Craig Lipinski

Producer

Craig Lipinski has spent much of his 20-year career bringing high-quality retail software to market. Starting off as a software developer, Craig quickly moved into managerial roles, overseeing teams of engineers and building customer requests into software products. At Xaviant, Craig is applying his vast experience to the delivery of the company’s first game, Lichdom, by coordinating efforts among the design, creative, and engineering teams.

Charles Hollingsworth

Director of Engineering

Charles has developed and managed applications and software development teams across a broad range of industries, focusing specifically on designing and implementing tools and managing processes to streamline development pipelines. At Xaviant, Charles heads up the engineering and QA departments, and is spearheading the team’s transition to and use of CryENGINE 3. He is also Six Sigma LEAN certified and is implementing these techniques in Xaviant’s agile development process.

Tim Lindsey

Design Director

Over the course of Tim’s 15-year-career in video games, he has worked as an environment artist, technical artist, level designer, designer, and director for a number of renowned game studios, including Idol Minds, Bethesda Softworks, Hi-Rez Studios, CCP Games and now, Xaviant. Tim’s most notable work was on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, where he was responsible for the Oblivion Planes. He also contributed to World of Darkness MMO and multiple EVE Online expansions as the level design director for CCP. As the design director at Xaviant, Tim is responsible for creating the game’s vision, and working with the art, design, and engineering teams to ensure that that vision becomes a reality.

Britt LaReau

Art & Audio Director

As a musician, composer, artist and game developer, Britt is a creative jack-of-all-trades. Prior to joining Xaviant, Britt worked as a web designer and developer for a small agency in Atlanta. He later developed a complete suite of Flash-based online casino games. As the art and audio director at Xaviant, he manages a team of 27 artists, animators and sound designers to bring the world of Lichdom to life through sound and vision.

Bryan Ballard

Director of IT

Bryan began his career back in hardware support at Peachtree Software and ultimately worked his way up as the IT manager. After Sage Software acquired Peachtree in 1998, Bryan served as network services manager for the Small Business Division and then as network services manager for Sage Software-North America. Bryan joined George Chapman and Michael McMain at Xaviant in 2007 as director of IT. In that role, Bryan is responsible for building and maintaining the IT and facilities infrastructures required to produce AAA games.