Press Fanatic Magazine September 2015 | Page 28

We are Respec Gaming Studios, a an up-and-coming game development group that wanted to produce video games for the current market that many gamers of today would enjoy. Currently, we are working on first project which is a “2 vs 2”format 2D Fighting Game called S.H.I.F.T. We began on this project and formed this group during 2013 as the project is still ongoing and we continue to produce more work revolved around it. This group was founded by our CEO, Chris Flournoy, a fighting game enthusiast who have great passion for this genre as he manages our staff and the work we produce to make sure it has the best quality to be used as material for our game. Basically, our group is composed of fellow gamers and fighting game enthusiasts who wanted to take part in working on the video game market and have the same beliefs in making games for gamers, by gamers. Of course, the group has gone through several trials and tribulations during the production and development of this game which is to be expected in. But we somehow managed to get back on our feet as we are determined to see our projects come to fruition.

We have managed to gain plenty of positive feedback about the project from many members of the fighting game community and they look forward to see our game finished as well. We have also recruited several supporters who came to help us in various ways, from using their social connections to acquire talent to providing advice for our business decisions, especially coming from our biggest supporter Jason Canty who runs Angry Viking Press. Our CEO isn’t the only who has passion as many of our staff members have equal dedication and reliability as he is such as Mike Long (lead programmers) and Jeremy Benson (lead artist). But this group hasn’t gotten this large and successful without our Community Manager, Adrian Santos. He is our talent scout specialist as he uses his connections and visits to conventions and manages to acquire known talent within voice acting world as well hiring freelancers from artists to programmers.

For being a game development that begun on a project without any funds, they have shown an amazing feat for making so many achievements. But with the dedication of our staff and the help of our supporters, we will do what we can in finishing a game so great that many gamers will enjoy. And if that happens, we would like to look forward into the future and hope to produce even more games. Once gain, we are Respec Gaming Studios, a group that produce games for gamer, by gamers.