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
Rank	Site — Webmaster Forum — Hylian Noble Wiki — Administrator
Age	37 years
Location	Morton Grove, IL, USA
Join Date	August 19th, 2001

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

Main article: Caleb

Caleb
Rank	Site — Webmaster, Guide Specialist Forum — Hylian Knight
Age	36 years
Location	Homer Alaska, USA
Join Date	March 17th, 2007

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. This process has been dubbed "Caleb-enizing" by the staff.

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

Axle the Beast

Axle the Beast
Rank	Site — Senior Contributor Forum — Hylian Knight Wiki — Administrator Podcast — Planner & Contributor
Age	32 years
Location	The Ghoul's Stomach
Join Date	Forum — November 26th 2008 Staff — February 22nd 2010 Wiki — October 23rd 2011

Axle joined the forums when Zelda became his favorite series, becoming an active member. He was later brought onto the staff by Mases in order to run the site's video mailbag, the Curiosity Shop.

Axle the Beast is known for his sometimes encyclopedic knowledge of Zelda and his various opinions about the series, some of which can be a bit controversial. Axle is one of the most frequent contributors to the site's YouTube channel, posting the mailbag and video discussions. Axle can be found doing regular editorials, the occasional news posting and content work, and just generally sticking his nose into things and giving his thoughts.

Axle is also in charge of the site's article feature, both writing his own articles and editing other peoples', while organizing the article schedule and making sure there's an article or review to read every Friday.

Administrators

Administrators at Zelda Dungeon work with the various pieces of software that help make up the site, such as our news management system, the wiki, the gallery, and the forums. They generally install plugins, put together layouts, update software, adjust settings to optimize the software, manage the software to ensure it is working, make sure the software is being used correctly, and even installing new pieces of software. These are the staff members that make sure that the site is working and working properly.

Locke

Locke

Location	confirmed. Sending supplies.
Age	32 (or 391)
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
Rank	Forum — Administrator
Age	27 years
Location	Ferdinand, IN, USA
Join Date	January 31, 2008

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

Matt
Rank	Forum — Site Staff Wiki — Administrator
Age	34 years
Location	Madison, SD, USA
Join Date	November 28, 2008

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. Then, in May 2011, David "soft launched" Pokemon Dungeon and has since officially launched the site 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. David designed and coded Darksiders Dungeon with the direction of Mases.

David also helps with many social networking accounts in the network. He helps with Zelda Dungeon's Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ pages, along with all of Pokemon Dungeon's various social accounts. If you want to find him, check out his Google+, Facebook, and Twitter accounts where he shares loads of good stuff. You can also contact him through email.

Podcast Team

Din

Din Akera
Rank	Site — Staff Forum — Hylian Knight Podcast — Fearless Leader	The hidden stare down
Age	33 years
Location	My Own Little World
Join Date	Forum — January 27th 2010 Staff — September 2010

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), organizing people for recording group segments, the creation and running of The Keaton Quiz and Community Question of the Month, podcast forum thread upkeep, fan and staff involvement, and of course hosting. She also became a Hylian Knight in 2010. 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 AnimeBassoon, Axle the Beast, and Colonel-Majora 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

Rishian
Rank	Forum — Site Staff Podcast — Technical Guru	It's bright here!
Age	38 years
Location	Great White North
Join Date	Forum — March 9th 2010 Staff — September 2010

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 and Community Tips, 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.

AnimeBassoon

AnimeBassoon
Rank	Site — Podcast Staff Forum — Member Podcast — Behind Scenes Stuff	I see you
Age	31 years
Location	Somewhere
Join Date	Forum — January 3rd 2011 Wiki — July 13th 2012

AnimeBassoon is an all around busy person doing a multitude of things for the podcast. From identifying music to creating segments he does a lot of stuff. He is currently in college getting a degree in music. Some of his favorite stuff includes making and composing music, playing Zelda and Pokemon, D&D, and hanging out on Skype. The randomness of his friends on Skype matches perfectly to his own. Who needs Team Rocket when you have Team Podcast.

AnimeBassoon's Segments: Roundtables, Champchat, (Name of solo segment)

Social Networking

Social networking staff head the social networks associated with Zelda Dungeon. Their main focus is to make sure that our fans are happy and content with those accounts. They share awesome, strange, and wonderful things and engage with our fans. Social networking staff can also be those that help with live-streams and other forms of video content.

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

Main article: Michelle Simpson

Michelle
Rank	Site — Social Media Forum — Hylian Noble
Age	36 years
Location	Alaska, USA
Join Date	Site — October 2010 Forum - August 2008

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

In her spare time, she is a landscape and nature photographer.

News Team

The News Team is responsible for all news articles and editorials that get published on the main site. News Staff generally search the web for any and all Zelda news. This news is then drafted, edited, and then scheduled for publishing. News staff also help with showcasing the Zelda community, as evident by many pieces of art and music that we feature.

Ally

Ally
Rank	Site Staff — News Correspondant
Age	28 years
Location	None of your Business, USA
Join Date	Forum: January, 2012 News Team: January, 2012

Ally joined the news team early January 2012. Other video games of note that she enjoys playing are Halo, Assassin's Creed, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and an Xbox original, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Even above playing video games, Ally's favorite activity is reading. Fantasy and science fiction are her genres of choice and could read just about anything as long as the author seems to know what he/she is doing (so that means Twilight is DEFINITELY out). A few of her favorite book series include Lord of the Rings and the Divergent trilogy. She also enjoys the LOTR movies, along with Star Wars and Happy Gilmore.

