About us: dot-invasion is a full service design/entertainment studio & cooperative composed of a team of designers and developers heavily influenced by computers, japanese culture, video games and many other forms of artistic works. We are dedicated to provide a wide range of creative and technical services, including video game development and design, web design and application, multi-user and multi-player applications, and more (check here for a detailed list of services). The dot-team: Here's an overview of the good guys keeping dot-invasion alive:   Name: Alexandre Renevey Dot-job: Multimeda designer / 2D artist / Project manager Biography: Alexandre Renevey (birth est. 1975-) is a multimedia designer from Switzerland, and he spent most of his childhood drawing, painting, composing music, creating self-made movies and playing video games. He is still heavily influenced nowadays by the retro gaming community, and created some retro games like "Meteor Busters" (here) and the unfinished "Forgotten Myths" (here). He created dot-invasion and mainly started to work on sprites for flash, mobile devices, GBA and DS etc. Today, dot-invasion is still expanding, providing a numerous of services such as sound composition, multi-player development, C++ development, and as usual flash development and 2D art. More infos about Alexandre Renevey can be found here. Name: Claude Tachnakian Dot-job: Illustrator / 2D artist / Character designer Biography: Claude Tachnakian (birth est. 1978-) Name: M.A. Toivonen Dot-job: Illustrator / 2D artist / Character designer Biography: M.A. Toivonen (birth est. 1983-) was found by a group of daring explorers deep in the midst of a South American rain forrest. He was dirty and unruly, but generally at good spirits, so naturally he was promptly brought back to civilisation. Despite having spent his early years among a flock of chimpanzees, M.A. was soon able to become accustomed to the ways of man. When he, for example, learned that throwing feces was not socially acceptable, M.A. turned his primal urges towards creating what he would refer to as "art". That is also where we find him today, lumping over his desk, trying to make sense of the magical stick that leaves marks on the big, white sheets. Godspeed to you, M.A.! Name: Rinaldo Wirz Dot-job: 2D artist / Character designer / Game document writer Biography: Soon... Name: Nilsen Filc Dot-job: Lead programmer / Multi-player developer Biography: Nilsen Filc (birth est. 1978-) started to code puzzle games aged 14. His interest in multi-player programming began in 1996, when he began the "2ice server" project, a multi-player game server coded in C aimed towards an existing online tetris-like game client, "Tetrinet". The project imposed itself as a reference among the multi-player servers, thanks to its innovations in capabilities and interactions between users. It is known as "Downstack" and "Tetrifast" (the 2ice dual server). 2iceMP was launched in late 2000. It was at that time the first framework featuring a real time multi-player tetris like game. Other games, such as Othello, Chess, or tools, like a shared drawing tool, were added. Nilsen was approached by Ankama Studio (dofus.com) in 2003, by Sony Ericsson the following year. More infos about Nilsen Filc can be found here. Name: Renaud Cascales Dot-job: Lead programmer Biography: Soon... Name: Steven Velema Dot-job: Sound composer Biography: Steven Velema (birth est. 1983-) is a game music composer hailing from the Netherlands. He has composed original music for a number of commercial handheld titles, such as Narnia (DS/GBA), Shrek Superslam (DS/GBA), Harry Potter Goblet of Fire (DS/GBA), Sims 2 (DS), Burnout Legends (DS) and Eragon (GBA), among others. He also completed his college degree and as such, is a Master of Arts in Composition in Context. All the time he spent at school was put into research on things such as interactive game music and the relationship between developer and composer. Name: Frédéric Robinson Dot-job: Sound composer Biography: Frédéric Robinson (birth est. 1983-) is a sound designer and music composer who is working in his own studio located in the french west cost. He started as a guitar player but his passion for all kinds of sounds and harmonies leaded him to try a lot of differents instruments and computer progs. During and after his audio-visual studies in France he worked with one studio in Lyon as mixing engineer and musical arranger. Bubble Islands's experience is the first one for him in the video game industry. "One size fits all", one music to dance, to listen, music to love and one music for having fun in video games. No style but the right one.