About Us
Sébastien Lachance is born on September 19th, 1977 in Quebec, Canada.
He is currently working at Matrox, in Dorval, as a C++ programmer on a Windows application in the Imaging division.
His passions (beside programming) are:
- Badminton
- Board games
- Bridge game
- High-tech gadgets
- PocketPC
- Movies
- Music
Yannick Létourneau is younger
than Sébastien because he was born 11 days later
in the same country.
He is currently working on games at UBISOFT in Montreal. His name appears in the credits of a bunch of games, including the best-seller Splinter Cell.
He enjoys:
- Cooking delicious meals
- Do-it-yourself things
- His wife
- Joinery
- Movies
- Strategy games
Little history of Net Blitz
The original idea about Net Blitz II came in 1999 when we were at the University of Sherbrooke. At that time, we were looking for a program that could play Bughouse over the Internet. Our research failed so we thought about creating this game ourselves.
By chance, an optional University class would let students do a project of their own, supervised by a teacher. Our teacher Richard Egli was very cool to accept our project. We put a lot of effort into Net Blitz at that time (undoubtedly more that into our ordinary classes) because we were passionate and we had put our personal goals very high. Fortunately, our teacher gave us A+ grade for the project.
After 3 years, Bob Johnson of Sonork ask us to integrate our game into the instant messenger Sonork. At this time, we were busy in our separate lives since we were graduated in Computer Science and started our full time day-job. In 2002, we decided to continue this project because we had received so many suggestions and positive comments from players. In our very little spare time, we finally put the final touch to what is now Net Blitz II.
We hope that you will enjoy Net Blitz II.
Yannick and Sébastien