Brandon Boyer (born 1977) is a contributing editor to collaborative weblog

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. Boyer resides in

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Career

Boyer was born in 1977 in

Sioux City, Iowa Sioux City () is a city in Woodbury County, Iowa, Woodbury and Plymouth County, Iowa, Plymouth counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 85,797 in the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Iowa, fo ...

. From 1993 to 1996, Boyer wrote and performed songs on a

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keyboard under the name Boy Genius. Tracks were featured on various CDs, including Bottlecap Records' "Green Light Go!" compilation. Boyer began a record label, KittyBoo Records, out of

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in 1995. KittyBoo released 3 records: the debut 7-inch from Poopiehead, a

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split 7-inch, and the 7-inch soundtrack to J. Otto Seibold's Free Lunch children's book, with narration and instruments by singer, songwriter,

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and

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collaborator and film-strip artist

Brian Dewan Brian Dewan (born 14 June 1963) is an American multi-media artist, who produces music, audio-visual performances, decorative painting, furniture, poetry, filmstrips, illustrations, and musical instruments. He has released three albums of songs ...

. Boyer was a contributor to both the print magazine and website of multi-format computer and video game magazine ''

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'' from 2004 to 2006, and served as news editor for

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, an internationally recognized and

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winning online community for video game developers which is owned and operated by Think Services (formerly CMP Media). In November 2008 he helped found Offworld, a video game blog owned by

, where he served as editor through October 2009. In May 2010, Boyer was named Chairman of the

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. He stepped down in 2015, being replaced by Kelly Wallick. In 2011, Brandon Boyer successfully ran a

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-campaign for an Offworld-successor called Venus Patrol. In the Kickstarter, exclusive rewards of amongst others

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Adam Saltsman Adam Saltsman, also known as Adam Atomic, is an American indie video game designer best known for creating the endless runner ''Canabalt''. He is a founder of Semi Secret Software and Finji video game studios. Career Flixel (2008-11) Saltsm ...

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and

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were offered to prospective subscribers. Venus Patrol launched on September 10, 2012. Boyer was diagnosed with cancer. The board of directors of Juegos Rancheros (Fantastic Arcade) voted unanimously to dismiss Brandon Boyer on April 5, 2018, after accusations of abuse of women.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyer, Brandon People from Sioux City, Iowa 1977 births Living people