Hazardous Software ®
Through a revolutionary technology, Hazardous Software is addressing the game player's desire for highly innovative games. The company's innovations will create new types games across multiple platforms including mobile, starting with the game Achron.
Founders
Christopher Hazard
Christopher Hazard is the founder of Hazardous Software. In addition to developing the game engine that allows time travel, he is the producer of Achron. He also conducts research for the military and recently earned his PhD in Computer Science at North Carolina State University, with publications on engineering and analyzing coordination in large-scale multi-agent systems. Dr. Hazard has extensive experience in software engineering. He worked for Motorola Inc. for 3 years designing and developing simulation software for CDMA infrastructure. Upon starting, his responsibility quickly rose to lead developer and then to junior software architect, directing global development teams. Dr. Hazard has also had experience at Kiva Systems, a warehousing robotics startup company, performing algorithms research. He has won numerous academic and programming awards, including a best paper award in an international conference, the North Carolina State University Dean's Fellowship and Valparaiso University Board of Directors’ Independent Research Award. He obtained his B.S. in Computer Science from Valparaiso University with departmental honors. His academic website can be found here: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~cjhazard/.
Michael Resnick
Michael Resnick is the co-founder and lead developer
of Hazardous Software. He has four years experience being a senior application developer directly responsible for frontend, backend and database
development on several products for an on-line learning management system suite at Stoneriver-Reged as well as five years of experience working at
Motorola doing a range of developing and testing of software for CDMA and WiMAX infrastructure. His responsibility grew to lead developer of
simulation software for CDMA systems, and as a Sr. Engineer he was one of the first to be brought on during the formation of the WiMAX group to
design and develop core WiMAX software. Mr. Resnick has also had experience at 3M Telecommunications, developing
network management software for maintenance and global bandwidth monitoring. Mr. Resnick obtained his B.S. in
Computer Science-Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a 3M Scholarship.
2011 Best Original Game Mechanic
Editor's Choice Award - Gamespot "This was seriously one of the best games that we have ever played. If you do not pick this up, you are missing out"
[ 9 / 10 ] - RTS Guru "This game is a must buy for any fan of the RTS genre, anyone intrigued by time travel, and everyone with a keyboard."
[ 8 / 10 ] - Gamers Daily News "...what Achron does changes the way one looks at one's actions in a video game. It's empowering to see the past, present and future all at once and to know they all can be changed. It's exciting to re-shape a timeline." - Kotaku "'Achron' is so far the boldest attempt to manipulate time to establish itself as a game element. " - Spiegel » See More Media Coverage
Editor's Choice Award - Gamespot "This was seriously one of the best games that we have ever played. If you do not pick this up, you are missing out"
[ 9 / 10 ] - RTS Guru "This game is a must buy for any fan of the RTS genre, anyone intrigued by time travel, and everyone with a keyboard."
[ 8 / 10 ] - Gamers Daily News "...what Achron does changes the way one looks at one's actions in a video game. It's empowering to see the past, present and future all at once and to know they all can be changed. It's exciting to re-shape a timeline." - Kotaku "'Achron' is so far the boldest attempt to manipulate time to establish itself as a game element. " - Spiegel » See More Media Coverage
News & Game Updates
Release v1.5.0.0
Tues, May 21, 2013
This release features a major update to Achron's underlying Resequence engine, enabling many modding improvements. It also features some balance improvements to Achron and additional timewave and chronoenergy gameplay settings.
If you have already ordered Achron, you can download it here.
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Release v1.4.0.1
Sat, Feb 23, 2013
This release fixes numerous bugs, especially for assassin mode and single player campaigns, and also features minor balance changes to resource processing and Grekim healing.
If you have already ordered Achron, you can download it here.
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