Ethan McKinnon
Co-Founder / Lead World Design
LuclinFTW comes to us from the grand state of Florida. He is a fantastic artist, with vast creative vision, which he has used to great effect, really bringing the world of Insula alive!
As the tallest member of the team, he also has the extremely important responsibility of getting the cookies off of the top shelf!
Favorite Music: Heavy Metal
Favorite Shows: My Little Pony – Current as of 06/30/2021
Favorite Quote: “You know what would be cool? What if we added…”
Taj James
Co-Founder / Lead Programmer
iZtrahd currently resides in the vast expanse of Texas, though originally from Indiana. He has been programming almost since he could walk, and wrote his first game when he was 12. He currently does all of the programming, implementation, and integration for the project.
Translation: Most of the bugs you find are his fault!
Favorite Music: Heavy Metal / Classical
Favorite Shows: Hellsing Ultimate OVA / Sword Art Online / Sherlock
Favorite Quote: “Fear not my insanity, but rather the mind it protects!”
Anthony Shrader Jr.
Associate Producer / Game Writer
Shrader hails from the far off region known as Pennsylvania. No one knows much about this race of people, or the mysterious lands from which they come, but he does write a mean story, and has an uncanny talent for giving even our crazy mix-pot of ideas cohesion and plausibility!
Favorite Music: Alternative Rock
Favorite Shows: Tokyo Ghoul / The Office
Favorite Quote: “I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity”
Jake Bullington
Director of Information Technology
YellowSnoflake, (don’t ask… we don’t), regardless of his questionable choice of wintertime activity, he keeps the servers running, the backends logging, and the clients connecting!
Protip: This is the guy you will rant and rave at if the servers go down.
Favorite Music: Heavy Metal
Favorite Shows: Hellsing Ultimate OVA / Sword Art Online
Favorite Quote: “Uuuuuuuur Ahhhhrrrrr Uhrrrr Ahhhhhrrrrrr Aaaarhg… – Chewbacca”
Heather McKinnon
Senior Social Marketing Manager
MrsLuclin currently resides with her family in the beautiful state of Florida. She’s been building communities, planning events, and creating high quality products for industry leading companies for the past decade. She’s put her heart and soul into her work and her family. She’s the “mom” of the team & community. She may be small but she’s feisty. Her nickname is 10x for a reason.
Favorite Music: “I love all kinds of music, but for the purpose of this answer I’ll go with pop and country.”
Favorite Shows: One Tree Hill / Friends
Favorite Quote: “I don’t know how my story will end, but nowhere will it ever read, I gave up. My story isn’t over yet.”
Adrian Martuneac
Lead Character Design
Ad is a curious creature, he enjoys creating non-existing things, some say he lives in a world of his own because he has a crazy imagination, others say he was born in the wrong dimension where robots, creatures and aliens aren’t as common so he’s slowly but surely trying to change that by bringing to life his creations at least in the game development world.
Favorite Music: Dethklok
Favorite Shows: Rick and Morty
Favorite Quote: “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov
Deidre
Lead Animator
SciFi comes forth from the land of Canada, wielding the powers of animating timing and spacing itself and as a long-time member of the FS Community! Her wit and artistic eye are as sharp as her laser swords, of which she has two, and dual-wields them just as skillfully. You’ll find her wearing multiple hats at once and collecting personal art projects like a Jawa collecting droid parts. SciFi’s ultimate goal is to brighten people’s day one smile at a time and maybe even a laugh through the art of… well, video games and art.
Favorite Music: EDM / Pop/ Rock/ Video Game OSTs
Favorite Shows: Stargate / Star Wars
Favorite Quote: “You are who you choose to be.” – Dean from The Iron Giant
Waylon Kovar
Video Editor / Musician
Trollz lives in a desert called Texas. He started video editing at a young age and soon learned to compose music as well. He is now making the videos you see on Insula’s social media!
Favorite Music: EDEN / Metal
Favorite Shows: Doctor Who / Torchwood / Life
Favorite Quote: “We all change, when you think about it. We’re all different people all through our lives. And that’s OK, that’s good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.” – Matt Smith
