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Benjamin Richard "Yahtzee" Croshaw (born 24 May 1983, Rugby, Warwickshire,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adventure-treff (interview) )〕 England) is a British comedic writer, video game journalist, author, and video game developer. He is best known for his acerbic video game review series, ''Zero Punctuation'', for ''The Escapist''. Before this, Croshaw gained attention in the Adventure Game Studio community for his video games. Croshaw also writes a weekly supplementary column for ''The Escapist'', ''Extra Punctuation'', as well as the video series ''Judging by the Cover.'' In addition, he worked on two web series for ''The Escapist'' prior to them being discontinued: ''Jim & Yahtzee's Rhymedown Spectacular'' and ''Uncivil War''. To date, Croshaw has published two novels through Dark Horse Comics. The first was ''Mogworld'', published in August 2010. The second, ''Jam'', was released 2012 in October. On 13 December 2014, Croshaw announced that he was working on a third novel.〔 Outside of writing, Croshaw was one of the four founders of the Mana Bar, an Australian cocktail bar and video gaming lounge which opened in 2010. The Mana Bar closed its doors on May 24 2015 He also co-hosts a weekly podcast/Let's Play hybrid series named ''Let's Drown Out'' along with co-host Gabriel Morton. ==Games== Croshaw became known in the Adventure Game Studio community for the ''Rob Blanc'' trilogy. He then created another AGS game, ''The Trials of Odysseus Kent'', which was released on 30 September 2002. ''The Trials of Odysseus Kent'' was mentioned by ''PC Plus'' magazine as "AGS Showcase" in the November 2003 issue.〔(Zipped PDF scans of PC Plus November 2003 article on AGS, featuring ''The Trials of Odysseus Kent'' ) cited 15 November 2006〕 He also helped found the collaborative ''Reality-on-the-Norm'' series by creating the first game, ''Lunchtime of the Damned''. The series has gone on to have over 50 episodes since. Some of his recent works have experimented with the AGS engine to produce games in other genres than the point-and-click adventure games that AGS was designed for, such as ''Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment'', and the ''1213'' series. ''1213'' and the ''Chzo Mythos'' games were both later released as special editions. These contain author's commentaries, extended endings, or even extended notes giving backstory. Croshaw allowed people to get these each time they donated over five U.S. dollars to his site, but as of July 2009 they were given out for free on his site, as he said he no longer relied on the donations as a means of support. Croshaw writes his own games and their graphics and animation using Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Paint, though he does not compose his own music. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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