Chris Pope

Last updated
Chris Pope
Chris Pope - Siege 2011.jpg
Pope in 2011
Occupation(s)Audio producer, entertainment industry social media publicist
Years active2001–present
Notable workTalking Toons with Rob Paulsen, Speaking of Voiceover with Bob Bergen

Chris Pope is an American internet personality, video game developer, producer, social media professional, podcaster. Pope is best known by fans as the SpacePope. [1]

Contents

Pope first gained internet notability in 2001 when "The Day Report" announced his breaking of the Arcade Pac-Man Turbo world record as recorded by chief scoreboard record keeper Walter Day with Twin Galaxies. [2] In 2008 he launched Tech Jives LLC, [3] a social media and podcast production company. Pope is the creator of multiple live interview-based podcasts, including some of the first to do live interviews with celebrity film and voice actors, such as Robert Clotworthy (Voice of Jim Raynor), Rob Paulsen (Voice of Raphael, Yakko Warner and Pinky), Jen Taylor (Voice of Cortana). [4]

In 2010, Pope also launched, as part of The Tech Jives network, an entertainment industry-focused social media publicist company called "Social Stars Web", which handles web hosting, Twitter management and Facebook fan building for people involved in film acting, voice acting, writing, and singing. Ellen McLain who voices "GLaDOS" on the popular video game series Portal and Portal 2 , as well as her husband John Patrick Lowrie are amongst those he manages. [5] [6]

In 2012, Pope joined forces with the Two Guys From Andromeda to Kickstart a video game called SpaceVenture. [7]

In 2015, Pope voice acted in the Cluck Yegger in Escape From The Planet of The Poultroid video game as the Radio Announcer. [8]

Video game development

In April 2012, Pope began acting as an Executive Producer, Programmer and campaign promoter, overseeing their Kickstarter campaign and helping generate excitement around the project. [7] Chris played a key role in helping Guys From Andromeda LLC get crowdfunding through Kickstarter by taking the reins to generate excitement around the return of the Two Guys From Andromeda. This was in regard to their new game idea, SpaceVenture. After the SpaceVenture Kickstarter campaign successfully raised $539,767, he began works with his partners, Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe (Original creators of the Space Quest series from Sierra On-Line) in making the new game become a reality. Fans of his involvement with Guys From Andromeda also sometimes refer to him as the SpacePope. [9]

In 2015, Pope and Crowe shifted focus on to a portion of SpaceVenture that didn't require as much writing. This was due to Murphy needing some time away from the project for personal reasons. The game sequence features a hero character named Cluck Yegger. The Cluck Yegger sequence of SpaceVenture was planned from the beginning to play a key role in the game. To bring more funding into the project, Crowe and Pope decided to make the Cluck Yegger sequence into a game and release it to the public. The game was named Cluck Yegger in Escape From The Planet of The Poultroid . [10] It was released to Kickstarter backers of SpaceVenture on October 29. 2015, [11] and then was greenlit on Steam and released publicly on November 9, 2015. [12]

Production

In April 2010, Pope's show "Apptastic iGame Reviewers" was the first ever to interview the makers of the number one selling game in America Angry Birds . [13] [14]

Pope also produces audio for celebrity voice actor Rob Paulsen's "Talkin Toons with Rob Paulsen" as well as provides the social media publicity. [15]

Social Media Publicist Work

Since November 2010, Pope began working with some of the cast from the web series The Guild in the effort of building their celebrity profiles on the web. Robin Thorsen who plays "Clara", Vincent Caso who plays "Bladezz", Brett Sheridan who plays "Mr. Wiggley", J. Teddy Garces who plays "Bruiser" and Sean Michael Becker who is the Director of the show are amongst a few. [16] [17]

Notably on the web series "Sound Advice On The Web" he worked extensively with creator J. Teddy Garces on fan, publicity, web, and social media presence. [18]

In May 2011, after doing an interview with Game of Thrones actor Kristian Nairn (plays Hodor), Kristian has recently begun work regarding his entire web presence with Pope and is in the process of starting a new audio production podcast that will include fellow friend and actor Jake Stormoen. [19] [20]

Related Research Articles

<i>Space Quest</i> Video game series

Space Quest is a series of six comic science fiction adventure games released between 1986 and 1995. The games follow the adventures of a hapless janitor named Roger Wilco, who campaigns through the galaxy for "truth, justice, and really clean floors".

