Developers

[In response to How many Devs are Working on EQ?]

Looking at last year's credits gives this breakdown for a few categories:

Design: 9
Engineering: 7
Art: 8
Sound: 1
QA: 3

Soon enough you'll get this year's expansion's credits and can compare to see what's changed.

— Meeko, EQ Developer, October 10, 2022

Now that the credits are available, the breakdown along with the change from last expansion is:

Design: 9
Engineering: 5 (-2)
Art: 11 (+3)
Sound: 1
QA: 3

— Meeko, EQ Developer, December 6, 2022

From a SOE forum post (Updated here):

There are six main sections of EverQuest: Production, Systems, Code, Content, Quality Assurance, and Art. There is also Customer Service.

With the 2015 sale of SOE (now Daybreak Game Company), changes have been made. This may not be accurate any more.

Daybreak Game Company LLC. owns and distributes EverQuest. A division of Daybreak, Darkpaw Games, develops EQ.

Production

• Jennifer "JChan" Chan - Executive Producer, EQ & EQ2. Was Technical Director and Lead Programmer of EverQuest, may still be.
• Lauren “Mooncast” McLemore, Producer, EQ & EQ2

Code

EQ is mostly C++ and runs in Windows Server environments. Some of our internal tools use C#. We also use PostgreSQL, Perl, Jenkins, and a little bit of batch scripting.

— Niente, EQ Developer, March 13, 2024

• Jennifer "JChan" Chan - Technical Director and Lead Programmer of EverQuest.
• Jered "Jgray" Gray - Think he's a coder... Did a lot of the housing stuff. (Yes coder)
• Chris "Bembaru" Hoover aka Choover - Spell effects and combat.
• Ben "Rtugok" Burnett - Jerk that turns me chain illusions me into a Vah Shir and changes my surname to Aggrometer.
• Adam "Hludwolf" Schmidt
• Joshua Landman - Programmer
• Lucy McLaurin - Programmer. Read about them here: Get to know your Dev: Episode 3
• Katharine "klanderso" Anderson - Programmer. Read about them here: Get to Know Your Dev: Episode 8
• Ryan Shannon - Senior Game Designer. Read about them here: Get to Know Your Dev: Ryan Shannon

Content

• Alan "Absor" VanCouvering - Lead Content Designer... Concentrates on the basepop/quest/mission/raid/story side of EverQuest. Raids. He knows the systems, just not as well as the ones assigned to those. Read about him here: Get To Know Your Dev: Episode 5
• Chris "Dzarn" Black - Raids, zones, basepop, etc. Assigned to AAs in 2015. Most responsible for AAs.
• Adam "Ngreth Thergn" Bell - Lead Designer. Read about them here: Get to know your Dev: Episode 1
• Norm "Normando" Freeman - Misc quests
• Ed "Aristo" Hardin, Lead Systems Designer, EQ. Aristo does spells (also runs the patches). Read about them here: Get to Know Your Dev: Ed Hardin
• Phillip "Pip" Sexton - Read about him here: Get To Know Your Dev: Episode 6
• Melissa "Zieri" Comeau (she/her), Associate Game Designer, EverQuest
• Robyn "Naylie DelANews" Vallee (she/her), Former Community Relations Manager, currently Associate Game Designer, EverQuest.

Quality Assurance

• Calivess - Quality assurance, and former apprentice Dev... Most recently has been helping with the Zek things that are out of balance.
• More (names not revealed).

Art

• Allen "Lebounde" Bond, Senior Artist - Get to Know a Dev: Artist Allen “Lebounde” Bond Questions Answered, Get to Know Your Dev: Allen Bond
• Kevin Lydy, Lead Artist, EQ.
• Tom "ttobey" Tobey - Animator. Read about them here: Get to know your Dev: Episode 4
• 5 Environmental artists, and one Character artist.

Unknown

• Arcturion - Listed as "Developer". Only posted in the Test Update Notes and Bug Roundup forum section in 2016
• Crieger - Listed on SOE EQ forum as "Developer". Seems to specialize in bug fixing.

Community Relations

Also known as PR

• Angeliana - Senior Community Manager
• Ted "Mepps" Stone - Senior Community Manager
• Accendo, Community Manager for EQ and EQ2.

May be retired

• Roxanne "Roxxlyy" Sabo - Community Coordinator at Daybreak Game Company.

Laid off / Retired / Moved on

• Josh "Augur" Augustine - Does some quests. Moved to EQ Next. Rejoined EQ to help with The Broken Mirror.
• Jason "Chandrok" Leo is on itemization. Laid off.
• Doug "Elidroth" Cronkhite - Daybreak forum name "Elidroth Renato". Left to join Northrop Grumman as a pilot.
• David "Elegist" Stewart - Did some raids, basepop, quests, etc. Laid off.
• Julie "Ellyra" Burness - Assistant Lead Designer. Laid off.
• Justin "Jansan" Deeb - Does tradeskills. Used to be a systems dev, and possibly still is. Laid off.
• Justin "Jhansen" Hansen - visual effects, combat, etc. Status unknown.
• Harvey "Rahtiz" Burgess - Used to be an EverQuest dev, but is now an associate/assistant producer. Status unknown.
• Terry "Fairan" Michaels - Lead Programmer
• Steven "Sklug" Klug - Lead Programmer
• Travis "Rashere" McGeathy - Lead Designer
• Ryan "Rytan" Barker - Lead Designer
• Jason "Maddoc" Mash - Assistant Lead Designer
• John "Kendrick" Capozzi - Designer
• Camille "Zajeer" Abdnor - Designer (Itemization)
• Keith "Merloc" Turkowski - Designer (Itemization)
• Kevin "Oshran" Carter - Designer (Alternate Advancement Systems, Group Content)
• David "Nodyin" Ford - Designer (Alternate Advancement Systems)
• John "Raramor" Boomershine - Designer (Content)
• Sam "Daemaas" Parra - Designer (Content)
• Chris “Raghnell” Lena - Producer (2005 - 2006), Project Manager for 2 years prior to becoming Producer
• Clint "Jourdian" Worley - Producer (2006 - 2009)
• Thom "Phathom" Terrazas - Producer (2009 - 2015)
• Gordon "Abashi" Wrinn - Producer, Internet Relations Manager (1999 - 2000)
• Alan "Brenlo Bixiebopper" Crosby - Senior Director of Global Community Relations, Community Relations Manager (2003 - 2005)
• Christina "Kytherea" Delzer - Community Relations Manager (2005 - 2007)
• Lydia "Zatozia" Pope - Community Relations Manager (2007 -)
• Tiffany "Amnerys" Spence - Community Relations Manager
• Christie "Kiara" Renzetti - Community Relations Manager (2010 -)
• Aimee "Ashlanne" Rekoske - Community Relations Manager
• Eric "Piestro" Cleaver - Community Relations Manager (2011 -)
• Colette "Dexella" Murphy - Community Relations Manager, Associate Producer
• Tony "RadarX" Jones - Community Relations Manager ( - 2017)
• David "Smokejumper" Georgeson - Director of Development
• Ry "Roshen" Schueller - Brand Manager
• Holly "Windstalker" Longdale a/k/a Vahlar, Executive Producer, EQ & EQ2. Daybreak forum name "Windstalker".
• dreamweaver - Community Manager
• Jonathan "Prathun" Caraker, Lead Designer of EverQuest - Lead Designer.