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aetsch [ aetsch@ebw.ca / http://surf.to/zig ]
Date of joining: February 25th, 2000.
Ex-companies: JWare, Delta Software
Jacob Hammond (aetsch) is the oldbie who is famous mainly for his Game Creating System project, ZIG. He has also made the ZZT Music Player and co-maintains the ZZT Metro. He started ZZTing again in 1999 and is now working on several awesome projects.
Chase Bramlage [ czzt@aol.com ]
Date of joining: August 27th, 2000.
Ex-companies: (none)
Probably one of the oldest ZZTers around (he passed the age of 20 already). He made a name for himself with the games Bloodlines (which won Game of the Month on zzt.org) and Operation:OBRIAN. In real-life he shoots movies.
coolzx [ coolzx@excite.com ]
Date of joining: September 22nd, 2001.
Ex-companies: Pinnacle Entertainment, Deep Blue Enterprises, Reptile House, Infinity Inc, Large Orange Lump, Inverted Thoughts Inc Dot, Random Inc
coolzx is one of the big names in ZZT game-making and winner of two zzt.org GOTMs and one Classic GOTM. He's released many a ZZT game, such as the award-winning A Dwarvish Mead-Dream, the Infestation series, Kamek and Last Momentum. Besides being a great game-maker, he's also one of ZZT's most talented graphics artists and winner of the Summer 2001 Interactive Fantasies 24 Artistic Hours of ZZT. His other hobbies include taking long walks along the beach with a hot girl, listening to music and breakdance.
EmalkaY [ emalkay2k@hotmail.com / http://emalkay.com ]
Date of joining: February 24th, 2001.
Ex-companies: Paladin Entertainment, Daytime Hallucinations
All together EmalkaY has made a somewhat large collection of games, demos and utils. When making his games, he always tries to make them original and enjoyable to play. His favourite game that he has made would have to be Nonsense. He started MZX in 1998 and since then he has been improving his MZX skills and learning new things all the time. What he tries to do nowadays is to track his own music for his games. Lost Myth, Castle of Zeux, Escape from Taurus (his first attempt at tracking) and Fusion all contain his musical creations that range in different styles.
fejjy [ fejj@mtrap.org / http://megazeux.net ]
Date of joining: January 22nd, 2001.
Ex-companies: FutureWare/Mind Works Entertainment, Gammafire, Duky Inc, Autumn Dreams, Chaos and Disorder, Draconic Creations, Underneath it All
fejjy (Jeff Conroy) has been around for a long time. He used to own the ZZT company FutureWare, which was pretty succesful back in its days. Projects of his include Merlin and Hitman and he's the maintainer of megazeux.net (formerly MegaZeux Warehouse). He's also a wrestler. :P
Fishfood [ ZZTcraaazy@btinternet.com / http://craig.mtrap.org ]
Date of joining: April 11th, 2001.
Ex-companies: Eagle Rock Interactive, Inverted Thoughts Inc Dot, Random Inc.
Fishfood, the famous ZZTer, has been around for almost 4 years now (2001) and found ZZT back in the days of AOL. He's rather active in the community and has made a few games, among which the Game of the Month-winning Dark Soul and the trippy Hallucina (which is rather diffferent from his other games like Dark Soul and ERA, and according to Fishfood himself, it's maybe because of Viovis' influence). He also used to be president of Eagle Rock Interactive for a few days and has co-run the company Inverted Thoughts Inc Dot. Watch out for the fish called 'Food' who is looking for (fish)food! :P
Hercules (president) [ s_pieterse@hotmail.com / http://hydra78.tripod.com ]
Date of joining: June 1st, 1996.
Ex-companies: Infinity Inc
Hercules is the president and founder of Interactive Fantasies. He's a real RPG-lover, and he also enjoys role-playing (AD&D, Alternity, Vampire: The Masquerade) with his real-life friends DoggyShop, The Avatar and some others. Soccer is one of his other hobbies. "We love money!". He's a half-god from Mount Olympus. Yup. ^_^ He's a real-life friend of The Agonizer, and Hydra is his cousin.
