| 1 | -> ''Yes. I have an editor now. Yes, the people at Website/TheEscapist are nice and we get on just fine. No I can't get you [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee's]] autograph. Shut up.'' |
| 2 | -->-- '''Shamus Young''' |
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| 4 | Shamus Young (1971-2022) was a modder, musician, novelist, humorist, software engineer and general JackOfAllTrades (at least all the nerdy ones). Young was an early modder in the ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' community and made several generally well-regarded maps, including [[https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_City Doom City]] for ''Doom 2''. Had a regularly updated [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale blog found here]] and a [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ShamusYoung YouTube channel found here]], on which he published varied written and video works, amongst them the webcomics ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'' and ''Webcomic/ChainmailBikini''. He produced the ''Stolen Pixels'' webcomic and the game opinion column ''[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/experienced-points Experienced Points]]'' for ''Website/TheEscapist''. He was a co-founder and member of the LetsPlay group ''LetsPlay/SpoilerWarning'' between 2010 and 2017. Outside of his SpeculativeFiction writings (such as ''Literature/TheWitchWatch'' and ''Free Radical'') his works usually varied between edutainment, reviews, insightful analysis of video games (and several other media) and the demonstrations of his own adventures in graphics programming and game design. |
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| 6 | Known to have definite political opinions and maybe even a religious belief or two, but didn't blog about them, ever. Also known for detesting UsefulNotes/{{DRM}} and [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil Digital Piracy]] in equal amounts and frequently writing about both topics and the interconnections between them. Sometimes seen as an authority on the subject of ProceduralGeneration, though he'd be the first to declare that this isn't because he's doing something exceptional with it, just that there weren't many people in the field. Created some rather cool things with it, like "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y Pixel City"]], a dynamically generated night-time city and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7BIaERfNs0 Frontier"]], a procedurally generated world larger than ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', with differing climates and topographies. |
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| 8 | [[https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=54513 Young passed away in 2022 from cardiac arrest]]. |
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