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=== Eric Heimburg - Citan ===
: His Birthday is August 19th! Citan and Srand's anniversary is April 1st.
=== Sandra Powers - Srand===
'''Srand''' is Citan's partner in both life and Project Gorgon development. She serves as co-lead developer on the game.
{{Quote|source=[[Dev Blog: July 12, 2023]]|I'm srand (Sandra), co-lead developer on Project: Gorgon along with my husband Citan (Eric). Way, way back in the day I worked on Asheron's Call 1 as a coder and a producer; on Project: Gorgon I've done a little bit of everything except art.}}
=== Admin Jackencola ===
'''Jackencola,''' (as Rummencola) was invited to be a Volunteer Guide in 2018. In August of 2018, they became an Elder Game employee as "Admin Jackencola.'''
{{Quote|source={{Ability icon|Treachery Trooper's Battle Cry|32}} Jackencola (February 2024)|I manage the event system and do development for events. As of recently, I have begun doing development work for other things in game. I handle customer support tickets and do the majority of policing in the game.
Aside from that, it's whatever random task is assigned to me.}}=== Sandra Powers - SrandAdmin Lemons ===: Coder'''Lemons,''' (as Sims) was invited to be a Volunteer Guide in 2018. Code Skill Level 69 In October of 80 2018, they became an Elder Game employee as '''Admin Lemons.'''{{Quote|source={{Item icon|Lemon|32}} Lemons (9 from bonuses2022)|: She is Chaos I manage the bug database, and more recently I've been helping with QA testing. I help with customer service when needed (moderating steam forums/official pages, very rarely replying to e-mails). I sometimes help create and set up live events (Wildthings involving scapegoats, mainly) Magician . Hmm.. Other than that use her code skill , I do pretty much anything srand/Citan need done at the time.}}=== Nick J Vaccaro - Nikodemus ===Nikodemus is a professional programmer who began working as a contractor on Project Gorgon in February 2021. They have made major contributions to help in creation the UI, redesigned the targeting system, implemented player mounts, added fishing, and solved hundreds of Projectplayer-submitted bugs.* Their personal website is https: Gorgon//nickvaccaro. Work under some Evil Black Magician that force her com/about{{Quote|source=Nikodemus (February 5th 2024)|I focus primarily on Quality-of-Life changes and bugfixes; my goal is to do take all the brilliant design ideas of the others (sometimes including players!) and make them as accessible and smooth as possible. Ocasionally I sneak in some random animation and sometimes unpleasant grunt VFX work, because who doesn't want to have a little fun from time to time? But none of the animation bugs are my fault, definitely not... that's uhh, some other guy. /gulp.}}
=== Ryan Fritz- Silvonis ===
: '''Silvonis''' is a member of the Project Gorgon Development team with the title of Producer. They previously ran the second website forum and handled in-game moderation tasks before the introduction of the Volunteer Guide system.
=== Conor Brace - Wyrmrider ===
: '''Conor Brace''' is a composer, sound designer, and game designer from Austin, Texas. Check out his His music is featured as background tracks in most dungeons and zones. Wyrmrider is the name of a character he once used in-game.  His personal website for hosts clips of Project Gorgon music, information on the game's instrument system, and more informationdetails about his other musical projects.
; http://conorbrace.com/
; https://soundcloud.com/conorbracemusic
=== Admin Jackencola ===
'''Jackencola,''' (as Rummencola) was invited to be a Volunteer Guide in 2018. In August of 2018, they became an Elder Game employee as "Admin Jackencola.'''
=== Admin Lemons ===
'''Lemons,''' (as Sims) was invited to be a Volunteer Guide in 2018. In October of 2018, they became an Elder Game employee as '''Admin Lemons.'''
{{Quote|source={{Item|Lemon}}|
I manage the bug database, and more recently I've been helping with QA testing. I help with customer service when needed (moderating steam forums/official pages, very rarely replying to e-mails). I sometimes help create and set up live events (things involving scapegoats, mainly). Hmm.. Other than that, I do pretty much anything srand/Citan need done at the time.
}}
 
