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Field leads raft of new employees at Relentless

11th February 2008. Brighton, UK. Relentless today announced seven new members of staff have joined the BAFTA and Develop-award winning Brighton studio, originators of the multi-million selling Buzz!™ titles published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE).

The group is lead by Caspar Field who takes the role of Senior Producer for the Buzz! Quiz TV. Field has a wealth of industry experience as a journalist, publisher and developer. The other six fill positions as programmers, artists and animators with some entering the games industry for the first time.

Andrew Eades, Development Director of Relentless Software commented, “We’re conscious that to continue making great social games we need to employ a mix of industry experience and creativity with talent from outside of games – not only does this ensure that the industry continues to grow (and we don’t keep poaching from each other) but it also gives us a broader creative perspective internally.’

Caspar Field, Senior Producer added, “Social and casual gaming are two of the hottest topics in the industry today, and that makes Relentless one of the most exciting companies to work for right now. I’m really pleased to have joined the team, and look forward to helping develop our next generation of genre-leading titles.”

Caspar Field – Senior Producer, Buzz! Quiz TV. With over a decade of industry experience and thirty years of gaming under his belt, Caspar Field has enjoyed games and the business as a consumer, journalist (Edge and Dreamcast mag DC-UK), developer (Producer at Argonaut) and publisher (Producer at Eidos).

Paul Sumpner, Senior Programmer Paul has a long and happy career creating software for generating 3D worlds and realtime interactive cutscenes for games companies including Sony (London) and Ratbag (Australia); TV - BBC, Channel 4 (UK), ABC (USA) and CNN (USA). 

James Rigby, Programmer James studied physics at Oxford University, before initially finding a job in the defence industry where he learnt C++, he has since had several non-games C++ programming jobs in London and Bristol.

Adam Mamoany, Junior Programmer Adam Mamoany graduated from university in the summer of 2006.  He is now working on the Audio and Video technologies being employed in the next generation of Buzz! games.

Susie Wright, Senior Animator Susie studied animation at Central St Martins, leaving to work in TV, film and commercials and later working on the BAFTA nominated ‘Those Scurvy Rascals’  for Blue Zoo. Susie worked for Aardman Animations and Ragdoll Ltd, Computer Artworks and Climax (now Black Rock) prior to joining Relentless.

Dave Weekes, Junior Programmer Dave graduated from Sussex University in 2005 with a Masters Degree in ‘Virtual Environments’, then spent a brief period traveling before returning to join a web development company followed by obtaining his dream job at Relentless.

Mona Quintanilla, Assistant Producer Mona joined Babel Media as a Localisation QA specialist and soon moved on to doing QA and Localisation Project Management. Her experience was put to good use at MMORPG publisher NCsoft, in QA and Live Operations management across titles such as Tabula Rasa and Lineage 2. She joins Relentless as Assistant Producer.

 * http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=75210

Relentless currently employs 70 staff and is continuing to recruit programmers, artists and other production staff for its upcoming projects on PlayStation®2 and PlayStation®3. For more information please contact: recruitment@relentless.co.uk

About Relentless Software

Relentless Software is a BAFTA award winning company founded in 2003 by Andrew Eades and David Amor. Each with a long track record in the industry they set out to develop new and exciting games for the mass market; games that anyone can enjoy, without a steep learning curve.
Relentless released their first title, DJ: Decks & FX (SCEE), in late 2004, which was subsequently nominated for a BAFTA. They followed up with Buzz!™: The Music Quiz, Buzz!™: The BIG Quiz, Buzz!™: The Mega Quiz and Buzz!™: The Hollywood Quiz; games which feature innovative buzzers and demonstrate Relentless’ commitment to making world class videogames that appeal to everyone and are simple to play. In 2006, the studio collected three prestigious awards, jointly with SCEE, two Develop Industry Excellence Awards and a BAFTA for the creation of Buzz!™.
For further information please visit the company website: HYPERLINK “http://www.relentless.co.uk” www.relentless.co.uk