Josh Martel

Developer BIO

Eighties
Atari BASIC, Byte magazine, a four-foot stack of NES games, homebrew D&D.

Nineties
From IBM XT clone to Pentium 100. From text adventures and BBSs to Quake and Teh Intarweb. From "teach yourself C" books to writing C code all the time. No, really, a whole lot of C code. I wrote some small Doom/Heretic/Quake editing utilities, some mildly successful Quake mods, some mildly unsuccessful Quake mission packs, commercial Quake front-ends, helped kick-start machinima with Operation:Bayshield (which I now violently cringe at), rendered a few wireframe meshes in mode 13h, made the LEDs on my keyboard blink, cheated in games I didn't really care to cheat in just because it was fun to hack savegames and EXEs, wrote a war-dialer and never used it, and generally soaked up and regurgitated every bit of information I could get my various senses on. I helped create a small startup company to make a Quake mod, made said Quake mod, then buried said company and Quake mod.
... lived in dirty 3-bedroom house with 6 to 8 other people because it meant I could program and play games all day.
... lived in a friend's art studio because it meant I could program and play games all day.
... worked various crappy side jobs because it meant I could program and play games part of the day at least.

Somehow I never got tired of it.

FUTURE THE NEXT
I finally got my first "real job" at Ion Storm working on Tom Hall's Anachronox. I was there for about three years and it was an incredible experience. After Ion went under, I was lazy for a while. You know... playing games and programming. Some other stuff happened. Eventually I worked at Monkeystone Games, worked on a few mobile-phone games that never shipped, and worked on Hyperspace Delivery Boy, which did ship.

After I left Monkeystone, I was lazy for a while. You know... playing games and programming. Some other stuff happened. Eventually I worked at Ritual Entertainment, where I helped ship Star Trek: Elite Force II, Sin Episodes: Emergence, and a few other things. I've was there for about four years. It's a unique place with talented and wonderful people.

I left Ritual on good terms, for personal reasons, and moved to Austin, where I'm currently doing a whole lot of nothing (and enjoying it).

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Games Credited

Depths of Peril (2007), Soldak Entertainment, Inc.
25 to Life (2006), Eidos Interactive Ltd.
SiN Episodes: Emergence (2006), Valve Corporation
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004), Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Half-Life: Counter-Strike (2003), Microsoft Games Studios
Star Trek: Elite Force II (2003), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Hyperspace Delivery Boy! (2002), Monkeystone Games
Anachronox (2001), Eidos Interactive Ltd.
X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse (1997), WizardWorks Software
Final DOOM (1996), id Software, Inc.
H!Zone (1996), WizardWorks Software