Escapist Alum - Where are they now?

[Rogjah]

I've been a long time visitor to The Escapist, but only recently starting poking around the forums. Anyway, when I heard about Robert Moran's Unforgotten Realms Kickstarter game "Unforgotten Quest", it made me wonder what other people who used to be featured on The Escapist are up to.

So have you seen anyone around in your internet travels?

- I saw Lisa Foiles somewhat recently in a video on Cracked.
- LeeLee Icantspellherlastname of the Name Game seems to be doing well. New job, sporadic updates on her comic, and also works on Extra Credits (which is at Penny Arcade now).
- I'm sure I've seen Russ Pitts' name attached to another website that I can't remember the name of.
That's all I can think of off-hand, but what about Space Janitors? Tales from the Table? Dorian's Quest? I'm sure there are more that are slipping my mind. Anyway, any idea what they've been up to?

 

[Ljs1121]

I saw an episode of Doraleous and Associates in the sidebar on Youtube recently.

It was uploaded by Machinima and had about 50,000 views, so it appears to be doing quite well.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Lisa Foiles currently does stuff for The Game Station on YouTube, Russ Pitts is at Polygon [http://www.polygon.com/] and Space Janitors has been picked up by Geek and Sundry (Felicia Day and her friends doing shit basically as far as I'm aware)

 

[Sassafrass]

Steve Butts is now at IGN, I think.
And that's all I can remember without repeating the ones above.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

These people moved on to different sites?

But... I just assumed when Escapist was done with them they shot them in both knee caps and left them in the middle of desert to get hit by an ice cream truck.

 

[A Raging Emo]

I want to know what happened to Rebecca Mayes. She was great!

 

[Goofguy]

These people moved on to different sites?

But... I just assumed when Escapist was done with them they shot them in both knee caps and left them in the middle of desert to get hit by an ice cream truck.

Some are lucky enough to crawl out of the way of the ice cream truck. You don't need your knee caps to make Extra Credits, after all.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Kuliani (former forum manager) supposedly got his dream job, like a year and a half ago. I miss him, but I'm glad that Nasrin is filling his place.

I want to know what happened to Rebecca Mayes. She was great!

She wasn't spectacular, but damn her voice was nice. I don't know what happened to her, she practically disappeared off the face of the Internet one day.

 

[herbortamus]

I want back Tales from the Table! That series really got me into watching videos other than ZP on The Escapist. They were funny, touching, and had great production values.

 

[Rogjah]

I saw an episode of Doraleous and Associates in the sidebar on Youtube recently.

It was uploaded by Machinima and had about 50,000 views, so it appears to be doing quite well.

Doraleous and and Associates! I can't believe I forgot that one. That's good to hear. I'm going to have to go check that out.

I want to know what happened to Rebecca Mayes. She was great!

She was definitely good. Kind of an odd fit with The Escapist though. I would imagine she probably went on to make a CD and focus on being a musician. I'm thinking Miracle of Sound is probably better suited for here. Though I have to admit, while I loved the Dragon Age 2 song, I don't regularly watch/listen to those songs. Rebecca's videos were always kind of random, so I kept watching them just to see what it would be like.

These people moved on to different sites?

But... I just assumed when Escapist was done with them they shot them in both knee caps and left them in the middle of desert to get hit by an ice cream truck.

No silly, they send them back in time to get shot by their past selves next to a field.


I just thought of a couple more I forgot:
- Doomsday Arcade
- Anthony Saves the World
- There Will Be Brawl
I guess they pretty much just told their stories and ended, but they had some awesome production values.

There was another one that was like a Pokemon spoof. I can't remember what it was called but it seemed like it died off pretty early on.

 

[CarlsonAndPeeters]

I wanna know what happened to the Michael's from Doomsday Arcade. I absolutely loved that series. I'd also be interested in seeing more Dorian's Quest. There's potential there.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Doraleous and Associates is the only former Escapist show I still keep an eye on. I haven't checked it out in a long while though... I miss that show here.

 

[Frostbite3789]

- Anthony Saves the World

Well before that series, Anthony had Hey Ash Watcha Playin'. And he works at Gearbox now. And did while making that series. Mikey Newman (that's who it was, right?) works at Gearbox as well.

 

[Not Matt]

Daniel Floyd was sold to penny arcade, we all know that. Escapist News Network also got sent to penny arcade, they changed the name of it to checkpoint when they changed, stark & co is still working on the escapist how ever, and doing a damn fine job if i have to say so.
But another great escapist face is missing from the wall of smiles, Rebecca Mayes is gone and hasn't been active since 2010(she was one of the few who convinced me to join the escapist. she was even featured on Charlie Brooker's gameswipe, that, is cool. i liked her.