Game Design

Blizzard Entertainment

Executive Producer

Mike Morhaime

Team Lead

Mark Kern

Art Director

William Petras

Creative Director

Chris Metzen

Lead Animator

Kevin Beardslee

Lead Artist

Justin Thavirat

Lead Character Artist

Brandon Idol

Lead Designers

Rob Pardo
Allen Adham

Lead Programmer

John Cash

Lead Technical Artist

Kyle Harrison

Producers

Shane Dabiri
Carlos Guerrero

Additional Production

Chris Sigaty

Programming

Jesse Blomberg
Dan Buckler
Robert Bridenbecker
Jeff Chow
Scott Hartin
Sam Lantinga
Twain Martin
Loren McQuade
Collin Murray
David Ray
Joe Rumsey
Derek Sakamoto
Tim Truesdale
Matthew Versluys
Jeremy Wood

Additional Programming

James Anhalt III
Andy Bond
Bob Fitch
Don Grey
Monte Krol
Graham Madarasz
Jay Patel
Evelyn Smith

Install/Patch/Distribution Programming

Brian Fitzgerald
John Mikros
John Stiles
Tony Tribelli
Stephen C. Wong

Install/Patch/Distribution Producer

Derek Simmons

Macintosh Programming

John Mikros

Additional Macintosh Programming

Rob Barris
John Stiles

Animators

Adam Byrne
Jay Hathaway
Eric Henze
Solomon Lee

Dungeon/City Artists

Jose Aello, Jr.
Roger Eberhart
Dana Jan
Aaron Keller
Jimmy Lo
Matt Mocarski
Brian Morrisroe
Jamin Shoulet
John Staats

World Content Artists

Carlo Arellano
Sam Didier
Brian Hsu
Roman Kenney
Maxx Marshall
Matt Milizia
Dan Moore
Ted Park
Gary Platner

Technical Artist

Peter Underwood

Exterior Level Designers

Bo Bell
James Chadwick
Mark Downie
Alen Lapidis
Matt Sanders

Additional Art

Dave Berggren
Allen Dilling
Toph Gorham
Trevor Jacobs
Tom Jung
Cameron Lamprecht
Rob McNaughton
Mickey Nielson
Matt Oursbourn

Game Designers

Tom Chilton
Eric Dodds
Michael Heiberg
Kevin Jordan
Jeffrey Kaplan
John Yoo

Quest Designers

Alex Afrasiabi
Michael Backus
Suzanne Brownell
Shawn Carnes
Michael Chu
Jeffrey Kaplan
Pat Nagle

World Designers

Geoff Goodman
Andy Kirton
Joshua Kurtz
Steven Pierce

Additional Design

Tom Cadwell
Dave Fried
Dave Hale
Eric Maloof
Scott Mercer
Matt Morris
Jennifer Powell
Dean Shipley

Cinematic Intro Director, Writer

Matt Samia

Cinematic Trailer Director, Writer

Harley D. Huggins II

Cinematics Producer

Scott Abeyta

Video Processing & Post Production Supervisor

Joeyray Hall

Cinematic Artists

Jonathan Berube
Nicholas S. Carpenter
Jeff Chamberlain
Aaron Chan
Ben Dai
Fausto DeMartini
Sheng Jin
Jeramiah Johnson
Jon Lanz
James McCoy
Matthew Mead
Joe Peterson
Dennis "wiz" Price
Jarett Riva
Xin Wang
Kenson Yu

Cinematic Technical Artists

John Burnett
Joe Frayne
Steeg Haskell
Jared Keller
Hung Le
Nelson Wang

Render Farm Supervisor

Mike Kramer

Additional Cinematic Artists

Dan Burke
John Chalfant
Ryan Duncan
Mark Skelton
Patrick Thomas
Seth Thompson
Ru Weerasuriya
Jason Wen

Audio Supervisor (Cinematics)

Glenn Stafford

Sound Producer

Gloria Soto

Lead Composer

Jason Hayes

Lead Sound Designer

Brian Farr

Music

Tracy W. Bush
Derek Duke
Jason Hayes
Glenn Stafford

Sound Design

Tracy W. Bush
Victor Crews
Brian Farr

Casting Supervisor/ VO & Sound Editor

Tami Donner Harrison

Voice Direction

Chris Metzen
Micky Neilson

Voice Acting

Michele Arko
Tracy W. Bush
Joey Cash
Johnny Cash
Victor Crews
Samwise Didier
Tami Donner Harrison
Derek Duke
Michelle Elbert
Brian Farr
Ron Frybarger
Manuel Gonzales
Carrie Gordon-Lowrey
Trula Hoosier
Harley Huggins
Timothy Ismay
Monte Krol
Abe Lasser
Jon Mankin
Twain Martin
Holly Matecki
Sean McCrea
Chris Metzen
Kaeo Milker
Lani Minella
Mike Morhaime
Collin Murray
Gloria Neely
Mickey Neilson
Nicholas Pisani
Gary Platner
David Saunders
Evelyn Smith
Glenn Stafford
Snoopy Watkins
Sunda Zafrin

