Hey guys,
Team Overlord was a group founded by Gary Ng, Branan Sarveswaran, Rachel Fung and Mackenzie Sturrup in Fall of 2010 for our Game Development Workshop group. Starting off, Gary would be the lead programmer and the team leader, Branan would be the designer and story writer, Rachel would be the artist and Mackenzie would be the designer. That semester, we created the text based adventure game, Portal Puffs (Download) which was out debut game as a game development group. Overall, the game came together fairly well and it was well received by our profs when we had to present it.
The semester after that, we had to work on a 2D game where we worked as a team to create Reaper (Download), a 2D sidescroller. Due to time constraints however, we couldn’t do as much as we wanted to so when we came back for our second year of university studies, we recruited Chris Lee so that the group would have another dedicated programmer. Together we created the game SHFT (Download) which is a 2.5D top down RTS game that received immense positive feedback from our professors, TAs and even fellow students.
Unfortunately this semester Chris has decided to leave us. However we have replaced him with Alexander Best and are even in talks of adding a sixth member as well. As our roles have somewhat shifted over the semester with people discovering new talents and abilities as well as adding members, the current roles of our members are:
- Gary Ng – Lead Programmer and Team Leader
From left to right: Mack, Chris, Gary, Branan and Rachel (Team Overlord Fall 2011)
- Branan Sarveswaran – Lead 3D Artist and 2D Artist
- Rachel Fung – Lead 2D Artist and 3D Artist
- Mackenzie Sturrup – Audio, Programmer, Artist
- Alex Best – Programmer
With the success of SHFT, our goal this semester is to make something even better. We want to improve on it and make the best game UOIT has seen. It’s an ambitious goal, but we have a talented team and it is something that is definitely doable.
Gary
Team Overlord 
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