MEET THE TEAM
Let’s meet the team working on the reboot of ChipWits.
We’re honored to have Peter B. (Host of the Tea Leaves Programming YouTube Channel) amongst our fans of the game. Peter picked up on our post about FORTH Programming Language and generously offered to do a ChipWits interview on his channel.
Doug Sharp
Co-Creator of the original ChipWits and co-founder of ChipWits, Inc.
He wrote two hit computer games in the mid-80s: ChipWits and Cinemaware’s The King of Chicago. He was a manager and coder in Microsoft Research’s Virtual Worlds Group. He’s written two novels – Channel Zilch and Hel’s Bet – of a planned quartet about kickstarting the Singularity by stealing a space shuttle.
Mark Roth
Lead Engineer and co-founder of ChipWits, Inc.
Mark loves architecting scalable and distributed data systems by day and enjoys writing games for fun on his spare time. In 5th grade, ChipWits helped kindle his interest in coding. By middle school, he wrote his first Commodore 64 assembler and by High School he authored a 3D Graphics library for DOS. Check out www.octagonsoftware.com for some of his other work.
Alex McChesney
Senior Software Engineer for ChipWits, Inc.
Alex is a Scottish ex-pat now living in Austin, Texas with his wife, two kids, and two cats. As a kid in the 1980s he discovered a love of programming on his Sinclair ZX Spectrum and continues to work as a software developer to this day, making games in his spare time. His most recent creations are VekWars for Meta Quest and PCVR. Check out his other games at washingup.itch.io!
Jared Farney
Lead Composer and Sound Designer for ChipWits, Inc.
Jared is a Canadian living in Austin, Texas which means he’s often politely sweating. He has been happily playing and writing music and making sounds for the last 26 years, and with the right amount of coffee, he’ll never stop. Check out his music at jaredfarneymusic.com.
Richard Reis
Art director for ChipWits, Inc.
Richard is based in Brazil, where he lives with his wife and a small army of cats. A passionate fan of classic video games, art, and cinema, he brings his love for these creative worlds into his work. Currently, he works as an art director, 3D artist, and interface designer, blending his skills to create immersive visual experiences.
Nichole Wright
Lead Tester for ChipWits, Inc.
With over a decade of experience in the gaming industry, Nichole worked at Microsoft on iconic projects such as Fable III and played a key role in developing the operating systems for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Now based in Washington, she is passionate about creating engaging and innovative experiences in game development.
Mike Johnston
In Memoriam, 1955-2018 – Original Co-creator of ChipWits
Here, we also remember Mike Johnston.
Mike was one of the co-creators of the original ChipWits.
A portion of ChipWits profit will go to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation (oif.org) in Mike’s memory. Mike was a Lecturer in the U of M Department of Education. He was a founder of two software development companies (Discourse and Interactive Illusions).