User:Frecklefoot

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I'm a software engineer by trade, and a husband and dad by leisure. I've spent most 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. If you want to know more about me, visit my official web site: Frecklefoot's Flat. Being a video game developer, I got an entry on MobyGames: my Rap Sheet.

1 Wistory
2 Notable contributions
3 Projects
4 Genuinely interesting
5 Userboxes
6 Awards
7 To do
8 Handy stuff

[edit] Wistory

As you can see from the list below, 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 in the box 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.

v • d • e The Computer and Video Game Industry series
Activities	Jobs	Types of video games	Companies
Game design Game development Game programming Game testing Level design	Game producer Game director Game designer Game programmer Game artist Game tester Level designer	Arcade game Computer game Console game Handheld game	Video game developer Video game publisher List of developers List of publishers
Lists of video games List of video game industry people

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.

[edit] Notable contributions

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.

[edit] Projects

Projects I'm officially interested in, but not necessarily an official member of.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Arcade games (started by me, member)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games (member)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions (not an official member)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Films (not an official member)

[edit] 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: Strange legendary bandit family. Did they really even exist?
Spring Heeled Jack: Probably just a time-traveller using futuristic technology to scare English residents (my theory)

[edit] Userboxes

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

game
dev

This user is interested in computer and video game development.

This user is a member of
Wikipedia.

This user is a Virgo.

This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.

cvg-3

This user is an advanced gamer.

This user prefers to play games on a personal computer.

G	This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

prog-4

This user is an expert programmer.

C++

This user is a C++ programmer.

Java

This user can program in Java.

<html>

This user can write HTML.

This user is drug-free.

This user is a member of the
Video Games WikiProject.

>get all

This user sorely misses Infocom and its works of interactive fiction.

This user identifies as straight.

This user has a wife.

This user knows that 42 is the answer to life, the Universe, and everything.

This user is proud to be Celtic.

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let him or her know.

dad

This user is a father.

gk	This user is a geek.

21,000

This user has more than 21,000 edits on the English Wikipedia.

[edit] Awards

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I award this barnstar to Frecklefoot for his contributions to most every computer game and video game article on Wikipedia. His continual work on improving this realm of the encyclopedia is very appreciated. Tempshill 21:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

		The CVG Barnstar
		Frecklefoot has been award the CVG Star for his tireless contributions to, and protection of the Game designer article Konman72

[edit] To do

Clean up the external links section in audio game (perhaps make a list of AG developers)
Merge Model (computer games) into 3D model
Add screenshots to Clue article
Break them off lists in serious game article into List of serious games and List of serious game developers
Create List of MicroProse games from MicroProse article.

[edit] Handy stuff

Guide to table "pipe" syntax
Extended image syntax
Sandbox
Actor IMDb template: {{imdb name|id=0xxxxxx|name=<actor's name>}}
Film IMDb template: {{imdb title|id=0xxxxxx|title=<movie title>}}
Home of the Underdogs template: {{hotu|id=xxxx|name=<gamename>}}
MobyGames game template: {{moby game|id=<everything in the URL after "game">|name=<game title>}}
MobyGames developer template: {{moby developer|id=xxx|name=<developer's name>}}

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