{"id":42,"date":"2020-02-23T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/toejamandearl\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2020-02-23T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T11:10:09","slug":"f-a-q","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/toejamandearl\/f-a-q\/","title":{"rendered":"F.A.Q."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

F<\/strong>unky A<\/strong>lien Q<\/strong>uestions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q. Who made Toejam and Earl<\/em> originally?
A. That would be Greg Johnson and Mark Voorsanger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me drop some info about those whackey Earthlings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nFor the past seventeen years,\n Greg Johnson has been an independent game designer, establishing a \nunique reputation for creativity and character design. He has published \nseven successful software titles, winning numerous prestigious awards, \nand receiving wide-spread acclaim. The winning team of Greg, and \nten-year business partner, Mark Voorsanger , has repeatedly resulted in \ncreations of uncompromising quality and ingenuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nGreg’s first titles, Starflight along with its sequel, published by \nElectronic Arts, sold close to one million units, and has been credited \nas the first successful graphic adventure game for the PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nThroughout 1998 and 1999, Greg served as Creative Director for ePlanet, \nInc., a company dedicated to developing new vision-based technology and \nto creating ground breaking vision-enabled software products. Greg \ndesigned several products for EP, including their flagship product, \nFreeblenux , a cutting edge, interactive, 3D, vision-enabled virtual \ncharacter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg has spoken on computer game and interface design, both at the Computer Game Developer’s Conference and at Stanford University. He speaks Japanese and Thai almost fluently, and enjoys writing children’s stories as well as designing and playing board games. He received his bachelor’s degree in Bio-Linguistics from the University of California, San Diego. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nMark Voorsanger has managed \nand directed the development of CD-ROM titles, cartridge-based video \ngames, standard PC titles, full-motion video-based products, and other \ncutting-edge systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nBefore founding ToeJam & Earl Productions with Greg Johnson, Mark \nwas a lead programmer for Hasbro’s project NEMO, where he helped to \ndevelop the first full-motion interactive games for in-home use. That \nwork was eventually to become Night Trap , for the Sega CD. Still \nearlier in his career, he programmed two games for Imagic: Fathom for \nthe ColecoVision, and Demon Attack for the Tandy Color Computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nThroughout 1999, Mark served as Project Lead for ePlanet, Inc. , where \nhe led the team to create Freeblenux, the world’s first virtual alien \nwith the gift with sight. This ground-breaking product, built for \npersonal computers with a digital video camera attached, attracted the \ninterest and financial backing of such prestigious partners as Intel, \nMattel, Logitech, Hasbro, Nickelodeon, and Lego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nMark has consulted in the design and development of games with companies\n such as LucasArts Entertainment, Activision, and Accolade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nMark received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and \nComputer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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