Ema Alvarado

Carlos Alvarado, also known as 194, is a SSF2 Developer. He is the lead music developer, as well as balancer and coder.

Early work
194 joined the forums as unknown194 during 2011, but never went beyond a lurker until his inclussion into the Smash Flash Back Room, where he became a regular member. During that time, developer [TSON] included the backroom as part of the first Balancer Team.

194 actively took role in balancing, focusing on his main, Mario. He participated in playtesting and became one of the most active balancers during v0.8 development.

A sounding reveal
While hired by his playtesting skills, 194 had always been an amateur musician. He started sharing his work with other developers, and got a chance to put himself to test with music for Smashville. Later, he would collaborate providing background music for most of the videos in the SSF2 Dev Blogs, prior to v0.8's release.

He would then be promoted to official dev, becoming the first music-dedicated developer on SSF2's team.

2012 and present
After his promotion, 194 focused on getting as much music as possible, since the amount of custom music for the game was minimal and the development team was focusing on taking distance from the official Smash games, especially Brawl, whose music was heavily featured on. With those instructions, Carlos would start work on an original theme for the game.

During 2012's summer, 194 would find a valuable help on Jacob Tjolsen, sound producer and musician. Together, they finished the current theme, as well as the arrangements for both Menu and.

Currently, 194 keeps his work as an arranger for in-game music, as well as balancing. He ocasionally assists coders and takes part of important discussions as a Lead Dev.

Trivia

 * 194 is, currently, the only Spanish-speaker developer on the Team. As such, he provides his language knowledge for PR from time to time.