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Sicarius  | Nickname: | Sicarius | | E-Mail Address: | (private) | | Contribution Rating: | 21750 (ranked 16th; 13294 in last year) |
| Homepage: |
http://www.bagdadsoftware.de
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| Member Since | Apr 22, 2006 | | # Messages Posted: | 78 | | Location: | Germany  |
| ICQ Number: |
73644812 |
| MSN Messenger: |
bagdadsoftware@hotmail.com |
| Xbox GamerTag: |
Bagdadsoftware |
| About myself: | Last Update: 28.07.2008
My name is Christoph Hofmann and I'm what media, developers and publisher call a hardcore gamer.
The Past
My first touch with the digital world was back in 1990 with the 486 of my brother. Also I still was a very young lad, I learned quickly and took the machine over at some point and even so I began my career very late, I also know much about what gaming was like in the early days (80s) when I still pooped in my pants. I've played, loved and still love many games from that era and after. I'm even proud to own one or two of the original boxes (eBay - I love you) from back then.
The Present
But of course I certainly do play many current games as well - as I said I'm a hardcore gamer. I pre-order all of my games very early. Sometimes as early as the first announcement because in most cases I know from the start if a game will be worth buying (from my point of view of course) or not.
I'm also someone who often tries out, what I call, offstream games and tries to convince other people to try them. I don't know if I'm good at it but at least I enjoy the process of playing games like Psychonauts or titles like Chaos League which usually don't have a big audience (also they would certainly deserve it). I'm also a sucker for good stories. As long as a game has an interesting story to tell, I'll be all over it even if it's just a textadventure.
At the moment I own circa 850 original games (not counting the ones from magazines) and I normally have around 20 more pre-ordered (some will be in development for another one or two years). I've every game at least played a few hours but although I haven't finished all of them yet, my credo is: Someday I'll have played through every game I own. And I'm holding up very good with this. You can find a few pictures of my collection here but don't expect to see boxes or things like that - those are stored in cardboard boxes and hidden in the attic to preserve them in almost perfect condition.
The Other Side
I'm currently working at the big magenta T (also know as Deutsche Telekom) here in Germany but I try to get into journalism as a career changer some day. To prepare for that, I've not only subscriptions to c't (DE), iX (DE), PC Action (DE), GameStar (DE), Edge (UK), EGM (US) and PC Gamer (US) but I'm also currently undergoing a distant learning course for journalism. And I write pre- and reviews, articles, short stories and more for my own site. If you can read German (articles in English are existant but very limited at the moment) you can find almost all of my work on my own page called Bagdadsoftware.
The Works
I've known MobyGames for a few years as my main source for information (like imdb.com). But I more often noticed that many things were missing and on 04/22/06 I decided to change that. Not only my 2nd place on the 2006 Top New Contributors-list reflectes my ambition but also my 1st place in the 2006 and 2007 top 50 Game Cover Art Contributors-category and all the other top scores I got with the total of 10.266 contribution points in 2007 (2006: 4.531). Since I've already accomplished both my initial goals for 2008 (reaching the 20.000 points barrier [accomplished on 07/25/08] and making the 1st place in the 2008 top 50 Game Credits Contributors-category [accomplished on 07/19/08]), my new goal is to get the 25.000 and perhaps topping my 10.266 points of 2007 by doing so. Let's get it on!
Also many people think I'm crazy working for MobyGames, I don't care what they say and instead concentrate on providing a very high quality for MobyGames. My main turf is Cover Arts but I also do new Game entries (mostly for very fresh games) and what comes with that (in order of preference: Ratings, Tech-Specs, Credits, Descriptions, Release Information and Screenshots) and my platform of choice is the PC.
Closing Words
So if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message and I'll see if I can help. If you are a company and wonder how you can support the database, leave me a message and I will do everything in my power to satisfy your and our needs. I already did it for Eidos Inc., Toro-Publishing and Anvil-Soft/Wendtware amongst others - so you can rest assured that I know what needs to be done!
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