Contributors

This book tells the story of the work done by the Halo community.

Jeff Chavez, a.k.a. Kahai Maluu, is the founder and main film editor for the Halo 2 Trickjumping Clan, Jump Tactics. Besides playing Halo, he also enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, dirtbiking, and listening to trance music. His greatest hobby is actually producing trance music. He has produced many tracks, and uses Fruityloops Studio 5 to create them. He even features his music in his Halo videos these can be downloaded from his web site (http://www.acidplanet.com/kahai_maluu). His Halo 2 clan's web site can be found at http://www.jumptactics.net.

Jim Cleary, a.k.a. Grenadiac, is a software engineer who graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Optical Engineering. Jim launched www.HaloMods.com in August of 2003 as a personal project page, and has witnessed the Halo modding scene grow by leaps and bounds since then. He is the developer of SparkEdit, a 3D editor for Halo, co-creator of an anticheat app called Sentinel, and is a programming lead for Prometheus, the next generation Halo/Halo 2 editor written in C# (http://www.halodev.org). You can contact Jim at [e-mail].

Travis Connolly, a.k.a. tjc2k4, is a student at Michigan Tech. University. The first news about Halo modding appeared on the Xbox-scene web site around the same time that he modded his Xbox. This got him interested in Halo mods. When he isn't modding, he is working and studying.

Ken Masters, a.k.a. MrMurder, has contributed content for a number of chapters in this book. He is a physio and support worker who lives in the U.K. In his spare time, he studies and teaches Aikido and Ju-Jitsu.

Alex Schwartz, a.k.a. (GT)Juggler, has been modding Halo for over two years. He started out with Halo 1, and was a major player in its modding scene. With mods including GT Damnation, Over the Creek, Heat, and HangarX, Juggler has produced a wide variety of mods, as well as videos for his site www.HaloGT.com. One of his Halo 2 mods, BlueNight, is described in the Packaged Mods Section. When he's not playing Halo competitively and winning tournaments with (GT)Raccoon, Alex likes to juggle (hence the name (GT)Juggler), use Macs, and play hackysack with friends.

The Swamp Fox is a young modder who joined the scene in the post-HMT3 era. He is known for many mods in the Halo scene such as Forerunner Island, Library, and Silent Cartographer. Now establishing himself as a Halo 2 modder with Descension and the release of ADI, he is a member of the Fantastic Six who isn't afraid to help others out when he can.