John

Designer

As a new face in the gaming industry John has been learning the ropes at Red 5 studios. Hired for his unrelenting submissions to Red 5 for over 6 months. John has really proven himself as determined and hard working individual and a valuable asset to Red 5.

Previously he worked lots of odd jobs bartending, security, Games-Workshop, and even a short time as women’s shoe salesman at Nordstroms, making him our very own Ted Bundy. His odd collection of jobs and unreleated education has made him a unique voice amongst us at Red 5.

Q: What makes you unique as a game designer?

A: Well most game designers started their career of gaming with old amiga computers or pockets full of quarters at arcades. I started mine in a even more geeky way, in an old hobby shop building and painting miniatures for games like Warhammer 40k, and WARMACHINE. It was a great hobby growing up, and I spent lots of late nights pushing armies around imaginary battle fields. I’ve been playing miniatures for going on 18 years now.

Q: What was your longest gaming session?

A: My longest gaming session has to be in Everquest. I had recently won my server’s best of the best tournament for Wizards, and I stayed up for the next 5 days farming all the gear I thought I would need to win the server wide tournament. I don’t even remember going to bed, body must’ve just gone into automatic mode. I woke up 19 hours later just in time for the tournament!

Q: What is your favorite game and why?

A: This question always instantly gets too answers from me. Everquest and Counter-strike, so I’m going to cheat and say both. Everquest is probably the first game that turned me from a casual computer gamer, to an obsessed freak. Counter-strike is the first game that I played competitively culminating in winning a season in Cal-i.