Alexis Janson

Alexis Janson (a.k.a. Greg Janson, alexis, and tromdage) is the creator of MegaZeux and the most notable member of Software Visions. Having done several ZZT releases, most notably STK, Code Red]] and Mission:Enigma, Janson made a shareware game called Labrynth of Zeux in 1993. After apparent success, Janson went on to design a GCS much like an expanded ZZT; he called it "MegaZeux", as the built-in game(s) were sequels of Labrynth.

In late 1994, MegaZeux 1.00g was released. A decision was made quickly on that all editor functionality would be in the shareware version, so (much like ZZT) only a set of registered worlds was gained through registration. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) MegaZeux had several registrations throughout its shareware life. MegaZeux increased drastically in functionality under Janson's control; at the end of Janson's control MegaZeux was at version 2.51.

Outside of MegaZeux itself and the Zeux games, Janson also made the seminal MZX game Weirdness.

Soon after completing Weirdness, Janson left the community. The quoted reasons were "personal reasons" and "college". However, some semi-recent conversation hints that annoyance with the MZX community played a large factor. MegaZeux went to MattW, and after some time, became freeware under the GNU GPL. Janson wasn't seen again until 1999, when she entered the Easter 1999 Day of Zeux as tromdage and gained third place with her entry Rush, only to disappear shortly after.

Janson started showing up in #zeuxworld in 2004 under the nicks "tromdage", and later "alexis" and "anonymous"; ever since, she has stuck to IRC. Currently, development on a new GCS called GCSx is pending, with a few demonstration versions released.

Alexis won Wizard of the Coast's "The Great Designer Search" competition, a semi-publicised contest to land an internship position developing Magic: The Gathering cards.

External links

• Alexis Janson at DigitalMZX.net Wiki
• "The Great Designer Search: Alexis Janson" at YouTube