Video Game Development at the University of Michigan

Officers, Past & Present

2009

Photo Name Position
 
Ryan Meier President
Doug Strait Vice President
Warren Michael Bame Treasurer
Sean Francis Sheehan Events Coordinator
Artun Kircali Events Coordinator
Mitchell Keith Bloch Project Advisor
Curt Lawrence Webmaster

2008

Photo Name Position
 
Warren Michael Bame President
Artun Kircali Treasurer
Sirius Hang Gu Events Coordinator
Sean Francis Sheehan Gamesmaster
Marc Morisseau Art Director
Dan Robert Demp Webmaster (Fall)
Maclain Bruce Wiltzer Webmaster (Winter)

2007

Photo Name Position
 
Mitchell Keith Bloch President
Warren Michael Bame Treasurer
Paul Skowronek Events Coordinator
Dale White Webmaster
Keenan Patterson Secretary
Vishnu Desaraju Publicity Coordinator
Steven Jones Gamesmaster
Marc Morisseau Director of Art

2006

Begun with vision and pride on April 17th, 2006.

Photo Name Position
 
Mohammad Dar President
Warren Michael Bame Treasurer
Paul Skowronek Events Coordinator
Mitchell Keith Bloch Webmaster
BJ Bauman Treasurer (first)
Keenan Patterson Secretary
Vishnu Desaraju Publicity Coordinator
Chris Fosdick Gamesmaster

2005

Photo Name Position
 
Andrew Pinson President
Kay Fedewa Vice President
BJ Bauman Treasurer
Mohammad Dar Events Coordinator
Mitchell Keith Bloch Webmaster
Chris Fosdick Gamesmaster

2004

In the 2004-2005 school year, Wolverine Soft gain many new members thanks to a successful mass meeting. The second 48-hour Game Development Contest took place in October, as well as a Game Design Contest in September. Weekly Development Sessions began during this year and proved successful. Finally, the WolverineWare project was launched as the first true Wolverine Soft community project.

Photo Name Position
 
Hayden Cacace President
Peter Knepley Treasurer
Richard Alvarez Events Coordinator
Simba Blackman Webmaster
Andrew Pinson Secretary
Nathaniel (Nate) Bonham Publicity Coordinator

2003

Photo Name Position
 
Alex Kerfoot President
Jason Eaton Vice President
Brandon Arrendondo Webmaster
Jeremy Bell Projects Coordinator
Stephen Haselschwerdt Treasurer / Secretary

2002

Back in the United States, Ed Baraf devoted most of his energy to developing Crisis Wolverine and advising Wolverine Soft. The group was largely autonomous from him at this point. They worked on assorted small projects.

Crisis Wolverine was the only large project completed and released this year.

Photo Name Position
 
Paul Oppenheim President
Karandeep Singh Vice President
Dave Ratti Webmaster
Jay Anthony Semerad Secretary / Treasurer

2001

In 2001, Ed Baraf spent a year abroad in Japan. He ran Wolverine Soft as President with Phil Cherdron as acting Vice-President. Half-way through the year Phil had to step down, and Paul Oppenheim became the acting Vice-President. At the end of the year Paul and Dave worked on setting up Officer Elections.

The team began the year working on Burnt Planet, but eventually decided to move on to other projects, including Bomberman 3D.

Photo Name Position
 
Eduardo L Baraf President
Dave Ratti Webmaster
Paul Oppenheim Vice-President (second)
Jay Anthony Semerad Officer

2000

In year two, Wolverine Soft continued to grow and expand. We had more members and more structure. We started to interact with professors and professional game development companies. We even sponsored tournaments and T-shirts.

Development of Burnt Planet continued.

Photo Name Position
 
Eduardo L Baraf President
Sami AlAwadhi Technical Officer
Jay Anthony Semerad Officer
Jay Klein Secretary

1999

Ed Baraf founded Wolverine Soft in 1999, when he was only a freshman at the University of Michigan. He wanted to make games, and no organization comparable to Wolverine Soft existed at the time, so he took the initiative to create one.

In order to move the charter forward, Ed needed four other members to start the group. They didn't have officer positions back then, but these guys did it all.

Aside from getting Wolverine Soft started, we worked on Crisis Wolverine for the majority of the year, and then moved to Burnt Planet (3D Scorched Earth).

Photo Name Position
 
Eduardo L Baraf President
Jay Anthony Semerad Officer
Jay Klein Secretary
Richard Jansen Technical Officer