Christopher Howard Wolf (born September 21, 1979) is an American
independent game developer
An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game typically created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games. ...
and writer. He is the founder of independent game company WRONG Games, for which he works as a
game designer
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...
graphic novel
A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...
retelling the story of
Nosferatu
''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ...
, and has appeared on
Dawson's Creek
''Dawson's Creek'' is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran from 1998 to 2003. T ...
and in the English
dubbing
Dubbing (re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production, often in concert with sound design, in which additional or supplementary recordings are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production sou ...
of You're Under Arrest!. Currently, he now runs a horror story website called "Slimebeast", which has released several ''
Creepypasta
Creepypastas are horror-related legends that have been shared around the Internet. Creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal ...
s'' 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
multiplayer
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system ( couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or ...
pixel art
Pixel art () is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. It is widely associated with the low-resolution graphics from 8-bit and 16-bit era computers and arcade video g ...
, among other duties, until 2002. In a much smaller capacity, Wolf also assisted independent game maker
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
multiplayer game
A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (suc ...
, '' Scroll Wars'', which was opened to the public in 2006. One year later in 2007, Wolf also opened '' Hell Rising'', a
zombie
A zombie ( Haitian French: , ht, zonbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. Zombies are most commonly found in horror and fantasy genre works. The term comes from Haitian folklore, in w ...
vs.
vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deat ...
vs. survivor browser-based game inspired by and building upon its predecessor,
Urban Dead
''Urban Dead'' is 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 deals with the aftermath of a zombie outbre ...
.
Christopher maintains a
YouTube
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gaming channel under the name ''Tormental'', and has worked on creative material for LordMinion777.
Viper Comics
Viper Comics is an American comics publisher that first published works in 2003.
History
Viper Comics is based in Texas, USA; according to its website it is based in Irving, an inner ring suburb of Dallas. Its president since its foundation is ...
. He also authored a
graphic novel
A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...
retelling the 1922 film
Nosferatu
''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ...
webcomic
Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers, or comic books.
Webcomics can be c ...
Mike Allred
Michael Dalton Allred is an American comic book artist and writer most famous for his independent comics creations, ''Madman'' and ''iZombie''. His style is often compared to pop art, as well as commercial and comic art of the 1950s and 1960s ...
also appeared in
Wizard Magazine
''Wizard'' or ''Wizard: The Magazine of Comics, Entertainment and Pop Culture'' (previously titled ''Wizard: The Guide to Comics'' and ''Wizard: The Comics Magazine'') was a magazine about comic books, published monthly in the United States by W ...
.
Wolf was named
Marketing Director
A chief marketing officer (CMO), also called a global marketing officer or marketing director, or chief brand officer, is a corporate executive responsible for managing marketing activities in an organization. Whilst historically these titles may ...
of
Viper Comics
Viper Comics is an American comics publisher that first published works in 2003.
History
Viper Comics is based in Texas, USA; according to its website it is based in Irving, an inner ring suburb of Dallas. Its president since its foundation is ...
in late 2010."About Viper Comics" ViperComics.com, Retrieved August 12, 2010 His duties for Viper have included creating a
viral marketing
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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
Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...
series '' You're Under Arrest!''Internet Movie Database /ref> and appeared on episodes of
Dawson's Creek
''Dawson's Creek'' is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran from 1998 to 2003. T ...
, most notably as a sideburned student in an episode spoofing
The Blair Witch Project
''The Blair Witch Project'' is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. It is a fictional story of three student filmmakers—Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Josh ...
.
Slimebeast
Wolf runs an online horror story forum called "Slimebeast," going under the same pen name, and is known for writing the following Creepypasta stories:
* ''Funnymouth'' - A young man comes across a mysterious forumgoer named "Funnymouth" who appears to take an interest in him. A companion site exists on the Internet based on the main character's chat server (although the display notes it is under maintenance). Refreshing the page will redirect the user to an image of a giant pixelated face with a limp tongue slogging out (all developed by repeating text of Funnymouth). It is assumed in-story this is Funnymouth itself.
* ''Whimsywood'' - A boy discovers a theme park called Whimsywood that hides a vicious secret that bodes ill for visiting children.
* ''Lost Episodes'' - A young man reflects on his fleeting childhood friendship with a boy named Sid who had created several re-cut tapes of popular features, which progressively become more grim and violent. Returning to him later on, Sid is revealed to have killed his own family and retreated into a fantasy video world of his own, much to the main character's horror. A sequel story called ''Sid's Video'' involves another person discovering Sid's videotape, as it unleashes havoc on the man's personal video collection.
* ''Abandoned by Disney'' - Inspired by the story of the abandoned River Country Disney park and Discovery Island locations, the story covers the dangers behind an abandoned Jungle Book-themed resort named Mowgli's Palace. The follow-up ''Room Zero'' discusses the stories behind employees connected with the Disney Corporation; including tourists wearing Disney-themed gas masks and a bomb shelter located deep beneath the park. Another follow-up, ''Corruptus,'' delves into further detail on the origins of the bizarre events and locations and how they are seemingly linked to the "wish upon a star" sentiment spread throughout Disney media itself. A prequel story also exists called ''A Few Suggestions'', which is written in recollections of notes from a suggestion box in Mowgli's Palace (and also reveals the supposed origin of the color-inverted Mickey Mouse costume from the original story's climax). Wolf has also rewritten the story as 'Dandyland' to remove specific mentions of Disney-related content.