From Space Quest Omnipedia

Name:	Matt Holden
E-mail:	Matt@sq7.org
Homepage:	http://www.mattholden.com
Birthdate:	February 23, 1980
Location:	New Port Richey, FL, USA
Occupation:	Lead Developer
Contributions:	Matt Holden (Jaeden)'s contributions

Matt Holden has been working toward a game design career since the age of eight. Sitting on his back porch, he wrote out on notepads his designs for the sequels to his favorite NES games, often alienating his friends who had no work ethic for such things in elementary school. Crazy then, crazy now.

Seventeen years later, Matt now has a degree in Game Design and Development from Full Sail Real World Education in Winter Park, Florida. His game projects include the 3D action game Guardians of Neverwood, his final project at Full Sail. Additionally, he is the driving force behind Storyteller's Desktop and the GEMini System, a toolset and API for constructing games and utilities in Java that center around rule sets such as Wizards of the Coast's D20 System. Answering the call of his dear friend Colin Davis, Matt became the lead developer on the Slage Next-Gen engine for SQ7 in July 2005.

Matt's relevant credentials include:

• 2004: Associate of Science: Game Design & Development, Full Sail Real World Education
• 2004: Associate of Arts, University of Central Florida
• 2004: Java Programming, Aspen University
• 2004: SQL Programming and Relational Database Design, Aspen University
• 2002: CompTIA A+ Certification

Matt's programming repertoire includes:

• Java
  • AWT / Swing
  • JDOM
  • JUnit
• C
  • OpenGL
  • Win32 GDI
  • RenderWare Graphics
• C++
  • DirectX
  • Microsoft Foundation Classes
• Sony PlayStation 2 Vector Assembly Language
• Visual Basic
• QuickBasic
• SQL
• XML
• HTML
• Numerous scripting languages