InterWave People

Alan's passion is seeking and developing new opportunities. From technology and business to finance and gaming, Alan is always looking to expand his horizons with new projects and goals. His key ability is drive: he will set off to accomplish a goal, and he'll only stop pushing for it once it's been completed satisfactorily, and it's allowed him to enjoy the pleasure of a successfully launched project, where others had given up.

After setting up several community projects like SourceBans in 2006, Olly wanted to move on to bigger projects and as one of our senior developers he is responsible for the main codebase of our upcoming games. Olly is known as a hard worker and loves to make the best out of everything.

Prior to setting up InterWave Studios, James has been the lead developer of SharedBans, IRC Relay, Detox Anti-Cheat for the Source engine and many more community projects. With a lot of experience in the field, James is our Lead developer and takes care of all day-to-day development tasks - especially for our upcoming games.

Dennis joined us early on in 2010, following his departure from PlayLogic. Another jack of all trades, Dennis is a fantastically competent and well-paced artist that performs above par with both 2D and 3D assets. Spoken highly of by his ex-colleagues from Guerrilla Games, the guy is a loud and proud joker that likes to wake up a quiet room. Dennis joins the team as the 4th Dutch national in the Family.

Che Hamilton is a veteran of both the professional and amateur games development community. Having been working on since the late 90's, his career slapped him in the face with the birth of Valve's Half-Life, and subsequent titles Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. Che brings a significant amount of experience to the team, and, as a level designer, his careful consideration and planning make for some kick ass levels.

Douglas joined us in late 2009 as a level designer and whilst he continues to perform this role he has exposed a number of additional talents that have been put to great use, not least of which includes an exemplary skill creating 3D assets. His sense of humour, combined appropriately with a professional work ethic make him a pleasure to work with.

Stuart is the eyes of Interwave. His vision and passion for detail drive our modellers to higher standards, if only to match his meticulous research and exceptional realization skills. He is responsible for all those absurdly sexy concept shorts of machines of death and destruction on our website.

Martin is a seasoned professional freelancing artist, who joined InterWave in late 2009 having worked on a plethora of AAA titles, including Mass Effect, Condemned 2, Fallout 3 and Oblivion to name just a few. Martin is exceptionally talented when it comes to all things vehicles, but has a strong passion for organic sculpture, from humanoids to creepy beasts (not that he has anything in common with either).

Having been with us right from the very beginning, Brecht worked as both a level designer and environment artist on InterWave's prototype products in 2008. Studying engineering in his home country, like all Belgians, Brecht enjoys a large pint of bitter, lots of chocolate, waffles, and futuristic assault rifles of all flavours.

Ben is the Game Director for InterWave Studios, and his job is, in a nut shell, to ensure that anything and everything InterWave spends time on has a positively effect on the company and its community. Ben manages our projects in development overseeing all departments. His roots lay deep within level design and environment art, and he was one of the main architects of Stargate: The Last Stand, and Nuclear Dawn. Ben is best known for his dedication to InterWave, and the uncanny speed at which he responds to any query.

After several years at both Synergenix / Blaze Studios and Grin Software, Jonatan joined InterWave toward the end of 2009 following the unfortunate closure of Grin. At his heart he is a very talented and passionate artist, and so it certainly did not take long for him to become part of the family. As a Swedish man, he can of course not help but aspire to be as great as international Shpoople megastar Fjorg Vanderflorgen.

Tom is a dedicated and hard working all-around artist that impresses with both hard surface and organic work. His drive and commitment to working and re-working an asset until perfect for purpose is admirable, and the speed at which he drafts through his workload has fire safety inspectors advising us to install additional flame retardants at and around his desk.

With an extensive background in wasting entire years of his life playing games and then talking about them, Igor brings a smidgeon of industry experience, and a whole lot of hard core old school gaming attitude. If your levels suddenly go 8 bit, you know who to thank. Or blame.

Ben Salmi is a talented pen-to-paper artist that came to InterWave from Stockholm in the summer of 2009. His raw artistic talent goes from hand to media in no time - unfortunately, our scientists are still trying to work out kinks that cause a bottleneck in his brain. The Salmi operates in two modes to date: the first results in thousands of designs in all shape and variety that clog up our infrastructure for days on end, and the other results in a set of schematics that John Herschel himself would be proud of. Unfortunately, communicating with the Salmi in mode 1 results in an unstoppable tidal wave of ideas, and in mode 2... we just won't risk it.

As Lead Level Designer for the Call of Duty modification "German Front", as well as some tremendously well respected level design work on the Source-based Insurgency mod, Matthias took up a role at Grin's Stockholm studio and participated in the development of their Bionic Commando and Terminator series of products. Matthias takes his work very seriously, and very personally, believing in producing at only the best of his abilities at all times - and this, combined with his passion for quality gaming makes him one hell of a guy to work with.

Having spent a year "finding himself" following his graduation, Joe joined up with InterWave studios as a simple environment artist for our prototype projects. Having made a huge impact in his first sitting, he took lead of our character art, and still today remains modest about his inner combination of enthusiasm and raw talent that leaves a warm fuzzy feeling after meetings.

We accidently stumbled upon Alan's portfolio when looking for a special kind of art-enhancing gloop... Which we have still to this day not pinned down. Alan's incredible eye for detail and plethora of both 2D and 3D skills compliment a great creative mind, realizing concepts and bringing them to life time after time. In short, the Van Ryzin is a secret weapon, a true one man army.

Prior to joining InterWave, Jeroen has been working as one of the lead level designers for Insurgency (a well known HL2 mod). Jeroen is now responsible for the new levels being setup for our upcoming game projects and is leading the level design department. He is a hard worker and is always in for some 'music' or 'gaming' fun with Michiel.