Worldwide Launch Executive

Paul Sams

Worldwide Launch Management

Itzik Ben-Bassat
Lisa Pearce

Manual Layout

Eli Catalan

Manual Producer

Jason Hutchins

Manual Development and Editing

Eli Catalan
Elliott Chin
Jason Hutchins
Mark Kern
Denise Lopez
Jonathan Mankin
Chris Metzen
Rob Pardo
Lisa Pearce
Evelyn Smith

Manual Artwork

Carlo Arellano
Adam Byrne
Samwise Didier
Allen Dilling
Eric Henze
Brian Hsu
Brandon Idol
Semi Kim
Chris Metzen
Ted Park
Bill Petras
Glenn Raine
John Staats
Justin Thavirat
Ru Weerasuriya

Thanks to White Wolf

Quality Assurance Manager

John Lagrave

Quality Assurance Assistant Managers

Sean McCrea
Mark Moser

QA Night Supervisor

Jonathan Mankin

QA Lead Testers

Robert Foote
Michael Murphy

QA Lead Assistant

Kelly Chun

QA Technical Engineers

Jason Fader
Evelyn Smith

QA Compatibility Testing

Omar Gonzalez
Danny Nguyen
Taylor Russ

QA Team Leads

Michele Marie Arko
Scott N. Army
Ben Brode
Shane S. Cargilo
Jamie Chang
Michael Chen
Steven Chow
Dennis Crabtree
Les W. Douglas
Michelle Elbert
Ron Frybarger
Ed Kang
Jin Kim
Ray Laubach
Chris Manprin
Justin K. Parker
Lee Sparks
Craig Steele
Stan Wang

Game Testers

Nicholas Betteker
Edward Bui
Jeff Chang
Jack Chen
James Cho
Aaron Contreras
Brandon Crumpler
Tim Daniels
Foster Michael Elmendorf
Mei Dean Francis
Jon Graves
Josh Hilborn
Timothy Ismay
Michael Maggard
Stuart Massie
Jeff McLean
Kurtis Paddock
RA Pearson
Nicholas M. Pisani
Anthony Reyes
Chuck Salzman
David Sanchez
Samuel Schrimsher
Michael Schwan
Anant Singh
Brian Stankowitz
Shawn Su
Michael Mooteh Sun
Alex Tsang
Joseph Vales
Brandan Vanderpool
Sean Wang
Geoffrey Yeh
Tengying Yu

Additional Game Testing

Zach Allen
Zebulon Batke
Josh Bertram
Zach Callanan
Wesley Campbell
Greg Cucchissi
Dustin Chang
Yuan Cheng
Jack Cheung
Joel Clift
Matt Coalson
Beni Elgueta
Dave Eliasberg
Brian Fattorini
Gary Gibson
Manuel Gonzales
Justin Hamilton
Jason Thor Hall
Patrick Henry
Lyno Hychong
Jeff Jones
Stephen Kim
Jason Liang
Richard Lin
Robert Lohaus
Brian Love
John Meyers
Brandon Norton
Haz Novoa
Wale Oyejide
David Potts
Emilio Segura
Kenneth Shaw
Steve Shin
Geordie Swainbank
Walter Takata
Joshua Tapley
Jeffrey Therrien
Christopher Van Der Westhuizen
David G. Wagner
Constance Wang
Ian Welke
Daniel Westmoreland

Technical Support Manager

Thor Biafore

Assistant Technical Support Manager

Jason Stilwell

Billing and Account Services Lead

Doug Abel

Technical Support Programming

David Nguyen

In-Game Support Management

Eric Avila

In-Game Support Leads

Mitchell Bricker
Chris Manley
Jason Park
John Schwartz
Max Whitaker

Localization Producer

Jason Hutchins

Associate Localization Producer

Jonas Laster

BLIZZARD EUROPE TEAM

Blizzard Europe Management

Itzik Ben Bassat

Blizzard Europe Management Team

Cedric Marechal
Jean-Michel Courivaud
Benoit Dufour
Anne Berard
Julia Gastaldi
Frederic Menou
Benoit Mechineau
Delphine Le Corre

