1/2Hawk aka Michael Hoag

Long time modder (from the Duke Nukem / Doom days) but probably best known for being a lead dev on the Battlefield Pirates 2 mod for BF2. He started playing MP games when he moved to Europe about 10 years ago, playing BF1942 with the Wolf guys who had a crew of ex-pats playing on servers in Holland. He later joined the -=4th=- when he came home to the States, and eventually was put in charge of organizing the team for competing in various TWL leagues for BF2. That spawned a deeper interest in mapping and learning his way around all these modelling programs in order to make better practice maps for the 2v2 armor and heli ladders.

Eventually, he decided to stop playing online so much and jumped feet first into the modding scene, helping lead a small team of really talented guys do a full conversion of BF2 into a light-hearted 18th century swashbuckling mod called BF Pirates 2 about 2 years ago. While short lived, he’ll always be proud of the work they accomplished on that project! Back then he had crossed paths with a few guys behind the scenes here at Plastic Piranha so he was pretty geeked when they asked if he’d be interested in turning his attention to the Unreal engine this time around. He’s got a well rounded set of skills, so they gave him free reign to start knocking out as much cool shit as he can dream up. He’s spend most of his time lately developing the Sewers map, getting our weapons in-game and making custom material shaders, but you can just as easily find him hanging out in chat or on the forums helping folks from the community out with their own custom projects. The handle has nothing to do with birds btw … It comes from his time at MIT where he decided to drop the corporate attire for leather bondage pants, combat boots and a white half-(mo)hawk (sometimes called faux hawk) so he could tell the Harvard pricks where they could stick it with authority, laughing as they turned tail and fled. “Hey – d’you see that dude with the half-hawk?” Well, somebody had to do it… >:)

SpacepiG aka Mats Johansson

After his schooling in sweden he joined the Swedish army as a General Purpose Machine Gunner in the swedish special forces anti sabotage unit. After the mandatory time in the army he volonteered for one more year as well as a 10 year contract similar to the army reserve. He recruited for another army but during the recruiting period he realized that it was not for him so he went back home. He took a couple years figuring out what he wanted to do and worked at a special sport school teaching snowboard, mountain climbing and scuba diving. In the evenings he worked as a bartender. Finally realized that it was not something he could do forever so he went back to school and studied programming and computer science. Once done he started my own company PiG Productions that he was successfully running for 3 years until he was tricked into the automotive industry.

He joined a swedish company that was starting up as a supplier of intelligent all wheel drive as an embedded systems programmer. In 2003 he moved to Usa for the same company as a control software and Vehicle Dynamics engineer (the car manufacturer tells him how the car should behave and he programs the car to act that way regarding security and performance) He’s a fan of Tactical Realism (mixing reality with fun-to-play), probably because he’s too old to stand a chance in regular run and gun play. He was not a fan of people getting kicked and banned on TR servers so he wrote a mod for call of duty that would force the rules and thereby no need to kick players not following them.

TRM joined a new mod that started a couple years later called OpenWarfare. It was used by mutiple leagues etc and he stayed for quite some time until the game developers suddenly said F*** modders, play it our way or the highway. Thats why he was very excited when he was approached by Plastic Piranha and it is still today his motivation. First Computer: Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k Best game ever: Way of the Exploding Fist! (modern fav game would be cod 4:MW)

Usual mood: Pissed off
Favorite food: red bull vodka
Favorite drink: vodka red bull
Favorite entertainment: Drinking red bull vodka in my underwear watching cops and swat:Detroit pic in pic
Married, father of three (Lucas 3 years old, Isabella and Victoria twins)

Zeroy aka Yohan Riou

Level Designer and Game programmer enthusiast, he have mainly worked on Activision's Call of Duty Series but are always open to new Engines/IP.

Michael Allar

Programming extraordinaire!!! CODE is Michaels life.

Moreover, he brings a wealth of knowledge to the team that we are all very proud of. Michael has been busy programming away on Rikochet, and we look forward to share his efforts with everyone as we go forward.

Eric Blade

If you have ever been over at the udk/unreal forum you have surely seen this name before

Eric is the programmer who don't take it can't be done for an answer. It will be done! He have previously worked on numerous titles including Dungeon Defenders!

DreamGirl aka Kari

She is our Community Managers here at Plastic Piranha. Her main goal for Rikochet is to bring back the power to the gamers. Give the community a game that they want to play every waking second and a game that will have the staying power for the casual and competitive gamers out there.

