Simeon Peebler

Department Chair

Simeon Peebler is an award-winning game developer whose career has spanned the full spectrum of the game industry. He is credited on many PC CD-ROMS including Where's Waldo?: Exploring Geography, Eraser: Turnabout, Warheads, You Don't Know Jack: The 5th Dementia, and Veggie Tales: Veggie Carnival. Read Simeon's Blog

Ted Gordon

Faculty

Ted Gordon has worked in Game Development since 1999 as an Artist and Animator. In joining Flashpoint's Game Development Faculty, Ted brings real-world game development experience with Hand-Keyed and MotionCaptured Animation with 3ds Max and Maya, Maxscript and Melscript.

Rich Coons

Faculty

Rich Coons comes to Flashpoint with a diverse career background including experience in Architecture, Fine Art, Game Development and Higher Education. He has a wide range of knowledge from his many years in the Game Development industry, and he has a passion for sharing that knowledge with his students. His game credits include: Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude, NBA Inside Drive, Hunter: The Reckoning and Duel Masters: Cobalt.

Darryl Hughes

Faculty

Among the many highlights of his 30 year career, Darryl Hughes has served as an animator for Warner Bros. Tiny Toons and, created award-winning childeren's animation for Encyclopedia Britannica, and worked as art director for Ford, McDonald's and others high-profile clients. In gaming, Darryl has worked as a game designer, creative director and producer on PC, console and platform games for Viacom New media, Konami, Incredible Technologies and WMS Gaming. He is now CEO/co-owner of Hughes Who Productions, LLC, a global casino and casual game development company, and currently has 12 gaming patents to his credit.

Robert Fuentes

Faculty

Robert Fuentes Jr. is a 20 plus year software professional and a veteran of many game companies, including Incredible Technologies, NuFX, Konami, WMS Gaming and Motorola. Robert's game portfolio includes titles for both arcade and home systems. He has managed and mentored a Motorola development team that created one of the first worldwide, commercial cell phone game applications. Robert currenly teaches at Flashpoint Academy, specializing in Game Engineering and Mobile Game Technology.

Alan Reck

Game Designer

Alan Reck has worked in many areas of game development since the mid 1990s, primarily focusing on programming.  In 1999, Alan founded ZoopTEK, an independent game studio, featuring his popular multiplayer shooter Paint Ball 3 EXTREME.  Alan’s latest work with ZoopTEK is their brand new shooter, Coniclysm, featuring Flashpoint faculty member Miguel Kertsman’s latest music album. Coniclysm will be released soon to Steam, the largest online distributor of PC games.