Hydra (vice-president) [ hydra78@hotmail.com / http://killing_play.tripod.com ]
Date of joining: June 8th, 1996.
Ex-companies: Infinity Inc
Hydra, known to the real-life people as Niels Reyngoud, and to the Hardcore crowds as DJ Gold, is another one of that Dutch ZZT-clan. He has been playing ZZT for a really long time (since 1993!) and has been a member of Interactive Fantasies since the beginning. "Don't you dare be scottin' one of my heads!".
Jojoisjo [ jojoisjo@yahoo.com ]
Date of joining: May 31st, 2001.
Ex-companies: Lame Game
Jojoisjo is a ZZTer. If he could, he would end his member info at that, but he can't. He enjoys making third person sound like first. Now to the info section. Jojoisjo was born in the throes of Egyptian slavery..... wait damn that's Moses. Same thing. Jojoisjo actually came into the community and ZZT (no he didn't ZZT much before he joined the community) at the very end of 1999, from there he perked up to create River City, Gems and Pipes, Possessed, and Four. He has a nice collection of awards for games and personal achievements including, but not limited to one GOTM, Most innovative/puzzle - Gem's and Pipes, and tied second place with his programming hero Zenith for Best programmer. He is also a good musician and makes music for games, go music! He considers himself a good ZZTer for the most part, yes he does.
Meantee [ jayplussilentbob@yahoo.com ]
Date of joining: September 20th, 2001.
Ex-companies: (none)
Meantee is a talented ZZTer and has excellent drawing skills and is a decent programmer as well. He has met aetsch, long-time IF member, in real-life and likes punk music, watching cartoons, drawing, eating and sleeping. He dislikes green beans, boy bands and the Disney Channel
Robert Pragt [ robert_pragt@hotmail.com ]
Date of joining: February 10th, 2000.
Ex-companies: Team Smiley X
Robert Pragt is a funky Dutch guy. He's been ZZTing for a few years now and he's a true talent. He won the third prize in the Winter 1999 24 hours of ZZT, too. Hasta la vista.
The Agonizer (honorary member) [ o_cornelissen@hotmail.com ]
Date of joining: June 15th, 1996.
Ex-companies: (none)
Our one and only joint-smokin' dude: The Agonizer. His hobbies consist of drawing, and girls, so that should say enough. Anyway, don't be dissin' him, or you'll have a problem. He's always shouting at little kids, telling them what to do. If he gets enough of that, he takes a girl to his room... =P He's a real-life friend of Hercules and good at MegaZeux char-editing and art. He's an honorary member of Interactive Fantasies.
Theta14 [ theta14@juno.com ]
Date of joining: May 17th, 2001.
Ex-companies: AuroraSoft (old name: Theta Productions)
Theta values originality and gameplay in ZZT, and in that order. He tries to live up to his own standards and hopes to make a wide variety of games. He is also annoyed when he types about himself in third person. He's also the co-winner of emmzee's Spring 2001 24 hours of ZZT.
Thundercloud [ matty45292923@aol.com ]
Date of joining: January 13th, 2001.
Ex-companies: (none)
An up and coming MZXer, who seems to be learning new stuff by the day! He focuses primarily on strategy games and sims (just look at Dynasty), but does venture into the adventure class of games every now and again. And watch out for his thunder and lightning flashes! :D
WiL [ w.wil@excite.com ]
Date of joining: October 10th, 2000.
Ex-companies: Eagle Rock Interactive, Inverted Thoughts Inc Dot
WiL made his name in the ZZT community with the game Banana Quest and the ZZT music collection #play, as well as placing second in the Summer 24HoZZT competition. Long-time advocate of the word "Bov" (a word similar in definition to "Samsara", if that helps any). His other hobbies are music and long-distance running.