User:Frecklefoot



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I'm a software engineer by trade, and a dad by leisure. I spent about ten years of my professional career in the game industry. In fact, I was the lead programmer on two of the games I worked on: Clue and Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom. Being a video game developer, I got an entry on MobyGames: my Rap Sheet.

Wiki History
I've started scores of articles, but the ones I'm most proud of deal with the video game industry, which I used to be a proud part of. With a few exceptions, I either completely authored or totally overhauled all the articles below. Of course I can't take credit (or blame) for the current state of any of the articles (Wikipedia is a community effort), but I'm proud that I was able to give birth to such important and interesting articles:


 * Video game developer
 * Video game publisher
 * Video game industry
 * Video game producer
 * Game programmer
 * Game programming
 * Game tester
 * Game testing
 * Game designer
 * Game design
 * Level designer
 * Level design
 * Level editor
 * Game development tool

I often edit articles about subjects I have no particular interest in, usually with just small changes to grammar and formatting (in this sense, I'm often a WikiGnome). But here's a list (in chronological order, more or less) of articles with which I've had a great deal to do with. Some articles I've created, others I've just greatly expanded. I haven't included stubs that I've created (they don't count!) unless I later expanded it into a significant article. Newest work appears at the bottom.

Notable contributions
Video game developer | Video game publisher | Los Gatos, California | Clue board game | DirectX | Direct3D | DirectDraw | Hasbro | Hasbro Interactive | A* Search Algorithm | Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Cogswell Polytechnical College | Game controller | Scholastic Aptitude Test | Fluorescent lamp | Wizards of the Coast | Lead programmer | Expedition to the Barrier Peaks | Jewel | Games Workshop's Talisman | Talisman Expansion Set | Talisman City expansion | The Adventure expansion | Talisman Dungeon expansion | Talisman Timescape expansion | Trillian | Marvin the Paranoid Android | Arthur Dent | SDK | Clue video game | Ambush! | Up Front | ESRB | Avalon Hill's Civilization | Visual Studio .NET | X-COM series of video games | Heroes of Might and Magic | FTL Games | SunDog: Frozen Legacy | Orthorexia nervosa | Sleep paralysis | Sleep disorder | Rapid application development | Electronic Arts | Cattle mutilation | Family Affair | Bard's Tale | Nagware | Tim Conway | Patrick Nagel | The Stainless Steel Rat | Alan Miller | Vanity site | Castle Wolfenstein | Centipede | Game designer | Game programmer | Game Developer Magazine | Video arcade | Apogee Games | Monty Hall | Abdominoplasty | Technical writer | Video game industry | Frank Frazetta | The Mamas & the Papas | Michelle Phillips | Denny Doherty | Cass Elliott | Accolade | Dungeons & Dragons | D&D dice | Lead figures | Monster Manual | Player's Handbook | Dungeon Master's Guide | Deities & Demigods | Erol Otus (early D&D artist) | Jeff Dee (early D&D artist) | List of Dungeons & Dragons modules | Game design | Patch (computing) | Dominique Dunne | Internet game | Al Jaffee | X-COM: Genesis | Managed C++ | Game producer | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Romancing the Stone | Dragon's Lair | Nine to Five | Dabney Coleman | MobyGames | Killer List of Videogames | Galaxian | Trip Hawkins | Three Men and a Baby | Jordan Mechner | Mazes and Monsters | Filoli | Campbell Soup Company | Defender of the Crown | "Margaritaville" | Spy Hunter | Altered Beast | Lincoln Child | IntelliSense | A.P.B. | Room 222 | Choplifter | Cabal | Donkey Kong Jr. | Elevator Action | State Farm Mutual Insurance | Ikari Warriors | Extended warranty | Game tester | Planetfall | Cornerstone | The Lost Treasures of Infocom | Feelies | Frogger | Time Pilot | 720° | Golden Age of Arcade Games† | Sam Walton | Tapper | Paperboy | Bad Dudes | Fry's Electronics | Line of sight | Food Fight | Starcross | Crown Burgers | Superstore | James C. Christensen | Temple of Apshai | Hogan's Alley | Foul Play | Richard Dutcher | The Other Side of Heaven | Villa Montalvo | God's Army | A Princess of Mars | Game programming | Serious game | The Lurking Horror | Jon Freeman | Anne Westfall | Free Fall Associates | Jungle 2 Jungle | Gamebryo | X-COM: Alliance | Dave Ellis | The R.M. | The Singles Ward | Game development | Cinemaware | Conan: Hall of Volta | Roadwar 2000 | Gas Powered Games | Bill Budge | Julian Gollop | Beyond Castle Wolfenstein | Music Construction Set | Will Harvey† | Skyfox† | Windows Template Library† | The Other† | The American President | Dungeon Siege II | Dr. 90210† | Bruce Webster† | Jack-Jack Attack | HouseSitter | Into the Night† | Crush, Crumble and Chomp!† | Silverado | J. Willard Marriott † | GameTap | Rescue at Rigel† | Looker | Head Office† | Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom† | Foundation 9 Entertainment† | Ode to Billy Joe | Beehive House† | Hacker | Rocket Ranger | S.D.I. | King of Chicago | Runaway | BudgeCo† | Assault | Redline | The Work and The Glory | Walker Digital | Steve Maguire | Dreamchild | Swensen's | Game development tool | List of video game publishers | Importer | Exporter | 3D modeler | 3D model | Mean 18 | Jack Nicklaus 4 | Arcticfox | Jim Roslof | Titan Empire | Barbarian | David S. LaForce | Dan Gorlin | Dungeonquest | Dungeon! | "The First Men" | SlickEdit | Headgate Studios | MicroIllusions | List of Electronic Arts games | CL 9 | 4th & Inches | iWoz | Designed to Sell | A Storyteller in Zion | Running | Spitfire Ace | Dropzone | Star Fleet I: The War Begins | Harry Anderson | Lunar Lander (from 1390 to 4,826 bytes!) | Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited | The World's Greatest Lover | Airheart | Hundred-Dollar Baby | Potshot | Microplay Software | Red Sonja Unconquered | War Rafts of Kron | Bad Business | Resolution | The Judas Goat | Zynga | Pace Foods | Ceremony | Looking for Rachel Wallace | Chasing the Bear | A Catskill Eagle | Pastime | Luis Ricardo Falero | Neil Tillotson | List of Brøderbund games | Activiti (software) | List of Atari arcade games | Lullaby | The Datestones of Ryn | List of Capcom games | Oculus VR | Psi-5 Trading Company | Print Magic

