Christopher Howard Wolf is an American

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and writer. He is the founder of independent game company WRONG Games, for which he works as a

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. He is known for work on the games DragonSpires, I'm O.K - A Murder Simulator, Hell Rising, and Scroll Wars. He also authored a

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retelling the story of

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, and has appeared on

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and in the English

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of You're Under Arrest!. He currently runs a horror story website called "Slimebeast", which has released several '' Creepypastas'' including ''Funnymouth'', ''Whimsywood'', ''Lost Episodes'', its sequel ''Sid's Video'', ''Abandoned by Disney'', its sequels ''Room Zero'' and ''Corruptus'', and prequel ''A Few Suggestions''.

Games

In 1997, then 17-year-old Wolf and Adam Maloy took over production on DragonSpires, a community-driven

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game initiated by Dragon's Eye Productions.Wired Magazine, March 1995
Wolf served as creative

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of the game, in charge of producing a storyline and pixel art, among other duties, until 2002. Wolf also assisted, albeit in a smaller capacity, independent game maker Derek Yu with games such as Mean Cuisine and I'm O.K - A Murder Simulator, which was an ultra-violent game based on Jack Thompson's "

A Modest Proposal ''A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick'', commonly referred to as ''A Modest Proposal'', is a Juvenalian satirical essay wr ...

". DragonSpires later served as the inspiration for Wolf's browser-based

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, '' Scroll Wars'', which was opened to the public in 2006. One year later in 2007, Wolf also opened '' Hell Rising'', a

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vs.

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vs. survivor browser-based game inspired by and building upon its predecessor,

Urban Dead ''Urban Dead'' was a free-to-play HTML/text-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by British developer Kevan Davis. Set in a quarantined region of the fictional city of Malton, it dealt with the aftermath of a zombie outbr ...

. Christopher maintains a

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gaming channel under the name ''Tormental'', and has worked on creative material for LordMinion777.

Comics

In 2008, Wolf authored a well-receivedIGN: Sasquatch OGN Review.
/ref> installment in '' Josh Howard presents: Sasquatch'' published by Viper Comics. He also authored a

retelling the 1922 film

for a modern audience"Local comics buff authored graphic novel with a new spin on Dracula"
Star News, December 26, 2010. and a creator-owned series titled ''Love Monster''."Review: Love Monster"
, ComixTribe.com, November 15, 2012. Additionally, he wrote, illustrated, and created the

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''Escapeman''"Beyond the Spandex – Wilmington's Aspiring Comic Artists"
, PublicBroadcasting.net, April 16, 2006. for ten years and wrote reviews for Pop Thought."Welcome to Pop Thought"
PopThought.com. His fan page for The Atomics by

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also appeared in

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. Wolf was named

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of Viper Comics in late 2010."About Viper Comics"
ViperComics.com, Retrieved August 12, 2010. His duties for Viper have included creating a

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website for

Inspector Gadget ''Inspector Gadget'' is a media franchise that began in 1983 with the DIC Entertainment animated television series '' Inspector Gadget''. Since the original series, there have been many spin-offs based on the show, including additional animated ...

Acting

Wolf was a voice actor for the English dub of the

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series '' You're Under Arrest!''.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolf, Christopher Howard 1979 births Living people American comics writers MUD developers People from Mount Kisco, New York American video game designers Indie game developers American weird fiction writers