User:EtiTheSpirit

Hello!

I am Eti -- a somewhat well-known software developer and game designer. I am also an avid software preservationist, especially with respect to MMOs. I take great pride in ensuring that the work of designers in the past can be preserved and experienced beyond the software's expected life. I was involved in the initial datamining of WildStar before development on one of its two server emulators began. I am also responsible for writing conversion tools for the Three Rings game engine (mostly known for its use as the foundation of Spiral Knights, often referred to as the "Clyde engine"). Finally, I am working on a preservation project for SkySaga: Infinite Isles, as I was a member of its alpha test and miss the game quite a lot.

Alongside this work, I spend a lot of time managing or contributing to a few wikis for games. Branching from my main skillset, I spend a lot of time on these wikis creating templates and other tools to automate the editing process. Most of my work can be found on Fandom-based sites for projects I am involved with, and so I aim to utilize that knowledge on Wikipedia where it hasn't been done already. An example of one of my more useful tools on an external wiki is Module:CreatureMetadata for the Creatures of Sonaria Fandom, which dynamically constructs HTML to create color coded tags for creatures in the game.