Chris Pope is an American internet personality, video game developer, producer,

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professional,

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er. Pope is best known by fans as the SpacePope. Pope first gained internet notability in 2001 when "The Day Report" announced his breaking of the Arcade ''

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. In 2008 he launched Tech Jives LLC, a social media and podcast production company. Pope is the creator of multiple live interview-based podcasts, including some of the first to do live interviews with celebrity film and voice actors, such as

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(Voice of

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and Pinky),

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(Voice of Cortana). In 2010, Pope also launched, as part of The Tech Jives network, an entertainment industry-focused social media publicist company called "Social Stars Web", which handles

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management and

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fan building for people involved in film acting, voice acting, writing, and singing.

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who voices "

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" on the popular video game series ''

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'', as well as her husband

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are amongst those he manages. In 2012, Pope joined forces with the Two Guys From Andromeda to Kickstart a video game called ''SpaceVenture''. In 2015, Pope voice acted in the '' Cluck Yegger in Escape From The Planet of The Poultroid'' video game as the Radio Announcer.

Video game development

In April 2012, Pope began acting as an Executive Producer, Programmer and campaign promoter, overseeing thei
Kickstarter campaign
and helping generate excitement around the project. Chris played a key role in helping Guys From Andromeda LLC get

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through

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by taking the reins to generate excitement around the return of the Two Guys From Andromeda. This was in regard to their new game idea, SpaceVenture. After the SpaceVenture Kickstarter campaign successfully raised $539,767, he began works with his partners,

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and

Mark Crowe Mark Crowe is an American video game designer, artist, and writer who developed several adventure games for Sierra On-Line and its subsidiary Dynamix. He later worked at Pipeworks Software as Studio Design Director. Crowe is best known for cre ...

(Original creators of the ''

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) in making the new game become a reality. Fans of his involvement with Guys From Andromeda also sometimes refer to him as the SpacePope. In 2015, Pope and Crowe shifted focus on to a portion of SpaceVenture that didn't require as much writing. This was due to Murphy needing some time away from the project for personal reasons. The game sequence features a hero character named Cluck Yegger. The Cluck Yegger sequence of ''SpaceVenture'' was planned from the beginning to play a key role in the game. To bring more funding into the project, Crowe and Pope decided to make the Cluck Yegger sequence into a game and release it to the public. The game was named '' Cluck Yegger in Escape From The Planet of The Poultroid''. It was released to Kickstarter backers of SpaceVenture on October 29. 2015, and then was greenlit on Steam and released publicly on November 9, 2015.

Production

In April 2010, Pope's show "Apptastic iGame Reviewers" was the first ever to interview the makers of the number one selling game in America ''

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's "Talkin Toons with Rob Paulsen" as well as provides the social media publicity.

Social Media Publicist Work

Since November 2010, Pope began working with some of the cast from the web series '' The Guild'' in the effort of building their celebrity profiles on the web. Robin Thorsen who plays "Clara", Vincent Caso who plays "Bladezz", Brett Sheridan who plays "Mr. Wiggley", J. Teddy Garces who plays "Bruiser" and Sean Michael Becker who is the Director of the show are amongst a few. Notably on the web series "Sound Advice On The Web" he worked extensively with creator J. Teddy Garces on fan, publicity, web, and social media presence. In May 2011, after doing an interview with ''

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'' actor

Kristian Nairn Kristian Nairn (born 25 November 1975) is an actor and DJ from Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He is best known for his portrayal of Hodor in the HBO fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2014, 2016). He also played Wee John Feeney on the HBO M ...

(plays

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), Kristian has recently begun work regarding his entire web presence with Pope and is in the process of starting a new audio production podcast that will include fellow friend and actor Jake Stormoen.Kristian "Hodor" Nairn on The Web
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References

External links

The Tech Jives Network

Chris on Twitter
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Social Stars Web
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pope, Chris People in the video game industry