Yes he is, as far as I know he is also in charge of the modeling of 3D objects. He's pretty good.
I'm glad to hear that you guys do think Salem is not a bad game. I can see tons of thought put into it by Loftar and Jorb. The fact that Salem used to be "HnH v2" that tried to address all the trouble and mistakes they have made in HnH says something.
Salem nowadays have a deep and exciting end game, a safe and merry environment early on, tons of new features, balancing on the way and a hard working team of developers.
They did run into more trouble trying to fix the old ones but eventually I think they will come up with something. This game have so much potential!
Have you guy ever tried our witch system? It's fun and dynamic! And the new alloys making is fantastic!
I believe we are on the right track. It just take some more time.