HiTech Creations
Encyclopedia
Massively multiplayer online game
A massively multiplayer online game is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously. By necessity, they are played on the Internet, and usually feature at least one persistent world. They are, however, not necessarily games played on...
, Aces High
Aces High (computer game)
Aces High is a combat flight simulator and massively multiplayer online game for Microsoft Windows. It was created by HiTech Creations and originally released on May 8, 2000, the game is subscriber based and is constantly updated and upgraded...
for the PC
IBM PC compatible
IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...
. HiTech Creations (HTC) was started on April 12, 1999 in Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine is a city in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States located within the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census the city population was 46,334. The city's moniker is derived from the native grapes prevalent in the area. In recent years several wineries have...
. The company formed soon after Dale Addink and Doug Balmos left iMagic Online. They also recruited fellow iMagic Online employees, JoAnn Colcleasure, John Guytan, Nathan Mathieu, and Veronica Newman to start the company. Roy Neese later joined the company in 2002. In 2004, Stewart St. John
Stewart St. John
Stewart St. John is an American filmmaker, writer, author, composer, director, producer of television, feature, online and mobile entertainment.-Television and film:...
took over Veronica Newman's position. Then, in the spring of 2005, Carrie Brooks was brought on board in lieu of JoAnn Colcleasure's departure from the company. In December 2006, Nathan Mathieu decided to leave the company to pursue a career with a multimedia company. He was succeeded by long time HiTech Creations collaborator/Aces High player Dan Greve.
HiTech Creations, Inc.
- Dale "HiTech" Addink - CEO/Lead Programmer
- Doug "Pyro" Balmos - Vice President/Producer
- Carrie "Rosie" Brooks - Office Manager
- JoAnn "Yankee" Colcleasure - Former Office Manager
- Dan "Waffle" Greve - Digital Artist
- John "Superfly" Guytan - Art Director
- Nathan "NateDog" Mathieu - Former Art Director
- Roy "Skuzzy" Neese - Technical Support/Webmaster/Community Manager/Systems Administrator/
- Veronica "Ronni" Newman - Former Programmer
- Stewart "Sudz" St. John - Programmer