See also: my edit stats, or my edit stats according to a different tool

I've also created numerous categories. But since the 'pedia has about 16,000,000,000 categories right now, I'm not sure that's something to be proud of...

Indicates entry was a featured article † Indicates the article was featured in the "Did you know..." section of the Main page when the article was new.

Projects
Projects I'm officially interested in, but not necessarily an official member of.
 * WikiProject Arcade games (started by me, turned into the arcade game task force)
 * WikiProject Video games (member)

Genuinely interesting
Though I didn't contribute a whole lot to these articles, they are interesting nonetheless:
 * Steve Wozniak: A true hero to every nerd
 * Voynich Manuscript: Truly weird; a hoax or genuine?
 * Alexander "Sawney" Bean: "Father" of a cannibalistic, legendary bandit family. Did they really even exist?
 * Spring Heeled Jack: Probably just a time-traveler using futuristic technology to scare English residents (my theory)
 * Sieve of Eratosthenes: A cool, ancient way to find prime numbers!
 * List of French words and phrases used by English speakers: sprinkle these phrases throughout your daily dialogue in order to sound intelligent

Awards and accolades
  giving birth to important and interesting articles

Thank you, veteran editor mentioning leisure early, knight, gnome and fairy, proud that you were "able to give birth to such important and interesting articles" as Video game developer and many more fundamental ones in the industry, based on first-hand knowledge, for Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and other expeditions to peaks, for patience in discussion and simply helping out, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (30 January 2011)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

To do

 * If you're bored, help with disambiguation: Disambiguation pages with links
 * Add screenshots to Clue article

Handy stuff

 * Guide to table "pipe" syntax
 * Extended image syntax
 * Sandbox
 * Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
 * Conversion template
 * Inflation template
 * WP:AIV or WP:SPI for dealing with vandals and sockpuppets


 * Actor IMDb template:
 * Film IMDb template:
 * Rotten Tomatoes template:


 * Home of the Underdogs template:
 * MobyGames game template:
 * MobyGames developer template:
 * KLOV template:
 * Video game barnstar: