Adventure Lantern is brought to you through the efforts of a diverse
group of gamers. Our contributors reside all over the globe. From
New Jersey, California, Oklahoma, and Belfast the Adventure Lantern staff is a group of passionate gamers.
Despite our small staff and limited financial resources, here at
Adventure Lantern we are dedicated to bringing our readers up-to-date information about
video games across all genres and platforms.
A couple of our staff members have courteously agreed to let us post small
biographies about them. Read the bigraphies below to learn a little more
about the people who make Adventure Lantern possible. We hope
to see you as an active member of our community as well.
For general questions about Adventure Lantern or inquiries about
joining our staff, please send your e-mails to Ugur@AdventureLantern.com.
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-Ugur Sener
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| Cat: |
A resident of New Jersey, USA, Cat (real name Beth A.) is a 16-year-old High School Student. She has been playing games since she was about four years old, and has been hooked ever since to all kinds of gaming. Regularly visiting arcades or the local Best Buy, this student probably doesn’t spend as much time focusing on school as she does her gaming fetish. (Not that it gets in the way, there’s plenty of other ways to distract a mind!)
Aside from gaming, Cat likes to read a good book or two. (Usually Horror or Fantasy.) In fact, that’s why she’s here in the first place. Her love of reading soon turned to a love of writing, wether it be fictional stories of fantasy or just an essay or two.
All around a balanced thinker, talented gamer and when she puts her mind to it, is hard at work.
You can contact Cat at Cat@AdventureLantern.com.
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| Drantin: |
Hans Manhave, a.k.a. Drantin, began his foray into adventure
gaming in the mid-90's with the Zork trilogy (as part of
the Zork Anthology). Intrigued by the idea of actually
telling the computer what he wanted it to do began a passion
in adventure gaming that continues to this day.
You can contact Drantin at Drantin@AdventureLantern.com.
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| Gnome: |
Gnome was (obviously) born under a different name in Greece, where he still resides. Currently struggling to overcome a PhD, gaming, and overall silly phase, Gnome maintains a gaming blog, a life, and writes for Adventure Lantern. Gnome has other interests too.
You can check out his blog at http://gnomeslair.blogspot.com.
You can contact Gnome at Gnome@AdventureLantern.com.
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| H. Paul Haigh: |
Paul is a 35 year old father of two (with one on the way, due in Oct 2006).
Paul has been playing RPGs and video games since the early days of TRS-80's,
Vic-20's (those are REALLY old computers for the uninitiated). Paul daydreams of
yester-year and the day when Infocom's text-only ZORK(TM) and the very difficult
Deadline (TM) ruled supreme over the realm of adventure games. Born, raised, and still
firmly-stuck to the sparkling-white beaches of NW Florida USA; Paul has enjoyed a
variety of jobs, careers, and insightful undertakings. Although once aspiring to be a cop,
medic, firefighter, 911 dispatcher, banker, security consultant, pawnbroker, computer tech,
and web designer; Paul has finally found his calling as a condo-manager and part-time
REALTOR®. Don't tell anyone, but he aspires to create a massively multiplayer PBEM online
reality game as well, and has been working on it for over 5 years, to no avail.
Good thing his wife is so understanding and patient.
You can contact Paul at Paul@AdventureLantern.com.
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| Neetie: |
Neetie is a 40 year old mother of 5. She is currently studying part time for a BSc
with the Open University but nevertheless still finds plenty of time for gaming.
Though born in Southport, England she now lives with partner John and daughters
in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
You can contact Neetie at Neetie@AdventureLantern.com
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| Nuggy: |
A man on a mission and a boy with a dream, newcomer Nuggy provides Video Game Reviews
from mainstream consoles such as the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Sony Playstation 2, and
PSP while wishing that game companies simply become one company and get it over with.
Though Adventure Lantern is his first time writing reviews for an official magazine,(*coughNOOBcough*)
Nuggy graduated from some Art Institute, majoring in Animation and Media Arts, hoping
to one day save the world from zombie overlords make a difference with his writings
in the cartoon and gaming biz. He currently freelances as
a Graphics Consultant for Proactive Delivery Services and as a Flash Intern Designer at
Media Lab Partners.
Nuggy also prides himself in his journey animating in Adobe flash while coming up with
new concepts for Saturday Morning cartoons. He has bad luck, a bad lung, bad hair but
still has a girlfriend for some reason. He does not, however, pride himself on being a
22 year-old STILL playing Pokemon nor does he wish to admit his favorite video game
character is Sonic the Hedgehog. He's a regular but not so regular contributor at
Deviantart.com, making it his non-official webpage for his improving flash skills until
he learns how to upload them himself using Dreamweaver,(Decoyboy.Deviantart.com).
