Wolfpack

The Wolfpack started out as a very small group of players who decided to take on the task of maintaining and supporting Empire around June-July of 1996. The first release of the code was made in August, 1996 (Empire 4.0.0) It has since grown to a team of roughly 10-15 people with varying degrees of responsibility. There are both active and retired players on the team.

When the Wolfpack originally formed, it was decided to keep ourselves anonymous due to the extremely volatile nature of Empire at the time. Personal attacks, mudslinging, insults and huge flame wars, while all part of the game were being directed at the developers. We decided that it was better to put no face on the Wolfpack in order to deflect many of these problems. It worked.

For a little over 2 years we remained anonymous, until the state of the Empire community had grown to the point where we believed that staying anonymous was no longer an issue. In addition, with the release of the software under the GPL, we believed it was a good time to reveal who was really doing all the work behind the scenes. So, near the end of October, 1998, we did just that.

The Wolfpack is lead by James A. Simons and consists of the following people:

Mark Ballinger

Geoff Cashman

Bill Frolick

William S. Kaster

Pat Loney

Steve McClure

Richard Moss

Roman M. Parparov

James A. Simons

Walter Smith

Sam Tetherow

Yannick Trembley

John Yockey

Note that we still maintain our unified Wolfpack identity. We just thought it was about time we let everyone know who made up that identity, in some form or another.

If you have any questions, bugs to report, or flames (well, think twice about the flames please!) just send us an e-mail