Here's how to do the bio files...

Enclose all the BIO information in a START/END block like you see
below.  The name to use is the same as the name of their card
gadget, minus the "GCREDIT_".  Anything outside of a START/END
block is ignored.

The first line in the block is the person's name.  This will be
displayed only in the name box.

You cannot have an entry be too long or two wide, or it will
go outside of the bio box and look all cruddy.

->START BOBC
Bob Clardy

Synergistic Head Honcho

Background: 5 years of Electrical
Engineering, followed by 18 years
of computer game design,
programming/directing. It started
fun and gets better every year.

Hobbies: Computer games, karate,
camping, computer games, skiing
and computer games.

Quote: "If you don't like the
world you see, then make a new one."
->END BOBC

->START MIKEB
Mike Branham

Executive Producer

Background: 16 years of programming,
producing, and directing entertainment
software.

Hobbies: Programming, arm-chair
Quarterback, woodworking, HTML and
web page design, and sailing.

Quote: ". . . and then, I had a
vision."
->END MIKEB

->START DANDRE
D'Andre Pritchett

Designer

Background: Worked up in the Mafia
from Strongman to Senior Hitman
through a string of violent murders.
Forced to leave his job after
receiving 'The Kiss of Death',
he took the job designing FPS
Football Pro '98.  Strangely,
designing a football game isn't
too different from life in the Mob.

Hobbies: Cement, cement, cement!

Quote: "Either youse make 'dis here
screen work like 'dis, or youse
gunna sleep wit d' fishes!  Capiche?"
->END DANDRE
->START JEREMYJ
Jeremy Jones

Art Director

Background: 6 years in the gaming
industry.

Hobbies: Golf, skiing, working
out, listening to live music,
drinking beer, and watching ESPN.

Quote: "If you can't do it right,
don't do it at all." -My Dad!
->END JEREMYJ


->START CHERYLM
Cheryl A. Makovsky

Software Wizard

Background: Programming for 13
years. B.S. in Computer Science
from Eastern Washington University,
Cheney, WA.  12+ years playing in
football half-time shows.

Hobbies: Trombone playing (Cascade
Brass Quintet, 560th AF Band),
karate (Purple belt) and kayaking.

Quote: "Give me all your chocolate,
and no one gets hurt."
->END CHERYLM

->START DAVIDJ
David L. Jackson

Senior Software Sanitation Engineer

Background: 14 years programming
having worked on several different
game titles.

Hobbies: Wildlife deathmatching,
camping and other odd
politically incorrect fun.

Quote: " 2+2=5 "
->END DAVIDJ

->START JOHNM
John McKinnie

Senior Programmer

Background: 12 years of programming.

Hobbies: Playing games,
         Raising Maxwell.

Quote: "Hi MOM !!!
Are you watching out there?."
->END JOHNM

->START JAMESW
James David Walley

Senior Programmer

Background: 11 years of programming.
M.F.A. in Film/Video, California
Institute of The Arts. B.A. from St.
John's College.

Hobbies: Classical guitar, photography,
theology and internet kibitzing.

Quote: "Carpe Carp---Seize The Fish!"
->END JAMESW

->START NICKV
Nick Volkov

Programmer

Background: 10 years programming.

Traveled for 12 years after finishing
High School.

Lived in Israel, Greece, England, and
Denmark for extended time periods.

Self taught programmer, I was very
frustrated with computer games so I
decided to learn how to program them
and make better games. It took 8 years
and lots of money and time to do it
while working full time at a non-
computer related job.

Hobbies: All games and sports.

Quote: "Life is irrelevant."
->END NICKV


->START CHRISH
Chris Hawkins

Programmer

Background: 5 years including school.
B.S. in C.S. from Eastern Washington
University. Minor in Math and Physics.

Hobbies: Snowboarding, music and
rollerblading.

Quote: "What is reality?"
->END CHRISH

->START JOHNC
John Conley

Senior Programmer

Background: B.S. (Mathematics), University
of Oregon; 16 years of programming.

Hobbies: Computers, books, games.

Quote: "Hofstadter's law: It always takes
longer than you think it will, even when
you take Hofstadter's law into account."
->END JOHNC

->START JASONG
Jason Griffith

Programmer/Cabaret Chanteur

Background: Programming games on a
semi-serious and serious level for
upwards of seven years.  Currently
serving an over four year prison term,
which is nearly complete, at the
University of Washington.

Hobbies: Programming and playing
computer games, reading books,
watching movies, frivolously wasting
his youth hanging around with friends
doing absolutely nothing constructive,
leering at cheerleaders and picking
fights with football players.

