I am writing to introduce Nick Newhard to you. Nick was hired in late Fall, 1998, to be the Director of Design for a new RPG video game product at Crave Entertainment. When he came on board, the production team was busy integrating game assets and scripting Crave’s PlayStation RPG, Shadow Madness, which is shipping on May 29, 1999.

The team was in urgent need of design/scripting talent when Nick joined Crave, so we asked him to learn the complicated scripting language we developed to support the title. Without a complaint or comment, he took to the task and began building screens per the design documents. Nick soon became one of our most creative scripters. He worked well with our engineers and artists, and was able to offer suggestions and redesign scenes to make them more interesting for the player.

After the team completed the integration/scripting of Shadow Madness, another team, at work on Caesar’s Palace for the N64, needed engineering support. Again, and in spite of his Director of Design job description, Nick quickly came up to speed on this project, and began helping to write code and analyze and improve the design. As was the case on Shadow Madness, his peers regarded him as a reliable, creative individual with a strong work ethic.

The management at Crave was impressed with the manner in which Nick approached his tasks. He always had a positive attitude and was an employee in good standing at all times. Unfortunately for Nick and the other employees at Crave in Seattle, Crave has reassessed its strategy regarding internal development, and is divesting itself of its studio in Seattle. We were sorry to see Nick and the other developers, designers and artists leave before their first game even shipped.

At any rate, I can enthusiastically recommend Nick to you, and hope he is give the opportunity to put his skills and creative vision to good use for your company.

Best wishes,

Ted Woolsey

VP Internal Development

Crave Entertainment, Inc.