Marina Siu-Chong

History

Before The Indie Stone & CGEmpire

Marina Siu-Chong also know as MashPotato or MashPotassium when the former is unavailable, was originally a patron of a community called CGEmpire that was being run by developers such as Chris Simpson, Andy Hodgetts & Nick Cowen. As time went by on CGEmpire she became friends with the group, and eventually began working on games with them as well. CGEmpire was originally a place for members who needed help to break through into the games industry, or help in pursuing projects of their own. The residents originally included Chris Simpson, Nick Cowen & Andy Hodgetts as resident experts. The other residents were Andy Taylor, Joseph B. Hall, Nikolas Sideris, Stuart Sowerby & David West.[1] Some of the members of The Indie Stone, most notably Marina were also active participants in the AGS forums.[2] CGEmpire eventually closed down and the group moved on to form The Indie Stone instead, moving into one of their first game developments PAWS.

The Beginning of The Indie Stone

Once The Indie Stone was formed, Marina and the rest of the group moved onto working on their first tile from the Studio PAWS. The game was originally announced in March of 2009, however was eventually shelved and eventually cancelled on March 2011 around about 2 years after the announcement on Marina's blog. The eventual decision came down to XNA game engine and the fact money and time was now a bigger issue than ever for The UK bunch of TIS.[3] So unfortunately the project was no more. This eventually led the group to create the game Project Zomboid with plans of releasing in an alpha state to help earn money to pay for the rent, Marina was originally not working with the group full time, but was doing the inventory icons and environmental tiles with Andy Hodgetts. Some time after the success of Project Zomboid, she became a full time member of TIS.

Present

Marina Siu-Chong remains a full time member of The Indie Stone and developer for Project Zomboid. She still provides works with inventory icons and environment tiles, and helps with the overall design of the game. She also helps maintain the @theindiestone twitter account.

Notable Other Works

Marina Siu-Chong has not only done work on Project Zomboid & PAWS, but has done work on other personal game projects, as well as work for other indie game groups. One of the first games she is believed to of worked on / made was the point and click adventure A Cure For The Common Cold made in 2007 using the Adventure Game Studio engine. Her follow up game Beauty & Beasts was also made using the AGS engine in 2008, but was made as part of the One Room, One Week competition. The game won the AGS award for Best Short Game. The games can be downloaded from here.

She has always worked on Time Gentleman, Please! in 2009 in a minor role, working on the "Previously On" graphics. She also had a minor role with the game Resonance, released in 2012 for work on some portraits.[4]