Administration Team

Elodie Dupuis

Platform Development Team

Mathieu Chauvin
Laurent Bourcier
Fanny Hermant
Philippe Peeters

Network Operations Team

Julien Mariani
Thierry Sudan
Jean-Claude Krijestorac
Mourad Kaci

Marketing and Online Marketing Team

Eric Chauveau
Matthew Arthur

Web Team

Guillaume Sartre
Sebastien Garnault
Prune Moldawan
Yann Pallatier
Martin Leidenfrost
Pierre Rosenthal

Community Team

Gernot "Garry" Leusch
Jean-Baptiste Pennes

Technical Support and Billing Team

Robert Ashby
Cedryck Poitelon
Alexandre Vallee
Lisa Cree
Christian Czubatinski
Marie-Helene Atienz

In-Game Support Team

Christian William Scharling
Mark Clements
Gregory Bourgeois
Owen James Thomas
Sebastiaan Van Doornspeek
Kasper Giehm
Richard Barham
Sebastian Nachtigall
Rainer Mayer
Rinaldo Andreolli
Alexander Ipfelkofer
Clemens Krainer
Heiko Dieregsweiler
Christian Reshoeft
Emmanuel Obert
Sophie Bellegarde
Jean-Pierre Poulain
Romain Dijoux
Yann Dessaude
Nicolas Guion
Stephane Perroud
Gesine Fischer

VUG LOCALIZATION TEAM

General Manager

Gerry Carty

European Localisation Manager

Barry Kehoe

Project Manager

Eithne Hagan

Translation Vendor Manager

Annette Lee

Linguistic Project Manager

Laura Casanellas

Linguistic Coordinator

Corina Zaha

Engineering Manager

Lawrence Moran

Software Engineering

David Doheny

Q.A. Manager

David Hickey

Q.A. Lead

Conor Harlow

Q.A. Testers - French

Maurice Larkin
Russell Perin
Dimitry Renardet

Q.A. Testers - German

Sandra Rothig
Henry Ertner
Hugh Lawton

Graphics/Audio Coordination

Bill Sweeney
David Fleming

RTM Validation

Philippe Gendreau

BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT

Business Development & Business Operations

Paul Sams

Business Development & Operations

Elaine DiIorio
Denise Lopez
Isaac Matarasso
Lisa Pearce
Sarah Tucker

Information Technologies Manager

Robert Van Dusen

Information Technologies

Edward Hanes
Brian Hill
Mike Kramer
Hung Nguyen
Mike Pearce
Mike Schaefer
Jeremy Smith
Casey Suyeto
Stephen T. Wong

IT Engineering & Network Design

Adrian Luff
Jeff Berube

Data Archivist

Kris Mackey

Office Administration/ Human Resources/ Facilities Management

Kacy Dishon
Jeanette Gullock
Kaeo Milker
Jamie Neveaux
Hugh Todd
Talishia Thompson

Financial Management

David Gee
Paul Sams

Public Relations

Lisa Bucek-Jensen
Elliott Chin
Gil Shif
George Wang

Web Team

Lisa Bucek-Jensen
Mathieu Chauvin
Geoff Fraizer
Mike Hein
Jon Jelinek
Gil Shif
Alex Sun
Blaine Whittle

Community Management

Lisa Bucek-Jensen
Daniel Chin
Paul Della Bitta
Kristen DeMeza
Gil Shif

Legal Counsel

Kevin Crook
Terri Durham
Rod Rigole
Eric Roeder
Tracy Gibbs-Sargeant
James Shaw

Global Brand Management

Neal Hubbard
Marc Hutcheson
Matt Kassan

North American Sales

Philip O'Neil
Bruce Slywka
Lowell Vaughen

Marketing Creative Services

Kathy Carter-Humphreys
Jessica Drossin
Zachary Hubert
Steve Parker
Raul Ramirez
Hayley Sumner
Bill Watt

Recruiting

Jack Sterling

Packaging Artwork

Brom
William Petras
Justin Thavirat

Manufacturing

Tom Bryan
Bob Wharton

Hosting Partners

AT&T
DACOM/KIDC
Telia

Director of Dunsel Development

Frank Pearce

Dunsel Specialist

Alan Dabiri

Thanks To

Chris Sigaty
Brad Mason
Don Grey
Huong Grey
Kirk Mahony
Jimmie Nelson
Donna Anthony
Beau Yarborough
Ian Welke
DJAMES Goddard
Christophe Ramboz
Michael Fuller
Flavie Gufflet
Stu Rose
Duane Stinnett
Brenda Perdion

Special Thanks

Blizzard North
Bruce Hack
Jean-Francois Grollemund
Bob & Jan Davidson

Cinematic Sound Contractors

David Farmer
Paul Menichini
Jeff Kurtenacker
Michael Aarvold
Robert Michael Sherlock
Tom Brewer

Original choir music performed by the University Choir & California State University, Long Beach

Original music recorded at Citrus College, Glendora, CA

WE WANT TO EXTEND A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OUR FAMILIES. YOUR NEVER-ENDING PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE.

