Topic: A Little Bit of Info About You...

[Sub]

Known as: Hybrid, Sub
Found Spore: Someone made a thread about the game on http://www.civfanatics.com/ (its a civilization game site)
Found Gaming steve: looking up spore on google
Hangs out in the Forums: pretty much everyday
Known for: being awesome?

[James Shields]

Known as: James, Whody, Mole
Found Spore: Article in PC gamer reffering to GDC
Found gaming steve:Link on the gameFAQs spore board
Hangs out in the forums:Whenever I'm online
Known for:My stunning charisma and rapier wit

[Tr0n]

Known as: Tr0n, Tron, Tr0n42
Real name: Benjamin
Found Spore:  Purely by accident, in my search for more evolution games
Found Gaming Steve:  As a stepping stone in my absorption of everything "Spore"... I've been standing here ever since
Hangs out in the Forums:  Obssessively... the girlfriend hates it, but enjoys reading the hot topics like "Religion"

Known for:  My elitist nature (dance, puppets, dance!!!), the only college graduate at my workplace (Computer Engineering), creator of the diagnositc disc that everyone uses at my job (Best Buy, Geek Squad), avid fan of Dave Chappelle's comedy and avid bad impressionist of the characters he impersonates, That's it... I'm a computer geek.  Unless I made drunken love to some celebrity in college, I'm about as useful as a football bat.

[syphonbyte]

Known as: syphonbyte, syph, syphon
Real Name: Lucas
Found Spore: At gamasutra.com
Found Gaming Steve: From his topic at GameFAQs
Hangs out in the Forums: Waaaay too much...

Known For: My awesome website, my ability to quickly learn any game, my absurd programs that I create to purposely cause memory leaks, creation of a number of evil internet fads that should DIE DAMMIT, DIE. And my rockage at various video games, especially Science and Industry.

[stuck]

Known as: StuckIn2004
Real Name: Pawel
Found Spore: Newsweek article
Found Gaming Steve: googled him during quest for spore info
Hangs out in the Forums: when online

Known For: you tell me

[Amberfox]

Known as: Amberfox
Real Name: Fred
Location: germany
Occupation: student
First Heard of Spore From: gamestar.de
Found gaming steve: via google
Hangs out in the Forums: quite often

Known For: Drawing and working with Photoshop a lot; being a TES-Addict; drawing the weekly bestiary-update for Waiting4Oblivion

[Aker]

Known as: Aker, Arun, Arunake
Real Name: Xavier
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Occupation: Book Seller
Found Spore: searching news about Maxis in google.
Hangs out in the Forums:always if I am online and not playing Wow

Known for: Spamming forums with ideas. In the real life its other history and I have a lover of the same genre. In Spain nothing is wrong with being gay and you have the same rights than others, even I could adopt or get married if I wish. I dont like extremely religious people as they usually dont respect my human rights. Let everyone live in peace and the world would be better. And if you want to make unhappy other people, play Spore and shot'em all!

[Jaleho]

Known as: Jaleho, Kodiak, Art Monkey, Spielberg
Real Name: Jason Holm
Location: Olathe, KS, USA
Occupation: Curriculum Developer, Software Programmer, Graphic Artist
First Heard of Spore From: Fark
Found gaming steve: Google
Hangs out in the Forums: All the time throughout the day

Known for: Interest in science, philosophy, cartooning, video editing, puppetry, homeschooling, anthropology, archaeology, simulation software. Finding something that interests me (band, game, movie) and creating art in appreciation of it.

[Areku]

Known as: Areku, Korushi, and Fluffy....?
Real Name: Alex
Location: Irmo, SC, USA
Occupation: Unemployed Bum in College 
First Heard of Spore: BC forums on Gamefaqs
How I found Gaming Steve: Spore forums on Gamefaqs
On the Forums: Have I left yet ?? O_o
Known for: My hair, horrible art, and amazing cooking skills 

[Daxx]

Known as: Daxx
Real Name: Dave
Location: Devon, UK / Oxford, UK
Occupation: Student
Found Spore: on Slashdot
Found GamingSteve: /. again...
Hangs out in the forums: when I've nothing else to do. Which bizarrely seems to be a lot these days.
Known for: Board Game Design, long and rambling Game Theory papers and for being an incorrigible Grammar Nazi.
Favourite Quote: The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. (George Bernard Shaw)

[xcoldcloudx]

name:Corey
I found gaming steve on accident when looking for spore info.
Found about spore from my friend who found out in a gaming magazine.
Location:Florida,Usa
Occupation:School student
only talk on the spore fourms really.
Currently playing pikmin 2

[Madchat18]

Known as: Madchat18, Rich, Richard, Ricky, RickD, England!
Real Name: Richard England
Location: Bossier City, Louisiana
Occupation: Air Force
Found Spore: I have no idea. Found it following the GDC.
Found GamingSteve: Searching for Spore stuff on Google.
Hangs out in the forums: All the time.
Known For: Stupid poems, stupid songs, stupid mistakes, wonderful memories of what should've been.

[Borogove]

Real Name: Mike Meyer
Lives in: Michigan, USA
Occupation:  web programmer, though I just got a call about a 3d graphics programmer position in FL.
Found Spore: following GDC news...I think it was Gamasutra maybe?
Found Gaming Steve through epic-scale webhunt for Spore info.  Or maybe he just came up when I google'd for Spore pics.

Known for:  making computer games in my spare time,
In the forums:  a few times a day.  really just the Spore section though.

[Pinstar]

Pinstar
Will go by: "Brian" if you insist on my real name, or "Pinstarch" if I'm cooking something.
First Heard of Spore From: Trixietown, a fellow VIP in the Sims 2 community.
First Heard of Gaming Steve From: Message Board on Gamestop
Gets in the Forums: Generally in the evenings, though sometimes I'll check them right after I wake up in case anything juicy has surfaced in the late hours.
Known For: The Legacy Challenge, Raccoons. Love of MST3K and the show "Good Eats."

[Jennifer Reitz]

I'm Jennifer Diane Reitz.
I'm 45, and I live in a polyamory with three spouses.
I once was a game designer and artist (Boppin', Lab Of Life, assorted projects for everyone from EA to Activision), now I am a web cartoonist.
I do Pastel Defender Heliotrope http://www.pasteldefender.com/,
I just finished Unicorn Jelly http://unicornjelly.com/
Both are science fiction stories about alien universes with unique, consistant, and alien physical laws.

I found out about Spore from members of my comic forum, who thought I would be interested.
And, golly, am I!

An odd note: in 1983 I sold a product design (for the C64 and Amiga) to Activision called 'Multiverse' which in numerous
ways was strikingly similar to Spore...it was never actually made, of course. I got 10K for Multiverse. It was
my very first gig in the games industry. I stupidly spent the last 14 years still trying to get it made under new names, but...failed.
That's why I am a web cartoonist now. Much less stress.

I can't wait for Will Wright to finally give me the next closest thing to my own dream. I know he can make it happen!

And...it will be far better than my comparatively primitive 1983 invention, without question!