Zelda Dungeon:Staff

Listed below is the full listing of current and notable former staff members here at Zelda Dungeon. It is generally listed in hierarchical based on current website status. Many staff members wear a lot of hats and would fit under many categories. In this case, they are only listed under their highest ranking.

Webmasters

Mases Hagopian

Mases' old man hat.

Main article: Mases

Founder and Creator of Zelda Dungeon back in August of 2001. Mases is the owner of Dungeon Gaming Enterprises, the network that owns Zelda Dungeon, Pokemon Dungeon, and Darksiders Dungeon.

At Zelda Dungeon, Mases has created the bulk of the game content and walkthroughs that are found at Zelda Dungeon today. Mases does a little bit of everything, working as the lead member of the content team, one of the news coordinators, assistant forum and wiki administrator, and overseer of the sites YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch.TV pages.

Mases also serves as the diplomatic leader of the website, handling most of the communication with Nintendo and other website and magazines. He oversees almost all projects at Zelda Dungeon, and is responsible for the hiring of brand new staff members at the website.

Caleb Simpson

Piano happiness

Caleb is one of the webmasters of Zelda Dungeon and one of the main content writers, specializing in walkthroughs and guides, both on the website and on the Zelda Dungeon YouTube channel. A perfectionist to a fault, Caleb produces very polished guides at a slow pace and is usually filled with maps and other useful (perhaps even over-the-top) additions that make his projects one of a kind. Because of his perspective on things like this as well as his artist eye, his opinion is valued by other staff members for various content projects and designs around the site.

Caleb has created several of the layouts used at Zelda Dungeon and is also responsible for a lot of coding (tools used) for the walkthroughs found on the site. He's also one of the resident video specialists, making him one of the go-to guys for more complicated video material on the YouTube channel.

Senior Contributors

Administrators

Locke

Locke

Location	confirmed. Sending supplies.
Age	33 (or 392)
Rank	Administrator
Join Date	Forums: November 2009 Mod/Staff: November 2010 Wiki: April 2011

Main article: Locke

Most contributions to the Wiki are reviewed by Locke, who also makes major contributions himself. These contributions tend to be focused on organizing articles with categories, templates, links, and formats, for a consistent and cohesive encyclopedia. He is currently heading up the migration of resources from the site to the wiki, starting with interviews. Locke also moderates the Zelda Theory section of the DGE Forum and enjoys the philosophy of Zelda lore.

Kybyrian

Kybyrian is the Head Administrator of the Dungeon Gaming Forum Community and handles, with the occasional help of Mases, the entirety of the forums. He works on fixing templates, updating and installing new plugins for the forums, and also handles all management of forum staff and the rules. Kybyrian has been a member of the Zelda Dungeon Forums since January of 2008, holding a dedicated membership for over 4 years. He became a Super Moderator of the forums before the group was abolished on 9/11/11 and Administrator on 9/25/11.

In addition to his major role on the forums, Kybyrian also held a small content staff position back in late 2008-early 2009 writing content for the Oracle games. He wrote the Oracle Trading Guides as well as the Oracle of Ages Enemy Guide and part of the Oracle of Seasons Enemy Guide.

Matt

Main article: Matt

Matt is an administrator of the Zelda Dungeon Wiki. He's primarily responsible for maintaining the on-wiki coding such as scripts, stylesheets, and templates. He is the go-to guy on the wiki for any coding or technical issues.

Matt joined Zelda Dungeon way back in 2008, but didn't get really active there until 2010. He mostly hangs out in the general chitchat section, particularly in mature discussion. He eventually became a Hylian Knight and Site staff in early 2011. His first job was working on Zelda Dungeon's Facebook page. Eventually when Zelda Dungeon decided to start its own wiki, Matt moved on to be a leading staff member of the wiki. He brought with him experience and expertise of building and editing wikis which he gained in his previous work at Zelda Wiki, which he reluctantly left due to disagreements on policy.

Matt was instrumental in setting up the Zelda Dungeon Wiki, helping to select extensions and building a framework of templates and scripts. As well as with training others how to edit wikis and perform various tasks. Today he continues with his usual routine of working on various coding projects for the wiki.

David

Main article: David

David is one of the greatest guys that you'll ever meet. David is an administer of the Dungeon Gaming Enterprises in doing many different coding, maintenance, and upgrading work. David originally started out as one of the News Corespondents for Zelda Dungeon early March of 2011 and helped coordinate publishing, drafting, and finding of many news stories. Before that, David was inspired to make his own website, but the subject and concept for the site were lacking. In the old official Zelda Dungeon skype chat, an idea that had been going around for about a year came to the attention of David for a Pokemon Dungeon. David figured that this was a good place to start building a website, and took the concept into his own hands. Several months later, in May 2011, Pokemon Dungeon had a "soft launch" and has since had an official launch on October 1, 2011. Pokemon Dungeon was, along with Zelda Dungeon, the first site in the Dungeon Gaming Enterprises. David also has plans to start a Metroid Dungeon, and many other Dungeon sites, as soon as the current ones are stable.

