious you have no clue about what LinkedIn is. It's not a job advert site where you publish your CV to find a job. It can help finding a job/employee/business partner/contract etc. but it's a social networking site focusing on business contacts. The fact that someone has "looking for career opportunities" checked doesn't mean he's there to get out of his current job. Everyone I know from IT has a similar profile there with everything checked, and I assure you they're not looking for a job at the moment.

 

And what's your explanations for Core developers / founders and co-owners of Darkfall and Aventurine/ Razorwax being Interested in things like “new ventures” and “business deals” ?

New ventures / business deals like uhmm a publisher maybe? E.g. the new AudioVisual Entertainment division involving employees of both AVE & Aventurine... Or maybe you could read again what I wrote before because you missed the point. It's social networking site, a professional myspace if you will.

And FFS that's the 3rd time I try to post, MMORPG.com wouldn't let me post because they want me to claim a super-duper prize of 1000 silver ignots in some Chinese grind MMO that I supposedly won