Credits

This page is for listing all the people who helped out in the production of Doctor When.

The Core

The gang of idiots who stuck through the whole thing from beginning to end. These only give a general overview of what our areas of expertise are; but everyone here's done a little bit of everything in this game! (Names are listed in alphabetical order.)

Allen Cohn

Allen's been the visionary of this entire affair from day 1. Throughout it all, he's let the rest of us take his story and give it meaning and substance. He also made a few puzzles, was lead writer for the script, and directed the videos. For the last few months, Allen has been tirelessly writing staff instructions, organizing teams and volunteers, and been the "public face" of our event. That and he makes food, too!

Sean Gugler

Sean stepped up and took on the thankless of role of Puzzle Czar, trying to stitch together a wide variety of puzzles and authors and somehow make it all organized. He's been our voice of enthusiasm, always making the project move forward and bringing his extensive Game experience to adapt to this unorthodox "story-driven" variant. A few months before game day, we still had significant holes in our puzzle schedule; places where the plot required a puzzle there but nobody had written one. Sean took all of these on -- and you probably can't tell which puzzles were written in the last week, can you?

Wei-Hwa Huang

The number of puzzles that Wei-Hwa didn't have some sort of involvement in could probably be counted on the fingers of one finger. In addition to demanding near-perfection on every puzzle, he's also responsible for running the websites (which, in addition to the public-facing sites and GROSS, also includes a large wiki and a bug-tracking database), archiving digital versions of everything, and putting his graphic design fingerprint on nearly everything. Yes, that does include the badges.

Erik Stuart

In addition to designing more puzzles in the event than anyone else (the few thousand co-keypads and chronomentometers from Wei-Hwa don't count), Erik has been also been the steady voice of reason throughout the organization, often calm when the rest of us are clouded with emotion. Not only have he and Melissa sacrificed their house for the last few months to act as GC central storage (and for years before that to work as GC meeting), but he's also done the lion's share of printing and collating and organizing things into envelopes. Most people misuse the term "lion's share" to mean "simple majority"; but not here.

Melissa Wilson

Some Games are all about the puzzles. If you've played in Doctor When, you know that we're more than just puzzles -- and every bit of "more" couldn't happen without the help of Melissa. Location scouting. Costume. Make-up. Props. When disagreements flared up because of conflicting personalities in different aspects of the theatrical management, Melissa was always there as a competent diplomat. All this stuff just sort of happened magically and seemingly flawlessly, because Melissa was just so awesome that she didn't need any help from the rest of us.

Special Thanks

Todd c Hartman

Todd did something that no one else could possibly do -- build the amazing time machine set. Todd spent many sleepless nights building the modular set that would have to work for all three acts. In between set construction he managed to find time to supervise the filming, organizing the lighting, and adding visual effects to the videos, as well as sneaking out some time to do some Photoshop work for all of the "modified" classic paintings in the Act II Art History puzzle. This puzzle hunt would be a shadow of what it actually ended up being without Todd's unique artistic contribution. In addition, Todd and his crew is assembling a documentary from footage shot during the event. Check out <a href="http://www.dvproedit.com/">his website</a>.

The Inner Party

Those who took on multiple tasks and made multiple contributions to Doctor When.

Ellen Juhlin

Ellen is our sound and audio genius, mixing and mastering every aspect of sound design and editing for our event. Even if you don't remember the amazing sound effects in and around the time machine, try rewatching the videos with the sound muted and see how good things look then. Ellen also managed to procure us some of the best sound equipment for the live parts of the game. In addition to supervising and mixing the Faculty Christmas Party puzzle, she joined the core team for the last few months of the game and was very useful in testing last-minute puzzles.

Dan Kurtz

You all know him as the portrayer of Wesley When, but in addition to that high-profile job, Dan also wrote all the software for the View-O-Scope CDs, as well as designing the Peach Frontier and Ethereal Endways websites.

Dwight Freund

Coming up with puzzle ideas until the end, Dwight provided the very first draft of Choose-You-Own-Adventure as well as designing and seeing all of Core Dump 1 from beginning to end, including drafting his daughters into threading all of those circuit boards. He also portrayed some of our more interesting supporting characters during the event: Mister When, Crazy Tracy, and the Locker Hallway Hall Monitor.

