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Radiant
Pieter Simoons is the founder of Crystal Shard and has done the design and programming of pretty much everything here. In his spare time, he's a business consultant. He reads way too many books, and enjoys traveling and singing.
Fizzii
Elissa is a chemical engineer living in Australia. She's the main artist for most of our games. Aside from computer art, she also makes paintings, plays music, and feeds the birds.
Corby
Corby is a very enigmatic person who is the lead artist for Heroine's Quest. Little else is known about this mysterious figure...
Dmatrix
Dmitrii Zavorotny is a database programmer living in the United States. He has composed the music and done some of the art, mostly portraits, for Heroine's Quest. He enjoys hiking and urban development.
Gerben47
Gerben Dirksen is a PhD student of astrophysics. He lives in Germany, and is an avid Bridge player. He is one of the main level designers for SubTerra.
Grobblewobble
Vincent van der Goes is a PhD student of computer science. He lives in the Netherlands, and is an avid Go player. He is heavily involved in testing and balancing Leylines.
Meerbat
Vladislav Nachev is a biology student who alternates between living in Germany and doing research in exotic faraway countries. He's the main portrait artist for A Tale of Two Kingdoms.
Mortal Wombat
Marcel lives in the Netherlands, where he variously studies and takes cycling trips in the rain. He's the designer for Quest Fighter and QF2.
Nikolas
Nikolas Sideris is a Greek composer who resides in London. As a freelance composer, he has made most of the music for A Tale of Two Kingdoms, and helped with the voice pack for Warthogs.
Stewboy
Stuart Rynn lives in Australia. Starting as an avid SubTerra player, he ended up as one of the main level designers for SubTerra II.
Pluisje
Our mascot, a marsupilami. He lives with Radiant.
Cuppit
Full of friendly functionality and functional friendliness!
About Crystal Shard
An independent game development group spanning three continents, it was founded in 1999 with the aim to sell shareware games.
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