User:StoryMaker the Echidna

Hi, I'm StoryMaker the Echidna, long-time JumpStart fan. I was absolutely obsessed with these games and learning as much as I could about them online when I was, like, eight. That was a long time ago, but deep down, my enthusiasm for this series remains. I love reading and working on this wiki, hope I can contribute a lot to it!

Despite technically being here since 2011, I've only really been editing "in earnest" since Bluecake became administrator, i.e. summer 2015.

My favorite characters are Hopsalot, CJ, and Edison.

More about me
My other interests include Sonic the Hedgehog, Superman, music mostly from the 80s and 90s (with my favorite artist being Michael Jackson, and I also like new wave and various forms of hard rock), drawing, writing, design, web development, computer software in general, animals, and theology. My interest in JumpStart might give a clue that I also care a lot about kids' education and educational products. I love kids and I love the idea of helping them learn in a fun way, just as I experienced when I was younger through JumpStart and many other ways. I'm currently employed working from home in the web industry. I was raised a nondenominational Christian and am currently attending and hoping to join the Orthodox church. Because of Jesus I know there is always hope in this world and a reason to keep living.

My contributions to JumpStart's online presence
Not only have I been enjoying JumpStart's games for a long time, I have contributed to the internet's repository of JumpStart stuff for a long time, and continue to do so today! (Note: some of the following things are kind of embarrassing to me today, but they remain on the internet for all to see nonetheless...) Perhaps the most special thing of all, though, is something I created that ended up on JumpStart's own website: a reading comprehension worksheet known as Frankie's Friends that made some references to JumpStart games of times past. I even included some illustrations in the original version, but I can't really blame them for replacing them with stock art '^^
 * Reviews on JumpStart products on Amazon.com
 * Additions to JumpStart-related articles on Wikipedia
 * JumpStart gameplay videos on YouTube (under the username JumpSonic)
 * Entries for JumpStart games on TVTropes
 * And, of course, contributions to the JumpStart wiki!

Some favorite JumpStart games

 * JumpStart Kindergarten (1998)
 * My very first JumpStart game, and a very solid one indeed. Lots of fun for the intended age range...and sometimes I even played it when I was too old for it!
 * JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade: Fundamentals
 * The game that truly set off my JumpStart addiction.
 * JumpStart Advanced 2nd Grade: Fundamentals
 * Such fun plotline, characters, and games!
 * JumpStart Explorers
 * An ingenious, creative game that I had so much fun with and learned a lot from.
 * JumpStart Study Helpers Math Booster
 * I love the option to enter your own problems, and the games are quite entertaining.
 * JumpStart Artist
 * A very original game that's all kinds of fun and teaches a lot relating to one subject.

Sandbox Stuff
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