Tom Hall is an American game designer best known for his work with id Software on titles such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen. He has also been the co-founder of Ion Storm, together with his friend and colleague John Romero. During his years in the company, Hall designed and produced Anachronox and was also actively involved in the development of Deus Ex.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Taylor (video game designer)</span> Canadian video game designer

Chris Taylor is a Canadian video game designer best known for Total Annihilation and the Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander series and co-founding the now-defunct studio Gas Powered Games. In 2002, GameSpy named him the "30th most influential person in gaming." In 2019, he revealed he has been working on Kanoogi, a cloud-based gaming platform, and developing his next game, Intergalactic Space Empire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rob Paulsen</span> American voice actor (born 1956)

Robert Frederick Paulsen III is an American voice actor and voice director, known for his roles in numerous animated television series and films. He received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program and three Annie Awards for his role as both Yakko and Pinky in the Animaniacs franchise. His other voice roles include Hadji in The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986–1987) and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996–1997); Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996); P.J. Pete in Goof Troop (1992), A Goofy Movie (1995), and An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000); Jaq in Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2002) and Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (2007); and Mac in The Looney Tunes Show (2011–2013) and Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2015).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dee Bradley Baker</span> American voice actor (born 1962)

Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor. Much of his work has consisted of vocalizations of animals and monsters. Baker's roles include animated series such as Adventure Time, American Dad!, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ben 10, Codename: Kids Next Door, Gravity Falls, Milo Murphy's Law, Phineas and Ferb, SpongeBob SquarePants, Steven Universe, The 7D, and The Legend of Korra. His voice work in live-action series includes Legends of the Hidden Temple and Shop 'til You Drop, as well as films such as Space Jam and The Boxtrolls.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Crowe</span> American video game designer

Mark Crowe is an American video game designer, artist, and writer who developed several adventure games, mostly for Sierra On-Line and its subsidiary Dynamix. He later worked at Pipeworks Software as Studio Design Director. Crowe is best known for creating the Space Quest series, mostly with his fellow "Guy from Andromeda", Scott Murphy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Josh Sawyer</span> American video game designer

Joshua Eric Sawyer, more commonly known and credited as Josh Sawyer, J.E. Sawyer, or JSawyer, is an American video game designer, known for his work on role-playing video games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Hardwick</span> American comedian and actor (born 1971)

Christopher Ryan Hardwick is an American comedian, actor, television and podcast host, writer, and producer. He hosted Talking Dead, an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with the network's zombie drama series The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, as well as Talking with Chris Hardwick, a show in which Hardwick interviews prominent pop culture figures, and The Wall, a plinko-inspired gameshow on NBC, Hardwick created Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network and home of his podcast The Nerdist Podcast, which later left the network and was renamed to ID10T with Chris Hardwick. His podcast had broadcast 1,000 episodes as of December 2019.

Bruce Thomas is an American actor. He is well known for being the motion capture actor of Master Chief in Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians and Halo Infinite as well as portraying Russell Adler in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. He first came to prominence for portraying the character of Batman in a series of commercials for General Motors' OnStar service that aired from 2000 to 2002.

Scott Paulsen is an American radio personality, columnist and voice actor based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jonah Ray</span> American actor

Jonah Ray Rodrigues is an American actor, comedian and writer from Los Angeles. He stars as Jonah Heston, one of the primary hosts of Mystery Science Theater 3000. He is a former host of The Nerdist Podcast and was the co-host of Comedy Central's The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arcen Games</span>

Arcen Games is a small video game company founded in 2009 by Chris McElligott Park. The company launched their first product, AI War: Fleet Command, in mid 2009 for Windows PCs.

<i>Broken Age</i> 2015 video game

Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure video game developed and published by Double Fine. Broken Age was game director Tim Schafer's first return to the genre since 1998's Grim Fandango, and was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Xbox One platforms. The game was developed in two acts; the first was released on January 28, 2014, and the second was released on April 28, 2015. A retail version of the complete game for Windows, macOS, and Linux, published by Nordic Games, was released on April 28, 2015. A Nintendo Switch version was released on September 13, 2018.

