Alan Averill

Alan Averill is a longtime Nintendo Power writer and Nintendo of America employee. He started out in the buisiness writing for Nintendo Power, where he was represented as a Blue Slime from Dragon Quest due to being camera shy. In 2004 he left the magazine and headed to Nintendo of America to localize video games, starting with Mario Party 7 for the GameCube. In 2007 his final video game he worked on was Hotel Dusk: Room 215, which was praised for its wonderful story and writing. It is unknown what he did between 2007 and mid-2008, though he eventually made his triumphant return to Nintendo Power once more as a contributing writer in the November issue (Nintendo Power V234). In Nintendo Power V235 he managed to write the cover story, which was based on Animal Crossing: City Folk, where he even got to interview some of the people he worked with while at Nintendo of America, where they described the grooling process of localizing a video game, especially one like City Folk which contains thousands of pages of Japanese text.