Daniel McDevitt

History
Daniel McDevitt was born on November 30, 1987. He began his career as a quality assurance tester for Nickname Studios. During his time in Q.A., Daniel found several bugs and offered unique solutions in order to fix them. This allowed him to be promoted to the Programming team and then later to the Game Development team for Blaze Auras. As a developer, Daniel interacted with the Blaze Auras fanbase and took their feedback very seriously. Based on some of that feedback, he suggested changes to the game that were well-received.

Daniel was eventually promoted to Lead Developer where he continued to excel in his role. As a Lead Developer, he came up with the Legacy of Champions tournament as well as the idea for the company to hold their own gaming convention, BlazeCON. It was also there where he came up with the idea for the BlazeCON Invitational Tournament.

All of his contributions to the company and the game got him a promotion to Game Director. During his time as Game Director, he recruited Amber Ryann and Kaito Akihiko to become promoted streamers in order to help push their marketing forward. Aside from business, Daniel developed a friendship with both Amber and Kaito. This also lead to Daniel inviting them to BlazeCON to take part of the unveiling of Blaze Auras' second expansion pack, Rise of Innovation. He also asked them to stream and commentate on the tournament live as it happened from the convention floor.

Daniel remained with the company until Active Vision Software bought it and began to casualize the game in order for it to fall inline with their business model for it. This led to Daniel becoming disenfranchised with the product and giving his notice to the company. After leaving Nickname Studios, Kaito decided to help repay Daniel for all of the favors he did for them and pointed him towards Envisioned Domain, the studio behind Sanctuary: Rise of Heroes. There, Daniel was on-boarded as part of their team as a Community Manager and Game Developer.

Appearance
Daniel wears a blue business suit with a light blue dress shirt paired with a black tie. Daniel has brown eyes and short brown hair.

Personality
Daniel is seen as very friendly and interactive with the gaming community. His interaction is not just a positive PR move for Nickname Studios, though. Daniel genuinely enjoys interacting with the playerbase as his philosophy is that the game and players matter more than the actual business side of game development. This has caused him to be the defacto face of Blaze Auras and the man everyone trusts.