The history behind the Devs Devs Devs! collection
This set was used to introduce Gowalla (iPhone app) in Feb 2009 - the top card being the Gowallamobile.
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The following information was taken from the About page on the old Alamofire website (before it changed to Gowalla) - personal profiles written by Josh Williams.
Fashion Consultant
is Josh Williams
“In a previous life I started a design company called Firewheel. Like this company it was also named after a wildflower. I keep a shortlist of flower names in my desk should this venture tank. Kidding! I mean, I’m kidding about the tanking part. I do keep a list of flower names though. When I was a kid I drew game ideas on my english papers. I hated english. Now I’m up late writing bios for a game company. The irony.”
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Director of Weapons
is Scott Raymond
“I met Scott randomly several years ago on the interwebs. Scott has a tattoo with Roman letters on his wrist. I’ve always wanted a tattoo, but don’t have the arms for it. For this reason I think Scott is cool. Scott also likes to code. Back in the days of Web 1.8 we built an invoicing application for small businesses. Invoices are not quite as fun as games. If it weren’t for Scott, I’d probably still be doing web design work for questionable clients.”
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Glue Guy
is Brian Bailey
“By now you’ve noticed that we have several folks who work here named Brian or John. This issue is compounded by the fact that Bailey’s full name is John Brian. I’m not making this up. You can’t imagine how hard payroll is around here. Bailey keeps us organized, on track and in communication with each other. He is also at least three times more mature than the other Brian listed above.”
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Nerf Champ
is John Critz
“Critz and I have been friends since we were in our formative teenage years. Back then he had a penchant for fireworks — or anything that would blow up for that matter. Yes, this is Fort Worth. There is only so much you can do around here. Fortunately he straightened his life out and became a programmer where he now does his best to keep the pyro away from the servers.”
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Juan Valdez
is John Marstall
“John and I met years ago through a shared love… of iconography. John is a master at wrangling Adobe’s overpriced illustration bloatware, and his artistic talents are mission critical for wooing the highly targeted female gaming demographic. We’d be sunk without his drawings of cute animals with oversized eyes. Next time you find yourself at midnight clicking around trying to find Brianna, the magical purple pony, you can blame him.”
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Zo
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is Sandi Weldon
“One of the few, true native Texans in the house, Sandi currently aspires to be a better Halo 3 player. When she’s not being gunned down by the rest of the studio, Sandi goes above and beyond the call of duty as our social community party planner. She’s also a cutthroat PackRat player, so I wouldn’t friend her on Facebook if I were you.”
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Rock Star
is Keegan Jones
“Keegan is more internet famous than Justin Timberlake. In fact I should move his bio up to the top because his presence here will instantly drive more traffic to the company than ten large spent on Google Adsense. Keegan’s design brilliance earned him a cease and desist from MySpace once because they couldn’t cope with how cool he is. MySpace is lame.”
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Chainsaw Specialist
is Adam McManus
“Prior to his mission critical work on our systems infrastructure, Adam invested his brain power in top-secret missile defense projects. We told him if he could keep his security clearance badge that he would be an instant company hire. Sadly, our government nixed that idea. We hired him anyhow. You think I’m joking.”
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Master of Raster
is Brian Brasher
“Brian (or Etherbrian, if you’re hip) illustrates pretty digital masterpieces for our games. I’ve been a fan of Brian’s work for like ten years now. This makes me kinda old, but makes him even older. Etherbrian has probably had more design submissions to Threadless turned down than anyone else ever. I believe it’s because the emo kids who hang out there don’t understand his brilliance. Soon Brian’s subversive quest to infiltrate the web will be complete and he will have his revenge on teenagekind.”
Expression 1 - Don’t burn your bridges - “Don’t do or say something that you would regret later”
Expression 2 - Let the cat out of the bag - “Giving away a secret”
Expression 3 - The early bird catches the worm - “Success comes to those who put in the effort”
Expression 4 - Easy as pie - “Very easy”
Expression 5 - Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth - “Don’t be ungrateful when you receive a gift”
Expression 6 - Going to hell in a hand basket - “To be a in rapidly deteriorating situation”
Expression 7 - Everything but the kitchen sink - “Almost everything, whether needed or not”
Expression 8 - Out of the frying pan, into the fire - “Go from a bad situation to one even worse”
Expression 9 - Par for the course - “As expected”
Expression 10 - Sitting duck - “Obvious target”
Expression 11 - Don’t cry over spilled milk - “Don’t worry about things that have happened which you can’t change”
Expression 12 - A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush - “Better to have a small advantage, rather than a possibility of a large one”
Expression 13 - Your two cents’ worth - “Your opinion”
Expression 14 - Don’t count your chickens until they’ve hatched - “Don’t count on something which might change”
Expression 15 - The world is your oyster - “You have every opportunity”
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