Now Studio Head and Co-Founder for Monster Squad Entertainment Marsh LeflerAugust 2008 (Founder)- December 2017 First as Vice President/Lead Programmer, later as CEO/Studio Head Now a 3D Animator for V1 Interactive, Inc.
Matt LeffertsAugust 2008 (Founder)- November 2017 Lead Animator
TORCHLIGHT GAME ART SOFTWARE
Worked for Wizards of the Coast and now is a Software Engineer at VREAL.Ĭurrently continuing his education to get a new degree. Peter HuJan 2009- Oct 2015 “Founding Partner” ( I suspect the start date for this is a bit off)īrock JonesAugust 2008 (Founder)- August 2014 Senior Producer Now an Environment/World Artist at ArenaNet Kevin GreenAugust 2008 (Founder) - November 2009 Artist Now a Character Man for Double Damage Games Jeff MianowskiMay 2009 - January 2015 as Lead Character Artist then Art Director Mike FisherAugust 2008 (Founder) - November 2017 UI Artist Now a Co-Founder at Monster Squad Entertainment John DunbarAugust 2008(Founder) - November 2017 Game Designer/Game Programmer Kyle CorneliusAugust 2008 (Founder) - April 2016 Senior Concept Artist.Ĭurrently doing Freelance work as a “Workshop Concept Artist” Greg BrownAugust 2008 (Founder) - August 2014 Tools Engineer Several companies later, now a Lead Artist at The Pokemon Company International Jason BeckAugust 2008 (Founder) - September 2013 It was a hell of a ride with a bunch of wonderful people, and I hope they're all happy they did it. I departed to go even smaller and founded Double Damage Games with Erich Schaefer where we made Rebel Galaxy, and where we are about to announce our next game.įrom the initial founding period where we scrambled to exist, to pushing the Torchlight games to completion, I think it's fair to say I may have left the most blood in the dirt at Runic, so to speak. I was also the project lead and lead engineer for Torchlight and Torchlight 2, and left after we assembled an initial prototype of what became Hob.
I was the President of Runic Games for the first 7 years or so of its life, and one of the cofounders. In the end Perfect World provided the funding to create Torchlight 1, which was intended from the beginning to build a fanbase for a Torchlight MMO that was supposed to follow directly afterwards.Īugust 2008 (Founder)- April 2014 as President They spent several months doing odd jobs to get by while Max, Travis and Erich tried to find a publisher or someone to invest of the group. Runic Games was founded shortly of the original team's former studio, Flagship Studios (North) was shut down in July of 2018. Without further adieu, here are the Runic Games devs you came to know (and love?) over the years: The old BBCode is broken now that the wiki itself is gone:Īnother article about the history of the company up until Hob was started: Remains of an old Wiki page on the History of Torchlight/Runic Games. Who Works at Runic Games news post all the way back from 2009: In addition, I scrounged up some old links on the history of Runic. I tried to mark Founders where applicable as well. I have organized the list roughly by when the devs started working for Runic Games, by my own best guess. Skip to the bottom for some more big news regarding this website! Be sure to check out this link for details! Everyone who didn’t contribute their own words I researched via LinkedIn or Google, which of course leaves a few blank or outdated entries on the list.īUT THAT’S NOT ALL! We’re also simultaneously hosting an Anniversary Celebration Contest (sponsored of course by ModDrop) in which YOU could win a $50 (USD) Steam Digital Gift Card.
This was put together with the help of our former Community Manager Brian Ward and with the help of several of the former devs who contributed their own words for the article. As a fun little gift to everyone I have put together this“Where Are They Now?” piece to see what the former Runic Games staff are doing now, roughly ten months after the company shut down. Why didn't I celebrate this last month? Because I was busy preparing something REALLY special for everyone. That’s right, it’s YOUR birthday as much as it is MY birthday (which technically it isn’t) because our great big community fansite turned TEN YEARS OLD last month! Somehow we outlasted the company I started this site for and made it to double digits!
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