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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'' Turbo world record as recorded by chief scoreboard record keeper

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with

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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

Robert Clotworthy Robert Clotworthy is an American narrator and voice actor. He may be best known as the narrator for the History Channel series ''Ancient Aliens'' and ''The Curse of Oak Island'' and his role as the voice of Jim Raynor in the ''StarCraft'' video ...

(Voice of

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Rob Paulsen Robert Frederick Paulsen III (born March 11, 1956) is an American voice actor, known for his roles in numerous animated television series and films. He received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program and three Anni ...

(Voice of

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and Pinky),

Jen Taylor Jennifer Taylor is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Cortana in ''Halo'' games and the intelligent personal assistant. Career Jen Taylor taught herself how to do voice work by recording the radio and imitating what she ...

(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.

Ellen McLain Ellen McLain (born 1952/1953) is an American voice actress. She is best known for providing the voice of GLaDOS, the primary antagonist of the ''Portal'' video game series, the Combine Overwatch in ''Half-Life 2'', and the Administrator, the an ...

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,

Scott Murphy Matthew Scott Murphy (born January 26, 1970) is an American entrepreneur and politician. He represented parts of New York state's Capital District (excluding the city of Albany) in the United States House of Representatives for a portion of one ...

and

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

(Original creators of the ''

Space Quest ''Space Quest'' is a series of six comic science fiction adventure games released between 1986 and 1995. The games follow the adventures of a hopeless janitor named Roger Wilco, who campaigns through the galaxy for "truth, justice and really cl ...

'' series from

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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 ''

Angry Birds ''Angry Birds'' is a Finnish action-based media franchise created by Rovio Entertainment. The game series focuses on the eponymous flock of angry birds who try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs. Inspired by the game ''Crush the Castle ...

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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 Vincent "Vince" Caso (born December 24, 1991) is an American actor and writer best known for his co-starring role as Bladezz on '' The Guild'' web series. Background Vincent Caso was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, but he was raised in Los Ang ...

who plays "Bladezz", Brett Sheridan who plays "Mr. Wiggley",

J. Teddy Garces J. Teddy Garces (born September 12, 1974) is an American film, television and stage actor, best known for his portrayal of Bruiser in the web series ''The Guild (web series), The Guild'' and Julian in ''Ted Sampon: Househusband''. He was born ...

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

on fan, publicity, web, and social media presence. In May 2011, after doing an interview with ''

Game of Thrones ''Game of Thrones'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is an adaptation of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first ...

'' 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''. More recently, he has played Wee John Feeney on the HBO Max seri ...

(plays

Hodor George R. R. Martin's ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' saga features a large cast of characters. The series follows three interwoven plotlines: a dynastic war for control of Westeros by several families; the rising threat of the superhuman Others beyon ...

), 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