Credits

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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 of all the videos, organizing the lighting during 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
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Dan Kurtz
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Dwight Freund
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Justin Graham
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Trisha Lantznester
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Thomas Snyder
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The Cast

It's not just acting; it's a way of life.

Alex Cave
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Kristina Kenney
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Dan Kurtz
Played both teen and adult Doctor Wesley When, in addition to behind-the-scenes contributions noted above.
Sean Gugler
Played Tiresias the janitor, in addition to behind-the-scenes contributions above.
Wei-Hwa Huang, Sean Gugler, Allen Cohn, Melissa Wilson, Elena Melendez
Voices for Faculty Christmas Party logic puzzle

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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Unorganized

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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