WE LOVE YOU!

Additional Thanks

Michael Fuller
Christophe Ramboz
Yan Kahle
Jean-Claude
All European Guilds
All our Families
Our Wives and Husbands
Our kids
Our poor red eyes
The parents of the unique "Famous"
The coffee machine
"Mum and Dad"
The inventor of the cheese sandwich
"Mamie in the kitchen"
Our new chairs
The Japanese restaurant
The double brain theory
"Zickouille"
"Boomshaker"
"Pompounette"
The GMs that keep their shoes on
"The Pitbull"
"Graou"
"Ricounet"
"Douds"
Uncle Scrooge
Le "Check"
The "bobox" pushers
All the clowns
"$%#% me, I am famous!"
The Sexy HR Girls
All the "boulets"
The Galapagos Islands
The Famous Danish Humour
The holly moving plan
"M" fast food feeding our GM teams
Parisien Vampire society
"Yes... But... No... Well... Basically... Hum... Honestly..."
Spygurl for the hooter
to Eric for loosing at War 3 and babyfoot
Cedric's wine cave
"Yes... soooooooon" TM
William, the Danish knight
Gali Mehl
The great city of Holon
"The Kibbutz"
Keith Galocy & Greg James at NVIDIA
Celeste Aviva
Tracy Farr
The Jan Family
Lisa Schoner
John Carlson
The Zics
Jesse and Tina
Ken and Ryu
Jenifer and Charles Riggio
Lisa, Erin & Logan Pierce
Insufficient Light
Firefly
Tie Domi
Mindi Johnson
Chuck Foote
Britney Spears
Howard Rumsey
Jack Cheung
Kenny "Big Fro" Vasquez
David Gonzales
Nicole Stern
Bunky & Ronin
Da Ali G Show
Frisbee Golf
Diana Bond
Homestarrunner.com
Michelle Delgado and Aiden Bell
Dream Theater
Patrick Burke
Mike Stephenson
DKLA
Kim, Lenn & Sokoan
The Bandit
The Leaky Faucet
Andrew Brownell
Carol Mooney
Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man
Rachel Whittle
Ethan Whittle
Frances Lin
Val Margolin
Ben Margolin
The Morrisroe Family
Alex, Tati and my Brazilian Family
The Mailboxes gang and friends
Sandy Schneible
Sonya, Lily &Toby
beatmania IIDX
Grandma and Grampa Connelly
Landlady Yasmin
They Might Be Giants
Jeramy R. Cooke
In-Sun Allan Mack
ChennyT, Brutus and Newton
El Torito Grill's Tortillas
The Sanders family
Our US Troops
The Oglesby Family
Linkin Park
The Shane Cube
Nicole Numbers
John and Susan Shoulet
Jet Blue
Richard Zinser
Gordon Walton
Pandemonium
Yuliya and Jasper Duke
Dietrich and the Gang
Jackers
Patsy's
Grammy
France Salama
Bob & Frances Bridenbecker
Adam "where's my free copy" Maxwell
Lauren and Mirah
Icculus and friends
705 Crew
Wendy Aello
Bill & Emily Backus
The New England Patriots
Radish Pal and Oyster Knickers
Mike Benjamin
Brittany Curtis
Jordan and Janeybear
Penny, Barry & Brie Berman
Yasmin
Randy, Mike and Robin Wood
Craig Harrison
The Kaplan Family
Colin and Emi Finer
Crystal Shif
The Shif/Chweh/Thomas/Morgan Family
The Baxters, every one of'em
The Bunky & The Babba
The A-Team of Kabald - GBBG
Grac's Beta Tester All-Stars - huzzah!
Jackie & Larry Linemann
Sheila
Kaitlin
Breanna
Kyle & Meaghan
Apple Computer
ATI Developer Relations
Karlee & Paige Chadwick
Rob Beatie
Kurt Werle
Mike Davy
Peter-Pike Sloan
Terry Gordon
Amanda Panda
The Byrne Family
Sonal Patel
Ralph
David
Marvin
Larry
Nonno
Barbara
Audrey
Mumbo
My parents in Shanghai
The "Sonnys" for making me an uncle
Pamina Elgueta
Team 1
Stacey & Lucas Frayne
Mumsie
