User:Frecklefoot
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, but currently I'm working in a non-entertainment sector (*whimper*). 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. If you really feel the need to, you can email me, however, most comments can go on my talk page.
I've edited thousands of articles, usually with just small changes to grammar and formatting. 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 (man, this list has gotten long!). Newest work appears at the bottom of the below list.
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 | 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 (computer 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 (I'll get around to Preston someday) | IntelliSense | A.P.B. | Room 222 | Choplifter | Cabal | Donkey Kong Jr. | Elevator Action | State Farm Mutual Insurance | Ikari Warriors | Extended warranty | Computer 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
See also: Categorized list of 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...
Bragging Dept.
I'm proud of all my contributions to the 'pedia, but my article the Golden Age of Arcade Games was edited mercilessly within the first few hours of posting. It was then featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know..." section! The edits made it a much better article, but most of my original content is still there. Check it out if you get a chance... :-)
Update: WOO-HOO! This article became a featured article on September 2 2004. My first featured article ever! Though I didn't write the current revision all myself, I started it baby! :-D
Update: WOO-HOO! The article was featured on October 6 2004. Do I rock or what?!
Projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Arcade games (started by me)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions
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?
To do
- Write the Articfox computer game article.
- Add screenshots to The Sims article.
- Add screenshots for Lode Runner
- Add picture of an Apple IIe or II+ and add it to History section of Game programmer and Apple II family article.