>         This change stems from the fact that one group from the
 > company left to form Ritual (nee Hipnotic, and currently working on
 > Sin), while another (well, just one person) went to Valve (who are
 > working on Half-Life for
 > Sierra).
 JS> Actually, of the original Ritual group, there were 
 JS> five.  Mark Dochtermann, Jim
 JS> Dose, Richard Gray, Mike Hadwin, and Rob Atkins.  Of those, the latter 
two
 JS> didn't do game development, they did things like manual 
 JS> design, and print art.
 JS> That's not to say they weren't important, but they weren't developers.
        Don't worry, I paid attention to the Apogee-Hipnotic flame wars.  ;)
 JS> The Valve guy you speak of is Chuck Jones (a real good 
 JS> friend). Doug Wood also
 JS> went there, he was on the Prey team for a bit, and also 
 JS> did work on Duke Atomic
 JS> and some Shadow Warrior stuff.
        Do you speak with Chuck and Doug on a regular basis these days?  
Leech valuable design and programming tips?  
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