What do you do on Champions Online?

I work on the software side of the user interface. That means a lot of things – aside from writing the code for many of the interfaces like the HUD (head-up display) or the character creator, I also created the library and tools that let our programmers and artists make changes to the interfaces quickly. Most of our UI is based in data files that are similar to HTML or Flash, and we keep adding features to that system to help everyone on the team make better UIs faster.

How long have you worked in gaming, and what did you do before Champions Online?

I've been at Cryptic for almost two years now. Before that I was a student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Nominally I studied artificial intelligence, but mostly I took whatever random classes looked interesting. I was also involved in the Debian project for a few years, and I still use and prefer Unix-based operating systems.