Nathan
Tim & James
The Griffith Clan
Kana
The Hendersons
Luciana
Giorgia & Joao Felipe De Martini
Wang & Li Families
Amy & Eugene Johnson
Roger & Joan Earle
Jin Hong An
Peter Pau
Katelynn Hassler
The Riva family
Don, Dawn & Becky Price
Team Empire III
Ryan, David, Christopher & Stephanie Samia
Emily McCullough
David
Adam
Tina
Chow & Chan Family
Liz Law
Mom
Dad
Kerwin
Tina
Verna
Collin
Ma
Jordan
Lowerys
My Ann
Nook
Mike
20 Silver Fir
Khanh
Tram
Vang
Chau
Barbara & Tilden Keller
Johanna & Karen Peterson
Kenneth Gregg
Javon Demetrius-Cogmon
Matsuba Family
Anthony DeFrancesco
Julian Feinberg
Dylan Cole
Amanda Sabo
Ivan Kolev
Frantic Films
Jo Anne
Gavin
Jason & David Carpenter
Judah Mehler
Jordu Schell
Shawn Steiner
Boskk
Ray Harryhausen
Orson Welles
Max Huggins
Taj Burrow
Kelly Slater
Shane Dorian
Barry & Jeff Deffenbaugh
Amber Ray
Tiffany and Taylor Hayes
Andrea Lobo
The Idols & Pat Morrison
Shane Hensley
Michele Henze
Claudia & Alanna Guerrero
My brother Brad... we all need heroes
Kim & Ashley Bridenbecker
Alexander K. Lee
The Chosen & Bill
Peter Milizia
The Petras Family
Rob Chacko
Kandice Murray
Michelle Delgado
The Thavirats & Corinna Lee
Kayla Hong-Tim Nguyen
Mike Phillips
Cathy Tsai and The Chow Family
Suzanne Di Piazza
Pooka
Kerri Jaquith Simmons
Patricia
Nate, Chris, Matt & Jenna
Laura Szigeti
Sofia Vergara
Sarah Arellano
Olivia Lee Heiberg
Nikita Mikros
April & Sofia Metzen
Girls of Starbucks
Mary,Johnny, and Joey Cash
Katherine & Penelope Jordan
Danna
Jessica
Tisa
Jade and Breanna
Gammaray Helen Mckenney
Bill & Kathie Blomberg
The Sakamoto Family
Nick "Blood Angel" Betteker
Angelista
Napoleon Dynamite
Joohyun Lee
April and Noah Beardslee
Dawn Marshall
Mandilynn Weygandt
Stephanie Keefer
the good people of The Daily Blab
Ed, May, & Sheryl Narahara
Arleen Powell
Andrew Thorson
Imelda & Alex Kern
Olivia Lee
Peter Jackson
Victoria, Garrett, & Cassandra
Katherine Jordan
Gina MacGregor
Karen & Julia Barris
The Infamous Kitt3n
Hilary & F.C. Carnes
Happy 30th to RUSH
Lara Lee
Brenda Perdion
Tina & Melissa Maloof
The Pearce Family
Smoove TB
The Bandit
The PUNisher
The Leaky Faucet
T. Blave
The Censor
Susan, Matthew & Michael Sams
Megan Wooley
Tina Chan
Haibo Li
Katelynn Hassler
Lucianna Kochnoff
Shelly & Ian Mead
Debbie Lanz
Jessica Ellis
Khana Le
Brian Flora
Chen Bin Hua
The Price Family
Deana Matarasso
Harminder Brar
The McCoy Family
The Yu Family
The Wang Family
The Chamberlain Family
The Burnett Family
Lisa & Haskell Family
The Dai Family
The Peterson Family
The Carpenter Family
Joe "Vargen" Biafore
Beverly & Shangreaux Lagrave
Dee Ann Fifer
Riley & The Sigaty Family
Melissa Huggins
Laura Clifton
Jason & Damian Hall
Koren Buckner
Gali Mehl
The Ben-Bassat Family
David, Cameron & Brianna Di Iorio
Nicole Hamelin
Matt, Shaun & Amanda Smiley
Ty, Noel & Marge Williams
Silvia, Kai, and Kiana Van Dusen
Lisa Schaefer
The Schaefer Family
Nhu Pham for her love and support
Kimberly Haw and our families
Carrie Suyeto
Astrid and K.C. Ross
Amy Clements
the foosball table
Janee Laster
Everyone at Hewlett-Packard
Everyone at Cisco

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