Desert Bus is happy to welcome back Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw for a call-in on Wednesday, November 20th at 6pm PST.
Yahtzee is an English ex-Pat based in Australia who is the genius behind the hilarious and cutting online game review series Zero Punctuation. Yahtzee’s moniker became a gamer household name in 2007 when he reviewed Fable: The Lost Chapters and a demo of The Darkness and released the videos on YouTube. Shortly after their release, Yahtzee was contacted by online magazine The Escapist who presented him with a shiny contract for a weekly series. Since then, Yahtzee releases a new video every Wednesday, each full of scathing wit and rapid fire criticism. Yahtzee also stars in a series on The Escapist called Jim & Yahtzee’s Rhymedown Spectacular, which features original poetry.
Yahtzee writes his own video games and provides the graphics and animations himself using a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Paint. He’s the creator of several independent adventure game lines, such as The Arthur Yahtzee Trilogy and The Rob Blanc Trilogy, as well as many other standalone titles.
In 2010 Yahtzee added “Write A Book” to his list of achievements when he released his first novel, Mogworld, which tells the story of a miscreant zombie hero named Jim. He released a second novel in 2012 called Jam, which fittingly involves “an apocalypse… WITH JAM IN IT”. Yahtzee is also one of the four founders of The Mana Bar, a video game cocktail lounge with locations in Brisbane and Melbourne.
If you would like to ask Yahtzee a question, please leave it in the comments below.