Ben Croshaw

Ben Croshaw is a person that is credited in 11 games
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Ben Croshaw is a game developer with several past games to his credit including 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice. He is also a popular game critic, posting videos with a distinct visual style.

Overview

Ben Croshaw was born in Rugby in Warwickshire, England, in 1983, who goes by the moniker "Yahtzee" in his online videos and posts. He currently lives in Australia. He is known for wearing a trilby hat that he never takes off outside of his own house. In his videos, he is always seen wearing it.

Zero Punctuation

An example of Croshaw's artwork in Zero Punctuation.
Zero Punctuation is a weekly online video series published in The Escapist in which Croshaw reviews video games using dark, sarcastic humour. The videos are notable for Croshaw's style of delivery, a fast-talking rapid-fire speech delivery which lends to the humour. During the first videos, Croshaw claimed that he did not "intend" to speak so rapidly, but it happened "by accident" because of his anger on the game.The videos are also famous for their minamalist animation. The images on-screen relate to what is being said, creating Croshaw's trademark humour. He is almost always outright cynical about the reviews, and has often enjoyed being critical of what he deems over-hyped games such as Metal Gear Solid 4, Bioshock and Halo 3.

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Games

Croshaw had become known in gaming circles even before Zero Punctuation for his adventure games, made independently and published on his website. They are all available for free, although special editions are available in exchange for donations. Games he has created include the Chzo Mythos, 1213 series, Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment, and Trilby: The Art of Theft.

Webcomics

Yahtzee Takes On The World.
Croshaw used to be an avid webcomic author. His work includes Yahtzee Takes On The World, The Adventures Of Angular Mike, and Chris and Trilby. however, since his videos took off, Croshaw has abandoned his comic, and apparently maintains a disdain for tendencies in the gaming webcomics industry, making a Zero Punctuation video about it, and smashing the gaming webcomic Control-Alt-Delete in several blog posts and parts of some of his videos.

It can be argued, however, that his criticisms are not directed at web comics as a whole, as the prior paragraph suggests, but instead criticizing specific comics for not utilizing their medium properly, and using cheap humor with no build up, with Control-Alt-Delete exemplifying this tendency.  His criticisms extend toward the many comic writers who, in his opinion, water down and degrade the medium.  In the video he even suggests that many of these comics creators are simply trying to cash in on Penny Arcade's success.  Some have pointed out that his strong criticisms are disingenuous given that he used to work in the medium himself, but he acknowledges in the video that his criticisms could be considered hypocritical.

What follows is his parody of Control-Alt-Delete, written by him and drawn by his girlfriend:

A parody of Control-Alt-Delete

Ben Croshaw games Edit

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Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment
 PC Fully Ramblomatic
Trilby: Art of Theft
 PC Fully Ramblomatic
6 Days a Sacrifice
released on Jan. 25, 2007 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
Trilby's Notes
released on June 26, 2006 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
1213 (Special Edition)
released on Feb. 22, 2006 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
1213: Episode 3
released on Feb. 19, 2006 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
1213: Episode 2
released on Feb. 13, 2006 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
1213: Episode 1
released on Dec. 30, 2005 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
7 Days a Skeptic
released on July 25, 2004 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
5 Days a Stranger
released on Jan. 1, 2003 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
The Trials of Odysseus Kent
released on Jan. 1, 2002 		PC Fully Ramblomatic
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  • monopoly
  • scrabble
  • yahtzee
  • jenga

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Ben Croshaw General Information Edit
Full Name: Ben Croshaw
Gender: Male
Birthday: May 24, 1983
Death: n/a
Credited In: 11 games
1st Game Credit: n/a
Currently Working For: Pandemic Studios
Hometown: Rugby, Warwickshire
Country: England
Website: http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/
Email Address: yahtzee@fullyramblomatic.com
Aliases Yahtzee

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