Connor

Connor
Age	30 years
Location	Weston-Super-Mare, United Kingdom
Join Date	Forum: June, 2011 Staff: September, 2011
Leave Date	Staff: July 2012

Connor joined the news team early September 2011. As well as Zelda, Connor also likes Super Mario, Pokémon, Fire Emblem & Kingdom hearts.

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.

Sadly, Connor left Zelda Dungeon early July 2012 due to personal reasons, but he hopes one day he can return to the site again.

Destiny

Destiny
Rank	Site Staff — News Correspondant Forum — Moderator, Hylian Knight
Age	27 years
Location	British Columbia
Join Date	Forum: July, 2010 News Team: November, 2011

Destiny joined the News Team in November 2011. She is also a forum moderator and Hylian Knight. She lives in small mountain village in British Columbia and likes alpacas. Besides liking Zelda, she also enjoys Assassin's Creed, Fire Emblem and has a mild obsession with The Avengers and Lord of the Rings. She plays archery quite often and occasionally rides horses.

Erik

Erik
Rank	Site Staff — News Correspondant
Age	28 years
Location	Baton Rouge, LA
Join Date	News Team: March 25, 2012

Erik joined the news staff in March 2012. He enjoys writing controversial articles on the main site. Besides his obsession with the Zelda series, he also enjoys Mario Kart, Pokemon, Kirby, Darksiders, and the Smash Bros. series. He also loves the Star Wars films, The Avengers, the Batman movies, and the Transporter movies. He also enjoys biking, playing the piano, and working out. His favorite Zelda game is Ocarina of Time, but his other favorites include A Link to the Past, Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventures, and Skyward Sword. He is currently trying to complete the Ocarina of Time 3D Master Quest. He also likes to make random noises in public places.

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.

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.

Majora's Cat

Majora's Cat
Rank	Site Staff — News Correspondent, Editorial Writer Forum — Hylian Knight, Article Writer
Age	26 years
Location	NJ, USA
Join Date	Forum: September 3, 2010 Staff: April 2012

Majora's Cat joined the Staff as a news correspondent and to post editorials at the beginning of April. He is a handsome, charming young man who knows his way around the forums, the tennis racquet, the dance floor and the ping pong paddle. He wrote articles for publication in late 2010 and has since been an active member on the forums and has charmed the entire community with his wit and his beauty. He is from the mystical land of New Jersey and lives in a well-off dominantly Caucasian county.

He likes K-Pop and everybody makes fun of him for it. He really really wishes people would stop making fun of him for it, but he still loves K-Pop with all his little heart and listens to it frequently. Majora's Cat enjoys posting on the DGN forums, although his overall laziness prevents him from actually doing diddly-squat and he just watches YouTube videos, going on tumblr and linking friends funny pictures. He reeeeeaaally likes those funny pictures.

Nathan

A fine upcoming upstart among the ZD staff he enjoys shrimp and tomatoes. He is an Aquarius and enjoys long walks on the beach at night except for the unfortunate events occurring on broken glass beach left him emotionally and very physically scarred, mostly in the feet area. His adventurous lifestyle has taken him towards many realms and has met a great number of interesting and relatively disturbing looking to the somewhat foul smelling peoples. His continuing adventures in the underground land of Uud has earned him the honorific title "Nathan of the Mole People." After having successfully dodged the selective service for years he was still drafted kicking and screaming into the forum staff in the year of 1642 or March 2011 in the Queen's calendar and was quickly put to work on the News team. Due to unforeseen events involving the Sacred Gathering all the News Correspondents of spring 2011 fought until there could be only one. After claiming the "prize" he was awarded with the responsibility of writing articles against his will which was completely not what was promised at all despite breaking his ancient Hanzo sword in the ensuing battle for supremacy with David and Meego7, but remained as the surviving correspondent until the time Mases drew a pentagram on the ground and conjured up several more fellow correspondents for the upcoming Skyward Sword release. Fortunately the combined efforts of the Vatican and several freelance vampire hunters were unsuccessful in removing them all completely so Zelda Dungeon retains a strong News force until today.

For some reason beyond what anyone here can possibly understand he somehow managed to be considered something of a role model and then clawed his way up towards a moderator position on the forums. Almost going totally bankrupt through the many slush funds and bankrolling all the various police officers and politicians on his way towards an uneasy victory to claim his position of a yellowy username. Time has not yet unraveled the madness inherent in this turn of events.

Nero_Link

Nero_Link joined Zelda Dungeon in March 2012 and writes occasional speculative news pieces. The Legend of Zelda is his favourite game series and his favourite games are Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. He lives in Australia and authors fantasy fiction novels while retaining a full time job.

Shaun

Shaun was hired onto the Staff here at Zelda Dungeon in January of 2012, as a member of the news team. He applied to join the staff because of his love of the Zelda series and to gain experience in the field of journalism, which he plans on hopefully majoring in someday after high school. Other hobbies and activities that Shaun enjoys include singing in multiple choirs as well as an a cappella group, being an active Eagle Scout, and playing incredible games similar to the ones that brought him to Zelda Dungeon.

Forum Staff

The forum staff takes charge of, well, the forums. They ensure that all members are following the rules. They also help keep the forums active by posting often and engaging our member base. They also give out warnings and infractions for misbehaving members on the forums that don't follow the rules. They also give input on upcoming forum features and rules.

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.