=== Aaron Victoria - Aviticus Gladius===
: '''Aaron''' is a friend and sometimes development partner of '''Eric Heimburg.''' Aaron is Around 2013 he began working on his own MMOusing the Gorgon Engine, Legends of Etherell: Antavia. The game was still being worked on as of 2019. His company has provided art assets to Project Gorgon in exchange for programming support for Legends of Etherelland other projects such as Valiance Online.; https* Interview discussing partnership with Project Gorgon://www.facebook.com/LegendsofEtherell/; ''' https://steamcommunityvimeo.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=136716613104481081'''; Interview discussing partnership with Project Gorgon* Facebook page for Etherell: ''' https://vimeowww.facebook.com/104481081LegendsofEtherell/'''
{{:Volunteer Guides}}
=== Pre-Alpha and Alpha EMs & Moderators ===
== Blog Posts & Long Forum Comments ==
This section chronologically organizes backups of posts made by the developers across three separate blogs. The oldest blog posts (beginning in 2010) are from the Elder Game blog, a website run by Citan and Srand where they posted thoughts about the game industry. Eventually that blog become dedicated to Project Gorgon themed posts. In 2014, posts shifted to the second Project Gorgon forum. The most recent era of posts are from the current (third) forum's blog section.
; Navigation Notes and Useful Links.
* Clicking on any blog post will allow a user to read a copy of that post.
* Each blog post entry on the wiki has a link to the previous and next posts chronologically plus a link to return to this page.
* The oldest blog entry is: [[Elder Game: Indie Games, Prototyping, and Fun Finding]] - Posted by Citan on June 14, 2010.
* The first mention of Project Gorgon is: [[Elder Game: Punditry is dumb. Switching to developer mode!]] - Posted by Citan on June 18, 2011.
* The first blog entry on the second forum is: [[Recent Site Changes]] - Posted by Citan on Thursday, October 14, 2014.
* The first blog entry on the third forum is: [[Citan's Bug Reporting]] - Posted by Citan in 2016.
===== 2023 =====
: [[Game News, 2023-11]] - Posted by Citan on Friday, November 10, 2023.
: [[Dev Blog: The Life and Death of Charged Pig]] - Posted by Citan on Thursday, January 30, 2020.
: [[Event Blog: Crafting Caravan 2.0]] - Posted by Jackencola on Thursday, January 16, 2020.
 
===== 2019 =====
: [[Dev Blog: April 2, 2019]] - Posted by Citan on Tuesday, April 2, 2019.
: [[Reddit MMORPG AMA!]] - Held on Monday, April 23, 2018.
: [[Steam Integration is Coming! How Will it Work?]] - Posted by Citan on Sunday, February 11, 2018.
 
===== 2017 =====
: [[New UI Preview]] - Posted by Silvonis on Monday, November 27, 2017.
: [[Citan's Bug Reporting]] - Posted by Citan in 2016
===== 2015 =====
: [[Kickstarter 3: Updates]]: - Posted between July 26, 2015 and August 28, 2015.: (Updates continue continued between December 2015 and March 2018.)
: [[Website Was Down! ... New Website Coming Soon!]] - Posted by Citan on Sunday, November 1, 2015
: [[The Pain -- and Joy -- of Alpha-Testing]] - Posted by Citan on Friday, September 25, 2015
: [[Website Words of Power]] - Posted by Citan in 2014
: [[Website Damage Types]] - Posted by Citan in 2014
 
===== 2013 =====
:[[Elder Game: Cheesemaking]] - Posted by Citan on December 6, 2013
:[[Elder Game: Complexity and Group Combat]] - Posted by Citan on January 19, 2012
:[[Elder Game: Howl Sound Effect]] - Posted by Citan on January 8, 2012
 
===== 2011 =====
:[[Elder Game: Features In, Features Out]] - Posted by Citan on December 30, 2011
:[[Elder Game: There Shouldn’t Be A Signup Form]] - Posted by Citan on January 3, 2011
:[[Elder Game: New Year, New Method]] - Posted by Srand on January 1, 2011
 
===== 2010 =====
:[[Elder Game: Indie Games, Prototyping, and Fun Finding]] - Posted by Citan on June 14, 2010