David Greenspan

Master of two puzzles: Particle Zoo and Core Dump 2, the latter of which required camping long hours in front of the TechShop laser printers. In addition, he designed the Trenchwood website and was the main phone staffer during the late hours of Act II

Justin Graham

Justin took over the job of playtester management when we couldn't convince anyone else to do it, not too soon after he took on the task of turning the rough outline of Art History and turning it into an actual solvable puzzle (we then re-did of lot of that work, but oh well). He also was an excellent GC phone staffer during Act I.

Trisha Lantznester

Trisha faithfully stayed on GC throughout most of its early speculative times and is the main reason for Catherine finding her actual voice (before that it was just a bunch of guys writing placeholder text, can you imagine?) She also developed the entire plot premise and outline for Choose Your Own Adventure as well as writing about half of the book. On game day she portrayed Doris, the irascible lunch lady.

Thomas Snyder

Thomas only joined us after the full-system playtest in February but then proved his worth by picking up innumerable small tasks. He fleshed out and designed the Restaurant Coupons optional and tirelessly picked up a lot of volunteer shifts in Acts I and III. Also, he checked and re-checked many of our puzzles thoroughly for small errors, and did a lot of last-minute printing for us.

Crew and Cast

Lily Tsay

Lily was one of the production assistants for set build, as well as an assistant shooter for the documentary.

John Bagoye

John is Todd's partner and helped him build and design the time machine sets. He also acted as set supervisor during the first weekend and assisted with other aspects of design.

Christian Hoobar

Christian operated the cameras for the video shoots, as well as assisting with the editing on the videos. He also worked as a cameraman during week 2 for the upcoming documentary.

Alex Cave as Elizabeth "Buffy" Vanderbilt

Alex portrayed Buffy, arguably our most complex and interesting character, and definitely enduring the most make-up changes. Also, the only actor who had to get "slimed" multiple times in front of a crowd of strangers, right before a quick shower and costume change!

Kristina Kenney as Catherine Lucille Chronos

Kristina is our Catherine Lucille Chronos, whom in the early drafts was an evil mastermind but then quickly became a character of her own. She coyly refuses to tell us if she really did pose naked for Salvador Dali.

Dan Kurtz as Wesley When

Sean Gugler as Tiresias the Janitor

Wei-Hwa Huang, Erik Stuart, Allen Cohn, Melissa Wilson, Elena Melendez as Christmas Party Faculty

More than Assistants

Those who did more than just one important thing.

Ken Chaney

Science fair coke/mentos rig, design and operation.

Dave Shukan

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Crissy Gugler

Staff for both weeks and playtest run.

David Greenspan

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Christian Hoobyar

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Ben Hansen

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Rigel Stuhmiller

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One-Hit Wonders

Without their singular contribution, well, we wouldn't have it.

Acorn Pooley

Portable tachyon detector thingamabob. Electronics for return portal.

Doug Banks

Fabric of Time puzzle design

Eric Lindstrom

Yearbook poem puzzle design

Supporting Cast

They stood in the rain for us. And you.

Elena Melendez

Voice for xmas party. (week 1) Staffed chronomentometer repair, xmas party

Tracy Lou

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Mike Janney

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Deanna Rubin

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Joe Freund

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Lauren Lax

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Stephanie Lau

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Mike Greenberg

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Sandy Stuart

Drove Erik to Gilroy at 8:40 on Friday, cut out QTV ropes, did irreplacable last-minute tasks on GC.

Mary Johnson

(week 1) Helped assemble time machine set, co-staffed art museum, misc lab assistant presence at Peach Frontier

Shawn Johnson

(week 1) Helped assemble time machine set

Early Adopters

They kept the ball rolling, even if they didn't make it to the finish.

DeeAnn Sole

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Lisa Long

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Shoresh Alaudini

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Alexandra Dixon

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Jesse Morris

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Testers of CRAP

Many testers died in our experimental labs to bring you this hunt.

Catherine Wood

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Chris Lopez

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Main Contributors:

Bill Jonesi

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John Bagoye

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Lauren O'Rourke

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Vera Yin

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Special Thanks:

Charlie Wilson

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Nathan Lively

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Sunil Patel

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