Brandon ‘Wayward’ Casteel (owner/founder)
Brandon ‘Wayward’ Casteel is the founder of the site Wayward Strategy and the lead game designer on Tempest Rising and Warpaws.
A graphic/web designer by education and currently SharePoint programmer by day as well as a game designer by night, Brandon’s real passion is competitive gaming, especially the real-time strategy and real-time tactics genres. Brandon has been playing RTS since WarCraft: Orcs and Humans and is a long-time fan of Blizzard’s art direction, citing the work of Samwise Didier and Chris Metzen as some of his inspirations for going into graphic design in the first place.
Brandon has also contributed to Crossfire: Legion, Aven Colony, NeuroSlicers, and Battle Battalions.
Contributors
Felipe Gonzalez Argañaras
Felipe Gonzalez Argañaras is a history teacher from Argentina. Lending his scientific education in both humanities and natural sciences to enriching the real-time strategy and real-time tactics discourse. His main effort is set on understanding and distilling the design choices and trends of those genres and how they articulate into a coherent system.
Felipe has been playing RTS since the original Age of Empires and has had the chance to experience the evolution of the genre through the years. He prides himself of reaching the top 200 rank in 2vs2 as Allies in Company of Heroes 2 at some point of his 1400 hours sunk in that game.
Peter “Johaggis” Hechler
Peter Hechler, or “Johaggis”, is a web developer based out of New York City. But as a lifelong fan of the RTS genre, he’s dedicated his spare time to building an RTS of his own design. Also, a big Age of Empires 3 apologist.
Callum McCole
Callum McCole is a game designer and commentator. He became known in the RTS space via his YouTube channel Generals Gentlemen. He was the senior designer on Ashes of the Singularity and also contributed to Star Control: Origins.
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