Quote: "If it isn't broke, then you
ain't kicked it hard enough."
->END JASONG

->START MIKES
Mike Scholz

Programmer

Background: Born on the backwater
planet of LV-426, Mike spent
his apprenticeship learning 
from the Doctor. Such survival
tactics were needed when he was
escaping the Cataclysm of 2029. 

Unfortunately, his Hornet badly
damaged by the Vogons, he was
forced to set down on Earth to
make repairs. While there, he 
"enrolled" in University, receiving
a degree in Electrical Engineering. 
He remains employed until a flux
capacitor can be found.

Hobbies: The consumption of 
all mass-media.

->END MIKES


->START STEVEC
Steve Chin

Senior (Old) Computer Graphic Artist

Background: 15 years. Published in:
Graphics Packaging Annual and New
York Type Director's Annual.

Hobbies: Skiing, golf, eating out and
making "noise" on the guitar.

Quote: "Is that the price or did ya
forget the decimal point?"
->END STEVEC

->START JASONJ
Jason P. Jones

Computer Graphic Shepherd

Background: 3 years in the gaming
industry.

Hobbies: Watching movies and fishing.

Quote: "Everyone talks about the
weather, but no one does anything
about it."
->END JASONJ

->START ALLENF
Allen Freeman

Graphic Artist/Webmaster

Background: 19 years of commercial art
experience with various advertising
agencies and with his own studio. Allen
has worked with such clients as
Goodyear, Firestone, Bell and Howell,
Mac Tools, Now Comics, Brady Games
and Valvoline.

Hobbies: Playing computer games,
watching movies, and golf.

Quote: "You can't put too much water
in a reactor."
->END ALLENF

->START DOUGH
Doug Van Horne

Undersecretary, Waste Management
Liaison (Computer Graphics Division)

Background: Doing art since the womb.

Hobbies: Any kind of art, weightlifting,
sleeping, bounty hunter, eating and
body doubling.

Quote: "Don't do something today that
you can put off until tomorrow." or "I
bent my wookie."--Ralph Wiggum (The
Simpsons)
->END DOUGH

->START RAYH
Ray John A. Hecita

Computer Graphics

Background: Five years including school.
A.A.A. Degree from Art Institute of
Seattle. Worked mainly as a free-lance
artist in editorial illustrations.

Hobbies: Working out, drawing, painting,
dancing, playing basketball and other
sports.

Quote: "No pain, no gain!" and
"Consistency is my best policy, baby!"
->END RAYH

->START CRAIGU
Craig Utterback

Director of the Office of Digital
Audio Corrections and Rehabilitation
Senior Sound Designer / Musicologist

Background: 12 years in computer
hardware including 4 years at the
Johnson Space Center as a mission
team member for Apollo 17, Skylab,
and numerous remote sensing projects.
7 years designing and producing music
and sound for computer games.

Hobbies: Building electric guitars
and basses. Restoring and modifying
audio tube amplifiers.

Quote: "Turn it up!"
->END CRAIGU

->START CHRISB
Chris Barker

Senior Composer

Background: 7 years with Synergistic,
5 years teaching music, and 10 years
as a symphony violinist. Bachelor and
Masters degrees. Soundtrack of the
Year, Vengeance of Excalibur, 1991
Computer Game Review.

Hobbies: Reading and watching old
movies.

Quote: "I don't have one."
->END CHRISB

->START TIMJ
Tim Jensen

Artguy

Background: With Synergistic for two
years. Graduated with a B.A. from the
Northwest College of Art in Poulsbo,
WA. A traditional art background
including airbrushing and drawing.

Hobbies: Basketball, pool, photography
and artwork.

Quote: "Just imagine".
->END TIMJ

->START JOHNL
John Lang

Artist Junky

Background: Have been drawing since I
could chew on a pencil.  Took every art
class in school you could and then
some.  Graduated from Art Institute of
Seattle.  Mouse scrolling champion
92-93.

Hobbies: free-lance CIA agent, learning
to type without looking at the keys,
drawing, firewalking.

Quote: "Stupid T.V., be more funny"
Homer Simpson.
->END JOHNL

->START ADDITIONAL
MEMBERS NOT PICTURED:

Programming:        John P. Conley
QA Manager:         Michael D. Jones
QA Ass't. Manager: Steve Deckert
QA Test Lead:        Joe Carper
QA Test Team:       Daudi Pritchett
                         Ann Dickens Clardy
                         Mona Branham
                         Michael Brosius
                         Marsha McCarty
                         Jim Gisler
                         Dan Woolard

Additional Design:  Will Furrer
                         Jim Edmunds
                         Mark Madland

Football Stats and Leagues: E.A. Gelat
                                    STATS Inc.

Manual and On-Line Help: L. Westerfield
                                 Gord Wilcox
Original Concept:    Pat Cook
->END ADDITIONAL
