Company
Verse Studios was founded by Travis Savo, Sean Murphy and Marcus Riedner in early 2006, and shortly there after Nathan Moore joined the team. Verse Studios came together with the shared vision of developing exciting next generation online video games with unique science fiction themes, community driven game play, and novel economic models.
People like stories, and Verse Studios is dedicated to telling them in a virtual playground. We believe that it is essential to provide the tools and the framework to enable players to create storytelling experiences at every level of game play. More than making simple static virtual worlds, Verse Studios strives to create living breathing environments that are constantly evolving.
Management
Verse Studios Incorporated was founded on May 8th, 2006 and secured seed funding early August 2006. The company has put together a management team that consists of accomplished executives with an extensive background in gaming technologies, creative services, and information technologies. The Verse Studios management team has a well established past of successful business management in the technology sector.
In addition Verse Studios has brought together a group of advisors and experts in the business and technology sectors.
Travis Savo : Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Travis Savo is an expert technologist with more than 20 years of hands-on experience. He is fluent in many modern programming languages and best-practice development approaches for large scale networked systems, modern video game engines, desktops applications, mobile and embedded devices, and multimedia platforms. He was most recently the Lead Technical Engineer for the MTV Networks owned IFilm, a premier video portal on the web. He has been a leader of many successful teams on many profitable multi-million dollar enterprise projects. His background in computer science and electrical engineering, coupled with his work in the entertainment industry allows him to provide a unique perspective on the near-future possibilities of technology-based entertainment. Many of his contributions can be found in modern games, large scale enterprise web sites, and free/open source enterprise-level projects.
Nathan Moore : Chief Financial Officer and Founder
Nathan Moore has been involved in the design and implementation of high performance distributed computing farms for almost a decade. Mr. Moore has been heavily involved with multiple startups since working with Idealab!. Past satisfied clients include: Spun.com, the online arms of Wherehouse Entertainment and Second Spin, iAmplify.com and Strategic Data Corp. Major recent projects include implementing a 50-server web-based ad serving farm across three geographically distant collocation facilities, and designing and implementing an iSCSI SAN exported to multiple nodes. A polymath, he holds degrees in both Applied Mathematics and Music Composition from UCLA.
Sean Murphy : Chief Operations Officer and Founder
Sean Murphy brings over a decade of entrepreneurial experience. Mr. Murphy has worked as a freelance 3D artist and has operated a specialized web-hosting service. He has recently completed a three-year project designing and implementing a long-range rural wireless internet provider from conception and market research, through to construction and management of day-to-day operations. Mr. MurphyÕs technical expertise includes long range wireless networking, Unix server configuration, network administration, and information technology infrastructure management. These skills are combined with 3D modeling and animation, specializing in photometrically accurate lighting simulation and technical modeling.
Marcus Riedner : Chief Creative Officer and Founder
Marcus Riedner has been working in the creative field for nearly a decade, having worked on a wide variety of projects ranging across the fields of illustration, web design, graphic design, and game development. Mr. Riedner has worked for The Forzani Group Ltd as a designer, for various artists as a technical assistant, and for the University of Calgary as an illustrator and overseer of a large format printing lab. His primary focus is story building in his efforts in design, art, and game development. Over the last six years he has been involved in the development and maintenance of the online environment where he has played a key roll in thematic development and community building. Mr. Riedner has created a number of CD-Rom based interactives, web sites, and multi-user environments. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Calgary, and a Diploma in Multimedia Communications and Design from Applied Multimedia Training Centre.
