Our Company

Blue Frog Gaming is a small software company located in Akron, Ohio. We started in May of 2007 and participated in the Y Combinator summer session shortly after that.

Our first product, Draftmix, was a fantasy football website. We were the first on the net to offer short season, live drafts for real money.

In the offseason, we began working on Football Tycoon, a side project that took on a life of its own. After getting tens of thousands of users in just a few short months, we expanded our offerings to include Baseball Tycoon and later introduced Samurai Warrior, our first non-sports concept game.

After the Tycoon Series, we decided to start fresh and built a science fiction game called Starfleet Commander. Now our flagship game, Starfleet has over 350,000 monthly users and is the largest virtual universe on Facebook.

Our Team

• Matthew Maroon

  Founder and CEO

  

  As CEO, Matt's chief responsibilities include keeping the company's tea cart stocked, "researching" new games (often for days at a time), and perfecting his table tennis serve.

• John Marks

  Founder and COO

  

  The company's Chief Operating Officer, John is responsible for operating on various operations. Whenever there is an operation to be operated upon, John is there operating.

• Chad Remesch

  Founder and CTO

  

  Our CTO, Chad spends his time researching AJAX, Comet, and other things that sound like cleaning agents to the rest of us.

• Daniel Terhorst

  Level 72 Software Engineer

  

  While the rest of us are playing table tennis, Daniel's the guy getting the work done. He's hoping we hire someone soon so he can get better at forehand loops.

• Aaron Rosenberg

  Lexiconosaurus

  

  Unfortunately the law says we can't discriminate based on whether or not someone thinks XKCD is funny, so we pretty much had to hire Aaron. Thankfully his code is much better-constructed than his jokes.

• Jason Marks

  Customer Support

  

  Jason is a support robot sent back in time from the future to prevent World War 3 from erupting when one player's offensive planet name incites Hugo Chavez to attack his home in Los Angeles.

• Eric Browning

  Art Team Boss Man

  

  Eric makes us look good. Our games and websites that is, not our employees. One man can only do so much.

• Kevin Luo

  Intern

  

  Note to self: delete this post on August 16th.

• Mike Panetta

  Socialist Programmer

  

  Mike is Italian. That's about all we really know at this point.

• Curt Myers

  Sound Design Intern/Golf Instructor

  

  Designs sounds for our games by day, teaches Chad to golf at night.

• Jeff Kunze

  Cheese Hating Artist

  

  Jeff doesn't like any form of cheese at all. Isn't that weird? Like, totally, freakishly weird?

• Karthik "Karnage" Chokkaram

  Programmer/Table Tennis Ball Crusher

  

  We rescued this recent college graduate from Michigan. Now he is responsible for programming and tripling our ping pong supplies budget.

• Jason "Other Jason" Felice

  Programmer

  

  Jason's a coding machine, however if he ever asks you to buy a siren on Amazon, say no.

• Tupac Shakur

  Inspiration

  

  Technically not an employee since he is no longer with us, Tupac serves as Blue Frog Gaming's role model. Whenever we are in a bind we ask ourselves "What would Tupac do?" The answer usually involves hundred dollar bills and controlled substances.

• Jesse Bruch

  Game Designer/Ric Flair of Ping Pong

  

  Jesse is from Jersey. He can design a really hard Polar Puzzles level, but like most New Jerseyans is rendered helpless by a self-serve gas pump.

• Ron "Not Amish" Yoder

  Non-Amish Artist

  

  He doesn't know that Yoder guy you went to high school with, and he can't help you raise your barn.

• Adam Roush

  Artist / Headphone Isolationist

  

  Adam hasn't seen virtually any 80s action movies. We'll remedy that soon.

• Wendy Fedan

  Artist / Token Female

  

  Judging by Wendy's portfolio either she did some caricature art in the past, or her friends are all thin and have very large heads.

• Evan Shimizu

  Intern

  

  All of the other internships Evan applied to turned him down so now he's stuck here.

• Liz "Magneto" Judd

  Intern/Superhero

  

  Liz has the world's worst super power. She has the ability to create magnetic fields, but only ones small enough to ruin her own hard drives and cell phones.

• David Sladek

  Artist/Witty Title

  

  David has adopted the Jeff Kunze half-glove for drawing on his Cintiq. Luckily his art is good enough to trump his fashion sense.

• Matt "Your Honor" Hirschfelt

  Community Manager/Lion Tamer

  

  Matt's job is to make sure the customers on our forums are civil to one another. We hope he likes beer, he's going to need a lot of it.

• Tim Brenner

  Programmer / Newest New Guy