First off I freakn love Real-Time-Strategy

ok, hey

My name is Chad Freseman and I am the designer and project leader of Sixth Extinction

Sixth Extinction is a Proof of Concept Multiplayer PC Demo for a 3D Modern Military RTS Game using the Torque Game Engine 1.5.

A bit of history about the design

I have been working on this game off and on since 2000. A major renovation of the design began in 2003 and in May of 2006 the design was completed (thank god!). This is all I am doing with my life right now; from when I awake to when I sleep I dedicate my time to making this game become a reality.

The merging of realism and RTS is a significant challenge and is full of many pitfalls. A game that is completely realistic becomes a simulator, and by nature, is very boring. A game that looks like a modern military game but plays like a sci-fi game delivers strategies that are counter-intuitive and disappoints gamers looking to execute real war strategies. The struggle (and what took me so many years to solve) was to incorporate enough real-world constraints to allow the gameplay to have the feel of realism, while maintaining an exciting, intuitive and RTS gamer friendly paradigm.

During the design period Warcraft III custom maps were created to aide in verifying the validity of some of the design elements. There was 57 major revisions of the tech tree and I re-wrote the design document more times than I care to remember.

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Garage Games Description

Bit more about my other interests

I am a multi-instrumental musician and am available to create music for games, please listen to some music i have created Here.

The bands I am most influenced by are:
Dream Theater
Freak Kitchen
Avenged Sevenfold
Chroma Key
NIN
Paul Oakenfold
Alice DeeJay
T.A.T.U.
Enigma
Yanni
Loreena McKennitt

I want to add that GGE is an amazing achievement and I am proud to be a part of it!

Chad