Idle Thumbs is a video game culture website and podcast network founded in 2004.

Video game development has typically been funded by large publishing companies or are alternatively paid for mostly by the developers themselves as independent titles. Other funding may come from government incentives or from private funding.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scott Murphy (video game designer)</span> American video game designer (born 1954)

Scott Murphy is an American video game designer, programmer, and writer who developed several adventure games, mostly for Sierra On-Line. He is best known for creating the Space Quest series, mostly with his fellow "Guy from Andromeda", Mark Crowe.

<i>Brawl in the Family</i> (webcomic) Webcomic

Brawl in the Family is a gag-a-day webcomic written and drawn by Matthew Taranto that ran for 600 comics released between May 1, 2008 to October 3, 2014. The webcomic was inspired by the Super Smash Bros. series and features characters from various video game franchises, predominantly Nintendo series such as Kirby, Super Mario, Pokémon, F-Zero, and Metroid. The webcomic concluded on October 3, 2014, having produced a total of 600 comics.

<i>Cluck Yegger in Escape from the Planet of the Poultroid</i> 2015 video game

Cluck Yegger in Escape From The Planet of the Poultroid is an indie survival horror point-and-click video game designed by Mark Crowe and Chris Pope of Guys From Andromeda LLC. The game centers around a heroic rooster character named Cluck Yegger, who after crash landing on the planet Poultroid in front of a chicken factory called BFC, must defend himself from mutated chickens that have been sent by his nemesis, the evil "Colonel Zanderz". The game is an offshoot of the Kickstarted video game called "SpaceVenture" created by the Two Guys From Andromeda. It was released privately to backers of SpaceVenture on October 29. 2015, and then was greenlit on Steam and released publicly on November 9, 2015.

Jeff Katz is an American film producer and comic book author, best known for genre movies such as The Pope's Exorcist, Snakes On A Plane and Freddy vs. Jason.

The Dot and Line was an online publication focusing on animation journalism. It was founded in 2016 by John Maher III and Eric Vilas-Boas. Over the course of four years, the masthead grew to include Elly Belle, Sammy Nickalls, and Marley Crusch. The Dot and Line published both reported and creative writing about cartoons and animation. It ceased publication on May 1, 2020.

References

  1. ↑ "Guys From Andromeda Interview: Chris Pope". Zombies In My Blog. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  2. ↑ "Pac-Man Turbo Record Broken". Spyhunter007.com. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  3. ↑ Gabriel Hager for his I Hearth Geek's podcast (2011-05-29). "The Official "The Guild" podcast interviews Chris Pope and Mark Eoff". Knightsoftheguild.podbean.com. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  4. ↑ "Voice Interviews with On Vox". Techjives.net. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  5. ↑ "Ellen McLain Voice of GLaDOS". Ellenmclain.net. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  6. ↑ "Actor/Author John Patrick Lowrie Ref". Johnpatricklowriebooks.com. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  7. 1 2 "SpaceVenture Press Release" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "IMDB Credits". IMDB. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "Space Pope Lego".
  10. ↑ "Creation of Cluck Yegger". Kickstarter. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "The day of Cluck Yegger has arrived!". Kickstarter. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  12. ↑ "Cluck Yegger in Escape From The Planet of The Poultroid on Steam". Steam. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "Interview with the makers of Angry Birds". Techjives.net. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  14. ↑ Rovio Mobile Interview
  15. ↑ "Talking Toons with Rob Paulsen Web". Robpaulsenlive.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-04. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  16. ↑ "Robin Thorsen". Robin Thorsen. Archived from the original on 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  17. ↑ "Social Stars Web Clients". Socialstarsweb.com. 2011-11-11. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  18. ↑ "Sound Advice On The Web Staff". Soundadviceontheweb.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-04. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  19. ↑ "Beyond The Wall Interview". Btwshow.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-18. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
  20. ↑ Kristian "Hodor" Nairn on The Web
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.