She started her own team called DreamTeam eSports in June of 2008 and in 2010 she formed an all girls Call of Duty 4 promod team. She was the President of FragGirls.com, Anti-Cheat Admin for TWL, Co-Host for FragCast hosted by FragWorld.org and Co-Caster for e-rev tv. Now she’s helping out the dev team here at PlasticPiranha and being a CM.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to always contact Kari or Josh, you the community is our #1 priority

TrailerTrash aka Jason B.

I am Trailer, aka Jason Brice. Along with the others you have met, I am a fellow PIRANHAN. By day, I am a mild mannered movie trailer producer. By night, I'm wasting noobs on a server near you!!! Actually, I'm a noob too, but I LOVE GAMING/MAPPING/PROGRAMMING/MODELING, basically anything related to great FPS gameplay.

Some of you may be familiar with some of the maps I have created, some of you not so much...so here goes.

BF2142
1) OPERATION SHINGLE : released/ranked by DICE/EA 1.5 patch 2007
2) YELLOW KNIFE : DICE/EA w 1.51 patch release date (any day now)
3) MOLOKAI : DICE/EA w 1.51 patch release date (any day now)
4) STRIKE AT KARKAND : DICE/EA w 1.51 patch release date (any day now)
5) OPERATION BLUE PEARL (lightmapping/finalizing layouts only) : DICE/EA w 1.51 patch release date (any day now)

COD4 MW
1) THE BRIDGE MW community map (UO conversion)
COD2
2) Desert Siege community (was one of my first, and not very good...lol)

Rick Givens

Rick is a prior U.S. Marine, having served a few years as a Rifleman with Marine Security Forces Company overseas, he eventually move on to become a Security Contractor and then Law Enforcement Officer, his last position with the U. S. Federal Air Marshal Service.

A Gamer since the days of the Atari 2600, Rick knew nothing about computers and decided he needed to learn, so using Google, he self-taught himself the basics of computer building, modifying and overclocking, picking up some skill in modifying and producing graphic media along the way. It’s still a learning process, but he rarely depends on someone else to fix what he has broken.

Rick’s involvement in the Gaming Community started with Off Duty Gamers, a group of Veterans and Active Duty Servicemembers, as a Staff Member writing and reporting news of interest to the Community. He has served as a Technical Consultant to a variety of projects, including Rikochet in its earliest stages, and a variety of other Gaming Community outlets.

Now, he’s one of us, working with the Community Managers as the Public Relations and Media Manager for Plastic Piranha. Rick’s rather…unique background, offers a fresh perspective as we forge ahead. Plus, he’s fun to have around.

Predrag Pesic

A Game Designer and Game Artist from Belgrade, Serbia. Worked as a lead designer on couple of indie titles like Twin Sector and Booster Trooper. His main goal/role will be to bring all levels to life with top quality environmental lighting and add art to it all.

DJ Nykk aka Nikola Tomic

Graphics guru and behind the scenes engine that made the look of this site. Audio and video ...

BoltX aka Igor Hrustic

Gamer. Web Developer. Father. Husband. Beta tester for Croteam's Serious Sam TFE and TSE, and recently Serious Sam HD. Now a web-guy for R1k0.

Igor got a start in computer gaming on a friends Sinclair ZX-81 - black and white fantastic little computer. Using German Elektor magazin - typed games directly from the source - and played such awesome titles as "Invaders" and "Ghost" at the age of 10

Ever since worked on/around/with computers. Ended up a web developer. As of late, working extensively with WebServices and started a few Mobile Apps projects.

As a PC gamer, CoD series made him an addict, so he started to poke (and peek) around eXtreme mod. A few maps that noone ever liked was the pinnacle of his success. Thus, he returned to a quiet life as the web developer

John Sonedecker

His groundbreaking work has contributed to the success of several major AAA titles, most notably his time at Red Storm.
His credits include:
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Ghost Recon 2
The Sum of All Fears
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Covert Ops Essentials
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Mission Pack - Urban Operations
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six

John has also spent time in the Government sector, working under United States Special Operations Command(USSOCOM) at the John F. Kennedy Special Warefare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, NC. There, his time was spent developing training and mission rehersal applications for Special Operations units using modern cutting edge game technology.