Peter Vale - Seattle WA, US Joshua Howard - Redmond WA, US Jason Mai - Seattle WA, US Richard Rowan - Redmond WA, US Brett Roark - Sammamish WA, US
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:
A63F 9/24
US Classification:
463030000
Abstract:
An indication of actions by participants taking part in an interactive environment that can represent peripheral information or tells (i.e., not essential to participating in the environment) are communicated to computing devices used by other participants in the interactive environment. Each such action or behavior being monitored is associated with a corresponding indicator. After one of the additional behaviors is detected, the corresponding indicator can be presented to another participant by a computing device used by the other participant. Thus, the other participant may perceive, and respond to the peripheral behavior. For example, if the interactive environment is a card game, a player's act in reordering cards that are held, counting chips, moving the input device in a spurious manner, and other such behaviors are indicated to other players. Receiving indicators of these behaviors enables other players to respond to these behaviors, making the interactive environment more like playing face-to-face.
Theme: Alice in Wonderland; Participants: 51 teams, 558 players (1 team finished ); Hosted by: TLA Loves Alice (Brett Roark, Bruce Kaskel, Bruce Leban, ...
Blizzard Entertainment - Irvine, CA since Jan 2010
Senior Producer, Test Engineering
Microsoft - Redmond, WA Jan 2008 - Jan 2010
Software Design Engineer in Test
DigiPen Institute of Technology - Redmond, WA Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
Professor of Game Production and Design
Oberon Games - Seattle, WA Jan 2007 - Jul 2007
Producer, 2nd Party Games
Microsoft - Redmond, WA Feb 2002 - Jan 2007
Producer, Microsoft Casual Games
Education:
University of California, Santa Barbara 1995 - 1998
MS, Computer Science
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 1989 - 1991
BS, Math
University of Houston 1987 - 1989
Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA) 1985 - 1987
HS Diploma, Math and Science
Skills:
Business Strategy Management Production Software Engineering Testing Test Automation Game Development Game Design Certified Scrum Master Csm Certified Scrum Product Owner Video Games Visual Studio Scrum Xbox 360 Multiplayer Integration Java Quality Assurance C# Casual Games Social Games Xbox Mmo Perforce Mobile Games Computer Games Gameplay Online Gaming Console Software Development
Roark's father, Brett Roark, yelled at Salmon from his seat in the courtroom, calling the soldier a "Piece of (expletive)." Then during Peden's turn in the courtroom later, York's stepfather bolted from his third-row seat in the courtroom gallery and rushed toward the suspect at the defense table.