Bio:
Kevin graduated from Carleton College with a BA in Computer Science in 1992. After
some soul searching (and some job searching, neither of which went horribly well)
he decided to join the Army. He spent the next 4 years in the infantry - first toting
a machine gun, and later flipping PowerPoint slides and correcting grammatical errors
for his superiors in military headquarters (where life was considerably less exciting,
but also considerably less muddy). Upon his release, he decided that he was going to
pursue his dream of making computer games for a living...but first, he went back to
school. He attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied subjects like real
time systems, networking, simulations, and AI. He quickly fell in love with AI, so he
transferred to Northwestern University where he could concentrate on his primary
interests: believable agents and computer games. Two years later, after completing
his Master's degree, he finally did what his mother had been hoping for all along and
got a real job. That was in 2001. In the intervening six years he has worked for three
companies on five published titles, ranging from strategy games to animal simulations.
He is currently working for Blue Fang Games where he has just finished up with Zoo
Tycoon 2: Marine Mania! and is starting on an as-yet-unannounced project, also animal
based, that he's not allowed to talk about much.