John Erskine is the Chief Publishing Officer for Cloud Imperium Games.[1]
Works at CIG
He joined CIG at the beginning of 2013 as Director of Studio Services.[2][1]
CIG Publishing encompasses aneverything technical that's not related to the game engine itself. Essentially after a dev checks their code into the source control, perforce, it goes into the build system, which is the start of the publishing pipeline. When a build gets generated, it goes trhought a series of automated tests then eventually a QA deaertment then eventually gets published to some sort of environment such as internal development environment, staging environment, testing environment, all part of the publishing technology group. Then there's also the live QA team and customer support team.[1]
Most of the leadership team is based in Austin and there is a long relationship with the platfrom team in Montreal, such as e-commerce.[1]
Other Works
He first started working in the game industry in 1998 on Ultima Online. He had many friends at Origin Systems and was very interested in the idea of people playing together online. At the time UO was very cutting edge and much bigger than other online games of the day, so he joined the team to help with the customer experience and live operations side of the project.[4]
He also worked at Electronic Arts as Manager of Player Relations Development, NCsoft as Director of Studio Services, and was the Co-Founder & Head of Operations at Portalarium. His favorites games he worked on have probably been Ultima Online, City of Heroes, and Guild Wars. It is hard to distill down the list though, because each game has its own unique personality and flair.[4]
Trivia
- He likes to play online multiplayer games, he likes the social experience.[2]
- He was a big Wing Commander fan back in the day.[2]
- He was President of the Colorado River Alliance.[5]
- He started the non-profit Cleanup the Colorado in 2018 to address the massive amounts of trash in the Colorado River.[6]\
- He is a board member of the Texas Rivers Protection Association.[7]
- He was on the board of directors of the Multicultural Refugee Coalition.[3]
- He was Board President of the Austin Youth River Watch.[3]
- He was on the Board of Directors of the University of Texas.[3]
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Citizen Live: Meet the Devs - Publishing and Corporate Technology, Star Citizen, Youtube, 9 February 2024
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cloud Imperium Interview . John Erskine, Star Citizen, Youtube, 8 may 2013
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 John Erskine, Linkedin
- ↑ Jump up to: 4.0 4.1
Meet John Erskine. Transmission - Comm-Link. Retrieved 2013-05-06
- ↑ About, Colorado River Alliance
- ↑ Cleanup the Colorado, LoCo Trash Bash
- ↑ Board of Directors, Texas Rivers Protection Association