His favorite games include Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Kingdom Hearts 1, Super Mario RPG,
Final Fantasy and Banjo-Kazooie. He likes writing, animating, animals, Disney Movies
(of the 90's) exercising, doing stupid things to girls and talking in the third person.
You can contact Nuggy at Nuggy@AdventureLantern.com.
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| Ugur Sener: |
The owner of Adventure Lantern, Ugur currently resides in Oklahoma City, U.S.A.
When he is not playing games, bugging people about deadlines, pretending
to write, or otherwise causing trouble, Ugur works as an analyst/programmer.
Having played video games
all his life, Ugur remembers the days when games only had two colors
and came in magnetic tapes. After his failed attempts to publish
a gaming magazine back in high school, he is now proud to have the
opportunity to operate a gaming Web site.
You can contact Ugur at Ugur@AdventureLantern.com.
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| Sudeep Pasricha (Threepwood): |
Sudeep Pasricha, a.k.a Threepwood, has been an avid adventure gamer for more than a decade now, ever
since he played the classic 'Day of the Tentacle' and got terminally hooked.
Every other full moon, he gets this uncontrollable urge to sit down with a
new adventure game, and wear down his keyboard and mouse till the credits
roll. He lives in sunny Southern California, where he devotes the rest of
his time to bumming on the beach and trying to finish his Ph.D.
You can contact Threepwood at Threepwood@AdventureLantern.com.
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| Gill Sandiford (Sweetpea): |
Gill Sandiford, a.k.a Sweetpea, is the 35 year-old single parent of two children aged 5 and 15.
Working as the full-time manager of a nursery, Gill lives in southern England by the sea.
She has been gaming on and off for 20 years. Gill's interests include forensics, history,
archaeology, and murder mysteries, which are her favorite.
You can contact Gill at Sweetpea@AdventureLantern.com.
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| Suz: |
Among the first reviewers to join Adventure Lantern, Suz currently
lives in Southern California, U.S.A. Suz makes her living as a dog trainer.
An avid fan of adventure games, like most of us here at Adventure Lantern,
Suz also plays role-playing games.
You can contact Suz at Suz@AdventureLantern.com
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| Thaumaturge: |
A resident of Cape Town, South Africa, Thaumaturge (real name Ian Eborn) is a 23-year-old Computer Science honours graduate. He has a passionate love of games, especially adventure games (with RPGs and action games following), which he plans to channel into designing and implementing his own games - hopefully as soon as he finds a path to it.
Aside from games, Thaumaturge has a fascination with the strange, wondrous, supernatural and arcane. He loves physics (Although he only took a first year course at university, alongside bits and pieces picked up along the way through his interest in the subject), computer science, and the sciences in general.
Thaumaturge's main taste in fiction is for fantasy and the supernatural, although he also enjoys sci-fi, especially in games, where sci-fi is fairly close to fantasy in his choice of genre.
You can contact Thaumaturge at Thaumaturge@AdventureLantern.com.
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| Vhayste: |
Vhayste is a Filipino video game walkthrough, faq and reviews contributor/ writer. Most of his contributions can be found in major gaming sites such as IGN, Neoseeker, Gamefaqs, Cheathappens, and Supercheats to name a few. He started out gaming since the NES days, in the early 1990s. His walkthroughs are mostly for the PS2, PSP and some PC games as well. Since then, he actively contributed reviews, cheat codes and faqs to help other gamers and non-gamers alike. After his first work was posted, several other gaming sites has taken notice and later published his works on their sites as well. He also accomodates his readers' requests and questions even through email.
He is also featured as IGN's "Faq Writer of the Month" for March, recognizing his hardwork and the quality of the contributions he submitted. He also works as the editor for the technical section of their local company magazine, and also a writer for another online magazine. Also in the same month, Gamepro's Gamerhelp.com awarded him for the 'Highest Ranked Faq' for March for his comprehensive guide for the PS2 RPG, Rouge Galaxy. He also received the same award for the month of June.
He has recently started writing PDF guides, mostly creating TXT format versions of those guides to be accessible to other readers as well.
He recently bought a PSP in June, to further widen his choice of games and titles to write guides to. He decided to buy an XBox360 in late September to make way for more next-gen games already making their way to the mainstream. He also plans to own a PS3 but that would definitely wait until next year.
His game preferences include flight combat simulators, racing, RPG and adventure games. His favorite game includes the whole Ace Combat Series, Need for Speed franchise, Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile games for the PS and PS2. He maintains his own personal page hosted by 1up.com. Like a typical gamer, he describes himself as a mix of anime, mechs, cars, fighter planes and girls.
You can contact Vhayste at Vhayste@AdventureLantern.com.
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