Podcast Team

Din

The hidden stare down

Din joined the staff in 2010 with the creation of Z-Talk: The Zelda Dungeon Podcast. Din and Rish host the podcast as well as oversee its continual development each month. Specifically, Din is in charge of the audio creation (including background music, segment overseeing, ordering, and publication), the creation and running of The Keaton Quiz, podcast forum thread upkeep, fan and staff involvement, and of course hosting. Din makes up one quarter of the Canadian staff on Zelda Dungeon! Din will finish her Secondary Education Degree at Christmas of 2012 and will out on the job hunt for a teaching position in a high school. Her passions outside of gaming and Zelda include: biology, drama, writing and reading medieval fiction, and a fascination with gothic culture. Din and Rish would both like to publicly thank ZeldaMusicLover and Axle the Beast for their contributions to the running of the podcast. Without them it would be a much more difficult feat, their contributions and help are endless and much appreciated.

Rishian

It's bright here!

Rish joined the staff in 2010 with the creation of Z-Talk: The Zelda Dungeon Podcast. Din and Rish host the podcast as well as oversee its continual development each month. Specifically, Rish is in charge of the technical aspect of the podcast (programing and coding for the main page audio embed and iTunes publication), the creation and running of Din and Rish's Mailbag, the email for the podcast, the larger portion of fan interaction which includes the comments section, and hosting. Rish makes up another quarter of the Canadian staff on Zelda Dungeon (and we will leave it to you to discover the last two!). Rish will finish his after degree in Elementary Education in July of 2013, with his first two degrees in Sociology and Psychology. His main interests are gaming, specifically Zelda, Resident Evil, and Minecraft, zombie lore, and reading, reading, and reading.

Social Networking

Trevor Magnani

Trevor Joined Zelda Dungeon in March 2011, and is responsible for live event coverage for Dungeon Game Enterprises, runs the ZD Countdown, and live stream events on Twitch.tv. Aside from the work for Zelda Dungeon, Trevor also is the founder of GenGAME.net, a gaming blog and live gaming network. You can follow him on Twitter [1] where he typically announces everything he's doing.

Michelle Simpson

Michelle and Caleb

Main article: Michelle Simpson

Michelle started tweeting on the Zelda Dungeon twitter account in October 2010. She also is the official photographer for Dungeon Gaming Enterprises. She is married to Caleb and lives in Alaska.

News Team

News Coordinators

Jesse McCarty

Jesse, an alien from planet awesome, started as a News Corespondent for Zelda Dungeon in October of 2011. Cut from the staff for a short period and re-hired in January of 2012, he has since maintained his spot on the staff by searching for news, drafting, and scheduling posts for the main page. He is a semi-active member of the forums as well as an occasional article writer. His current goal on ZD is to make a news post with the most comments in ZD history. He plans on trying to progress to the higher ranks of ZD staff. Hopefully receiving more responsibility in the near future as a staff member and respect from other staff members.

Aside from spending some of his free time on ZeldaDungeon, Jesse is an amateur musician and skater. He can also be found on Facebook and Youtube.

News Correspondents

Christina

Christina started at Zelda Dungeon in August 2011. Although she was originally hired as an editor, she started writing news posts to help out other staff members and became a consistent contributor. She lives in both West Chester, Pennsylvania and Cleveland, Ohio depending on the time of year.

Connor

Connor joined the news team early September 2011. Since Febuary 2012, Connor has started to make discussion posts every Tuesday, as well as searching for news and posting it. He lives in the UK in the Town of Weston-Super-Mare. As well as Zelda, Connor also likes Super Mario, Pokémon, Fire Emblem & Kingdom hearts.

Aside from posting discussion points and news posts, Connor can be found on DeviantArt creating really amazing comissions of Pokémon fusions, he can also go as far as animating them. Connor claims he's working on a game, but not much information is given about it.

Destiny

Destiny joined the News Team in November 2011. She is also a forum moderator. She lives in British Columbia and likes alpacas.

Knowlee

Main article: Knowlee''

Knowlee (aka "knowlee") joined the Zelda Dungeon staff in September 2010 to help with the then-going Majora's Mask Month by helping out with the Characters Page. Later on she moved on to becoming a part-time Article Staff member as well as becoming a news correspondent. She now helps run the Zelda Fanart Spotlight along with Hachi. On the forums, she is a Hylian Knight.

As far as non-related Zelda stuff goes, she is a Christian and loves to play video games, write, read, and draw in her spare time. She is also probably one of the biggest Mickey Mouse fans you'll ever meet and she absolutely loves Starburst(except for the Pink ones) and Mountain Dew.

Article Team

Forum Staff

Nicole

Nicole is an active member of the Dungeon Gaming Forum Community, a Forum Moderator, and an Editor on the Article Staff. She joined the forum April 9th, 2010, but only started frequenting the forum in December of 2010. Nicole was made a Hylian Knight, or "role model" of the forum, later the next year, in September 2011, and was soon promoted to a moderator in October. She still works tirelessly enforcing forum rules on a daily basis.

Nicole has written an article for Zelda Dungeon and currently works as a full-time editor. She joined the Article Staff in May of 2011.