How Space Quest & Sierra Games Shaped Cloverme’s Crypto & Gaming Odyssey

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Chris Loverme aka "Cloverme" was a "Legendary" member of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcointalk.org forum and his career is also the stuff of legends.  As you are about to learn, Chris was VERY heavily influenced by Space Quest and Sierra Games and he regularly interacted with Sierra developers on IRC in his youth, networking connections that profoundly helped to shape the course of his career.

Chris "Cloverme" LoVerme is a former NASA engineer who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on critical space exploration missions, including the Cassini mission to Saturn, the Mars Rover projects (likely Spirit and Opportunity), and the Stardust mission to collect comet samples.

LoVerme's technical expertise, honed at JPL, fueled his blockchain gaming ventures like "Age of Rust" that is still very popular to this day!

"Age of Rust is a blockchain, dark sci-fi action adventure game set in the vast expanse of the universe and uses the Enjin protocol on the Etherium blockchain. After launching in 2021, the developers announced that 24 Bitcoin and 370,000 Engin Coin were hidden inside of the game. 

His creation, BitcoinStarter.com, pioneered Bitcoin-based crowdfunding, fueling crypto innovation, while SpacePirate, a sci-fi RPG, boldly explored cryptocurrency's role in gaming.

As a Legendary Member of Bitcointalk.org, he shaped Bitcoin's community through insightful posts, championing its technical and economic potential.

Here is Chris "Cloverme" LoVerme on bitcointalk.org:



In 2017, Cloverme posted an announcement for his upcoming video game and attached a quote from game developer, novelist, and artist Roberta Williams, the wife of Sierra On-Line founder Ken Williams.  (but that's just the beginning)



(source: "Cloverme" post on bitcointalk.org, founded by Satoshi Nakamoto)

LoVerme in a 2019 interview with Kriptomat (link here), expressed the impression that "Sierra Games", Space Quest" and "Kings Quest" had on his childhood and early gaming experiences.



In the attached 2022 interview with Ben Gothard, LoVerme discusses interacting with Sierra Games developers on IRC and networking his way into the gaming industry through contacts that he made on that platform.  (time stamped at link)

Some of his contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem include:



https://www.ageofrustgame.com/