The Freeze Tag Team

Craig Holland, CEO

  • What I Do:  A little bit of everything. Most of all, I try to make sure Freeze Tag creates games that explode with an “I-can’t-stop-playing-this” feeling of fun. I’ve been in the games business for a long time, starting back with Thumbworks, one of the pioneers of the mobile games industry. Before that, I founded an interactive marketing firm that I sold to a Canadian company. Before that, I went to USC and UCLA to get degrees in Business (MBA) and English Literature. Before that I was a kid who liked to play games a lot.
  • What Game I Am Playing: Rocket Weasel
  • What Inspires Me:  My family. They are the inspiration for everything I do.
    • Mick Donahoo, COO

  • What I Do:  I fix things, manage things, coordinate things, and wonder where the time goes. On the record, I serve as the operations guy for the company. Have a background in technology and have been managing games and game projects for quite a long time. Graduated from BYU with a degree in Information Systems, and got my start working with Ernst & Young in their Management Consulting practice. I was a co-founder with Craig Holland at Thumbworks (sold to In-Fusio in 2005), and co-founded Freeze Tag in 2006.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Cat Physics (iPad)
  • What Inspires Me:  Family (wife and 4 kids), scuba diving, fixing things, and a whole bunch of other stuff that would take too much of the page to write.
    • Sean Allum, Artist

  • What I Do:  I concept and polish the environments for our most recent games. I’ll tell you, I highly recommend it, I mean I just drop into an imaginary world that I both create and am enveloped by all day… everyday. Pretty Sweet.
  • What Game I am Playing:  I don’t play games, I am always dead serious.
  • What Inspires Me:  I am inspired by long walks on the beach, bullet holes in concrete, great abs and … oh wait wrong meeting. I suppose most of my inspiration comes from the ride itself. Whether its the interesting perspective of a sinking building or the more ethereal and ancient world of plants and insects, I think most inspiration arises in my heart and how it interacts with this matrix that we are embedded in… umm yeah thats right :)
    • Mark Brashear, Lead Artist

  • What I Do:  Sit in a chair and make something happen. Push buttons on the computer, hit send/receive, make games…
  • What Game I am Playing:  Mushrooms Wars, Insanely twisted shadow planet and any Sports game.
  • What Inspires Me:  Anything awesome, like pop tarts!
    • Danielle Brown, Artist

  • What I Do:  I draw a lot of everything and eat when I’m not. My two favorite things!
  • What Game I am Playing: I like to pretend I’m playing Diablo 3 and Guild Wars 2. But in reality I’m playing Rift and Bastion.
  • What Inspires Me:  Cute puppy pictures and motivational posters.
    • Kyle Christensen, Associate Producer

  • What I Do:  When I’m not defending my current title as the office ping pong champion, I can be found tracking production schedules, maintaining partner relations and pursuing new marketing opportunities.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Archipelago (Android)
  • What Inspires Me:  Outdoor sports, camping, anything with water, photography, my wife and two little girls.
    • Ben Holland, QA/Design/Music/Sound

  • What I Do:  I mix tracks, tickle wind chimes, and bang pots and pans together to create luscious music and sounds. Also design, write help messages, and test the greatest games on earth.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Unsolved Mystery Club: Ancient Astronauts!! Yeah!!
  • What Inspires Me:  My beautiful fiancée, Heavenly Father, my family, music, the Book of Mormon, and the magical world around us!
    • John Holman, Associate Producer

  • What I Do:  I produce results. From taking out the trash, to our mobile games, I do what it takes to get it done.
  • What Game I am Playing:  RoboSurf (Android)
  • What Inspires Me:  I am inspired by my wife, the beach, the stars, movies, and whatever else I can get my hands on and turn into a creative outlet.
    • Russell Hunter, Senior Programmer

  • What I Do:  Python wrangler and code cowboy. I help other programmers squash bugs with big boots.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Inbox Zero
  • What Inspires Me:  My wife, kids, and a good view after a long hike.
    • Lesley Jensen, QA

  • What I Do:   I test games for quality assurance while fighting off the onset of hypothermia, sure to be contracted from the intense air conditioning in the office.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Portal 2
  • What Inspires Me:  Being an illustration major and a nerd in general, my inspirations are the artists, writers, and voice actors from my favorite video games & cartoons.
    • Jeff Lockhart, Programmer

  • What I Do:  I create software and enjoy exploring new devices and technologies. Besides always trying to stretch the limits of their capabilities, I am exceptionally skilled at discovering all the little things that are wrong with them.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Hex Defense (Android)
  • What Inspires Me:  I am inspired by the powerful ocean, the distant stars and basically all of God’s amazing creations as well as God Himself.
    • Guilherme Migueis, Lead Programmer

  • What I Do:  I describe to machines, in great detail, how they should behave in order to be fun. Machines, in turn, are often successful in controlling my own behavior as well. At the end of each day we shake hands and call it even.
  • What Game I am Playing:  The game programming one – it brings a new level every day!
  • What Inspires Me:  Does caffeine count?
    • Dan Plunkett, Programmer/Artist

  • What I Do:  When not thinking of bad puns I combine code and creativity in game programming. I am especially fond of gameplay programming.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II
  • What Inspires Me:  Being a science geek. With pretty much everything else, it turns up in my programming, problem solving, bug hunting and system building. I also use that “science geekiness” towards finding out how materials should look, the shine of metal to the cell structure of wood that defines the texture of it. Hmmmm….
    • Tammy Ujiie, Accounting

  • What I Do:  Numbers, numbers and more numbers…and anything else Mick and Craig throw at me.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Trains – it’s the phase my 4 year old boy is in and I really don’t have a choice! ;-)
  • What Inspires Me:  My family, Jesus, my children and the quiet moments when life stills…
    • Charyssa Wade (or just Wade because it sounds cooler – no relation to the basketball player), Artist

  • What I Do:  When I’m not bundled up and dying from hypothermia in the office, I usually press a button or two and POOF all the art in the game is done. Well … some of it :-)
  • What Game I am Playing:  Bakery Story, Gunbound
  • What Inspires Me:  Green Apples, my best friend, family, and love of games.
    • Noah Williams a.k.a Willy, Artist

  • What I Do:  After escaping from a traveling circus, I was given sanctuary at the Freeze Tag Corporate Office. When they discovered my talent for drawing pirates and Tippy the Turtle, I was given a job as a Concept artist and animator. If only I could get rid of the residual smell of hot dogs and cotton candy, my life would be perfect.
  • What Game I am Playing:  Left for Dead 2, The Last Stand
  • What Inspires Me:  Saturday Morning Cartoons, Good & Bad movies, ole timey music, and Curry