Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; Our Parents for helping us with everything for not calling us crazy, rather continuously and confidently supporting our dream, and most importantly :) for bringing us Ted Drew's frozen custard; Charlton, our son, for always(okay, most of the time...the little stinker :) making us laugh and smile, Randy & Heliene (visit BodyofHealth.com), Lisa (visit k2debt.com), Sean, Lauren, Shannon, Justin, Sammi (Sammantha), and in remembrance of G.G., Gramps, and Oran, for your support, interest, enthusiasm, and for making this project a reality in so many ways.... We Love You!
Dreamcatcher - Richard Wah Kan for your belief in ROTS and your patience, Annette Bechamp for your ROTS enthusiasm, and Renata Richardson and the rest at Dreamcatcher for helping to make our Dream come true; Bonnie Staub and Jubilee Artists Agency for all your hard work and your confidence in ROTS from early on.
Dr. Robert Schoch for your immeasurable help, and for coming back into the office to pick up the phone...; Steven Vinson for your authentic translation and editing of THE scroll--he provided the translation using the style and grammar used by the royal scribes during Chephren's reign; Dr. Mark Lehner for answering our pedestrian questions and for your wonderful description of the "Rump."
Strata, Inc. - Ken and Gary Bringhurst, and the StudioPro engineers for an awesome 3d program, Debbie Johnson, Tad Trueblood, Caren Ander, Kevin Condie, Duane McNamee, and Daron Spicher for helping out in many wonderful ways; Dave Winslow, Gary Gardenshire and Susan Parker at STRATAuser (now 3D.com Magazine) for a great magazine and a spectacular spread on 'The Making of Riddle of the Sphinx'.
Extra Double-Secret Probation Special Thanks to...
The Omnitalented folks at ROTS development headquarters: Greg Lamb for your help whenever and whatever needed, and for having to deal with us during the last year of development :); Randy & Paula Manker of Future Media Development for your friendship, enthusiasm, help, more help, rootbeer floats :), EWF tickets and everything else which falls under "above and beyond the call of duty"... actually you never volunteered to process fire :); A.J. Manker for testing and bagels; Ashley for lending us your iMac and overseeing those "Charlie/Kristen moments;" Kristen Manker for giving Charlie something to look forward to each day!; Dennis and Wendy Manker for your hospitality and for treating us (especially Charlie) as family.
Matt Veenstra for your wonderful friendship, unselfish acts of kindness, sharing your knowledge and for driving madly down to the airport with us only to miss the FedEx cutoff by a few seconds... though, that IMO's pizza tasted good; Alec Syme, Jarid Atkin, Peter Gifford, Greg Yuchan, Dave Taylor, William Owens, along with countless others who have helped in important ways but are not listed here.
All of the wonderfully talented musicians in Phoenix, with whom I have had the pleasure and honor of playing music: Larry & Cheryl Corley for your synth (patiently lent for 5 years) and your tireless interest in and support of ROTS, and for being there... your friendship; Tracy Dean for your selfless offers of help, support, and friendship throughout these many years, for helping to get Saved By Grace off the ground, and most importantly for being a standing stone in our lifes; Michael Dye, Steve Exler, Dean Kresyman, and Art Ruprecht (as well as the above mentioned) for your beautiful gifts of music, for making my life easy...working with pros, and for having to listen and endure me talking about the game for the last five years. Thanks for everything!
And lastly, to everyone who visited the ROTS site regularly, preordered a year (or more) in advance, waited VERY patiently,
wrote encouraging emails, and spread the ROTS news to the corners of the world - ROTS is for you!
- Jeff & Karen Tobler
